"Atong, let's go eat sukiyaki tonight. I got a 50% off coupon on Dianping.com."
???????Hearing what my girlfriend said.
?????????Wang Tong, who was originally leaning on the other side of the long sofa with his feet while watching a video, couldn't help but press the pause button and stretched out with his bones cracking:
?????????"Sukiyaki? OK, when will we leave?"
As an associate researcher at the Qiu Chengtong Mathematics Center of Wudaokou Vocational and Technical School, Wang Tong has a wonderful life that is unimaginable for most mathematicians:
????????He was single during college and has remained single until now.
????????Now he and his girlfriend Zhang Ying both have good jobs, are temporarily living in Yanjing Talent Apartment, and are preparing for marriage.
????????Of course.
????????No matter how careful you are about budgeting, there is still no problem in eating sukiyaki once in a while.
?????????"That store is over there at the Olympic Village, a bit far from us."
????????Zhang Ying looked at the map on the review software and calculated the distance in her mind:
?????????"Maybe in an hour, just in time for me to finish aligning this wave of lines."
?????????"Line?"
????????Wang Tong stood up and walked to his girlfriend, and gently put his arm around her waist:
?????????"To what line?"
?????????Zhang Ying shook her phone at him generously, and a Weibo post was displayed on it:
?????????"You are a scumbag from the University of Science and Technology of China. He is a prostitute and a pua, and he even asked his girlfriend to have abortions twice - Atong, let me tell you, if I get pregnant in the future
I won’t have an abortion, I want to have a baby.”
Hearing this, Wang Tong rubbed his girlfriend’s waist a few times with his big hands:
?????????"Okay, okay, I'm not willing to let you suffer. Besides, we have safety measures."
After chirping for a few times, Wang Tong and Zhang Ying separated and began to prepare their outfits to go out.
????????After all, young people pursue a sense of ritual.
???????More than half an hour later.
After finishing their preparation, the two people came to the entrance of the apartment and were about to put on their shoes and go out.
?????????Suddenly.
?????????The mobile phone in Wang Tong's pocket rang.
???????Wang Tong took out his cell phone and found that the visitor's note clearly said 'Director Zhao'.
???????See this situation.
????????A bad premonition suddenly appeared in his heart, but he quickly answered the phone:
?????????"Hello, Director Zhao?"
????????A moment later.
?????????A somewhat urgent voice came from the other end of the phone:
?????????"Xiao Wang, where are you?"
???????"Um, this weekend, I was just going to go out for dinner with my girlfriend."
?????????"Don't go, go back to school quickly!"
???????Although he had guessed this possibility in his heart, Wang Tong was still slightly stunned, took Zhang Ying's hand and asked:
?????????"Director, what happened?"
"The University of Science and Technology of China sent an email, saying that they have deduced the infinity of Mersenne prime numbers. They hope we can help recheck it. Come back quickly!"
????????Beep beep——
????????? Listening to the blind tone coming from the mobile phone.
???????Wang Tong couldn't help but look at Zhang Ying, with a wry smile on his face:
?????????"Wife, look at this"
Zhang Ying was silent for a moment after hearing this, and sighed quietly:
"Hey, go ahead, go ahead, career is important, I can just deal with it myself."
????????A smile suddenly appeared on Wang Tong's face. His girlfriend was not a great beauty, but her personality had always been very virtuous.
????????But when he glanced at Zhang Ying’s mobile phone, his smile suddenly froze on his face:
?????????"Wait. University of Science and Technology of China?!"
????????after an hour.
The taxi Wang Tong took stopped outside the Yau Shing-tung Mathematical Science Center in Wudaokou.
????????? Yau Mathematical Sciences Center.
This is an institution previously established by PBC Vocational College independently of the Department of Mathematics. It was founded by Yau Shing-tung, the first Chinese winner of the Fields Medal.
It is different from the Wudaokou Mathematics Department which prefers teaching and educating people.
????????The Shing-Tung Yau Mathematical Science Center is mainly focused on young people, and most of its institutional functions are focused on academic research.
Although there is still a gap between the mathematics level of Yanjing University and Yenching University, the progress over the years cannot be underestimated, and it can be regarded as a first-tier institution.
????????When Wang Tong arrived at the hall.
????????A middle-aged man with a round Mediterranean face was frowning and looking at his watch, with a somewhat anxious look on his face.
???????Wang Tong walked up quickly:
?????????"Director Zhang, I'm here."
The full name of the middle-aged Mediterranean man is Zhang Fei, a name that looks like he should have thick beard and thick hair.
????????Currently he serves as the executive deputy director of the Yau Shing-Tung Mathematical Sciences Center and is also a professor in the Department of Mathematics.
