[Congratulations to Lu Zhou, a 13th graduate of our school, for winning the internationally renowned mathematics award - the Cole Prize in Number Theory!]
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I will consider your suggestion, if I am not busy."
Not wanting to play riddles anymore, Xiaotong took a deep breath, sat upright and said with a serious face: "Teacher, did I fail in the monthly exam? Just tell me what my score was! I will work hard. If you are angry, Just scold me a few words and that’s fine!”
Should we continue to study the screening method
Xiaotong thought for a while and said, "It's all okay..."
Confused by the question, Xiaotong said with a speechless face: "No, our sixth class is united and friendly, and my relationship with my classmates is very good... Teacher, if you have anything to say, just say it, I still have my homework." It’s not finished yet.”
However, the number he came up with was so large that after the right side of the inequality was expanded, there were 4,008,600 digits. Even modern supercomputers were unable to exhaustively enumerate such a huge set.
Lao Ma hurriedly asked: "I'm so busy, I have to come back to celebrate the New Year, right?"
"Hey."
The 23rd, probably the day after tomorrow.
The Kohl Prize incident has been brewing in China for three days. Even three days later, relevant news can still be seen sporadically appearing in people's field of vision.
Luo Wenxuan: "By the way, do you want to drink together tonight? I found a good bar nearby."
After returning to the hotel, he closed the door and began to organize his notes seriously.
When Lu Zhou was proving the twin prime number conjecture, he quoted the three prime number theorem, so he was deeply impressed by it.
Xiaotong asked doubtfully: "Of course I want to come back to celebrate the New Year. Is there any problem?"
"Okay, maybe you are right." Looking at the tickets in his hand, Luo Wenxuan said helplessly, "But I still recommend that you develop a hobby other than mathematics. This will not only help you find a common language in social life , and it can also help you relax.”
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Lao Ma smiled and said: "Haha, I'll leave it to you, teacher!"
"Sit down quickly, don't stand and talk."
In fact, Helfgott was not the first person to challenge this weak conjecture in Goldbach's conjecture. Long ago, a former Soviet mathematician Vinogradov proved that when an "odd number is large enough, It can be written as the sum of three prime numbers."
The former has not seen much movement for decades, while the latter seems to have always produced results.
Lao Ma coughed dryly: "Let me ask you something, Lu Zhou... has your brother been busy recently?"
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
Just now, she was studying in the evening, and suddenly she was called over by the class representative, saying that Lao Ma wanted to see her for something.
Lu Zhou shook his head and declined politely: "Thank you, but I'm really not interested in football matches, and there is a report meeting that day that I don't want to miss. You'd better find someone else to accompany you."
Being called to the office by Lao Ma is not a good thing in No. 6 Middle School.
If Lu Zhou remembered correctly, there happened to be a one-hour report meeting that day.
This is also known as the "Goldbach-Vinogradov theorem", or the "three prime number theorem".
The emergence of the Kohl Prize can be regarded as clearing away the haze that has been weighing on the number theory community for many years.
It is not only Jinling University that is happy for Lu Zhou, but also Lu Zhou’s high school alma mater, Jiangling No. 6 Middle School.
This is a question worth pondering.
It turns out that all the beating around the bush was just for this matter!
Compared with the paper in 2013, what he reported at this seminar was much more concise and rigorous.
As the first young scholar in China to win the Kohl Prize, a pearl in the field of number theory, the media naturally followed up on this matter, whether it was for the news itself or for political needs.
Xiaotong, who thought she had gotten into some trouble and was called to the office, rolled her eyes silently in her heart and said speechlessly: "Okay teacher, I will tell my brother."
It just so happened that he had been studying mathematics problems these past few days. Lu Zhou also wanted to change his mind, so he smiled and said, "You can have this."
After entering the millennium, with the gradual decline of the Hua Luogeng school, number theory has always been a shortcoming in the domestic mathematics community.
Lao Ma smiled and said: "If there is anything you don't know how to do, just ask the teacher!"
