At 7:58 the next morning, Pan Jingyuan was already sitting upright in front of the computer and entered Zoom through the invitation link sent by Professor Dennis in the email. Because the team members were distributed in different regions, even across three continents. Even across continents, he has long been accustomed to using Zoom for meetings and communications.
As one of the official cooperation platforms with Harvard, Pan Jingyuan has been accustomed to using this conference system when he was a Ph.D. student at Harvard. He was the sixth person to enter the conference room. Through the video, it can be seen that everyone's mood is not too high.
In fact, the same is true for Pan Jingyuan.
Although he had accepted this fact, he was not happy after all. On the contrary, the convener of the meeting, his mentor Dennis, looked very calm.
About a minute later, Professor Sam took advantage of the time and entered the conference room, and everyone was already there.
"Okay, everyone should know the situation now. Pan, you had a face-to-face communication with Qiao Yu in Huaqing. Please tell me your thoughts first." As soon as everyone arrived, Dennis didn't say anything in the scene, and just said Start calling names.
Of course, in this small meeting similar to a group meeting, everyone is acquainted, and there is really no need to say anything. Pan Jingyuan quickly gave an overview of what was discussed at the meeting last night.
Most of them were the opinions of other professors. As for himself... to be honest, he didn't have much idea.
Unless he can solve this problem immediately, there is no point in talking too much. But it is obvious that he has no clue yet.
He can't tell everyone that he has been tutoring Qiao Yu and answering Qiao Yu's various questions during this period, right? Although his tutor won't blame him, others will probably want to eat his flesh.
It can be seen from the expressions of several people that not everyone can readily accept the sudden complications at this time.
"Okay, thank you Pan. I believe everyone has seen Qiao Yu's proof process. To be honest, I think it is very beautiful. Obviously we underestimated the complexity of this problem. But I hope everyone can cheer up and solve problems when they happen. The problem is solved.
Complaining about anything else right now will not help, so I hope everyone will focus on solving this problem completely. Sam, where do you think we should start to solve this problem? Of course, others can also speak up if they have ideas. .
This video conference lasted more than two hours.
Although everyone's mood was not high before, Dennis is a person who is very good at motivating people.
For example, during meetings, he never lets everyone choose whether to speak, but calls everyone by name one by one. Those who are called will say a few words regardless of whether they have ideas or not. At least Pan Jingyuan feels that this method of meeting is more efficient, and More useful.
Human thinking is inherently inert. When speaking freely, many times they place their hopes on others and are too lazy to use their own brains. But calling names one by one forces everyone to think and then say something.
In this process, you might get inspiration, or even some perfunctory speeches might bring inspiration to others. But the effect today is not very good.
Although many methods were proposed in the next hour, Pan Jingyuan knew very well that these methods would take a lot of time to verify.
Of course, when faced with a new problem, it is normal for everyone who has already planned to open the champagne to have a brief period of confusion. At least Pan Jingyuan believes that it can take as little as one or two months, or as much as one or two years. Under the leadership of Dennis, they
It will definitely solve the problem raised by Qiao Yu.
The time span is a bit long, but sometimes mathematics is just like those doing chemistry and materials science next to it. It depends on luck. In other words, scientific research also has a certain element of metaphysics in it.
Many scientific breakthroughs that have impacted the development of the world come from accidents or sudden flashes of inspiration. The former often has applications, while the latter is applicable to mathematics.
The most famous one is probably the discovery of penicillin. Alexander Fleming originally just wanted to culture some bacteria, but who knew that improper operation caused the culture dish to be contaminated by mold. Then through observation, he found that all the bacteria around the mold were killed, which led to the first culture in human history.
The first antibiotic was discovered, and the era of antibiotics began in the medical world.
You must know that when penicillin was first discovered, it was really like a panacea described in fantasy novels. Bacterial pneumonia and wound infections, which had a very high mortality rate in the past, have only been reduced in mortality since the introduction of this antibiotic.