?????????See Wang Tong arriving.
????????Zhang Fei patted him on the shoulder as a greeting, pointed to a room numbered 202 and said:
"Xiao Wang, we are divided into four groups this time to verify the steps at the same time. You go to 202 to help Professor Guo's group calculate. Professor Guo will tell you the specific situation."
???????Wang Tong nodded:
????????"clear."
After saying that, he turned around and walked quickly to Room 202.
Room 202 is a computing room in the computing center. At first glance, it looks like a common study room—that is, it has a simple style, with several baffles in each position.
????????In addition to a large amount of calculation paper, there is not a supercomputer or main control configuration that many people imagine.
????????This is actually the normal state of using mathematics.
When numerical analysis, linear optimization algorithms, optimization, and programming are not required, mathematics practitioners basically rely on handwriting.
There are seven or eight people sitting in room 202 at this time, including men and women.
?????????Except for a little old man, everyone's age at least doesn't differ much in appearance.
?????????"Hello, Professor Guo."
????????Wang Tong greeted the little old man politely, then chose a seat and sat down.
????????A few more minutes passed.
After a short-haired girl arrived, Professor Guo coughed lightly, looked around and said:
"Dear students, today is Sunday. I shouldn't have asked you to come over and work overtime - after all, our industry doesn't have that much work for you to do 996."
???????A chuckle suddenly sounded from below.
???????But soon.
Professor Guo’s face straightened and he said:
"Just this morning, we received a letter of assistance from the University of Science and Technology of China, which claimed that they had proved the infinity of Mersenne primes."
"After receiving the letter, I did a simple calculation with Professor Bu Shangquan of the Institute of Basic Mathematics and Professor Chen Jinwen and He Lingbing of Applied Mathematics."
"According to our calculation results, there are no obvious errors or omissions in the derivation process, and the same is true for the key random inspections."
"So we asked Director Zhang to temporarily gather all the students here to prepare for detailed accounting."
"We are all top talents in the mathematics industry, and we should know the status of Mersenne prime numbers in the mathematics world - if there are no problems with the verification process, this is big news."
?????????Professor Guo just finished speaking.
????????There was some discussion at the next moment.
????????As Professor Guo said, they know the status of Mersenne primes very well.
????????soon.
?????????A tall and thin boy raised his hand. This person was a doctoral student taught by Professor Guo himself:
?????????"Teacher, which big shot at HKUST deduced this result?"
?????????"Mr. Zhang Rui? Or Professor Chen Falai?"
????????When the rest of the people at the scene heard this, they couldn't help but have curiosity in their eyes.
????????As a science and engineering school, the University of Science and Technology of China cannot have a shortcoming in mathematics.
????????But if compared with other top engineering universities, the Department of Mathematics of HKUST does not have much advantage.
The advantage of the School of Mathematics at HKUST is that it has a high rate of going abroad. If you enter the Department of Mathematics at HKUST, you are basically on the fast track to the Ivy League, which is considered a high-quality channel.
????????Of course.
????????This is also related to the low overall mathematics level in China.
?????????If you don’t count overseas Chinese, the domestic mathematics level is considered to be second-rate internationally, but in fact it is only about third-rate.
???????Contrary to us, our old neighbor Neon has done a good job in this area and has achieved a lot.
?????????"Verifier."
?????????Looking at the curious faces, Professor Guo shook his head gently, with a trace of emotion in his eyes:
"It's not Lao Zhang, nor Lao Chen - in fact, the person who wrote down the verification process was not any professor at HKUST, but a Ph.D. candidate."
????????Hearing Professor Guo’s words, a certain boy in the audience subconsciously cursed:
?????????"What the hell? Doctor?"
Professor Guo nodded and did not criticize the boy’s foul language:
"Well, that doctor's name is Xu Yun. His majors are physics and biology. He has a bright future."
?????????"Eh? Xu Yun?"
???????Professor Guo just finished speaking.
????????A whisper suddenly came from Wang Tong's ears, and the short-haired girl who came in last raised her hand:
?????????"Professor Guo, does that doctor from the University of Science and Technology named Xu Yun also run a cockroach medicine company?"
Professor Guo was slightly startled:
?????????"I don't know about that. Why, Xiao Wang, do you know him?"
????????The short-haired girl was silent for a moment, took out her phone and shook it:
"Professor Guo, you may not be able to see clearly. In recent days, a doctor named Xu Yun from the University of Science and Technology has also been on the hot search."
?????????"But the reason is because of abortion, pua girlfriend and multiple boats, and the product is also toxic to pets"
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"This issue is not within the scope of our verification. If you really want to know, you can check it privately."
?????????"Okay, let's get ready and start the re-inspection as soon as possible."
