It has to be said that if you put aside Qiao Ze's usually indifferent personality, habit of talking little, and misunderstanding of all kinds of people, he is actually a very warm person.
Although he doesn't care too much about the thoughts of the people around him, he never mind helping others to fulfill their little wishes.
In fact, Qiao Ze has also heard some discussions about his paper in the academic community these days.
Li Jiangao was afraid that Qiao Ze would have bad ideas or lose his mind, so he came to chat with him for a long time.
Little did he know that it was not Qiao Ze who felt a little depressed. In fact, Qiao Ze didn't care at all about the evaluations of the so-called academic leaders.
It's not that I disrespect my seniors, it's just that I'm too lazy to pay attention.
After all, there are many interesting problems in this world. What serious person would pay attention to what others say every day?
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"..., the review will take about a week. There is another thing. I would like to know, has anyone discussed this new article of yours? Please forgive my curiosity, but I really want to know this. According to I know that Hamilton, Richard and others are doing this research in the field of number theory, but I don’t know much about China’s mathematical research progress in this area.”
It was only the next day that Joe Ze saw the email from Lot Dugan.
When the other party sent the email, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, Princeton time, and Qiao Ze was sleeping soundly at that time.
However, Qiao Ze has long been accustomed to this method of communication, because neither of them deliberately chooses a time to communicate.
My heart is still very warm.
As the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Lot Dugan was indeed very kind to Joe Ze. They even took the initiative to tell him how long the review would take in an email. This is definitely a treatment that even the world's top mathematicians do not have.
Of course, the main factor is Qiao Ze's age.
The age of eighteen is too tempting for many people.
Being young means unlimited possibilities.
If you are young and have already shown dazzling talents, then the possibilities begin to expand infinitely. Just like the expanding universe.
Joe Ze also had a very good impression of Lot Dugan. After reading the letter, he also wrote a reply.
After briefly explaining a few mathematical questions raised by the other party, I started to answer the final questions.
"No. I have never had contact with the two professors you mentioned, but I have read their papers and been inspired by them. If I have to say who I have communicated with, I would probably have to thank a manager named Cheng from Apple. What we said while eating made me suddenly understand the key point of this issue.”
After processing Lot Dugan's reply, Joe Ze started to read the next letter.
Recently, there have been a lot of letters in his mailbox.
Not only Lot Dugan, but also several professors and researchers with whom he had actively communicated via email, including Zhang Hongcai, began to actively discuss some academic issues with him.
Qiao Ze will choose to scan the letter.
If it is an issue that interests him, he will write back to discuss it.
If you are not interested, just reply that you are not good at it.
Speaking of which, Qiao Ze quite likes this method of communication now.
Because it is simple, efficient and direct.
Especially after everyone is familiar with this method of communication, there is no nonsense when sending emails, simply ask questions directly and then discuss them.
This also made Qiao Ze find that communication with mathematicians is still necessary.
Because everyone actually has some weird thoughts and ideas. Although they may not be feasible, they are very useful for expanding ideas.
The time it takes to deal with these emails each day will also depend on whether the question is of interest to him.
Sometimes I just close my mailbox within an hour.
If the question happens to be of interest to Qiao Ze, and the other person happens to have time, they may discuss a certain issue all morning.
In addition, Qiao Ze has to spend some time every day to discuss with the engineers of this building.
Although the requirements for process have been lowered due to the enlargement of photolithography machines, the requirements for accuracy and stability of this product are still there.
The design of each part and the combination of various parts need to be verified repeatedly by supercomputers.
If you encounter areas where the verification effect is not good, you need to adjust the design plan.
It may be a separate part or a section.
Qiao Ze's role is to give some suggestions when the verification is not ideal and the engineers in the project team are helpless.
This work also once again allowed Qiao Ze to see how terrifying the power of a team can be.
Originally, he thought that this huge project would require at least three to five preparations before it could be implemented. But judging from the current progress, 80% of the preliminary design preparation work has been completed.
At present, all the various drawings of the entire project have been printed, which can already fill about ten high-speed rail carriages. Of course, this is not just the effort of hundreds of people in this building. In fact, the design work of many parts is assigned to nearly a hundred research institutes across the country, and thousands of engineers are involved in this design work.
But all the information will be collected in this small building.
Even before the National Day, the test site of the Institute of Optoelectronics was found.
Just to the west of Xilin, a fence has begun to be built on an open space of about 1.2 square kilometers. At the same time, in order to cooperate with this project, two supporting power storage stations are being built next to the lithography machine base to ensure sufficient and uninterrupted power supply for future tests.
Qiao Ze has even seen the supporting diagram of the future lithography laboratory of the Institute of Optoelectronics.
According to the plan, this is a circular main building with three floors underground and two floors above ground.
This huge ring lithography machine will occupy the negative one and negative two floors.
The negative three floors are the entire operations center.
According to the plan, various construction machinery will be stationed probably next month to start the initial construction work.
It can be seen that everyone is very serious in order to create a photolithography machine.
It even gave Qiao Ze a feeling of being willing to do whatever it took.
This was something he never expected when he was designing the paper.
Especially when he learned that this project was not only promoted by two academicians from the Xilin Institute of Optics, but also several academicians from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, who led the team to start doing design work on the front line.
It made Qiao Ze feel this almost desperate desire to build a lithography machine.
Well, he originally just planned to scare people, but now that everyone is serious, he can only take the initiative to take on more work.
There is no other reason. Qiao Ze actually subconsciously likes to deal with people who work seriously.
No matter whether the final result is successful or not, at least everyone is really doing something.
This alone is much better than those who waste time on lip service.