The same is true for mathematics. Maybe just a flash of inspiration after getting up from a nap can solve a difficult problem. Of course, there may not be any examples of this, because this kind of thing is very idealistic, and most of it comes from the dictation of those genius mathematicians themselves.
It is difficult for outsiders to tell whether someone is bragging or not.
For example, Pan Jingyuan has never enjoyed sudden inspiration and enlightenment, because every time he makes a breakthrough, he has learned down-to-earth and then discovered it naturally. But he believes this because he has seen it with his own eyes.
And right next to him, a certain boy suddenly shouted "Yes" and was invited to the podium to criticize Fang Dao. He was convinced that this kind of mathematical epiphany must exist.
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When the meeting was about to end, Pan Jingyuan suddenly received a private message.
Yes, Zoom also supports the private chat function in video conferences. Of course, this also depends on the chat permissions set by the meeting host. However, as the meeting convener, Dennis never restricts the team's private chat function to facilitate everyone's private communication.
The message was from Frank.
To be honest, Pan Jingyuan's personal relationship with Professor Frank was very ordinary. They didn't have much communication on weekdays. This was the first time in my memory that the other party specifically talked to him in private during the meeting.
Although they are the only two people in the team who are from China, in the eyes of the rest of the team, the relationship between the two should be very good. But the relationship between the two is obviously not as good as everyone imagined. Sometimes Pan Jingyuan feels strange, why does he
I don't like Professor Frank very much.
In the end, it probably just boils down to the fact that the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water.
"Professor Pan, I sent you an email this morning. You might have been asleep by then. I mainly wanted to ask you about Qiao Yu. "Oh, what do you want to know?"
"How about Professor Pan, please check your email first, and I will call you after the meeting. Is it convenient for you?" "Okay."
Pan Jingyuan didn't think much about it.
A video conference is also a meeting. If you chat privately during the meeting, you may indeed miss other people's speeches. But now it is basically garbage time. Everyone has basically finished what they need to say, and now it is Dennis who is cheering everyone up.
To be honest, Pan Jingyuan has always felt that his tutor is good in every aspect, but he is a little wordy, talks too much, and has a lot of loudspeaker attributes.
Therefore, the last ten minutes of every meeting are garbage time, but due to Dennis's authority in this field, no one pointed out this minor flaw. After all, no one is perfect.
But in the last few days, probably no one listened seriously to the instructor's words of encouragement. To be honest, they are all adults, so they naturally know what to do next. And mathematical research has its own particularities.
Pan Jingyuan opened his mailbox, found Professor Frank's email among the unread emails, and clicked on it to read it.
There was nothing special worth paying attention to. The main thing was to ask some questions about Qiao Yu. What made Pan Jingyuan speechless the most was that this guy actually asked Qiao Yu if he had heard of him and if he was willing to study abroad at Berkeley. It was too much.
Fortunately, I just sent him a private email. If Mr. Yuan knew about this, he would probably sneeze at him.
Who wouldn't want a student like Qiao Yu? There's no need to worry too much. If you leave him alone, he will grow naturally and his future achievements will be limitless.
When Tian Yanzhen was CMO, he directly tricked Qiao Yu into going to Yanbei University, which made Mr. Yuan depressed for a long time. This guy wanted Qiao Yu to go to Berkeley to be his student. It was just a dream.
Of course, these words were just what I was thinking. I closed the email and Dennis’s speech was almost over.
"By the way, I talked to Professor Schultz on the phone. He said that he has made suggestions to the organizing committee of the International Conference on Algebraic Geometry to be held next month. He will invite Qiao Yu to attend the conference and give a thirty-minute report.
So if you have time, I suggest you attend this meeting.
Maybe we can communicate with Qiao Yu. As a person who found loopholes, maybe he will have some special ideas that can inspire us. Of course, Pan, you have the most contact with Qiao Yu. If you have the opportunity, you can talk to him more
Discussion."
