I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

Columbia University, Gong Changwei's office.

"Shen Qi, you are really diligent in coming to our school." Gong Changwei leaned back on the chair, turning the pencil smoothly between his fingers, his hair became less and less, and his pen-turning skills became more and more refined.

"First of all, I want to congratulate you, senior brother. I think you have a chance to win the Fei Award this year." Shen Qi poured himself a glass of water, he was very familiar with Gong Changwei.

"Let it take its course." Gong Changwei said that although he said so, his eyes told Shen Qi that he wanted to win the Fields Medal.

This year, a total of three Chinese mathematicians received the invitation from IMU and will give a 45-minute report at the International Conference of Mathematicians. The three mathematicians are Gong Changwei, Yun Wei, and Xu Yang. I studied at Yanda University.

The International Congress of Mathematicians held every four years is the highest-level meeting in the mathematics field. Mathematicians who are eligible to win the Fields Medal must give reports at this International Congress of Mathematicians.

Report specifications are divided into four grades, from high to low, they are 1 hour, 45 minutes, 30 minutes, and 15 minutes.

According to the usual practice, a mathematician who has made a report at the last or last International Congress of Mathematicians and is invited by IMU to give a 1-hour report of the highest standard this year has a very high chance of winning the Philippine Award.

According to the grapevine, there are nine mathematicians around the world who have received invitations for 1-hour lectures at IMU this year.

This year's four Philippine Award winners are very likely to be selected from these nine people, all of whom have been speakers in the previous and previous conferences.

Why did Shen Qi think that Gong Changwei, who was qualified for the 45-minute second report, also had a chance to compete for the Philippine Award?

Because among mathematicians under the age of 40, Gong Changwei has achieved the top in the field of number theory.

Yunwei and Xu Yang's main research direction is algebraic geometry. This field is so popular that more than one-third of the previous Fields Medals have been awarded to mathematicians in the field of algebraic geometry.

Popular fields mean fierce competition. Among the nine mathematicians who received the highest standard treatment for one hour in this conference, three majored in algebraic geometry. The competition faced by Yun Wei and Xu Yang was extremely fierce.

So Shen Qi felt that Gong Changwei was expected to be upset, of course he hoped that his brother would win the award,

If Senior Brother Gong can pretend to be such a bully and become the first Chinese mathematician to win the Philippine Award, Shen Qi will send him congratulations.

"Hey, it's actually quite difficult. All the topics that can be broken through in number theory have been broken through, and those that can't be broken through can never be broken through." Gong Changwei stopped writing. This year is the last time he will participate in the competition for the Philippine Award. In the next four years, he will Over forty years old.

"Never give up hope, brother, maybe you will be upset." Shen Qi said, "Ouye worships you as a teacher. If you win the Philippine Award, Ouye will follow suit. On behalf of Ouye, I sincerely wish you can win the Philippine Award."

"I don't want to eat your dog food!" Gong Changwei laughed and asked, "By the way, Shen Qi, what do you want from me? Could it be that you came all the way from Pudong University to spread dog food here?"

"No, no, I came here on a special trip to ask you for professional advice." Shen Qi casually took a piece of white paper on the desktop, took out a pencil and wrote down his "Shen's Matching Method" and the first expression: "Senior Brother ,Please advise."

Gong Changwei took the white paper and looked at it. He didn't know if he didn't look at it. He was startled when he saw it: "This...this...this...is this what you came up with?"

"The original idea was proposed by me, and now there is a team in the Department of Mathematics of Pudong University that is working on this topic. I can be regarded as the actual person in charge of this project." Shen Qi said.

Gong Changwei took off his glasses, wiped them, put them on, and carefully studied Shen Qi's manuscript. The more he studied, the more surprised he became: "So Shen Qi, you take two non-obvious zero points that match the characteristics, and through the ingenious handling of variables and complex variables , deduced an important expression of the Riemann conjecture ζ(s) in a completely innovative way. This expression is very convincing, what about the second one? There should be a group of similar expressions, right?"

The senior brother is indeed a top expert, hitting the nail on the head and hitting the nail on the head every word. Shen Qi became excited: "The second one hasn't been made yet!"

"You're still so happy that you didn't get it out?" Gong Changwei returned the manuscript to Shen Qi.

"So brother, you agree with my thinking." Shen Qi said, the mathematics departments of Columbia University and Pudong University have their own characteristics, and the top number theory experts at Columbia University and Pudong University agree with Shen Qi's thinking, which makes Shen Qi more confident.