Not to mention that Qiao Ze was very sure that theoretically, this project would definitely succeed, sooner or later.
However, judging from the current situation, this project may be completed earlier than he expected.
It just so happens that he hasn't been very busy lately.
Thinking about quality gaps is a relatively long-term task.
Even if Qiao Ze feels that he already has enough mathematical tools, he is not in a hurry.
For these busy people, a week almost flies by.
I even just regretted why I couldn’t have a few more days.
Far away in the small town of Princeton on the other side of the ocean, Daniel Milnor also came to Lot Dugan's office again.
But this time it was night.
It was different from the imposing look last time. Although Daniel's hair was still messy, he was not as domineering as last time, but he had a pair of bloodshot eyes and thick dark circles.
It can be seen from this that he did not have a good rest last week.
But Lot Dugan didn't laugh at this rude guy this time, because he was actually the same.
Although not as obvious as Daniel, he was actually a little depressed.
Mainly because the excitement period has passed.
Those wonderful proof processes can really make people feel excited and even have endless aftertaste.
But people can't stay in a state of excitement all the time.
Even if you use the little blue pill, you can only extend the time, but not become the god of war.
"You're right, Lott, this paper is simply brilliant. He solved this problem from an incredible angle. Why didn't I think of that? Divide, divide, divide... Isn't that the basics of calculus? Thoughts? Of course the most important thing is his conversion methods and ideas. You are right, that Joe is a genius!"
Although he seemed very depressed mentally, Daniel spoke very fast, showing a strange feeling that his appearance was completely separated from his spirit.
But Lot Dugan didn't care about this.
In a sense, although the guy in front of me is a little rough, he is cute.
At least he won't forcefully tell lies just to save face.
"Yes, yes, I know. I have already said that I have studied this paper. It really makes my eyes light up. So you also think this paper is worth publishing, right?"
"Of course! I dare say this paper can be ranked among the top two in the new century. After all, you know, the Russian solved the Poincare conjecture. By the way, Joe is only eighteen years old. If you add this, then this The contribution of this paper may be greater than that of the Russian. Because I know exactly what it can help us!
do you know? I've been lying in bed these days and can't sleep. Because if we follow this idea, we can find a possible solution to the mass gap conjecture through a series of divisions and transformations of non-Abelian fields. Oh my God, what a crazy idea this is! Can you believe it? Lot! "
Listening to the other party's words in a chant-like tone, Lot Dugan's face became extremely strange, and then asked: "So, Daniel, why do you think Joe wants to solve this problem? I want to remind him Yours is that from the last paper to this paper, they are in the same vein.”
Lot Dugan's words made Daniel Milnor quickly calm down.
He tilted his head and asked in an incredulous tone: "You mean that Joe was just trying to solve this problem?"
Lot Dugan shrugged and said: "We did communicate, but he did not answer this question directly. But I can guess his thoughts from some details. His knowledge of group theory, non-commutative geometry, and linear algebra Very deep understanding. And I'm pretty sure he's read almost all of Robert Stephen's papers, so what do you think?"
The Robert Stephens described by Lot Dugan is a physicist who has devoted almost his whole life to the problem of the mass gap hypothesis. Of course, he is also an extremely good scientist and a proper boss. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Work on the back hill.
But it belongs to MSRI, the National Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Many people in the scientific research field have never heard of this big man's name, and the number of citations of this big man's papers is also very low. In other words, generally no one reads it.
But this does not mean that the quality of this boss's paper is not good.
On the contrary, Robert Stephens is famous in this direction because these studies are very advanced. But because most people can't understand papers in this direction, they choose not to waste time.
Just like what Li Jiangao told Qiao Ze when he first met him.
If Qiao Ze can really solve this problem, there will be no more than twenty people in the world who are qualified to review and understand this paper in the first time.
This is really not an exaggeration.
After all, a lot of subdivided knowledge is used. When you encounter areas that you don't understand, you have to look up various theorems. It is indeed not an easy task to understand them.
Not to mention that many physicists are even more eager to solve this problem than mathematicians.
After all, the series of theories they use to describe the microscopic world and the Higgs mechanism they create all rely on the Yang-Mills theory, but this theory has not even been proven mathematically. This is really worrying.
Daniel stopped talking.
He had nothing to say.
Sure enough, whatever he could think of, others had already thought of it.
Of course, this is not Daniel’s fault, after all, this is his first paper to review Qiao Ze.
"Okay, tell me, you must have recruited Joe, right? What conditions does he need before he is willing to come to Princeton." After the silence, Daniel took the initiative to ask.
"He won't come," replied Lot Dugan, and then added: "At least not now."
"No, no, no, you must be talking about letting him be a student, right? Together we can convince the board of directors to hire him as a tenured professor with a high salary. As long as it is proven that he actually wrote this paper, then he can serve in the School of Mathematics, of course. The main place of work should be at the Institute for Advanced Study. I can cooperate with him to study this issue." Daniel said extremely radically.
"I'm sure he actually wrote the paper. But I'm sorry, but I think the high salary may not be too tempting for him. You should read about his original paper, well, he's published a lot of papers recently. His research on large AI language models should have allowed him to accumulate enough wealth. At least I can feel that he doesn’t care much about money. As for tenured professors..."
Lot Dugan shook his head.
This little guy doesn't care much about money anymore, and he probably won't be too interested in a professor.
And the other side seems to be able to give him various treatments.
"What if we can recommend him to enter the National Institute of Mathematics?" Daniel said, waiting for his red eyes to look at Lot Dugan with vigour.
"Are you crazy? He hasn't really solved the mass gap hypothesis yet!" Lot Dugan glared at this guy.
This is crazy!