"Okay, Professor Dennis." Pan Jingyuan took a deep breath and answered.
Good guy, can Qiao Yu give a thirty-minute report at the International Algebraic Geometry Conference? Sure enough, the mathematics world is always so kind to geniuses!
Damn...so envious!
"Okay, that's it for today. If you have any ideas, please feel free to email us." After saying that, Dennis pressed the button to end the meeting.
As soon as Pan Jingyuan logged out of Zoom, he received a direct call from the overseas phone number. "Hello, Professor Frank, hello."
"Hello, Professor Pan, have you read my email?
"I just watched it. But I also asked, and it seems that Qiao Yu has no plans to study abroad. In fact, he has not even started his undergraduate studies. As far as I know, the current training method at Yanbei University is mainly to let him
Self-study.
"Self-taught?"
"Yes. No specific study tasks were assigned to him. He has a high degree of freedom in learning and the courses are matched as he pleases. As for whether he will choose to study abroad in the future, that is a matter for the future. But I estimate that at least before he reaches adulthood, Yan
Peking University will not recommend him to go abroad.
"Oh, that's such a pity. But since he was not assigned a specific task, why did he suddenly become interested in our research topic?"
When Pan Jingyuan heard this question, he also felt a headache. After thinking about it, he said: "I guess Mr. Yuan mentioned it to him once before. I think you have also read his paper on the estimation of the upper bound of the rational point of the curve.
Mr. Yuan may have thought that Qiao Yu had suspicions about Langlands, and I happened to be in the team, so he mentioned to him whether he was interested in joining our research group. He refused, but maybe because of Mr. Yuan’s recommendation, he was interested in us.
The results are interesting.
"That's it. Mr. Yuan really did... a good thing. Otherwise, the paper would be published and proven to be wrong, which would be even more troublesome.
Pan Jingyuan could hear the insincerity in these words, so he decisively changed the topic: "Will you go to the algebraic geometry conference next month?" "I'm not sure yet, it depends on the schedule. By the way, that Qiao
Yu is still going to participate in this year’s IMO?”
"Yes, in fact, he also knows that participating in IMO is meaningless, but he still wants to get a ranking to repay his alma mater." "That's it. He has a grateful heart and is a good boy."
"Who says it's not the case? Professor Frank, if there's nothing else, I'll hang up first." "Okay."
Pan Jingyuan hung up the phone and shook his head. He always felt that the Berkeley professor was a little distracted when chatting. Forget it, he was too lazy to think about it.
The afternoon was Qiao Yu's special show, and he wanted to go and hear how this guy planned to whip the corpse.
For Pan Jingyuan, these two days have been really painful. It's just that the achievements of six years have been exposed. The most annoying thing is that he was the one who led this guy to get started. It's quite frustrating just thinking about it.
At 1:50 pm on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, Qiao Yu was answering the phone in his dormitory at the International Mathematics Center of Yanbei University.
"I'm in the room, yes, I'm about to go there. Ah? You want to come over... Wait, are you going in the afternoon too?... No, of course... Then I'll wait for you." I hung up the phone.
Qiao Yu didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
If he heard correctly, Director Tian said that he wanted to accompany him to Huaqing to attend his lecture today? To be honest, this really surprised Qiao Yu.
After Chen Zhuoyang knew that Qiao Yu had contacted the opposite party, he once told him that although the tutor had a good relationship with some professors at Huaqing School of Mathematics, he had not taken the initiative to go to Huaqing School for more than ten years, let alone with the senior teacher opposite him.
Attended the report meeting.
It was probably the attitude that I knew you were right across the street, so I chose to stay away from you. This actually made Qiao Yu a little worried.
He was afraid that Director Tian and Grandpa Shi would really get into a fight during the afternoon report meeting.