"Why didn't the IMU invite you to give a report? With the piece of paper in your hand, even if it is a semi-finished product of the Riemann conjecture, you are eligible to attend the meeting. I, Gong Changwei, have been studying number theory for so many years since I graduated from Yanda. The competitor, so it's you, Shen Qi!" Gong Changwei couldn't laugh or cry, but was also shocked by Shen Qi's whimsical ideas.

"Brother, we will never become competitors. This year's Philippine Award cannot be given to me, and next time..." Shen Qi stopped abruptly, realizing that he had said something wrong.

"I won't be eligible to compete for the Philippine Award next year." Gong Changwei said it himself, "but it doesn't matter, we people who study mathematics don't study mathematics for the sake of winning awards, but because we like mathematics. I look forward to Shen Qi, you and your team can finally prove RH, as a contemporary mathematician, it is lucky to witness RH being conquered."

"Brother, next guess, I hope to cooperate with you." Shen Qi said sincerely, RH can't help it, this is a key project of Pudong University, and it is too embarrassing to invite people from other schools into the research group to explain to the organization , unless it is a dependent.

"You can get rid of RH first. Hey, Shen Qi, do you need me to go to the IMU for you? I think you should go to the meeting. Even if you are young, you can make an exception. At least you should be given 15 minutes of performance."

"Your new plan has not been officially published yet, and the conference report is the most suitable opportunity to present it. After the journal has finished reviewing, it will be a year of the monkey. Can problems like RH be resolved without reviewing for a year or two?" A person majoring in science and engineering There is generally an advantage, or a disadvantage, that is, they are sincere and like to help others, such as Gong Changwei.

"Director Fefferman helped me to ask." Shen Qi said.

Gong Changwei felt overwhelmed: "Well, when I didn't say that the chairman of the IMU is a student of your Director Fefferman, Fefferman was teaching students at the University of Chicago when he was your age."

"Boss Fei still has this kind of student, the chairman of IMU?" The longer Shen Qi stayed at PSU, he discovered that PPU's contacts and energy are really huge. This kind of organization uses the strength of the whole school to make an academic star or Burying an unknown genius is theoretically feasible.

There are also circles in the international academic circles and mathematics circles. Fortunately, Shen Qi is doing well in the circles. He respects professors, unites with classmates, and treats students in tutoring classes well. Word of mouth has spread. Him, support him.

After all, Princeton is a place where academics are paramount. As long as people are not too annoying, and their religious beliefs are not too extreme, young people with strong academic ability are more likely to get ahead.

Shen Qi looked at the time, there were two minutes before Ouye's class would be over, he asked: "Ouye has been enrolled for a month, didn't you bother you, brother?"

"It won't cause trouble. She is quite obedient. She hasn't been out of Columbia University for a month."

A few minutes later, the girls' dormitory.

Columbia University’s postgraduate dormitory for girls does not have any posts like dormitory administrators. The door on the first floor requires fingerprints to enter, so it is considered safe, unless the girls themselves bring criminals into the dormitory.

Ouye swiped her fingerprints, and led Shen Qi into the girl's building, to her room.

"How is your health recently?" Shen Qi sat at Ouye's desk, writing something.

"Take the medicine on time, everything is normal." Ouye said.

Shen Qi: "There is a new set of equations, please help me solve them."

"How many equations?" Ouye asked.

"Quadratic equation." Shen Qi finished writing a set of equations in Ouye's notebook.

"Quadratic equation..." Ouye took a few steps back, retreated to the bed, covered his head with the quilt and covered his face, looking very nervous.

"What are you doing under the quilt? Come on, little leaf, come out and solve the equation." Shen Qi looked back, walked to the bedside with his notebook, and patted Ouye under the quilt.

Ouye showed half of his head and saw the equation on the notebook: "Ah, solve this quadratic equation?"

What is written in the notebook is a set of quadratic equations based on the "Shen's Matching Method". Shen Qi explained: "In order to analyze the Riemann ζ function, I need you to help me with an extremely important task, starting from the zero-point equation. , to find the third expression. The calculation is very heavy, so I ask how your body is."

Ouye showed her whole head, she was very interested in the zero point equation written by Shen Qi: "The second expression, finished?"

"After I return to Pudong University, I will work with Professor Faltings to solve the second expression, and you, Ouye, will assist me to complete the third expression." Shen Qi held Ouye's little hand and encouraged To: "Although you have just entered the graduate school, I think you can perform at the level of a doctoral student under my command. In pure calculation of prime numbers, Mary is not as good as you."

"Who is Mary?" Ouye asked.

"Mary is my colleague, anyway, you are better than her." Shen Qi said.