Section 339

Chen Muhua shrugged and said, "Otherwise, why are they professors? And they are mathematics professors at Princeton University."

"That's true." Sanjay nodded: "But then again, this method can actually study the Riemann hypothesis... Does this mean that Professor Xiao is also studying the Riemann hypothesis?"

"Well... it's hard to say." Chen Muhua said.

He himself didn't know. Although, in the video recording, Xiao Yi said that he didn't study the Riemann hypothesis, but who knows about this kind of thing?

Their Professor Xiao is not a professor who likes to tell others what he is studying.

Who knows if he is hiding it.

But, thinking that his previous teacher just came up with a method during class, it can arouse the discussion of so many big guys in front of him, well...

He is more or less proud of it.

At this time, Sanjay next to him continued to express his admiration for Xiao Yi and his envy of China for having such a scholar, which made Chen Muhua speechless.

How come this guy is even more boastful than Xiao Yi's student?

However, at this moment, the professors who were discussing suddenly stopped discussing.

Andrei Okunkov said: "So, we are now officially a team, right?"

Manuel said with a smile: "Yes, we are a team! Just like the team formed by Dennis Gatesgory and Sam Raskin! They formed a team of 9 people and conquered the geometric Langlands conjecture. Now we have so many people forming a team to conquer the Riemann conjecture!"

A slightly younger professor on the other side seemed a little nervous: "But, this is the Riemann conjecture! This is the super-ultimate-ultimate BOSS!"

An old mathematician next to him laughed and comforted: "Don't worry, even if it is the super-ultimate-ultimate... BOSS, what? We just go up and fight it and it's over."

This old mathematician is Peter Sarnak.

As a top mathematician at Princeton University, and also mainly researching number theory, he certainly did not miss this discussion.

"Well, it's settled. Since this damn Riemann hypothesis has stumped our mathematics community for so long, maybe we should have united to face this damn hypothesis a long time ago."

Peter Sanak said, "Wait, I'll call those guys at the Institute for Advanced Study and ask them if they are willing to join. I think if they are willing to join, then our team will become stronger."

Hearing Sanak's words, the others present also nodded in agreement.

Then, Sanak took out his mobile phone and started making calls.

The students around him saw it immediately.

Good guy, why are they going to form a team without saying anything?

Team up to overcome the Riemann hypothesis?

Although this kind of thing has happened before, there has never been a precedent like so many top mathematicians jointly expressing their intention to form a team.

For a moment, they were all surprised.

Moreover, it seems that there are not only them, but even more people.

Those guys from the Institute for Advanced Study...

Are they referring to the big guys like Deligne and Bonbiere?

For a moment, their hearts were pounding, realizing that they were witnessing a major event that could be called a historic event in the mathematical world.

Of course, a question came up at this time. Can so many of them really take down the Riemann hypothesis?

"By the way, do you think Xiao Yi is also studying the Riemann hypothesis?"

Suddenly, another professor brought up this matter.

"I don't know."

The professors present all shook their heads.

"But I think he should pay attention to it to some extent. I remember that he once pushed the critical line theorem of the Riemann hypothesis to a very high level."

"62.5%, this is still the best result in the critical line theorem of the Riemann hypothesis at present."

Someone answered quickly.

"Haha, if he is also studying the Riemann hypothesis, do you think that with so many of us working together, can we figure it out before him?"

"Well... this is a very interesting question, but the premise is that he is currently studying the Riemann hypothesis, otherwise no matter how much we think about it, it will not make much sense."

The mathematicians all laughed.

However, Sanjay next to Chen Muhua whispered: "Then I still think Professor Xiao can do it alone."

Chen Muhua was immediately at a loss for words. Sure enough, this guy was even better at bragging about Xiao Yi than he was.

But...

He actually thought so in his heart.

...

The news here naturally could not be hidden. Soon, the entire mathematics community knew about this matter - a group of top mathematicians at Princeton suddenly made a decision to unite and try to prove the Riemann hypothesis when they were discussing Xiao Yi's new method to help prove the Riemann hypothesis.

Whether it is old mathematicians such as Pierre Deligne, Enrique Bombieri, Peter Sarnak, or those slightly younger mathematicians, they all participated in this team, ready to imitate the form of proving the geometric Langlands conjecture, and jointly try to overcome the Riemann hypothesis.

This immediately caused a lot of discussion in the mathematical community.

Because, to a certain extent, this is actually a kind of surrender to the problem of the Riemann hypothesis.

