The school's temporary arrangement for the institute is a small building in the south of the school. It is not large, with each floor only about 300 square meters.
It used to be a warehouse for storing sports equipment because the school's old stadium was right next to it.
After the school expanded, the old stadium was planned to be a canteen and a teaching building. This three-story small warehouse was basically not used much. During the course, I worked as a tutor for the school's entrepreneurship courses for a period of time. Later, this course gradually fell out of favor due to student entrepreneurship, so I became vacant.
This time I just used some time to do research first.
No matter how quickly the approval work is done, it will still take at least one or two years to build the building.
This was an address that had been decided a month ago, but because the building was still too dilapidated after all, the school spent more than a month making various repairs. Especially the renovation of exterior walls, courtyard gardens and bathrooms.
After investing nearly one million yuan, the small building handed over to Qiao Ze has been completely renovated.
There is also a courtyard with a bamboo forest and a small water system, which is very good for entertaining guests.
There are also two specially arranged guard booths outside the yard, as well as the security department, to ensure that the entire small building is manned 24 hours a day.
There is no sign of a confidential unit here, but no one wants Qiao Ze's computer and drafts to be lost.
The school has already begun to consciously collect Qiao Ze's manuscripts. Even just some formulas jotted down are valuable.
Qiao Ze didn't resist the move.
Especially after visiting the small building once, Qiao Ze fell in love with the environment here.
Although there is a staff canteen more than fifty meters behind the small building, and there are more people during meal times, the school deliberately transplanted several trees behind the small building, which are lush and green, and there is a wall to separate them. As long as the windows are closed, there are still It's quite quiet, especially suitable for retreat.
So after moving in the next day, Qiao Ze arranged the entire project team to the second floor, while he occupied the entire third floor.
As for the first floor, it has been transformed into a modern small conference room of about 100 square meters and a reception room connected to the courtyard according to Qiao Ze's opinion.
But for the time being, the first floor is destined to be of little use.
Because after Qiao Ze moved to the new small building on December 29, he really started to retreat and simply lived on the third floor. Anyway, in addition to the office, a suite was specially prepared for Qiao Ze to rest.
It’s been three days in a row!
Except for Su Mucheng who brought him meals every day, he saw no one.
At most, Su Mucheng would drag her to the roof to do aerobics and maintain the most basic exercise.
So Xu Dajiang became anxious...
Retreat?
Retreat at this time?
Isn't this a joke?
It has been determined that most of the earliest arriving scholars will arrive in China on the 3rd.
You must know that these scholars are all bigwigs in the academic world and are very busy!
I came two days in advance, hoping to have some academic exchanges with Qiao Ze before the report meeting.
They include not only top scholars such as Edward Witten, but also the new generation of recognized mathematical genius Peter Schulz, as well as several editors-in-chief of top journals, such as Lott Dugan and Flanders Wilson. people.
The most important thing is that Mr. Yang is coming tomorrow, and he specifically said that he wants to meet Qiao Ze and have a casual chat.
These requests are very reasonable and there is no reason to refuse them.
But Qiao Ze is still in so-called seclusion...
Xu Dajiang was so anxious that pimples began to appear on the corners of his mouth.
But he couldn't contact Qiao Ze at all, because Qiao Ze directly cut off all external contact methods.
Even if you get to the small building, you can't get to the third floor.
He couldn't find someone to remove the security door in the corridor, could he?
Not afraid of wasting money, just afraid of annoying Qiao Ze.
What's even more troublesome is that even Li Jiangao is helpless this time.
Because before Qiao Ze decided to retreat, he made a special call to Li Jiangao, saying that he needed to concentrate on a mathematical problem during this period and did not want to be disturbed.
In fact, Li Jiangao suggested that Qiao Ze could have a good discussion with the scholars who came to listen to the report. It might be helpful to the problem he was researching, but Qiao Ze refused bluntly.
"Uncle Li, no one can help me with this problem for the time being. I can only figure it out on my own."
If someone else had said this, Li Jiangao would probably have scoffed at it, thinking it was too arrogant.
After all, mathematics is really a subject that requires communication.
But when Qiao Ze said this on the phone, Li Jiangao felt that he couldn't find any reason to refute it, so he could only give a few words of encouragement and then hung up the phone.
There was no way, Li Jiangao had realized it a long time ago, and the greatest help he could give Qiao Ze was to unconditionally support all the child's decisions.