To be fair, no matter what conflicts there are between Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin, at least they are both very good to him. If they really get into a fight, he won't even be able to watch the fun...
In fact, Qiao Yu still prefers that the relationship between the two of them maintain the warm and ambiguous relationship with an occasional phone call, and it is better not to meet each other. But the mentor's free will naturally cannot be interfered with by him.
He didn't have time to think too much. In less than five minutes, Qiao Yu saw Tian Yanzhen waving to him through the window and hurriedly carried the computer and went out. "Director Tian, ​​you really came over."
"What? I can't go there?" "That's not true!"
"You even called grandpa, what should I be afraid of? Right?" Tian Yanzhen gave Qiao Yu a meaningful look. Qiao Yu was speechless.
Just go, as long as he is not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed.
"By the way, don't use those messy email addresses in the future. In the future, you can directly use the email address provided by the research center for external contacts. I have already applied for it for you, and the address of Professor Xue should have been sent to your WeChat."
Qiao Yu immediately took out his cell phone and took a look. Sure enough, Lao Xue sent him a WeChat message.
"Address:, initial password: xxxxxx, homepage background: "What is the homepage?"
Tian Yanzhen explained: "You can edit your achievements and put them on the page for external display. For example, your learning experience, representative achievements, projects you are working on, etc. There are templates, and you can understand them at a glance. "
Qiao Yu said: "I understand this. I have studied the professors of those centers before. But I am still a student, right? Can students also have a homepage?" Tian Yanzhen replied: "A special column has been opened for you. You can log in later. Just take a look at the official website and you’ll know.”
Qiao Yu nodded honestly and responded: "Thank you, Director Tian. Wouldn't that be a great honor for me?"
Tian Yan really smiled, and then said: "Yes, you are indeed very popular now. From the 19th to the 23rd of next month, the World Congress on Algebraic Geometry will be held at the French Institute of Advanced Sciences, and the organizing committee has listed you as a special lecture. Guest, I invite you to give a 30-minute report. How about it? Are you interested?"
"30-minute report? Main venue or branch venue? What is the main topic?" Qiao Yu asked with interest.
At this moment, he thought of the senior from Huaqing. According to Lao Xue, that guy was invited to participate in a top computer conference during his freshman year. He is not even a freshman now, and someone has invited him to attend the conference. This shows that He won again.
Tian Yanzhen glanced at Qiao Yu and said angrily: "What are you thinking about? You are most likely at the branch meeting. As for what to talk about, that is your business. All you can talk about now is about Qiao points and rational points on curves There are two areas of derivation. If you decide to go, you can talk about it.
However, the most important significance of this kind of conference is not the thirty-minute lecture you give on stage, but that outside of the conference, you will have the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with mathematicians from all over the world. For example, Peter Schulz,
The second time was when he recommended you to give a report."
Qiao Yu's eyes lit up and he said happily: "Wow! This is the real-life version of asking the heroes who is the hero! Sure enough, geniuses also cherish each other, so if I go there, won't I have the opportunity to drink with Peter Schulz?
Talking about heroes? Director Tian, ​​I will definitely be the first to mention your name when the time comes.
Tian Yanzhen paused in his steps and glared at Qiao Yu, but his gaze was really not lethal. Well, it is normal for a sixteen-year-old child to have some messed up things in his mind.
And every time the flattery is just right, it is also embarrassing. "Does that mean you agreed to go?" Tian Yanzhen asked.
"Yeah." Qiao Yu nodded.
He would still be very interested in talking to Peter Schulz.
If there is anyone whom he admires most after reading so many papers, it is probably this mathematician. He used other people's results, but they really came up with this set of things, and the difficulty is very different. Of course, Qiao Yu did not
I don’t think he is inferior to Peter Schulz.
After all, he only came up with the prototype of the near-complete theory during his master's degree. Qiao Yu felt that when he started studying for a master's degree, he would not necessarily be worse than Peter Schultz. And he would definitely be richer than this big shot in the future.
