The afternoon sun shines through the heavy curtains, drawing a spot of light on the pile of mathematics books.
James Maynard is sitting in front of the sofa, wearing glasses, reading the paper in his hand carefully.
On the small table next to me, the coffee was still slightly steaming.
Opposite him, Larry Gus was doing some simple deductions with a frown on a small whiteboard set up in the office, holding a marker pen in his hand.
There is no doubt that the article James Maynard is holding in his hand at this time is Qiao Yu's "Geometric Mapping of the Riemann Hypothesis under the Generalized Modal Axiom System".
In fact, it has been two days since they accepted the status of reviewers. Both of them already have a certain understanding of Qiao Yu's general idea.
But just as John Henry suspected, the two professors did not actually have that deep understanding of Qiao Yu's system of generalized modal axioms.
Therefore, it will take a little longer to read the paper. Fortunately, if you want to understand the key theorem proofs, you don't need to read much prerequisite literature.
After all, generalized modal axioms are still a very new direction, and what Qiao Yu mainly cited was the first paper he wrote on the modal axiom system.
"Hey... the Riemann hypothesis is essentially a distribution problem on the complex plane. Before, we always thought that his modal space did not have enough dimensions to capture the symmetry of the complex number field. Now it seems that we were wrong!"
After doing some calculations on the whiteboard, Larry Gus sighed and said, breaking the quiet atmosphere in the office.
After hearing this, James Maynard looked up at Larry Guth's derivation, took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and then said: "I was just thinking about a problem."
"Oh? What are you thinking about?" Larry Gus asked.
"I'm wondering if his method can already geometricize the Riemann Hypothesis, can this theory be extended to the more general Dirichlet series?" James Maynard asked rhetorically.
Larry Gus was stunned when he heard this, then picked up the paper in his hand and turned to the last page.
"He wrote here in the last paragraph, well, the modal density function can be adapted to a wider range of situations by adjusting different parameters. I think this wider situation should include the Dirichlet series or even other L functions."
"Okay, I admit it! This guy is really a genius!"
James Maynard nodded and said something, then put down the paper in his hand and looked at what Larry Guth had deduced on the whiteboard.
"Yesterday I saw on the official website of the Annals of Mathematics that he just published the paper on the generalized modal axiom system four months ago, and the number of citations has exceeded a thousand.
Now he has tied the entire system to the Riemann Hypothesis. If this paper is published, how many citations do you think his paper will have by November this year, that is, one year after it is published?"
Larry Gus thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "I don't know, James, but I think it's a bit boring for you to care about this issue. You don't look like such a boring person. The only thing I care about now is his method.
It’s not really possible to solve the Riemann Hypothesis.”
James Maynard smiled and said: "Don't think about it, Larry, I can't say yet whether his method will be effective, but one thing I'm sure of is that he can definitely solve the Riemann Hypothesis."
Larry Gus looked at James Maynard in surprise. The two had worked together for many years, and he knew his old colleague.
Although he seems to be easy to deal with at ordinary times, he is extremely proud in his heart. He doesn't even have many juniors he likes.
Of course, James does have the right to be proud, after all, his colleague is a Fields Medal winner.
"This is the first time that you are so optimistic that someone can solve the Riemann Hypothesis! So you think that even if his path fails, he can still solve this problem? Why?"
James Maynard stood up, walked to Larry Gus, took the marker from his hand, and made a few changes on the whiteboard.
He muttered: "It's simple, because this guy is not even twenty years old! Damn it, do you remember what you were doing when you were his age?
You may not believe it, but at that age I was still thinking about how I could sneak into Aunt Mary’s house next door and watch her take a shower!
But at this age, he has at least fully understood the Riemann Hypothesis, and even has his own definition of mathematics. So I have great confidence in him! Really."
Larry Gus glanced at the content on the whiteboard that had been modified by James Maynard.
Well, he just forgot a parameter, and now it has been filled in. So the whole structure looks really elegant.