Fortunately, he is just an ordinary professor. Even if he has just recently become a full-time professor, he does not need to worry about as many things as Xu Dajiang does.
So it happened again that only Dean Xu felt hurt.
The school and higher-level leaders don't care whether Qiao Ze is in seclusion or not. A group of academic leaders came and felt very dissatisfied. Even if they just complained a few words, the blame would definitely hit him in the end.
He had already thought up the reason for Principal Chen: "As the dean of the School of Mathematics, if you knew about this earlier, why didn't you communicate with Qiao Ze in advance?"
It's that simple for a superior to cause trouble for a subordinate.
He doesn't care at all about how much he has to worry about and how many things he has to coordinate during this period, and how surprising it is that Qiao Ze suddenly chooses to retreat...
In short, Qiao Ze can't be wrong, and neither can the leader. The only one who is wrong is him.
The first responsible person.
So I could only throw away the dignity of the dean and beg Su Mucheng.
There's no way around it. Recently, the only one who can come in and out of Qiao Ze's office is this female sophomore in the basic mathematics class.
Fortunately, there is Su Mucheng.
"Hey, Xiao Su, where are you?"
"The third floor."
"Oh, Qiao Ze is still busy?"
"Yes! He is unwilling to go out now. He said that he plans to figure out this issue before the report meeting. It will be very troublesome to announce it at another time."
Xu Dajiang heard the feeling of worry from Su Mucheng's tone.
"Hey... what... is this... so urgent? You have to tell Qiao Ze that he is still young and has a lot of time in the future... By the way, can you help me ask him again and draw one tomorrow? How many professors and editors did you meet during the hour? They all came in advance just to communicate with him."
"Dean Xu, I have asked. But Qiao Ze said that we should not see each other for now. He has already felt it and doesn't want his thoughts to be disrupted."
"this……"
"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. Dean Xu, don't worry. He specifically asked me to tell you. You can tell the visiting professors that if they also hope to gain more from the report meeting, For example, if you get the general solution to the Yang-Mills equation, please understand him so that he can think about the problem quietly these days."
"ah?!"
Xu Dajiang was stunned, and then suddenly became excited: "Qiao Ze means that he is looking for the general solution of the equation? Should he find the general solution before the press conference?"
"Yes, he is working hard in this direction. But Qiao Ze also said that he is only 70% sure that he can solve it before the press conference. Now he is stuck on the proof of a key theorem. If this problem is solved , it is not a big problem to find a general solution.”
"I understand, then please give me a message to Qiao Ze. I, Xu Dajiang, have always been on his side. Let him think slowly and not be in a hurry. I promise that no one will disturb him before the press conference. !”
"Okay, thank you, Dean Xu."
"Haha, it's okay."
After hanging up the phone, Xu Dajiang felt that everything suddenly became clear.
Although Su Mucheng also said that Qiao Ze may not be able to find out the general explanation on the day of the press conference, but to Xu Dajiang who already knows Qiao Ze well enough, these are not important. Since Qiao Ze is 70% sure that he can find the general solution, it means that Qiao Ze has found a way to solve it.
Even if there is no final result on the day of the report meeting, as long as Qiao Ze talks about his method with everyone at the report meeting, it will already be a surprise for these top scholars!
Yes, Xu Dajiang already understood Qiao Ze's definition of surprises and problems, which was completely different from normal people.
Normal people would be able to publish papers if they could find a useful method, but this guy must solve all the problems!
So the surprise is already there!
Even if Qiao Ze fails to give a general solution on the day of the report meeting, the problem is not big. At most, he can adjust the time and compress the opening ceremony time. He can finish all the proof ideas of the Yang-Mills equation in the morning and take some time in the afternoon. Let me tell you about the ideas and methods of solving equations, which is surprising enough.
Of course, what Xu Dajiang probably didn't expect this time was that the reason why Qiao Ze wanted to get the results before the report meeting was precisely because he hoped to save the time of slowly explaining the derivation process to the academic community.
Because Qiao Ze’s purpose of solving the mass gap problem has always been clear, which is to integrate a complete set of mathematical tools to analyze the higher-level microscopic world.
It's enough for him to understand this set of mathematical tools. It doesn't matter whether others understand or approve it. He doesn't care, and he has no interest in creating a new subject and popularizing the basic concepts of the new space algebra subject to mathematicians.