The latter is very important.
Tian Yanzhen said: "Okay, I have taken the time to apply for a visa recently. Is your passport already available?"
Qiao Yu replied: "When it was decided to participate in IMO, it was already done. But it was handed over to Professor Zhou for safekeeping."
Tian Yanzhen nodded and said: "Then I want to apply for a visa for you all to go to Australia. Or let Professor Zhou help you apply for the C visa for France. Professor Zhou will help you make an appointment when the time comes, and he will accompany you when the time comes.
You go to the embassy to apply."
"Okay, Director Tian. Wait, Director Tian, ​​aren't you going to France to attend this meeting? I have to give a speech for thirty minutes!" Qiao Yu suddenly reacted and asked. Tian Yanzhen is really serious this time
He glared at Qiao Yu and said, "I will go, but I don't need to apply for a visa. I have a multiple-entry visa for Europe and it hasn't expired yet."
"Oh, that's right!" Qiao Yu nodded.
It’s no wonder that awesome people can run around at all times. They are still in the country at night, and the next morning they can go to a square in the west to feed the pigeons. It’s like they don’t need a visa to go abroad... Multiple-entry visa sounds like this thing
Still cool.
However, Qiao Yu still felt that this was a little troublesome.
I really hope that when he grows up, everyone in China, no matter where they are in the global village, can just buy a ticket and go if they want to go there. As for the visa... DF Express is available, and it is so troublesome to get a visa.
It's an annoying thing to think about.
Of course, if foreigners want to come to China, they still have to apply for a visa. There is no way, there are too many Chinese people.
Anyway, Qiao Yu feels that if facts are educating China more than once and running a country in the global village, we can't have too little double standards. Just make a difference between the kingly double standards and the hegemonic double standards.
"I'm going to France next month and Australia in July. Your schedule is also very tight." Tian Yanzhen said with emotion.
Every time he thought that Qiao Yu was only sixteen years old, he would sigh with emotion and feel a little disappointed. This is probably what happens when people get older... Excellent old people can always see the high-spiritedness of their youth in equally outstanding teenagers.
This is probably one of the reasons why Qiao Yu is so rare.
The teacher and student were chatting casually while walking, and unknowingly walked into the realm of Huaqing.
Qiao Yu planned to go to the Mathematics Research Center as usual, but Tian Yanzhen stopped him: "If you don't go this way, go to the library." "Library?" Qiao Yu was a little confused.
"Yes, your afternoon special lecture is arranged in the Century Lecture Hall of Shaw Hall." Tian Yanzhen said concisely. "Ah? Why?" Qiao Yu couldn't help but ask.
"Because the Century Lecture Hall can normally accommodate eighty people. If necessary, more seats can be added." Tian Yanzhen explained casually. Oh, the space is relatively large.
But Qiao Yu felt it was getting more and more interesting.
His special lecture was changed to the lecture hall, but Hua Qing did not inform him, but greeted Director Tian first. Qiao Yu was sure that the person who informed Yan Bei was definitely not Grandpa Shi. With Mr. Yuan's character, he definitely wouldn't This is how it works.
Well, it has nothing to do with him anyway.
He is only responsible for speaking on stage. It is none of his business what the people listening below think.
That's what he thought in his heart, but when he came to this lecture hall, Qiao Yu still felt something was different.
Obviously, Tian Yan actually appeared, which surprised many professors.
But soon Tian Yanzhen led him into a passionate conversation with the professor invited from abroad. This process made Qiao Yu quite embarrassed. Because foreign professors are really not reserved when they praise people.
Professor Elton, in particular, used three words "very" and "good" in a row to evaluate his ideas and achievements, which not only made him feel a bit overrated, but also showed the poverty of spoken English vocabulary.
In fact, Qiao Yu didn't mind that Professor Elton used some words instead of being so colloquial.