However, he still looked at James Maynard with complicated eyes and asked: "Um... James, are you British people so direct in your way of thinking and acting when you were young?"
James Maynard glanced at Larry Gus and said in a dull voice: "That's not the point! Larry, no matter whether Qiao Yu's method is useful or not, he at least found a new direction.
And for now, I have not found any obvious logical loopholes in the paper. At least it is logically self-consistent. As for whether there are any problems with the details - I still need to read it twice."
If a certain number of students heard these words, they would probably be so envious that they would drool.
As we all know, reviewers are mostly voluntary workers. Especially for some big-name figures, if the manuscript is not of interest to them, they will generally not accept it at all.
Sometimes due to various circumstances, I accept the review task and don’t actually have that much time to read the manuscript. Most of the time I give it to my students to read, or I use the spare time to take a few glances and finally give my opinions.
Of course there are articles that these big guys can read deeply, but there are definitely not many. There may only be one or two articles every year. And most of them are the latest achievements of big guys of the same level.
An article like this that you can't find any obvious logical loopholes after you've read it thoroughly, and yet you still plan to read it carefully, is a great honor for the author of the paper.
This is enough to illustrate the cautious attitude of the reviewer towards this paper.
Of course, Qiao Yu didn't know this.
For him, it is fundamental to write a paper that is rigorous enough. Because he had seen what would happen if the paper was not written rigorously before he had much contact with papers.
Yes, it was Qin Jingru’s article that he was talking about, which really left him speechless. That is to say, when Xue Song came to Yanbei, he only brought doctoral students, not master’s students.
Otherwise, Qiao Yu would at least treat Senior Brother Qin to a few more meals and thank him for providing negative teaching materials, which provided a lot of help for his academic growth.
Of course, for him, publishing a paper at the beginning of the year does not mean that everything is going to be fine. To be honest, he has been quite busy recently. A lot of things cannot be separated from him.
The laboratories on both sides are in the final stage, and because Chen Zhuoyang has to do other verification work, some of the final calculation work in the laboratory at Yanbei University also falls on Zhang Xiao.
Qiao Yu felt that this was helping Senior Brother Chen. After all, the biggest enemy of long-distance relationships is that there is no one around to accompany you when you are empty, and then someone takes advantage of you.
But now, as long as the workload is heavy enough, Zhang Xiao can be so busy that he has no time to spare, and he can live a very fulfilling life every day. It is impossible to think about everything.
Really, to be able to do this for Senior Brother Chen, Qiao Yu felt that he might be a great saint, but neither he nor the people around him noticed this shining side of him before.
He also has to keep an eye on the companies in Huaqing.
No, it should be said that the company does not need to look at it, but the storage center has to keep an eye on it.
The name of the company is very low-key, called Jingcheng Xiaoyu Technology Service Co., Ltd.
This "Xiaoyu" is actually the names of Qiao Xi and Qiao Yu. They took one word each and then picked out a word with some artistic conception.
The main business is to provide data processing and simulation computing services to major laboratories and engineering teams.
Chief Engineer Yu was quick to give money, and the construction here was also very fast. With the second phase of 10 million funds in place, basically the equipment has been laid out.
To be honest, the initial investment of more than 20 million yuan in equipment sounds like a lot, but in the computer room, there are actually only two standard 42U cabinets.
Coupled with various storage devices, internal switches, network cabling and a cooling system. This is probably why scientific research relies on money.
These things are indeed quite expensive.
This is why Qiao Yu has no intention of providing computing power support at all. Generally speaking, laboratories or engineering teams that can afford his platform do not lack computing power, but only lack computing platforms that can help them.
After the hardware layout was almost complete, he had to debug the software.
Chen Zhuoyang and Zhang Xiao had no time, and Lao Xue was busy upgrading the generalized modal axiom system and had no time to help him with the early debugging. Qiao Yu could only drag Qiao Xi along to help him with the debugging.
