"Our dean will teach us analytic number theory in person at 8:30. How about you come and sit in on the class?"
Zheng Hui felt a little sad that he was looked down upon by a student from the School of Biochemistry in mathematics.
"Then can you give me a book or a mathematics journal first?"
I've been looked down upon again. You're not even interested in attending the analytic number theory class given by the Dean of the School of Mathematics...
Brother Zheng threw the remaining half of the pancake into the trash can. He really had no appetite at all!
"Although our mathematics department at Wannan University of Technology is not very good and is not well-known in the country, our dean is the leader of the province's 'applied mathematics' discipline and is an editorial board member of the SCI journal in the field of probability and statistics. This time, we have arranged for graduate students from the Normal University's mathematics department to attend the analytic number theory class... Okay! I'll get you a mathematics journal..."
Senior Brother Zheng looked into Yi Xiaochuan's eyes, sighed, and then muttered: "It seems that the instructor has an English version of the "Annals of Mathematics", hehehe..."
"Brother Zheng, what are you laughing at?"
"Nothing, nothing, go to the lecture hall first, I'll get you a book..."
The tiered classroom could seat at least two hundred people, but by half past eight, only about thirty graduate students had arrived, including more than half of those from the Normal University next door.
Xiao Yi was sitting in the front row, casually flipping through the "Annals of Mathematics" that Zheng Hui had brought over. This was an all-English mathematics journal that was about 80% new, probably because not many people read it!
There are many mathematical annuals, both abroad and in China. This one is obviously not from China, but rather "annals-of-mathematics" published by Princeton on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. It is known as one of the four most authoritative "comprehensive" mathematics journals in the mathematics world today.
As for Princeton, it is a world-renowned private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, and is one of the eight Ivy League schools.
There is no need to introduce Princeton's scientific research strength and research results in detail. As long as you know who comes from Princeton, you will know how terrifying this university is.
Since its establishment, it has trained 2 US presidents, 12 US Supreme Court justices and many US congressmen. At the same time, Princeton University and the nearby Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) together constitute a world-renowned theoretical research center, which has a profound impact on the development of basic mathematics, theoretical physics, economics and other disciplines. As of today, a total of 63 Nobel Prize winners have worked or studied at Princeton University, and 13 Turing Award winners, the world's highest computer award, and 14 Fields Medal winners, the world's highest mathematics award, have worked or studied at Princeton.
Professor Shi, the vice president of Mizuki University, who Otsogawa saw in the news this morning, has served as an assistant professor, associate professor, tenured professor, and Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Chair Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton.
As an undergraduate student at a second-rate university in China, a poor student who has almost failed to obtain a degree certificate, isn’t it like a mountain to look up to? Isn’t it as far away as the starry sky!
The two will never intersect!
Xiao Yi did not notice that the Dean of the School of Mathematics had arrived, nor did he notice that the fifty-something Dean had already started teaching. He frowned as he flipped through a thick volume of the Mathematical Yearbook, occasionally pausing to ponder for a moment, writing and drawing on a piece of scratch paper.
Of course, the graduate students around were also taking notes in their notebooks.
Only Senior Brother Zheng seemed a little absent-minded, stealing glances at Yi Xiaochuan from time to time.
My heart feels like it's blocked.
Comparing yourself to others will make you feel thief!
Xiao Yi is like a piece of sea surface, absorbing nutrients and knowledge. The papers published in Princeton's "Annals of Mathematics" are naturally the latest research results in the mathematics community in the past year.
Each article is worth thinking about and learning.
There were even some papers that Xiao Yi found difficult to understand at first.
After all, he only had some achievements in number theory, and his research direction was also prime numbers.
Mathematics is so vast that no one can master it all.
Even if Euler and Fourier were still alive, this would not be possible.
Logical mathematics, algebra, calculus, geometry, topology, function theory, probability theory, mathematical statistics, operations research, combinatorial mathematics, fuzzy mathematics, quantum mathematics...
Going deeper in one direction can cause a mathematician to lose all his hair before the age of forty.
Otokogawa finally stopped on a paper, which was a supplementary study on the topological method to the sieve theory.
This kind of research has been going on for a long time. Professor Zellberg's paper published in the Annals of Mathematics in 1995 pointed out the direction for this research...
However, the topological principles of the sieve method still make it difficult to solve the prime number conjecture, including twin primes. In order to solve this problem, the mathematical community must find a new method.
Everyone is trying, but there has been no major breakthrough so far.
However, this paper gave Xiao Yi a new idea...
"Pah..."
The table in front of him was knocked twice.
"Student, please stand up and solve the problem on the blackboard..."
Xiao Yi raised his head in confusion and saw a bald old man in front of him with an expressionless face and sharp eyes.
Seeing Xiao Yi's expression, he snorted coldly, slapped the podium and shouted: "When the country is in trouble, every citizen has a responsibility. Ask yourself, if a major disaster strikes, what can you do? You can't carry anything on your shoulders or lift anything with your hands. The migrant workers on the construction site are more useful to society than you... Don't say that we live in a peaceful era and just need to make a living. Do you really think you live in a comfortable and peaceful era? Think about it with your butt! What can you do? What can you do after graduation? Work in finance? Do you think you can make a lot of money? Dream on!
I flew back from Beijing before dawn and taught you without even a sip of water. What was the purpose? I am old, this era belongs to you…”
Xiao Yi finally figured out what the dean wanted him to do. It was just the analytical extension problem of l-function!
Is it difficult
He took a piece of chalk in front of the dean, interrupted the dean's anger, and started writing on the blackboard.
The writing is very smooth and the movements are very graceful.
The dean was surprised!
The graduate students below were very confused!
Senior Brother Zheng had such an expression on his face!
Xiao Yi put down half of the chalk, patted the chalk dust on his hands, walked to his seat, and continued reading the "Mathematical Annals"...
The dean picked up the dozen pages of draft paper on the table, looked at them one by one, his brows furrowed more and more, and read them over and over again.
The atmosphere in the classroom was very strange. Xiao Yi finally put down his pen and folded the page he was reading.
"Dean, is there a problem?"
"Do you know anything about the large sieve method and the circle method?" Putting down the draft paper, the dean stared at Xiao Yi closely.
"The Great Sieve Method is a very inspiring and promising tool for the study of analytic number theory that solves the Goldbach conjecture. It can even be said that the value of the Great Sieve Method has surpassed the Goldbach conjecture itself. The circle method is another way of proving the same problem, and it is also a very promising method in the number theory community..."
"Would you like to be my graduate student?"
Xiao Yi shook his head.
"That's right. I can't teach you. Are you willing to go to Kyoto University? I will personally take you to the interview..."
Xiao Yi shook his head and said, "Studying prime numbers is just my hobby..."
"You are wasting your talent..." the dean almost roared.
The graduate students were confused again.