Chapter 275: The Madness of Mathematics

When the interim paper on the NS equation was uploaded to Arxiv, the news quickly spread in the mathematics and physics communities.

The number of visits to the Arxiv preprint website began to soar sharply, and the influx of traffic in a short period of time directly brought the server to a standstill.

In the few days after the paper was uploaded, almost all major professional mathematics and physics forums were discussing this matter.

[I heard that the NS equation has been proved! ]

[Impossible, the NS equation cannot be solved. ]

[But the one who publicly proved the paper is a Nobel Prize winner + Fields Medal winner! ]

[What the hell? Chuan Shen? He proved the NS equation again? ]

[Why do you say again! ! ]

[Did anyone understand the paper? More than 200 pages of proof, wow. ]

[Look, the arixiv server is overwhelmed and the paper cannot be downloaded. Has anyone downloaded the paper? Request a copy of the paper, the email address is as follows: ******]

[Same request +1! ]

On the forum, the relevant discussion is quite hot.

But not many people discussed whether the paper was correct. Those who discussed it were mostly elementary school students.

After all, the real big guys are still struggling to finish their papers.

There are more than 200 papers, mixed with a lot of citations and calculations. Even for the experts in the field of partial differential equations, it is not easy to finish them in a short time.

In California, at the University of California, Los Angeles, Terence Tao took the manuscript from his assistant with glasses.

For him who is proficient in almost all mathematical fields, although the NS equation is not in his research field, he is also quite familiar with it. After all, partial differential equations are one of his most familiar fields.

In 2015, a Kazakh mathematician Mukhta claimed that he had solved the Navier-Stokes equation.

It caused quite a stir in the mathematical community at that time.

After all, this mathematician himself is quite famous. He was born in the pre-Red Soviet era and has solved many mathematical problems. He was also a very famous mathematician in the 20th century.

Such a mathematician Xuancheng solved the NS equation himself, which naturally attracted a lot of attention.

Unfortunately, the mathematician wrote his paper in Russian, which meant that few people could understand his paper at that time.

But it doesn't matter, he happened to be one of those who could understand Russian.

After receiving the review invitation from the Annals of Mathematics, Tao thought it was something that could inspire people. Unexpectedly, in less than half a month, he found as many as six fatal flaws in Mukhtar's paper, declaring the failure of the proof.

This time, the proof of the NS equation appeared in his hands again, and it was completed by the mathematician he most admired and admired among the younger generation.

There is no doubt that this aroused his great interest.

Pushing his glasses, Tao was immersed in the paper in his hand.

It was not an easy thing for him to fully understand the more than 200-page paper. He postponed the class and activities on the second day and spent nearly two days to read the paper thoroughly.

"It's really wonderful! Professor Xu is worthy of it!"

"Starting from the physical perspective, using eddy current experiments to find clues, and perfectly combining applied physics and theoretical mathematics to apply to the NS equation, this is a brand new idea!"

"I thought he would abandon his mathematical research for a while after returning to China, but I didn't expect that not only did he not, but he did better than before!"

In the office, Tao put down the paper in his hand with a sigh, turned on the computer, and logged into his Twitter.

As a mathematician who is keen on surfing the Internet, he will get involved in almost every major event in the mathematics world.

This also leads to many netizens tagging him when they encounter mathematical problems on the Internet.

The interim results of the NS equation this time are the same. After the matter fermented, many mathematicians and netizens tagged him to pay attention to this matter.

Of course, he himself also enjoys this feeling.

Now, it's time to give a response.

[I have read Professor Xu's paper, and I have to say that this is a very wonderful and inspiring paper. 】

【In this interim proof of the NS equation, he used a completely new method to study the data. He used eddy collisions in applied physics to provide theoretical data and get what he wanted from it. 】

【It must be said that this is a very rare case in the history of mathematical research. It also brings us a completely new method, especially when facing a difficult problem like the NS equation that is in the intersection of mathematics and physics, perhaps we can find the answer by changing the track. 】

【Of course, I don’t recommend that everyone do this. Because this requires extremely deep mathematical skills and physical ability. Looking at the entire mathematics and physics community, there are only a handful of people with this ability. 】

【Back to the paper, from the current point of view, I have not found any major defects or problems in the paper. But I will continue to study it and exchange ideas with other mathematicians. A paper of more than 200 pages cannot be fully understood in just a few days. 】

【Of course, it would be better if Professor Xu could hold a report meeting. After all, such a great achievement is fully qualified. 】

【Finally, if I have to give an answer, from a personal perspective, I tend to think that he has completed the interim results of the NS equation. 】

There are many people who follow Terence Tao on Twitter. As soon as this tweet was posted, it was forwarded by countless people.