It is a compromise in the mathematical community.

Before, most mathematicians who wanted to solve the Riemann hypothesis would basically choose to try to study it alone, or limit themselves to a team of two or three people to study it.

In this way, it can also guarantee more of the honors that will be obtained from the successful proof.

Obviously, if the Riemann hypothesis can be proved, the honor brought is quite huge. If it can be proved by oneself, probably no one will be willing to share such honor with others.

And now, it is undoubtedly these mathematicians who have put aside these ideas and hope to see the final answer to the Riemann hypothesis.

For a time, people in the mathematics community expressed various opinions on this matter.

Some of them expressed criticism, believing that such a compromise-like behavior should not happen in the mathematics community. The mathematics community should maintain its own pride and should not compromise on a problem. It should also give more future mathematicians a chance. What if a young mathematician stands up in the future and directly proves the Riemann hypothesis?

Of course, the first half of this statement has been recognized by some people, but for the second half, there are not so many people who recognize it, because there is such a young mathematician now, that is Xiao Yi. As for the future, there will be mathematicians like Xiao Yi, no one knows, and they all think that the possibility of such an appearance is still too low. Maybe we have to wait at least a few thousand years?

So, there are some voices of recognition saying: Xiao Yi has proved so many mathematical conjectures, and it is time for us to prove one. The Riemann hypothesis is very suitable.

This kind of voice of recognition has received quite a lot of approval.

After all, if they can't show their ability, won't Xiao Yi have to prove all the problems by himself?

So, many other mathematicians sent emails to Princeton, expressing their hope to join their team.

For example, Terence Tao also joined. On the day he joined, he wrote on his blog: [I have to admit that the goal of "beating Xiao Yi" is too tempting for me, so I chose to join the Prime Number Pioneer Project. Hey, Xiao Yi, did you see that? This time we will definitely not let you lead the entire mathematics world again! ]

The Prime Number Pioneer Project is the name of their team.

In addition to Terence Tao, Peter Schultz also expressed his willingness to join the team. When a news outlet interviewed him and asked him what he wanted to say to Xiao Yi, he smiled and said, "Hey, Xiao Yi, start studying the Riemann hypothesis as soon as possible. In this way, we can really start a duel! Now is the time to prove whether one person can match the entire mathematics community, or whether the entire mathematics community will eventually be more powerful than you alone!"

In this way, the news gradually spread, and it was no longer limited to the mathematics community, but even other circles knew about it.

Major news media also rushed to report on this matter.

《Mathematics community vs. Xiao Yi! Epic battle is ongoing!》

《What will happen when a group of geniuses face a genius among geniuses?》

《Who will win? Riemann hypothesis, another wave!》

《Shock! Xiao Yi actually faced off against the entire mathematics community...》

...Of course, this kind of thing quickly reached Xiao Yi.

He was a little confused about this.

How did this happen?

First of all, how come a group of mathematicians suddenly want to study the Riemann hypothesis together?

And then they need to form a team?

The last question and check, it seems that it is because of the analysis of the elliptic anticurve he came up with, and somehow, even the guys at Princeton knew about it, and after careful research, they also found that this method can be used to study the Riemann hypothesis.

In other words, he didn't know at this time, it was because his two good disciples initially spread his class recordings, which eventually led to the discovery of Princeton University mathematicians so quickly.

Of course, even if he knew, he would have nothing to say, because even if his two good disciples didn't spread it now, it would sooner or later spread it abroad, and then there would be a high probability that such a thing would still happen.

But no matter what, because of this incident, he has received a lot of interview invitations recently, and various news media are looking forward to his response to this matter, or expressing his own views.

However, for these interview invitations, he naturally rejected all of them.

He has no interest in this kind of interview, unless it is an interview with the Central Bank.

However, the central bank has never expressed any attitude towards this kind of news, so some relevant official media only released some articles and videos, and by the way, popularized the Riemann hypothesis to people, and then did not initiate an interview with him.

Of course, the people around him were still very interested in this matter.

For example, many people in the Science Island Laboratory expressed their interest and asked him about his opinion on this matter, but Xiao Yi just told them not to ask so many questions.

Then the teachers and students in the school expressed their concern about this matter, and asked him about it during class. He didn't say anything, but just said that he would always pay attention to their midterm exam results and asked them to be careful.

Until one day Luo Mingya asked him.

"So, why haven't you responded to them yet?"

In Xiao Yi's office in the Science Island Laboratory.