From all-round academic master to chief scientist - Chapter 142 Worldwide Attention

“Unbelievable!”

“Bravo!”

The mathematicians sitting in the front row applauded and marveled.

Originally, they wanted to see some overlooked issues from Lin Xiao’s narration, but after such a whole report, Lin Xiao’s narration was smooth and concise, without any unclear points. Probably other listeners As long as the foundation is more solid, you might be able to understand how Lin Xiao derived his theory.

And with such a performance, they can only be described as wonderful.

Wiles applauded in the audience, with emotion in his eyes.

This scene is so similar to him back then.

He said softly: “Lin is doing better than me.”

“Oh why.”

asked Edward Witten, sitting next to Wiles.

Edward Witten, the proposer of M theory, is also the only physicist to win the Fields Medal as a physicist.

After Wiles left the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the two became colleagues, so their relationship was naturally relatively close.

Wiles said: “I thought I could complete my final proof in front of everyone’s eyes, but unfortunately, my first proof failed.”

“Then do you think he has proved successful? Maybe, like you, at the end of this season, someone asked a fatal question.”

“No, look at how rigorous this young man’s proof process is, and you will know that this is impossible.” Wiles shook his head and looked at the face of the young man on the stage. In their mathematical world, , what a vibrant face is that?

“Ask other people what they think of Lin Xiao’s entire report, and you will know that his report is even more outstanding than the last report at the Mathematicians Conference.”

At that time, there was a problem in Lin Xiao’s proof. In the end, Professor Wiles asked Lin Xiao the most critical question, and Lin Xiao answered it.

But now Lin Xiao has made up for this shortcoming.

“That’s right.” Witten nodded.

Wiles smiled and looked at Lin Xiao with eyes full of the high hopes that his seniors had for their juniors.

Not just Wiles and Witten, other mathematics professors were extremely emotional. Whether it was Sarnak and Deligne from abroad, or Xu Ji, Yuan Ya, etc. from China, they felt very grateful for Lin Xiao’s success here. For their performance in the field report, they could only give their own applause.

It has been more than two hundred years since Goldbach’s conjecture was born. It has attracted countless great mathematicians to conduct successive studies. It has caused countless regrets and become a thorn in the hearts of countless people.

That simple letter was originally sent by Goldbach to ask Euler for advice, but it has gone through countless years.

Until this day, more than two hundred and seventy years later, it finally stopped on the road of the history of mathematics. It was engraved on this day in 2019 and left the column representing unsolved problems in the palace of mathematics. Come to the column representing mathematical theorems.

Everyone seems to be relieved, because the mathematical community has once again climbed a big mountain.

At the same time, Lin Xiao on the stage listened to the applause of the audience and smiled on his face.

At this point, his report is completely completed.

To be honest, when he started to talk about his theory, the nervousness he felt at the beginning disappeared without a trace. He forgot about the audience he was facing, and what was left was only academic rigor and serious.

It was only at this moment that he realized that he was facing the eyes of tens of thousands of people.

All in all, it feels pretty good.

In this way, he enjoyed the wave of applause from the audience until the wave gradually ended.

Then, he said: “Well, friends who have questions now can ask.”

He looked around for a moment, but didn’t see anyone raising their hands.

This surprised him. No one had any problems?

He wondered if he had not made it clear enough, so he repeated it again: “Those who have doubts about the process can ask questions now.”

But after a while, no one raised their hands.

The people below also looked around and found that no one had any problems.

Of course, the ‘people with questions’ referred to here are limited to the mathematicians sitting in the front row, and those sitting in the back row have questions everywhere, but obviously they cannot stand up to ask questions.

The mathematicians in the front row were also a little surprised. It turned out that no one found the problem.

However, this is to be expected. After all, everyone has read Lin Xiao’s paper. Since no problems were found when reading the paper, it is not surprising that there are still no problems now.

Seeing this scene, Lin Xiao smiled. Obviously, this meant that his report was perfect.

He smiled slightly, then took a deep breath and announced: “Since everyone has no questions, I think my report will end here. Thank you all for coming. Thank you.”

He bowed deeply, and the audience once again burst into huge applause.

Huge applause accompanied Lin Xiao’s turning figure until he left the podium, and even after returning to the backstage, the warm applause could still be heard clearly.

…

Obviously, the end of the report does not mean the end of the whole thing.

The attention that Lin Xiao received later went far beyond that.

The simultaneous live broadcast of this report on the Internet has attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers. The moment these viewers saw Lin Xiao completing the proof, they had already expressed all their enthusiasm in the explosive bomb. The curtain went up, and then these netizens rushed to major online platforms to discuss, such as the scarf.

The scarf Lin Xiaofa originally said that his results still need to pass peer review, but now that the report is over, no well-known mathematician has raised questions. Doesn’t this mean that it has been recognized by the mathematics community?

Immediately, these netizens rushed under the scarf to comment.

“Lin Shen is still humble. Don’t go to the auditorium of Beijing University, just go to the Great Hall of the People.”

“On why Lin Shen is a god, the first is Goldbach’s conjecture”

“Lin Shen, I traveled back from January 19th and secretly told you a secret. You gave the report at the Great Hall of the People. After your report, no one asked any questions. You proved to be successful! 』

“You traveled back from the 19th. Why did you speak on the 19th too?” 』

“Because the time can only be kept on the 19th doge”

“Now that God Lin has proven Goldbach’s conjecture, is it going to be the Millennium Problem next?” 』

“Lin Shen, charge!” 』

…

The enthusiasm of netizens is unimaginable.