At the same time, another top mathematician, Professor Feferman, who had previously collaborated with Xu Chuan on the NS equation, also publicly expressed his opinion and expressed his optimism about this paper.

With the opinions of the two top experts made public, the online mathematics forum once again fell into madness.

[Oh my God, is he going to solve another millennium problem after the Hodge conjecture? This is too crazy. ]

[Professor Tao and Professor Feferman both expressed their optimism about this paper, so it is likely to succeed. ]

[This is the NS equation! A super difficult problem that spans three centuries. ]

[It's just a phased result, not the final solution. I still say that the NS equation is impossible to solve, and there is no solution to the singularity! Moreover, mathematicians often claimed that they had solved the NS equation in the past, but in the end? They all ended in failure. ]

[Chuan Shen is different! He is the first Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winner in history. If such a top expert is not sure, it is impossible to publish his results. Moreover, Tao Terence and Feferman are both top experts in the field of partial differential equations. Their unanimous agreement basically proves that this is a success! 】

[Haha, before the final result comes out, who knows whether it is correct. Do you believe in the behavior of commercial mutual praise? Too young child! 】

[No, I believe Professor Xu has completed the proof. Let's make a bet! 】

Jinling, Nanjing University, the campus is very lively.

The NS equation interim proof paper that Xu Chuan threw on Arxiv was passed back across the ocean. Not only the students of the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics were discussing it, but also many students of the Department of Engineering, Department of Astronomy and even the Department of Fine Arts were discussing it.

After all, Xu Chuan is a professor of Nanjing University. As students of Nanjing University, how can they not be moved to witness such a miracle with their own eyes.

On the other hand, in the office of the school leaders, one meeting after another is constantly being held.

In the past few days, Nanjing University has received numerous requests from mathematicians and mathematical institutions.

There was only one request, which was to invite and hope that Professor Xu Chuan could hold a mathematics conference and make a detailed report on the interim proof of the NS equation.

Of course, these requests were sent to Xu Chuan's email and contact information more often.

But the mathematics community knew that sending messages to this willful big man was not very useful, just as he had proved various conjectures before.

If it wasn't for willfulness, who would post such an important proof paper on arxiv? If it wasn't for willfulness, how could he refuse the one million dollars from the Clay Institute.

This is a full one million dollars, which can be piled into boxes.

What's more, the award for the seven millennium problems is itself the supreme honor.

Of course, this honor is now jokingly called the "curse of money" by many mathematicians in the mathematics community.

From Perelman to Xu Chuan, these two great scholars who proved the seven millennium problems have lost interest in money.

For these requests from the outside world, Nanjing University is naturally very moved, after all, this is the NS equation, one of the seven millennium problems.

Of course, Nanjing University did not presume to agree to these people's requests.

Putting aside the identity of his alma mater, even the entire Nanjing University has to be cautious when facing Xu Chuan.

The world's unique Nobel Prize + Phil Prize top scholar, in any country, is directly heard by the emperor. Such a person can change the ecology of a discipline with just one sentence.

But the attraction of holding a report conference at Nanjing University is undoubtedly quite large for the school leaders.

Such a press conference is undoubtedly the world's top that Nanjing University has been thinking about.

Even if it is only a phased result, it has not been completely completed, and has not been verified and recognized by the mathematical community, it is still enough to attract the attention of mathematicians all over the world.

Even physicists or engineering scholars will definitely be interested in this.

Because the NS equation studies not other things, but fluids!

If the analytical solution of the NS equation is known, then all fluid problems, such as aircraft turbulence, rocket silicon base, ship navigation resistance, car abundance, pipeline optimization, and other engineering designs, as well as weather, environmental forecasts, and disaster prevention and control along rivers and seas will be greatly simplified.

Just like Einstein's theory of relativity paved the way for the theory of GPS.

Although it takes quite a long time to transform from theory to application, there is no doubt that it will continue to have an impact for decades or even centuries to come!

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