Chapter 840 Million Dollars

A little later after watching the press conference, Chang Haonan returned to his bedroom and turned on his computer, preparing to send Tang Lintian the proof process in three languages ​​and a document that was not published on arXiv as agreed.

Although he was basically sure that his proof process was correct from the beginning, Jinghang University, as a serious scientific research institution, must wait until the results are confirmed before posting the results.

If you open the champagne in advance, even if it is later proved that the champagne is not opened wrong, it will always seem a little unreserved.

However, the first time he opened the mailbox, Chang Haonan was shocked by the situation inside-

Due to server resource issues, most mailboxes will set a storage capacity limit.

Around the millennium, this limit is basically at the level of several hundred MB to several GB.

Considering that emails in this era do not support large attachments, it is generally difficult for normal people to save so many emails.

But Chang Haonan did it.

When uploading the paper to arXiv, he didn't think too much, and habitually attached the school email address he used for his previous submissions.

The result...

You can imagine.

Because of the excessive number of emails received in the past few days.

His mailbox space has exploded...

Of course, it doesn't mean that the emails sent after the explosion will be gone.

If handled in time, they can still be queued up from the server.

But it's still very exaggerated...

"Woc, it's a mistake... I should have registered a new email at that time..."

Chang Haonan sighed, "I've never seen such a scene before," and began to check if there was any important content mixed in.

In fact, judging from the date of sending, his mailbox was actually filled up three days ago.

And at that time, because the final review results had not yet come out.

Therefore, most of the people who sent him emails were people Chang Haonan had never heard of.

For example, students or researchers from the mathematics department of a certain school asked him if he could explain a certain place in the paper.

After all, it was a proof of the Poincare conjecture, and the so-called "simple and easy to understand" was compared to the method of Perelman in the previous life that took others three years to understand.

There is still a threshold.

However, there is no need to reply to this kind of email.

Because soon there will be someone who can understand it to explain it to them.

Apart from this main category, there is no regular pattern for the rest.

Some are simply advertising, some are promoting newly established academic journals, and even several students from different countries sent their personal information and asked if they could study with Chang Haonan...

To be honest, one of them has a really good resume.

Moreover, the other party also said in the email that although the mathematics community has not yet reached a conclusion, he has read all the content and is very sure of the correctness of the proof process.

More importantly, she found that every step in the paper was set just right, and there was no large amount of thinking jumps in general mathematics papers, and the chaotic expression when describing the new theoretical framework. Therefore, she was very interested in the author's unique writing style, so she hoped to continue to study for a doctorate in Chang Haonan's research group after obtaining a master's degree this year...

To be honest, after reading it, even Chang Haonan was a little moved.

It's a pity that the nature of his research group is really special and he can't just recruit foreign students.

However, after a brief hesitation, he did not throw the email directly into the recycle bin like other emails, but wrote back to the student named Maryan Mirzakhani, affirming her past resume, but said that mathematical research is currently only his personal interest, so he has no plan to recruit graduate students in this field.

He was originally going to recommend Perelman, another author of the paper, to Mirzakhani, but after thinking about it, he gave up.

After all, the latter is the epitome of the "jumping thinking" writing style in the other party's mouth, even his peers would call it outrageous...

As Chang Haonan cleared the space in the mailbox, some emails sent in recent days were also transmitted from the server.

In fact, the review team basically understood the entire proof process in just three days, and the next four days were just because they felt it was too outrageous, so they conducted multiple rounds of repeated checks and confirmations.

It was just to avoid the situation of Wiles again, so the results were not disclosed to the media before the final results were released.

But the mathematics community had actually heard about it a long time ago.

Therefore, the emails sent to Chang Haonan's mailbox at this stage already contained a lot of important content...

"They are really active..."

Chang Haonan looked at the four web pages arranged in 2*2 in front of him with a bit of laughter and tears.

Above are the invitations for articles sent by the four major mathematics journals to him and Perelman almost at the same time.