This has to be said about the help from the computing institute, which has a huge amount of desensitized data to help Qiao Yu with his training.
Thanks to the lecture he gave on computing last time, Qiao Yu met a few pretty good assistant researchers there.
Since the data has been provided, I naturally don't mind helping him with some processing. Anyway, the other party is used to doing these basic tasks, and he can learn something by following Qiao Yu.
For example, the parameter adjustment method of the future Xiaoyu computing platform.
This technology cannot be underestimated. After all, parameter adjustment is also a technical job, and the basis of modular design is the precise understanding and adaptation of different task parameter requirements.
For example, optimizing the main model parameters of reaction dynamics can also provide services for optimizing the celestial orbit model, which requires dynamic adjustments according to the actual situation.
Of course, the platform's capabilities in the early stage are definitely not as outstanding as leading people to follow the data, but it doesn't matter, the core of the platform is driven by algorithms and data.
As long as high-quality data samples continue to increase, coupled with feedback and optimization iterations from collaborators, the capabilities of the platform will definitely grow exponentially.
Moreover, the machine learning framework has become very mature now, and Qiao Yu has no intention of receiving data outside the scope of scientific research, so the complexity of the machine learning model is also very low.
Unlike those so-called large AI models, which overemphasize the versatility and complexity of the scene and make them fancy, they cannot even effectively clean the data.
It is much simpler to build this kind of dedicated platform learning capability...well, it can only be said to be relatively simple.
At least Qiao Yu hasn't been able to get a complete and good sleep for more than a month in order to type code.
But there is no way, Qiao Yu really doesn't trust handing over the core code of the platform to others. After all, every logical node directly determines the stability of the underlying computing of the platform.
He is afraid that he cannot understand the code typed by others.
As for non-core code...well, there is no need to find someone to write it.
If you take a stroll through the open source communities that programmers often visit, you will find that there are really too many functional modules that can never be used up.
The logic is simple and does not involve underlying stability. You only need to copy and paste, then make slight changes, and you can use it directly.
After all, this is not an interface for ordinary users, UI design? It doesn’t exist! It just needs to run, be stable, and make no errors.
Basically, those who work professionally with the platform are men in science and engineering. The aesthetics of this group of people have always been simple, clear, and clear at a glance, which is enough!
Talking to someone who can't figure out the lipstick number and whether the buttons that are too square will look too angular and unsightly are tantamount to playing tricks on a cow.
The reason why many software codes are called a mountain of shit is simply because there are too many functions that you want to implement. Add everything to it, and over time, long live if it can run.
Really small and beautiful programs are often the original appearance of popular software. It seems that many people have long forgotten that WeChat was originally just used for chatting.
At that time, the WeChat installation package was only 457KB and could be installed as long as there was 2M of space on the phone. Now, the size of the installation package alone has exceeded 700MB.
No matter what, after launching the main functions, determining the framework, and having many people indirectly help, it took him a month and a half to build the basic framework of the platform.
Really, Qiao Yu felt that she had never been so concerned about anything since she was a child.
After all, whether this computing platform can be truly efficient will directly determine its future reputation and whether it can receive some big customers.
During this period, Qiao Yu also took the opportunity to learn about the current status of scientific research in China. Then he found that his previous estimates were too optimistic.
It turns out that 90% of the research groups in China belong to the kind of hard-working people with little money. Especially those basic research projects.
There are also many unknown professors or researchers who find it very difficult to reimburse some money. After all, even if they get the project, it will be paid into the unit account.
Expenditures must be signed by the leaders of the units. For those hard-working researchers, the expensive computing services are simply unaffordable.
Like Professor Zhang, he dares to pay 2 million in consulting fees for just being a consultant. He is already a wealthy and wealthy boss that is rare in the industry.
No wonder Liu Hao is determined to follow his boss.
So if you really want to make money, those small research groups can only gain a reputation, and they must be supported by well-known large research groups.
