Academician Tang Qing's project is almost at the end of its final work, and is very close to the final goal.
Needless to say, Lin Xiao's role in it was natural. Academician Tang Qing had already planned to give Lin Xiao a second author position. Professor Cao Chengqing also agreed to this decision. During the entire research process, he considered that his contribution was not as good as Lin Xiao's. Naturally,
I'm too embarrassed to ask for the location of this second game.
Although Lin Xiao resisted this at first, in the end he had no choice but to accept it in the face of the persistence of the two professors.
However, compared with the research on this topic, his research on Goldbach's conjecture is still stuck halfway.
He had to admit that the difficulty of this conjecture was a bit beyond imagination.
Of course, this is also true. In 1921, British mathematician Hardy once said: "The difficulty of Goldbach's conjecture can be compared with any known mathematical problem."
Hardy is one of the proposers of the circle method. Even he thinks Goldbach's conjecture is so difficult, which is enough to illustrate the difficulty of this problem.
Comparing Goldbach's conjecture with Riemann's conjecture, although Goldbach's conjecture is not as important as Riemann's conjecture, it can still be called the crown jewel of mathematics. And if we compare Goldbach's conjecture with
Regarding the relationship between the twin prime conjectures, Terence Teru, a mathematician who is interested in everything, once said that the former is somewhat more difficult than the latter.
Therefore, Lin Xiao, who plunged headlong into this pit, could only use his brain with less than 4% development to try to meet the requirements of this peerless beauty named 'Goldbach's Conjecture'.
Only when the requirements are met can he enjoy the joy of harvest - in front of mathematicians, the temptation to solve these mathematical conjectures is no less than that of a peerless beauty.
He also knows that he still has 15 hours of sage status to use, but he can't guarantee that he can complete the final breakthrough if he uses it now, so he prefers to keep these 15 hours where he has found an inspiration.
time to use.
But unfortunately, two months have passed and he still has not succeeded.
Of course, giving up is not a big deal. He spent nearly a month studying Mersenne primes. Goldbach's conjecture was more difficult and took more time. The problem was not big at all, and relatively speaking, he really spent every day studying it.
Goldbach only spent about half of his time conjecturing, and the rest of the time was used to study French and deal with other things.
As for French, he has almost learned it now. With his current brain development, memory, and understanding abilities, it is much easier to learn just one language. Now he has mastered French.
He also memorized all the daily expressions in mathematics and professional terms in mathematics. He had no problem communicating with Professor Xu Ji in French.
Therefore, at this time, he was ready to go to Paris, France, to participate in the Bourbaki seminar. After learning that he was coming to participate, they had already sent him an invitation letter. With the invitation letter, he also
I easily applied for a visa at the French Embassy.
It just so happens that since I can't conquer Goldbach's conjecture for the time being, I should go to the place where mathematicians gather and discuss it with other mathematicians.
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We have entered December, which means that the January exam is not far away.
Lin Xiao was exempted from taking the exam, and he still had to take the exam. However, this led to an embarrassing situation. He was going to France in January and obviously couldn't take the exam.
Naturally, the college took special measures and arranged a separate exam for him.
Then, on December 24th, after finishing the thinking test in a very embarrassing manner, he finally completed all his exams.
"Damn, I almost forgot that I still have to take this exam."
After leaving the examination room, Lin Xiao couldn't help but sweat. After the school arranged the examination, he realized that he still had one more subject to test, so he crammed crammatically before the examination, relying on his strong memory to
I almost memorized the entire book in three days, and I finally passed the test today.
However, the results are pretty good, and Sixiu should have a chance to score more than 90 points.
As for other mathematics subjects, if he doesn't get full marks, he will probably be ashamed when others call him Lin Shen.
After leaving the examination room, the exam that he had prepared for alone was held in the office building of the Department of Mathematics, so after he came out, he went directly to Xu Ji's place.
"Have you finished the exam? How's it going?"
"Well, after the exam, my grade point is guaranteed to be above 3.9." Lin Xiao was not polite and sat directly on the chair next to him, saying "OK".
Having been here a lot, he has already become familiar with everything.
Xu Ji raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Only 3.9? Can't it be adjusted to 4.0?"
Lin Xiao said with helplessness on his face: "It's so difficult to cultivate this thinking. I almost forgot about this subject."
Xu Ji laughed: "That's true."
None of them at the School of Mathematics at Peking University are not super academics, but most people have a headache when facing these courses. After all, this stuff can only be done by leaning on the back, and people who study science certainly hate it.
"Then let's do it. We will take a plane to Paris on the 31st, and Xiao Zhou and Xiao Shi will also go."
Xu Ji said with a smile.
Lin Xiao nodded. Xiao Zhou and Xiao Shi are Xu Ji's graduate students. One has a master's degree and the other has a doctorate. I think these two can also speak French.
After all, if you want to go there, in addition to having money, you have to be able to speak the language there.
The two graduate students also nodded to him, and Xiao Zhou ran directly to the side and poured a cup of tea for Lin Xiao and handed it to Lin Xiao: "God Lin, you will take care of us then."
Lin Xiao couldn't laugh or cry: "It's not that big of a deal, just ask me if you have any questions."
"You drink, you drink." Xiao Zhou handed the tea to Lin Xiao.
After Lin Xiao drank tea, he left here without staying much and returned to Yanbei Garden.
He was going to Paris, so Mimi naturally couldn't take him with him. He thought about it and asked Professor Zheng who lived upstairs.
In the past two months, Professor Zheng has often accompanied his granddaughter to talk to him. Over and over again, the old man who didn't like cats at first, now...
"Have you been raising your breasts for a while? Of course that's no problem!"
Zheng Ren looked quite surprised.
Lin Xiao couldn't help but be surprised for a moment when she heard Zheng Ren agreed so easily, "I was worried that you wouldn't agree. Do you also like cats now?"
"That's not true. It's just that you can't leave a cat alone at home. And my daughter also likes it. Keeping it for a few days will make her happy."
Zheng Ren does not admit the fact that he likes cats.
Lin Xiao couldn't help laughing at this, but of course he didn't expose it.
No matter what, the thing I was most worried about before has been solved.
After that, it was time to wait peacefully for the day of leaving for Paris on December 31st.
He really wanted to know if he could find the final key to prove his guess there.