For example, excellent, outstanding or remarkable, after all, these words are more formal.
However, Qiao Yu also keenly noticed that most of the professors from Huaqing only came to say hello and did not gather around them, maintaining a relatively reserved distance. Moreover, when these professors saw Tian Yanzhen appearing in the lecture hall, Obviously everyone's expressions were very surprised, some were even stunned...
Qiao Yu only felt that it was getting more and more interesting.
Finally, after chatting for a while, Qiao Yu saw his grandpa entering the venue for the first time.
Really, at that moment, Qiao Yu clearly felt that the voices in the lecture hall were a bit quieter. Director Tian and him were standing opposite the door. Opposite them were several foreign professors and professors from Yanbei University. .
Through the gap between people, Qiao Yu felt that Mr. Yuan should be able to see his mentor. But even if he didn't, it didn't matter, because Mr. Yuan and Professor Felice beside him were walking straight towards this direction.
Qiao Yu quietly glanced at the instructor beside him with the corner of his eye, and found that the expression on Tian Yanzhen's face had not changed. He rolled his eyes and went straight to greet him... "Master, you are finally here. Today, instructor Tian You also came to listen to my special lecture, I am so happy."
Mr. Yuan smiled and patted Qiao Yu on the shoulder, then walked among the people chatting in the front row and glanced at Tian Yanzhen. "Old Yuan." Tian Yanzhen nodded slightly.
"Yes." Yuan Zhengxin nodded slightly, and after greeting everyone for a few words, he said in a moderate tone: "It's almost time, let's get started. Qiao Yu, come..."
Standing on the podium with Yuan Zhengxin, Qiao Yu discovered that the more than 80 seats under the lecture hall had been filled without realizing it, and someone even moved a stool to sit in the back.
It's just that the atmosphere of today's report meeting was obviously weird.
Many eyes were still looking at Tian Yanzhen's position in the front row, and some were even whispering. They probably still couldn't accept it. Lao Tian, ​​who was opposite him, sat in the front row of the press conference in a grand manner, with Yuan Tian. Old face to face.
But in any case, today's occasion is already perfect for a sixteen-year-old boy like Qiao Yu. Qiao Yu even feels that next month's World Congress on Algebraic Geometry, if it is held at a branch venue, will probably be This is such a scale. The next moment, Mr. Yuan’s steady voice sounded in the lecture hall.
"Thank you all for attending today's report. I believe everyone knows Qiao Yu. He is a rising star in the field of mathematics and a student jointly trained by the Yanbei International Mathematics Research Center and our Huaqing Mathematics Research Center.
Today, he will share with you his way of thinking about a type of conjugate ridged singular points on algebraic varieties. I believe that his lecture can bring us some new perspectives and thinking, and can also inspire us to think about this type of singularity. In-depth discussions in the field. Let us look forward to today’s wonderful sharing.”
The audience began to applaud.
What Yuan Zhengxin said just now was spinning in Qiao Yu's mind...
Good guy, he suddenly became a talent jointly cultivated by both parties? How come he didn’t know it yet?
Qiao Yu glanced at Lao Tian in the audience... Well, it's good. He was still sitting as firmly as a rock, and he was applauding with a relaxed smile on his face. He didn't look very annoyed. He really looked like a boss, privately. We discussed it down below, and then swaggered over with him.
He didn't even let him know the slightest bit, and his words were terrifyingly harsh. Of course, this actually didn't matter to Qiao Yu.
Anyway, he often comes to Huaqing to make a living, and by the way, he uses the office in Qiuzhaili as a study room. If joint training is planned, he thinks Huaqing should also prepare a special study room for him, so he doesn't have to squeeze in with Mr. Yuan. A room like that.
In this way, he can stay in Huaqing from day to day and return to Yanbei from day to day...
Qiao Yu looked away from Director Tian and looked at the back row. He saw the astonished expressions of the professors in the back row. Qiao Yu found it even more interesting.