The content is without exception, all about the proof of the Poincare conjecture.

In fact, normally, although there is competition between different journals, considering the image of the academic circle, they will not snatch food from the mouths of their competitors.

That would be too ugly.

So in the first few days, everyone thought that this paper had been submitted to other places, so everything was fine.

But after realizing that this paper was not actually submitted, the situation was completely different——

Everyone could predict that this paper would be cited by tens of millions of later generations, just like Watson and Crick's paper on the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

The impact factor brought by this terrifying number of citations cannot be completely ignored even by the top journals.

In the end, of course, he still did not reply.

But he took a screenshot of this famous scene, and then collected these four emails...

It can be regarded as an achievement that has never been achieved before, and it is difficult for others to achieve it in the future...

In this way, until this afternoon, Chang Haonan finally sent the planned email to Tang Lintian.

Then, he received a reply from the other party almost immediately.

There was only a short sentence.

"Your phone has been unreachable for several days."

"..."

Chang Haonan came back to his senses.

Why do I always feel that something is wrong today---

Under normal circumstances, when this kind of news comes out, there should be countless calls coming in.

But Chang Haonan lives in a special place, so the phone here, even if it is an external phone, is only known to a very small number of people in the Science and Technology Commission system and some comrades who are responsible for providing logistical support.

Since he started his retreat last month, he has not paid attention to his mobile phone.

Even though the battery life of his mobile phone in standby mode is quite amazing, it has been out of power for a while...

Thinking of this, Chang Haonan hurried downstairs to the living room and charged his mobile phone, which had been turned off for a long time.

The first person to call was Tang Lintian.

"Are you watching the press conference?"

After the call was connected, the other party got straight to the point.

"Uh..."

This question made Chang Haonan stunned:

"Isn't it over a long time ago?"

He obviously went upstairs to reply to the email after watching the interview.

"No, you are talking about the interview with the review committee this morning, which must have ended a long time ago."

Tang Lintian explained:

"Now it is a press conference held by the Clay Mathematics Institute, the organization that announced the reward for the seven major mathematical problems of the millennium... CCTV 9 (CCTV9 is still an English channel at this time, not a documentary channel) is broadcasting the whole process."

Chang Haonan immediately became interested.

A million dollars or something, for him now, it is secondary.

The key is that he wants to see the other party's reaction.

He also read some newspapers in the past two days and found that the day he uploaded the paper to arXiv was exactly the same day that the institute issued a reward...

Turn on the TV.

The screen showed the sponsor of the Clay Institute, Landon Clay, and the head Arthur Jeff.

The two were surrounded by a group of microphones.

And the reporter just asked the most critical question.

That is, the reward.

Does it count?

After all, this matter is too coincidental.

Many people speculated whether the Poincare conjecture would be eliminated and a new one would be brought in.

When hearing this question, the muscles on Landon Clay's face twitched obviously.

One million US dollars.

It's not that he can't afford the money, but he is really not mentally prepared now.

According to Arthur Jeff, these seven problems will be difficult to be solved in the next century, and it would be quite good if someone could solve one within 10 years.

And spending money is secondary.

The main thing is to slap his face.

At the Millennium Mathematics Conference, Jeff directly performed a physical embarrassment.

However, it was uncomfortable.

Clay still had to give face.

He had to give it.

And judging from the results alone, the impact of this coincidence on the research was even more than the value of a million dollars.

Therefore, he adjusted his mindset a little and replied in a deep voice:

"I have to say, this is indeed a wonderful coincidence."

"Perhaps from a legal perspective, whether the proof of the Poincare conjecture meets the scope of the reward is a debatable issue, but personally, I prefer to understand this coincidence as an arrangement of fate."

"Therefore, the Clay Institute will recognize the validity of this reward, and according to the terms set before, it will officially award the two authors a $1 million prize one year after the proof is proposed, that is, on May 24, 2001!"