Most of the large scientific research groups are personally responsible for it, and they often have fixed partners. If you want to take advantage of others, you will definitely put forward higher requirements for the capabilities of the platform itself.
At least the first two times can make people realize the benefits of using their own models, and then they can take more orders.
Just like that, it was the end of April.
The system framework of the platform has finally been built. Of course, it will take some time to debug it slowly.
Fortunately, this part of the main work can be taken care of by the assistant researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology.
Qiao Yu only needs to stare at the background every day, wait for feedback on the problem, and then do some processing in time.
Qiao Yu, who finally felt relieved, received a call from Tian Yanzhen before he could think of how to celebrate.
As soon as he answered the call, before he could announce the good news, he heard a scolding from the person on the other end of the phone.
"Qiao Yu, are the phone number you left in the submission system and the email address the center gave you just for decoration? You submitted articles to other journals, and their editors couldn't contact you, so they found me here?"
After hearing Tian Yanzhen's reprimand, Qiao Yu remembered that he had submitted a manuscript to JAMS more than a month ago.
He has really been busy and forgotten recently.
It’s true that I haven’t looked at my mailbox for a long time. In other words, Qiao Yu has never developed the habit of checking the mailbox regularly.
As for the phone number... Some time ago, he felt that there were too many spam calls, so he simply enabled the whitelist function. Sure enough, he felt that the world had become quiet.
After all, it is very unpleasant to always have your thinking process interrupted by random phone calls.
Well, this is indeed his fault. He has been so busy recently that he forgot that he also submitted a paper.
But Qiao Yu felt a little aggrieved. Couldn't Director Tian review himself first? If he was willing to be the corresponding author, this problem would not have arisen.
As for making a phone call late at night to scold yourself?
Of course, Qiao Yu just thought about the last sentence in his mind and didn't dare to say it out loud.
"Oh, Director Tian, ​​I forgot. You know, I've been too busy recently. I really don't have time to check my email. As for my mobile phone, um... you know the whitelist, right? Well, why did the editor of JAMS contact you?
?Does the paper still need to be revised?"
Qiao Yu asked.
"The paper does not need to be revised, and it has been proofread and finalized! However, before it can be officially published, you need to log in to the personal center account of the JAMS online submission system and sign a formal electronic copyright transfer agreement.
They have sent you the link and instructions for signing the agreement via email, but there has been no movement from your side. I can’t get through on the phone. If you weren’t in a hurry to publish in April, you can see that others are ignoring you!
JAMS is a quarterly journal! This means that if your paper cannot be published in time this month, you will have to wait until July to be published! I have been alive for a long time! When people publish papers, they have to go to the backend every day to check the status! You are better off, editor
No reply to emails, no answer to phone calls..."
Qiao Yu recalled that this seemed to be standard procedure.
It’s just that before I submitted my manuscript to Princeton’s Annual Journal of Mathematics, I seemed to have signed it directly when I submitted it.
I subconsciously explained: "I thought it would take a while to review the manuscript. Who knew reviewers were so efficient! After all, I only submitted the manuscript right after the semester started."
"Okay, hurry up and sign the agreement, and then explain a few words to others, otherwise the editor will think you don't plan to publish it. You kid, day by day..."
After saying that, Tian Yanzhen hung up the phone.
Qiao Yu felt ashamed and quickly logged into his mailbox. As expected, JAMS's official mailbox had sent him a total of six emails...
In the past, he received an email reminder every time he changed his status. Later, he was reminded to sign a copyright licensing agreement, and three emails were sent to him.
The editor was even afraid that his work email had been blocked for unknown reasons, so he tried to send him the same email using his personal email...
Well, I have to change my bad habit of not checking my mailbox.
I quickly entered the personal center of the online submission system through the official website email link, and followed the prompts to sign the copyright transfer contract.
Qiao Yu sent an extremely sincere letter of apology through the editor's personal email, and the incident was over.
Chapter completed!