But there are also some things that make him depressed. For example, not everyone is looking at him, and there are people who are lowering their heads and don't know what they are doing... Bad review! You are already a professor, but you don't listen carefully in class. It's so disrespectful. It's moral.
Forget it, that's fine.
Anyway, the big guys in the audience were having so much fun, so no one would care about his skinny moment, right?
Before the lecture began, Qiao Yu glanced at Professor Pan in the audience again. When the applause stopped, Qiao Yu began his explanation. "Good afternoon, teachers..."
After saying a few simple polite words, Qiao Yu began to use the prepared PPT to explain his entire thinking process in an orderly manner. Of course, during the explanation, Qiao Yu did not forget to sincerely thank Professor Pan Jingyuan for his selfless help.
Pan Jingyuan also received a lot of curious looks.
However, Qiao Yu felt keenly that Professor Pan didn't seem to be too interested in his thanks, so Qiao Yu thanked him a few more times... It wasn't intentional. Many of his initial ideas did come from Pan Jingyuan's guidance. People’s WeChat chat records can prove it. Of course, Qiao Yu also thanked Professor Elton who inspired him that day.
The old professor from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton smiled sincerely in the audience. Forty-five minutes passed quickly like this.
Qiao Yu followed the previous request and left fifteen minutes for questions. After answering a few questions, the lecture was about to end.
Qiao Yu began to make a final summary: "Thank you again for coming to today's special lecture. In addition, I have a wonderful idea. Maybe we can use a new tool to solve part of the geometric Langlands conjecture - The applicability of global consistency problems on complex singular points.
I even think that this tool may not be complicated. It only needs to allow us to locally reconstruct the geometric structure at such singular points to ensure that the local properties can be correctly globalized, so as to ensure that the Ambidexterity theorem remains at complex singular points. Applicable.
For example, construct a homology layer in the local geometric structure of the point, and somehow construct an operator that can operate on it. Of course, this is just an irresponsible assumption.
Unfortunately, today's time has come. I think maybe next time we meet again, we will be able to discuss a result. And I believe it must be a good result. This tool must exist, but it is still in the process of being brewed. Thank you Everyone!"
After speaking, Qiao Yu bowed slightly, but there was no warm applause from the audience that should have been heard. A few scattered sounds disappeared after Pan Jingyuan spoke. "Qiao Yu, can you tell me your solution?"
Qiao Yu simply shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Professor Pan, it's really just an empty idea at this stage. I've said everything I can. You know, it's a pure mathematical intuition.
..
Just like when I studied your team's paper, I had an intuitive feeling that the proof process might not cover all situations. Then I thought about it for a long time and then, inspired by Professor Elton, I suddenly had inspiration."
Then Qiao Yu seriously promised: "Of course, if I really have a solution, I will report it to you as soon as possible." In the end, warm applause rang out.
Qiao Yu also roughly understood everything that happened next. The communication was all after the meeting.
In fact, he had experienced it last time, but he chose to leave quickly and did not stay to discuss in detail with the professors. But today was different. He stayed with Tian Yanzhen to join the discussions with many professors, and even talked to several professors.
The invited foreign professors and the Huaqing professors from Mr. Yuan's side had a meal together.
Qiao Yu finally had the opportunity to have more in-depth exchanges with these great professors in the field of mathematics.
It is completely different from the very targeted questions in the lecture. After the meeting, everyone's questions and answers are actually very casual and divergent. For example, while chatting, they will evaluate and analyze some ideas and opinions recently put forward by a certain professor.
, some approve it, and some disdain it.
You can tell from some small details what the relationship between so-and-so is with so-and-so
At the same time, everyone will also discuss some problems encountered in recent research work. Of course, it does not necessarily require others to give answers. Everyone just chats together to see if they can put forward some suggestions for construction.
As we chatted about this topic, we would turn to the research results of a professor who was not present, and the cycle continued like this.