Generally speaking, those who have the opportunity to give a one-hour report are either big names in the industry or have made recent major discoveries.
When did this old horse start taking the amiable route
"No, no, no, your monthly exam scores are very good! What about life? Are there any troubles, such as... is anyone bullying you in the class? Tell the teacher." Lao Ma said with a serious face.
Xiaotong tilted her head: "She must be quite busy."
Lao Ma's unusual behavior startled her.
As soon as he heard that he was coming back to celebrate the New Year, Lao Ma immediately put his hands on his hands and smiled and said, "Well, it's like this. Our Sixth Middle School and the leaders of the city's Education Bureau want to invite Lu Zhou to go back to his alma mater to give a speech and teach him his Learning experience, can you go back and ask the teacher to see if your brother has time? As long as you have time, it can be done anytime!"
As early as when he received the Chen Shengshen Mathematics Award, a banner was hung at the school gate. The old banner hasn't been taken down yet, and a new banner has been put up -
The person who appeared at the door was Senior Brother Luo, and he greeted him as soon as he saw him.
Xiaotong, who was standing at the door, knocked on the door and walked in confused after hearing "Please come in."
"Christmas is coming soon, don't tell me you plan to stay here and study math problems." Luo Wenxuan took out two tickets that looked like two tickets from nowhere and said with a smile, "There is a basketball game on the 23rd. I got it from my friend. I got two tickets, do you want to watch them together?"
After organizing all the notes on the computer, Lu Zhou flipped through the original notes in his hand and lay on the bed, lost in thought.
Xiaotong:? ?
"...The question is just, how to find a lower bound that meets the conditions and is small enough in the big set of even numbers?" Lu Zhou murmured to himself while turning the pages, "From this point of view, it proves this problem. The idea is somewhat similar to the twin prime conjecture."
However, considering that this might be the calm before the storm, Xiaotong sat down obediently.
"Classmate Xiaotong, how are you feeling studying recently?"
Xiaotong walked to the desk in a somewhat uneasy mood. Xiaotong was just about to ask what happened, but Lao Ma smiled amiably, stood up, and took the initiative to pull out a chair for her.
Among all the teachers, this old horse has the worst temper.
Every time he goes to self-study in the evening, he also likes to patrol for the class teacher. If he catches someone playing with his mobile phone, his mobile phone will be confiscated and he will be taken directly to the office to do homework. Many students are afraid of his reputation and will think of him when they hear his name. Bull head and horse noodles.
As for the person who embodied this "large enough odd number" to a limit, it was another former Soviet mathematician - Baredkin.
Senior Brother Luo sighed, with a defeated expression on his face: "Don't be like this, Junior Brother. You are coming to Princeton soon, and you have to try to learn to integrate into the life here. It is different from back home... At least, you have to fall in love with it. A sport.”
As the saying goes, good things come in pairs. Although the Kohl Award is not as important as the Dynamite Award, it is still a worthy international award!
Or use the circle method instead
Many of Mr. Helfgott's ideas are very interesting. Whether it is about the choice of power series generating functions or the solution of asymptotic problems, there will be many innovations.
Jiangling No. 6 Middle School, Senior High School Mathematics Office.
Lu Zhou asked in confusion: "What's the matter?"
No matter which one it was, Lu Zhou didn't want to miss it.
And Helfgott's research results in 2013 can be regarded as completing the last leg of this century relay race, narrowing this number to "10^30". Even though this number is equally huge, "30 digits" is much smaller than "4008600 digits", at least the computer can handle it.
Luo Wenxuan joked: "Haha, it's really not easy to ask you out to play."
Lu Zhou threw the notes aside, sat up from the bed, walked to the entrance and opened the door.
It seems that in the past two years, the professor has not been satisfied with the success of the weak Goldbach conjecture, but has further polished his theory.
Lu Zhou thought for a while and said in a relaxed tone: "I think there is no need to force myself to adapt to a lifestyle that is not suitable for me. Rather than adapting to life, I prefer to live life at my own pace. Come get used to me.”