So what Qiao Ze plans to do is to publish his solution ideas. If you can keep up with his ideas, you can continue to study in the future, and even supplement and enrich this new algebra subject. If you can't keep up with his ideas, or you can't understand this A new algebraic space structure, then it is enough to know that the result is correct.
Mathematics is a subject that is subject to repeated IQ screening. If you understand it, you understand it, and if you don’t understand it, you don’t understand it. There is no middle ground. Qiao Ze has no intention of explaining too much to a group of fools in his eyes.
After all, the subject of mathematics was first developed in the West. Many concepts of contemporary mathematics are introduced from the West. Even top journals are concentrated in English-speaking areas. It is understandable that Chinese people cannot learn mathematics well. If Those who are native English speakers cannot learn mathematics well, or even understand his thinking, so they can only explain it by being stupid.
Yes, that’s what Qiao Ze thinks!
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January 4, 8pm.
The Xilin International Conference Center Hotel is about five kilometers away from Xilin University of Technology. When two physics professors from Harvard, Charles William and Roger Peart, walked into the hotel under the guidance of the reception staff arranged by Xilin University of Technology, they happened to meet A group of Princeton professors were sitting in the hotel lobby, discussing something.
Charles, who has a more cheerful personality, simply handed over his luggage to his colleagues and was not in a hurry to check in. Instead, he went directly to say hello: "Hi, Lott, Edward, Daniel, are you all here? When are you?" Come."
"Charles? Haha... we came yesterday." Lot Dugan turned his head and looked at the tenured professor of Harvard University and answered casually.
"Oh? You came yesterday? Ha, then you should have met that... um, young guy. How was the chat? I have to say that his paper is indeed very exciting! But I still have some questions. " said Charles.
"It's a pity that we couldn't see it. According to the dean of the School of Mathematics of Xilin University, Qiao Ze is doing a very important preparation work and cannot be interrupted, because he plans to give it to all of us at tomorrow's report meeting A surprise," Lot Dugan said with a shrug.
"Surprise?" Charles William blinked, then grinned: "Haha, it seems we made the right choice. Although I came a day late, the surprise is the same."
Edward Witten glared at Charles and said, "Professor William, since when did taking time to attend a grand lecture become something worth showing off to?"
Obviously, he came one day early, but failed to have an in-depth face-to-face discussion with Qiao Ze, which still made this world-renowned scholar unhappy.
"Oh, it's just a joke. Okay, Professor Witten, I apologize, but this also makes us look forward to tomorrow's report meeting even more, doesn't it? Well, it's time for me to go check in to the room. See you tomorrow."
"Well, Charles, actually I suggest you go around the neighborhood at night. Although we didn't see Qiao Ze yesterday, we went out for a while. Although it was night, the streets in this city are really clean, and It is very safe, and many places are very lively. For example, there is a place called Tang Dynasty Sleepless City, where we took many photos."
Daniel said next to him.
This is indeed what he really thinks.
After all, the entire Xilin City attached great importance to this meeting, and the entire city was in motion. At night there are lights everywhere. As for hygiene, it is no exaggeration to say that if you just throw a cigarette butt on a major road or scenic spot, someone will sweep it away within two minutes. This is already the limit of human organizational capabilities on earth. How can people be dissatisfied?
"Oh! It's a pity that I can't do it today. I have to adapt to the damn jet lag first. I can only have a good sleep at night. I can't doze off at tomorrow's report meeting... As I just said, I'm ready. A few questions, hopefully answered tomorrow. Well, damn, I’m starting to envy you.”
After saying that, Charles said goodbye to several professors and walked to the front desk to start the formalities.
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Scenes like this are common in several surrounding hotels today.
Mathematicians and physicists from all over the world have gathered in nearby hotels.
In order to host this grand event, Xilin University of Technology has reserved most of the rooms in nearby hotels in advance.
It is easy for everyone to find people they know and start communicating.
After all, in addition to listening to reports, for these scholars, similar meetings also have social and academic exchange attributes.
This is also the reason why the meeting originally scheduled for about a thousand people was eventually expanded to 1,500 people.
There are also surprises when there are too many people. Although there was no pictorial display activity arranged for this report meeting, some professors still showed their recent research results directly in the hotel lobby.
