Scientists who revitalized the country (2): World class math problems

Early the next morning, Si Qi and a group of classmates came to the airport, and only he and one other person were holding the bag and saluting.

A group of students surrounded Si Qi and kept persuading:

“Si Qi, are you really not going to stay? You are studying mathematics. What can you do after you go back? Whether it is theory or scientific research, without sufficient support, it is a waste of time. Don’t waste your good conditions. “

“I heard from Qian Lu that you mocked him yesterday? I’d say your temper is really bad. Qian Lu is also doing it for your own good, isn’t he? How can we develop after we go back? Isn’t it comfortable to live a good life here? ? I remember that a research institute has already sent you an offer, but that’s——”

Si Qi said calmly: “Shut up, I don’t want to hear it.”

“…”

The man opposite raised his hands and surrendered, gave up the idea of continuing to persuade, and instead mocked: “Stop talking here, don’t regret it in the future! The outside world is developing very fast. If you stay in a remote place like that for a few years, when you come back, you may not be able to keep up with the pace, and your knowledge may be useless.”

“Can patriotism be used as food? Don’t think it’s an honor for you to choose to go back. It’s just you who are stupid and can’t see the reality!” 

As he spoke, the students suddenly stopped laughing at Si Qi.

From the bright crowd around them, they saw a few slender, simple and elegant Chinese people.

Obviously this group of people was not dirty, ugly, or humble, but their simple appearance seemed incompatible with the bustling world here, making the students with the same hair color and skin color unable to hold their heads up.

A group of people bravely walked towards the teachers. The two sides stopped when they were only one meter away. The teachers glanced at the dozen empty-handed students with complicated expressions.

One person quickly explained: “Sorry, Professor, we still have things to do here, so we won’t go back with you.”

After listening to this, the people on the other side looked even more silent.

After a while, a professor asked him: “Why do you speak in foreign language?”

The student suddenly became embarrassed. He realized that he had just done something stupid, and quickly changed the language and replied: “I’m used to it… I’m sorry.”

The professor’s tone was cold: “You have spoken Chinese for twenty years, but have you forgotten all about it after coming here for two years?”

“That’s not what I meant…” The student’s face turned red with shame.

“Forget it, Old Liu, the child has made his own choice.” The old professor looked at Si Qi and another student, and said slowly: “Those who want to come back will eventually come back.”

He patted Si Qi’s arm happily.

Seeing his mentor, Si Qi’s stern face finally softened, and he said warmly: “Of course I want to come back. I went out just to come back better. China is my home.”

The teachers all laughed after hearing this. This sentence was very appropriate.

Professor Liu, on the other hand, looked at the young people opposite him, sighed deeply, shook his head and said, “You should do your own thing. No matter what, the motherland will always welcome you back. That is your home.”

“Yes Yes……”

Probably because there was really nothing to talk about, the two parties separated again after a brief encounter.

It didn’t feel like a long-awaited reunion after not seeing each other for several years, nor did it feel like any teacher had traveled thousands of miles across the ocean to pick up his students.

Si Qi and his party waited at the airport for more than an hour and got on the plane. It took more than ten hours to fly from country E to the opposite side of the planet. Taking advantage of this time, Si Qi talked to the system that was lying in the consciousness space watching cartoons comfortably: [Hey, help me look up the unsolved mathematical problems in this world and choose a few of the most famous ones on the list.]

Si Qi had been to hundreds of worlds. If the problems in this world were placed in other worlds, such as the interstellar world, they might be knowledge learned in junior high school.

In those worlds, Si Qi usually appeared in textbooks. Today there was nothing wrong with writing about the problems of the modern world.

Xiu Xiu immediately turned off the animation and placed the questions in front of Si Qi in less than a few seconds.

Si Qi took a few glances, then opened the document in his conscious space and quickly wrote down the calculations. These calculations looked particularly strange. The strings of symbols seemed to come from the magical world. Xiu Xiu curiously asked him: [Master~~ Is this a spell?]

Si Qi said: [There is no power other than technology in this world, but… it’s not wrong to say it is a magical spell]

Powerful mathematical formulas can help humans ascend to heaven and earth, embrace the stars and the sea, and achieve many incredible things.

If he wanted to help the original owner realize his wish, he must first start here.

More than ten hours later, the plane landed smoothly. Si Qi lay on the seat and finished writing seven papers totaling more than 400 pages before calling the system.

