Early Thursday morning, Pete Sanak, a 30-year-old Princeton math graduate and a reviewing editor for the Annals of Mathematics, got up early as usual.
Being a reviewing editor for one of the four top mathematics journals in the world has always been his pride.
After breakfast, he drove to the magazine office. As usual, he made himself a cup of coffee, and then manipulated the mouse to open the work mailbox. At this moment, a ding-dong sound came from the speaker, indicating that he had received a new copy. mail.
Pete took a sip of coffee and opened the email.
Probably because the attachment is too large, the response time of the computer is a bit long.
He put down the coffee cup in his hand and read the title of the paper first: "Four ways to prove the Goldbach Conjecture"
He thought that the person who gave the paper such a name must be a novice.
etc-
Pete reacted, four ways to prove Goldbach's conjecture
He hurriedly read the topic again, that's right.
Pete was refreshed, his face dignified, and he continued to look down.
ten minutes... thirty minutes... an hour...
He rubbed his astringent eyes. With his math level, he could only read the twentieth page, and he couldn't go any further.
But that didn't stop him from expressing his excitement.
Perhaps he will witness a historic moment.
Pete hurriedly printed out the paper, then waved the paper and rushed into the editor-in-chief's office.
It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand it, but in Princeton, in the United States, in North America, in the whole world, there are always people who can understand this paper.
"Goldbach Conjecture?"
The editor-in-chief James is obviously much calmer. He looks directly at the author column, and only one name is written on it: "ZezhiMeng."
Then look at the author unit column: "Jincheng University."
He frowned: "Chinese?"
It's not that he discriminates against China, but in such a mathematically poor land, can anyone really prove Goldbach's conjecture
This is a worldwide problem that has plagued the entire mathematics community for 270 years.
Pitt said immediately: "Mr. James, I can understand what you mean, so what we have to do now is to send this paper for review as soon as possible, and let those professors verify the correctness of this paper."
In general academic journals, the manuscript review is divided into two parts, the first part is the journal editor's review, and the second part is the reviewer's review.
Journal editors screen articles by topic and field coverage of the journal, and then send qualified articles to appropriate reviewers for review.
Reviewers mainly come from three aspects: first, members of the editorial board of the journal, especially for some new journals; second, peers around the world; and finally, the reviewer candidates provided by the contributing authors themselves.
However, for top academic journals standing at the forefront of academics, in order to ensure the correctness of the review results and avoid academic fraud, their reviewers are limited to peers who are engaged in the same research direction as the article, usually three to five people. Therefore, this stage is also called the peer review stage.
In addition, the peer review process of "Annuals of Mathematics" adopts double-blind review, which means that the authors and reviewers of the article do not know each other's identity information.
"You're right."
Abandoning those stereotypes, James corrected his attitude. Of course, he hoped that the paper was correct, and that was not necessarily an honor for the Annals of Mathematics.
Half an hour later, ten emails flew from Pete's computer all over the world.
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After uploading the paper, Meng Zezhi rushed to the hospital without stopping.
HIV-infected patients generally develop into AIDS patients after an incubation period of several months, or even as long as ten years or longer.
With the development of modern medicine today, antiretroviral therapy has been developed. If the infected person receives high-efficiency antiretroviral treatment in the early stage of HIV infection, the incubation period can be significantly prolonged, and even the life-long life of the infected person can be prolonged. Is the carrier of HIV, and will not develop into the effect of AIDS patients.
But Meng Zezhi did not choose to do so.
First, because there is not much time left for him, not to mention that the current medical level in China is still not at this level, if he goes abroad for treatment, he will not be able to enter the biological laboratory at all.
The most important thing is that antiretroviral therapy will inevitably have some toxic side effects, far from it, just say that some of these drugs will cause patients to have very realistic nightmares in the first few weeks of taking them. Patients need the intervention of a psychiatrist to get through this period of time smoothly. Meng Zezhi does not think that under such circumstances, he can still have sufficient energy to do experiments.
Second, Meng Zezhi didn't want to scare the snake, and the treatment would definitely attract the attention of Chen Yinglong, and he didn't know how much trouble he would cause.
But it's different now.
He has proved Goldbach's conjecture, and it's not far from Chen Yinglong's attack. Now he just wants to complete the development of the AIDS drug as soon as possible, so as not to have many nightmares.
Therefore, it is necessary to use drugs to adjust the state of the body.
In China, drugs for the treatment of AIDS are free. Patients can use the report issued by the AIDS confirmation laboratory to go to the CDC to issue a drug referral form, and then go to designated hospitals to receive free antiretroviral treatment provided by the state.
Meng Ze knew that it was troublesome, and the antiviral drugs provided by the state basically had strong side effects, so he could only buy two courses of expensive imported drugs under the doctor's advice.
But he obviously overestimated his physical fitness. In addition, he stayed in the laboratory all day, and his work and rest were disordered. In just half a month, his weight dropped by more than ten kilograms. Among them, the loss of adipose tissue was the most severe. It's the face and arms, which make him even more emaciated.
When Zhu Zhengqing broke free from his lovelorn and made full psychological preparations, when he returned to the laboratory, he saw such a scene.
For a moment, his heart beat faster, making him mistakenly think that Meng Zezhi was so decadent because he missed tea and rice because he missed him.
But he quickly dismissed this unrealistic idea.
He loosened the corners of his pursed lips and looked indifferent.
Hearing footsteps, Meng Zezhi, who was debugging the instrument, turned his head casually, and when he saw the person coming, he froze.
The first thought in my heart turned out to be that I must be ugly now!
"Have you finished your experiment yet?" It's been more than four months.
"Yeah." Seeing Zhu Zhengqing's casual appearance, Meng Zezhi couldn't tell what it was like. He calmed down and greeted him like a friend when they met, "How about you, have you got the project back?"
"The magazine has already withdrawn the manuscript."
"Ok."
Having said that, the two fell into silence in unison.
In addition to being embarrassed, Zhu Zhengqing couldn't help but glance at Meng Zezhi. After hesitating for a while, he finally asked unsatisfactorily, "How did you become like this?"
The corners of Meng Zezhi's lips inadvertently curved, "I'm sick."
It depends on how sick you are.
Zhu Zhengqing was completely unable to get up, and immediately asked, "Is the illness cured now?"
Meng Zezhi sighed, then shook his head.
Zhu Zhengqing couldn't help but be a little worried: "Have you been to the hospital?"
"I've seen it." Meng Zezhi nodded: "The doctor prescribed some medicine."
Hearing this, I wish Zhengqing a lot of peace of mind.
The next moment, he couldn't help but cast aside himself in secret, Zhu Zhengqing, Zhu Zhengqing, everyone has rejected you, and you still stick it up cheekily, like something.
The more Zhu Zhengqing thought about it, the more sad he felt.
The author has something to say: Zhu Zhengqing: Wronged Baba T^T