Fortunately, after communication, the staff still expressed their understanding and specifically limited the area. No trouble was caused, and some different scenery was displayed.
In short, the city of Xilin is fully prepared for everything.
Of course, the most important thing is whether the other person is ready.
…
Xu Dajiang finally walked into Qiao Ze's office on the third floor.
This was also the first time he saw Qiao Ze since he went to the dormitory specifically to look for Qiao Ze that day.
In more than a month, Qiao Ze seemed to have lost some weight.
But his eyes were brighter.
When the light shines on those eyes, it seems to be shining with light... Well, this is probably the light of wisdom.
"I was chatting with the professors from the capital just now. As soon as you called me, I came over immediately. By the way, I also met Mr. Yang in the afternoon... Forget it, has the problem been solved?" Xu Dajiang looked at him hopefully. Qiao Ze asked.
There is even a faint feeling of pride in my heart.
For now, he is the only person besides Qiao Ze who knows that Qiao Ze may announce the solution to the Yang-Mills problem at the report meeting tomorrow.
Qiao Ze nodded slightly, then shook his head.
This attitude made Xu Dajiang a little confused.
"That's almost it. I've come up with a result, here it is." Qiao Ze pointed to his brain and said.
"Huh? You mean, it hasn't been verified yet?"
"Yes, but I think this result is definitely correct. I have been carefully checking the derivation process since the afternoon, and there is definitely no error." Qiao Ze said quietly.
Xu Dajiang swallowed subconsciously...
Okay, now it’s more exciting.
The request came out, but there was no test.
"If it is verified on a supercomputer now..." Xu Dajiang asked.
"The results won't be available until at least tomorrow afternoon. So there's no need. I know it must be right. If we verify it ourselves, it won't be convincing. Let others verify it." Qiao Ze shook his head.
Xu Dajiang nodded with a serious expression and chose to believe Qiao Ze, but it seemed that he had no other choice.
"Seven...no, eight blackboards will be prepared for tomorrow's report."
"Ah? Qiao Ze, a large and modern conference room...does it need a blackboard? Didn't you have time to make a ppt?"
"There are ppts, but if you use ppts, it is difficult for anyone to understand. It is better to use the traditional blackboard format. In a report meeting with 1,500 people, there must be a few people who can keep up with the ideas." Qiao Ze explained.
"This... okay... I can put it down." Xu Dajiang agreed. It was not a big problem to add a few display boards, but what made Xu Dajiang hesitate in his heart was, was Qiao Ze going to teach in a big class?
"That's it, it's okay." Qiao Ze said to see the guests off.
"Well, can you first tell me about the content of tomorrow's report meeting?" Xu Dajiang still wanted to try harder. The unknown situation was too exciting, and he was afraid that his heart could not accept it.
"Can you understand?" Qiao Ze asked with a slight frown.
"Then..." Xu Dajiang hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to stand up and said, "Forget it."
Qiao Ze nodded and said, "Oh, goodbye."
"See you tomorrow, a car will pick you up at eight o'clock."
"good."
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The day of the report meeting.
The No. 2 conference hall of Xilin International Conference Center Hotel was already full of people.
It was already half past eight in the morning, half an hour before the report meeting started.
However, the volunteers responsible for reception work at Xilin University of Technology are still busy.
There are 1,500 scholars who have received invitations to attend this lecture. There are 2,000 seats in the lecture hall chartered by the school. The remaining 500 seats are specially reserved for professors from Huaxia Brothers School and our own School of Mathematics. With students from the School of Physics.
Not only master's and doctoral students, but also the top five undergraduates in each major from the two colleges can participate in this event.
We do not expect these students to really understand Qiao Ze's report, but it is always good to let our outstanding students experience the atmosphere of such a large-scale international conference and be in the same room with a group of world-class figures who are engaged in theoretical research.
The only regret is that the students are all relatively far back, so there is basically no possibility of being selected for the lottery by asking questions.
Xu Dajiang listened to Yu Chenggong's suggestion and specifically told the students from his school who came to attend the report meeting not to ask questions.
This Yu Chenggong has experience. After attending two of Qiao Ze's lectures in the capital, I have discovered that Qiao Ze has a low tolerance for academically irrelevant issues.
In the middle of the first row, Principal Chen was chatting with Mr. Yang next to him. On the other side of Mr. Yang, Li Jiangao sat, so that Xiao Li could answer Mr. Yang's questions about Qiao Ze from time to time.