Originally, this scarf only had more than 10,000 replies. However, after the live broadcast, the number of replies seemed to take off again, directly exceeding 30,000 and approaching 40,000. This led to Lin Xiao’s scarf being listed directly. It’s in the top ten of the hot search list.

In the top ten hot searches, in addition to his scarf being listed as [Lin Xiao proves Goldbach’s conjecture], there are also two related hot searches on it, namely [Prove Brother. How difficult is Debach’s guess], [Lin Shen].

Among them, “How difficult is it to prove Goldbach’s conjecture” ranks first on the list, with a popularity value of more than 10 million.

After all, most people don’t have a specific concept of Goldbach’s conjecture. They only know that it is a world-class problem. And through this hot search, they finally understand the status of this problem in the world of mathematics.

This made them feel sincere admiration for Lin Xiao. He was worthy of being a super academic, and he could easily do things that no one else could do.

Of course, for Lin Xiao, he did not have time to pay attention to things on the Internet.

After finishing his report and returning to the backstage, Lin Xiao received countless phone calls.

“Hello, Mr. Lin Xiao, I am a reporter from Shangjing Daily. Can I spare a little of your time and interview you?”

“Sorry, I don’t have time now.”

“Hello, Mr. Lin Xiao, I am a reporter from Observation Network. May I ask…”

“Sorry for the inconvenience.”

“Hello……”

Lin Xiao was helpless, why were they all reporters?

“Mr. Lin Xiao…”

“Mr. Lin Xiao…”

“Son, have you proved successful?”

“Sorry, I don’t have time…”

Lin Xiao, who had just subconsciously spoken, suddenly came to his senses. This voice seemed to be that of his father?

He looked at the phone number and saw that it was really his father.

“Hey, Dad, it’s you. I thought it was some reporter.”

Lin Guowen smiled and said, “Your mother and I are watching your live broadcast. I’ve heard of your Goldbach conjecture before. What’s the result?”

“It must be OK, just don’t worry.” Lin Xiao said with a smile.

“Well, that’s good. Your father and your mother both believe in you.” Lin Guowen said, “By the way, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. Will you go home then?”

Lin Xiao was stunned, is it the New Year?

After thinking about the time, I realized that it was already entering late January, and it was indeed the Chinese New Year.

Time flies by so fast.

After sighing slightly, he said: “I will definitely come back.”

“That’s good.” Lin Guowen laughed, and then said, “I won’t talk about the rest, just live your life on your own.”

“Um.”

Then, Lin Xiao hung up the phone.

But as he expected, just after hanging up the phone, another call came.

“I guess it’s from some media.”

Lin Xiao shook his head. It seemed that he would have to mute his cell phone later.

This was the last call he took.

“Hello Mr. Lin, this is the editorial office of “Science”. Have you decided on which journal to publish your paper that proves Goldbach’s conjecture? If you haven’t decided yet, we invite you to publish it. In “Science”, we will publish your results as the cover, would you like it?”

When Lin Xiao heard this, he was immediately surprised.

I thought it was another media call, but it turned out to be a call from “Science” inviting him to contribute an article?

“Science” and “Nature”, the two top comprehensive journals in academia, receive submissions from all over the world every day, and to be able to attract so many submissions, Nature and these two top journals have a very high impact. factors related.

“Science” has an impact factor of over 40.

And not only that, the other party actually plans to publish Lin Xiao’s results as the cover, which is even more rare. Each issue of “Science” magazine has about fifty articles, which can be used as the cover of an issue, which is enough to illustrate this achievement. importance.

This also shows that the editorial board of Science attaches great importance to the proof of Goldbach’s conjecture.

However, Lin Xiao was still a little confused: “Don’t you accept papers in the field of mathematics?”

The other party smiled and said: “Of course we don’t accept general mathematics papers, but your results have epoch-making significance for the world, so of course we are willing to accept them.”

Apparently, Goldbach’s conjecture led Science to choose real scents as well.

Hearing what the other party said, Lin Xiao no longer had any doubts, and he had no idea about which journal to publish in. Anyway, the four major mathematics journals would definitely be fine. Now that “Science” has specially invited it, of course he has no problem either. Reason for rejection.

“Okay, I will send it to you after sorting out the paper.”

“Thank you for your support.” With Lin Xiao’s agreement, the other party smiled and then said: “In addition, we will also organize a review team with sufficient qualifications to conduct the final review of your paper. As long as it passes the final review, Your results will be published immediately.”

“OK.”

Lin Xiao naturally had no doubts about this.

Although the academic report has been passed and no colleagues have raised any questions, you still need to go through the process if you want to publish it in a journal. After all, once it is published in a journal, it means that the journal has recognized the achievement. If it is finally pointed out that there is If there is a problem, this journal will also be questioned.

Therefore, both emotionally and rationally, Science should arrange for a review team to conduct the final review of Lin Xiao’s paper.

Of course, there is no need to worry. It has passed arxiv and the academic report, and the possibility of problems in the final review has been reduced to a minimum.

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