In short, this kind of communication is easier and covers a wider range of topics. If you happen to encounter a topic of interest, you can indeed get a lot of inspiration. For Qiao Yu, the biggest gain is probably that in just over an hour, Qiao Yu's
There are several names of professors I have never met before, as well as the projects and achievements they have been working on recently.
It can be seen from this that these mathematicians communicated a lot in private. The professors were not present, but many professors seemed to know the progress of their work, including Peter Schulz.
For example, he learned from Professor Elton that Peter Schultz was recently collaborating with computer scientist Kevin Buzard of Microsoft Research and was busy doing "liquid tensor experiments." A new term, but
After the professors' explanation, Qiao Yu roughly understood that the correctness of mathematical theories was verified through computer-assisted formalization.
More specifically, Buzard's team developed an interactive theorem proving assistant called Lean and invited Peter Schultz to cooperate. The specific work is to transform complex mathematical theories into a form that can be verified by Lean.
This involves careful decomposition of multiple mathematical theorems and propositions, and ensuring that each step in the formalization process is accurate.
Qiao Yu feels that this is a thankless job. After all, this job requires countless time and energy. However, considering that the partner is Microsoft, Qiao Yu feels that it is understandable...
Microsoft must have given too much!
In addition, Qiao Yu even listened to these professors tell a lot of secrets in the world of mathematics. Of course, I don’t know if they are secrets. For example, some weirdos from a certain boss...
Some people asked him privately about Director Tian and Mr. Yuan, but Qiao Yu dismissed them all and bypassed them... What does he know about the affairs between the big guys? He doesn't know anything!
In short, Qiao Yu has always adhered to academic issues and boldly expressed his opinions. As for some news in the mathematics world, he listened to it as a story and never commented... In addition to communicating with professors, he was also busy observing Huaqing's The interaction between professors and Director Tian.
At first, some people tentatively chatted with Director Tian. After discovering that Mr. Yuan did not seem to be obviously unhappy, more and more people began to communicate with Mr. Tian... Fortunately, there was no conflict between Director Tian and Mr. Yuan. Even if they communicate directly, they will quickly look away once their eyes meet, which also makes Qiao Yu breathe a sigh of relief.
Although he has always been honest with the two bosses, people who like to dance on both sides still don't want the two bosses to sit together and reconcile accounts for nothing. After all, no matter how smart the brain is, it is impossible to do it at any time. Pay attention to every detail.
It's good to keep a detached attitude like this.
The Huaqing and Yanbei research centers will have more cooperation and exchanges in the future. It would be better for the two big guys to stay in their respective territories.
Qiao Yu, who was rapidly processing various thoughts in his mind, forgot one thing, that is, in the Internet age, everyone is a part of the Internet, and professors are no exception.
Just now he was looking at the expressions of the Huaqing professors. God knows how many professors there secretly took out their mobile phones and took pictures of Yuan Zhengxin and Tian Yanzhen in the same frame.
Yes, not only professors from Huaqing are doing this, but professors from Yanbei are also doing this. After all, for the Chinese mathematics community, this is definitely a big deal, a big deal.
At first, everyone thought that these two big guys would probably never interact with each other until the end of their lives. Who would have thought that Tian Yanzhen would suddenly appear in the Century Lecture Hall of Huaqing Yifu Pavilion and stand face to face with Yuan Zhengxin.
Qiao Yu just thought it was interesting, but to others, it was a big melon, a shocking big melon in the world of mathematics.
So we really can’t blame him for the fact that at the beginning of his special lecture, many professors in the back row lowered their heads and made small moves. In fact, everyone was spreading the news through their own channels.
Of course, all the photos in the same frame, no matter from which angle, as long as they show the front faces of Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin, they must also have the front faces of Qiao Yu. Because he was standing with Tian Yanzhen before, and then with Yuan Zhengxin stood together.
Chapter completed!