?????????"The students whose names I called below, please come up and collect your re-examination materials."
?????????"Zhao Rui. Huang Haibing. Yang Yu and Wang Tong."
????????soon.
????????Wang Tong was assigned a copy of the 16-page manuscript.
????????The font of this manuscript has been scanned into a standard font size in advance, so it is not difficult to check it.
The part that Wang Tong is responsible for belongs to the count variable link, which has always been an approximate term.
????????However, Xu Yun’s manuscript deduced another way of righteousness.
???????So soon.
???????Wang Tong picked up his pen and started counting.
???????"Examine the prime factor p of Fermat number 2^(2^n) 1, assuming that the order of 2 modulo p is d, then because 2^(2^n)≡-1(mod??
p)”
"Knowing that d does not divide 2^n, square both sides of equation 1 2^(2^(n 1))≡1(mod??p), so d|2^(n 1)
, so d=2^(n 1)"
???????"According to the existing theorem, the harmonic series is divergent, so it will lead to contradictions, so."
????????"f0f1fk1=fk2?? is true for ??k≤t??, then when ??k=t 1??."
?????????Students who have studied in the Wudaokou Department of Mathematics should all know this.
????????Although domestic mathematics institutions are criticized every day, they are not all doing nothing.
For example, the Shing-Tung Yau Mathematical Sciences Center often undertakes the task of verifying various derivation results at home and abroad.
For example, everyone knows that there is a problem with the first version of Fermat's proof by Wiles, but they don't know that the first person to discover this problem and issue a correction letter was actually the Mathematics Department of NTU.
????????It’s just that under normal circumstances, most of these results will be solved if the bug is found.
????????So for Wang Tong and others.
????????Although the re-examination is tiring, it is not impossible.
?????????Swish-swish--
The sound of fingertips rubbing against the calculation paper kept ringing in the room, and each derivation process was gradually verified.
????????Three hours later.
????????Wang Tong wiped the sweat from his forehead and exhaled a long breath:
???????"Good guy, I finally got it done."
????????He did not lower his voice, because everyone in the verification team was wearing soundproof earmuffs, and the Double Eleven special price only required cough cough
????????Then he stood up and handed the calculation results to Professor Guo who was waiting here:
"Professor Guo, I have completed the verification of this part. The logic is reasonable and there are no problems."
Professor Guo took the original document and verification draft and nodded to Wang Tong:
?????????"Thank you for your hard work, Xiao Wang. There are lunch boxes over there in the hall. If you are hungry, you can go there to satisfy your hunger."
"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing I forgot to mention just now. Today is an assistance project, and there is an additional subsidy of 300 yuan - from the University of Science and Technology."
????????Wang Tong suddenly frowned.
????????Three hundred yuan, which is not too low.
????????Then he looked at Professor Guo again and asked tentatively:
?????????"Professor Guo, I don't know the retest results"
Professor Guo touched the manuscript that had been returned with a complicated expression:
?????????"Our team's progress is a little slow, and no specific results have been released yet."
?????????"But based on the feedback from other groups, including Nanda University, Yanda University, and Ludong University"
?????????"The infinity of Mersenne prime numbers should have been successfully verified."
?????????Really successful?
?????????Even though Wang Tong had already been prepared, his pupils still shrank when he heard this.
???????? Judging from Professor Guo’s previous statement.
Since the doctor named Xu Yun can be labeled as 'currently studying', he is unlikely to be over 35 years old, right?
Not to mention that HKUST also has wall-mounted classes such as the Chinese and French classes for teenagers. Maybe they will only be 27 or 8 years old when they graduate?
What a monster
????????Considering the current domestic mathematics environment, this achievement alone is enough for him to last a lifetime.
????????Wang Tong then left Room 202 with a sigh, walked to the hall, picked up a lunch box at random, chose a seat and filled his stomach.
?????????But just keep eating.
????????He suddenly thought of what his girlfriend and the short-haired girl just said:
?????????Both of them mentioned the University of Science and Technology and abortion PUA. If nothing else, they must be talking about the same thing?
?????????I thought of this.
????????Wang Tong simply took out his phone and opened Weibo, which he had downloaded but didn’t use much.
?????????As soon as it entered the hot search list, he saw three huge topics:
?????????#Xu Yun#
???????#中科大学announces the proof of the infinity of Mersenne primes#
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????????Three topics occupy the top three hot searches in turn. At the same time, there is a big red character behind the topic #Xu Yun#:
????????burst.
????????This means that the popularity of this topic has exceeded the conventional limit, and the attention is far beyond the circle.
????????Then Wang Tong thought about it.
??????? Clicked on the topic #中科大学announced the proof of the infinity of Mersenne prime numbers#.