Behind them sat professors from Princeton.
According to Xu Dajiang's arrangement, most of the first batch of specially invited big-name scholars and participating academicians were concentrated in the first three rows.
Starting from the fourth row are professors from other top universities in China, which is also a good position.
Then there are the scholars and students who paid to sign up to attend the lecture.
The lecture hall, which can accommodate 2,000 people, was almost full. Everyone was chatting softly and it eventually became crowded.
Until the staff began to move the prepared blackboard to the podium, which quickly attracted the attention of many big shots in the front row.
"Huh, blackboard?" Lott Dugan blinked, and then a smile appeared on his lips. He turned his head and said to Edward Witten next to him: "I guess this is part of the surprise."
Edward Witten nodded slightly, and then shook his head. He didn't know what he was thinking. Then Daniel took over the topic: "Actually, it's really a surprise... I think it's quite difficult. I tried it, Joe's The slicing method is not enough to calculate the final result of the equation. Although his proof is beautiful..."
"In that case, maybe he really found a new way to the other side."
"I am looking forward."
Princeton professors are definitely not the only ones looking forward to it.
When the staff moved the eighth movable blackboard to the podium, the whispers began to get louder.
Many people are beginning to realize that today's report meeting may be really different.
…
In the lounge next to the rostrum, Qiao Ze was sitting on the sofa with his eyes closed to relax.
Su Mucheng watched the busy conference hall through the closed-circuit TV in the room with interest.
Although to ensure silence, the sound was not turned on.
Until there was a knock on the door of the lounge, and then Xu Dajiang walked in.
"Qiao Ze, are you ready? It's about to start."
Qiao Ze opened his eyes, nodded, and then stood up.
Su Mucheng next to her immediately stood up and helped Qiao Ze straighten his collar.
"Don't be nervous, just treat the people in the audience as your classmates." Xu Dajiang stood beside him and said, but he sounded slightly trembling.
Qiao Ze looked at Xu Dajiang in surprise...
He felt that Xu Dajiang was probably talking to him, and he really didn't know why the dean was nervous.
However, he still said a "huh" to save face.
"Brother Qiao, come on! I'm here to cheer you up!"
"Yes." Qiao Ze nodded, and then followed Xu Dajiang out of the lounge...
…
When the lights on the reporting platform turned on and a young man appeared, the original noise in the reporting hall began to get smaller, and then became quiet until no other sounds could be heard.
At this moment, everyone put on the simultaneous interpretation headphones they had just received.
After walking past the blackboard that the staff had just prepared, Qiao Ze came to the middle podium of the central reporting table.
I tidied up the wireless microphone on my clothes, briefly tried the microphone, and then glanced at the heads in the audience. I thought about it quietly for about two seconds. Just when I was about to speak, sparse applause suddenly appeared in the back row.
Qiao Ze simply closed his mouth again.
Applause is contagious.
Fortunately, the noisy applause only lasted for about a minute and then became quiet.
Qiao Ze has also prepared his opening remarks: "I believe everyone has read this paper on the proof of the existence of solutions to the Yang-Mills equation. Dean Xu showed me the list of invitations, and I believe that the recipients The invited people should be able to read this paper. I don’t want to waste too much time on this simplest issue of Yang-Mills theory, which doesn’t make much sense.
So next, I plan to use this report to discuss with you how to find the general solution to the Yang-Mills equation. This is a complex question in my opinion, and I'm going to try to spend the next five hours or so trying to get some of you to understand my thinking. But before that, I will first publish the general solution of the Yang-Mills equation so that everyone can start verifying it immediately. "
After saying that, Qiao Ze lowered his head and turned on the computer, projecting the prepared formula directly onto the big screen behind the report meeting.
[ a^u(x)=\int d^4y, g(xy) j^u(y)]
The audience was completely silent, and countless people were stunned.
"Next, I will give you ten minutes to arrange people and computing power to verify the correctness of this general solution. I believe that you will be able to get the result by this time tomorrow morning at the latest. In ten minutes, I will officially start to explain how to obtain this solution The idea of comprehensive explanation.”
As soon as Qiao Ze finished speaking, the entire report meeting exploded!
"really?"
"my god!"
"Is he really?"
"wie knnte das mglich sein?"
"!"
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