????????The one displayed at the top of the topic is the official WeChat account of the University of Science and Technology. The content is very simple:
?????????[The infinity of Mersenne primes enters the final stage! The calculation results derived by Xu Yun, an alumnus of our school, have passed the preliminary verification of the well-known international mathematics journal "annals??of??mathematics". Maybe you and I will
Witness history?】
????????be honest.
From Wang Tong’s perspective, there is nothing wrong with the content of HKUST, and it can even be a bit conservative.
After all, there may still be a gap between the domestic mathematical theory level and the international level, but the retest is still quite authoritative.
????????Yanda University, Wudaokou, Nanjing University, Ludong University and USTC's own re-inspection all have no problem. Basically, it can be said that they are dead.
????????But when he clicked on the relevant comments, he was dumbfounded.
????????The number of comments on this Weibo has reached 33,000, of which the first comment has more than 72,000 likes.
The content is just two words:
???????【Where is the face?】
?????????The second comment is longer:
???????【I threw up, I didn’t say anything about the scumbag, and now I’m making fun of him, how can this kind of garbage still have academic achievements? Do you think others are fools?】
???????The third article has a lot of ‘insider information’:
???????【Ugh, this man is the illegitimate son of the president of the University of Science and Technology, right? To come out and protect him like this at this time is really embarrassing to his grandma's house. Do you think others will believe you if you make an announcement?】
????????Wang Tonghua pulled for a while, and the comments that caught his eye were all attacking HKUST and Xu Yun.
????????no doubt.
????????Even if he didn’t know the specific details, Wang Tong roughly guessed an answer:
????????The ‘Xu Yun’ who Professor Guo said proved the infinity of Mersenne primes was the scumbag that his girlfriend criticized at home.
?????????I thought of this.
????????Wang Tong simply put down his chopsticks and began to understand what happened seriously.
????????First, the pet cat of a passerby was poisoned.
???????Then the internet celebrity pet cat ‘Tiaotiao’ died suddenly.
???????? Then the blogger exposed it, triggering the dark history of Xu Yun’s multiple boats, abortion, and PUA
????????Since some "good Samaritans" came forward beforehand, they organized the whole matter into a memo for the convenience of passers-by.
????????So Wang Tong knew the ins and outs of the whole matter without much effort.
?????????In addition, among the large number of criticisms, Wang Tong also noticed a few accounts that asked everyone to calm down or expressed Xu Yun's innocence.
?????????These accounts include both men and women, and most of their IP addresses are in southern Anhui.
??????Looks like an alumnus of HKUST.
????????Of course.
????????Wang Tong was able to notice these accounts not by chance, but these comments that "whitewashed" Xu Yun had been pushed to the square's home page.
????????Just like when Fanfan and Fengfeng entered the situation, there were also some idiot fans shouting that they would never leave, attracting a lot of people to watch.
????????Although the situation then and now are completely different, the platform algorithm is the same.
????????So it’s normal for Wang Tong to see these contents.
?????????Some of these accounts directly believed that Xu Yun was innocent, while others presented some evidence.
?????????For example, the paper that imidacloprid is ineffective against mammals, etc.
????????It’s just that no matter which of the above contents, there is a lot of cynicism below.
????????Perhaps he had some favorable impression of Xu Yun based on his ability during the calculation process. Wang Tong did not follow the team, but vaguely felt that these comments seemed to make sense.
????????At least
????????It should be true that Xu Yun deduced the infinity of Mersenne prime numbers.
???????So he thought for a moment.
??????????Posted a piece of content under the topic #中科大学announces the proof of the infinity of Mersenne primes#:
???????【I rarely follow Weibo. I just learned about this. I'm not sure about anything else, but Xu Yun did write down the verification process for the infinity of Mersenne prime numbers, and judging from the current situation , the possibility of successful verification is very high, so you should talk less about AOE. All kinds of academic fraud have come out - who would fake a conjecture of this level? 】
??????? Finished writing.
????????send.
????????Then Wang Tong thought about it and sent another WeChat message to his girlfriend:
???????【Honey, don't rush to the line now, that Xu Yun may be slandered, let the bullets fly for a while, he is really a scumbag, then I will hammer him with you!】
????????at the same time.
?????????Across China.
???????There are also some people, like Wang Tong, who have written various Weibo posts with related entries.
????????They did not choose to explicitly support Xu Yun or think that Xu Yun was innocent. Instead, based on their own expertise, they believed that the announcement of HKUST was not a fraud.
????????But even so, these remarks are still somewhat contrary to the current "mainstream" rhythm of Internet explosions.
????????that's all.
????????A wind invisible to the naked eye slowly blew away from the mathematics circle.
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