[Publish these papers to journals]

Xiu Xiu assured him: [Good master~! Xiu Xiu will let those reviewers see your masterpiece in the first place! 】

Si Qi followed the teacher and got off the plane with a salute. In the waiting area, there were dozens of alumni holding welcome flags to happily welcome their return.

Seeing the familiar figure of the professors appear, the students immediately smiled in anticipation. But after watching for a long time, they only saw two young people next to the professors. They subconsciously stood on their toes and craned their neck to look back, thinking that there was still someone behind who had not come out.

The professors came over and talked in a low voice with the school staff leading the students. After the school staff listened, their expressions became obviously stiff for a few seconds. It took a long time before they managed to cheer up, and smiled under the puzzled eyes of the students and said: “alright! The people have been received, let’s go back! “

The students hesitated and said: “But everyone is not here yet…”

“Everyone is here.” The school administrator tried his best to show a calm smile as if nothing had happened, and repeated again: “Go back.”

“…………”

The students fell silent, the flames of excitement in their hearts were extinguished by a basin of cold water, and the team that should have been filled with smiles actually fell into a deathly silence.

They were not stupid, so they naturally understood what the adults were saying, and their hearts suddenly felt cold

After getting the news, the foreign reporters who followed along quickly picked up their cameras, hid behind the crowd, and took some close-up photos of the unhappy returnees in front.

Not long after, this photo appeared openly on the homepage of an international platform. The title was extremely provocative and misleading, and it was full of implications.

The whole world saw the photo, the thoughts on this were self-evident.

After reading this news, every person in E country showed a knowing smile. They were proud that their country was so charming, and it was ridiculous and pathetic, mocking some backward countries that couldn’t even retain their own people. This undoubtedly increased their self-confidence and deepened the strong impression of their country internationally.

But after the Chinese people saw this, they were worried about it and angrily accused those international students who refused to return to China as white-eyed wolves. Under the arrogant appearance, they couldn’t help but fall into unspeakable panic and a sense of unspeakable sadness.

The most sad thing was that the gap between the national strength of the two countries was huge, and even talents could not be retained. How could they catch up in the future?

Negative sentiment spread throughout the country, and even the university where Si Qi was studying was affected.

Si Qi, the only student who returned to China, naturally stood at the forefront and received great attention from people on both sides.

Chinese people all said that Si Qi was a young genius who finished college at the age of 17, and he would definitely bring glory to China.

People in Country E laughed at Si Qi as just an ordinary student, and it was not surprising that such students were everywhere in their universities.

The verbal exchanges between the two sides lasted for more than a week. The compatriots in China were extremely angry, but they suffered from the reality that they could not retort confidently. They all had no place to vent their anger.

Si Qi watched silently for a long time, quietly playing the role of student, waiting for the seeds he planted to take root and sprout, and be noticed by the whole world.

In a certain office at the University of Country E. The professor who regularly paid attention to the latest international academic trends suddenly jumped up from his chair, stared at the line of text on the screen, gritted his teeth and said: “[Argument and Summary of The Riemann hypothesis]? Damn it! This is impossible!”

The doctoral student sitting in the office raised his head in shock when he heard this sentence, thinking that his ear was broken, so he came over and said: “Professor, what are you talking about?”

The professor had no time to pay attention to his student. He stared at the screen with wide eyes and veins on his forehead.

It was not surprising that he would have this expression. If anyone who had spent seven years studying a world-class problem without making much progress, turned around and suddenly realized that someone had quietly picked off the fruit of victory that he had coveted for so long, he would be outraged beyond words.

The doctoral student walked back to his computer, opened the website, and searched for this article. The article did exist, but it was a pity that it was difficult to understand it according to his ability. When he read the fourth paragraph, he already felt like he was reading a book from heaven.

But this didn’t affect his belief in the authenticity of the paper.

Once a paper is published in a journal, passes review and is published, some things are basically finalized and no more problems will arise.

After all, mathematics is an extremely rigorous subject and absolutely no mistakes are allowed. What’s more, the review was still classified as the “Eight Major Mathematics Problems in the World”, which was stared at by everyone. Every detail would be turned over and over again, and no sloppiness would be allowed.

The doctoral student closed the journal website and opened the mathematics forum instead. Unsurprisingly, the forum was filled with discussion about this article. Everyone was discussing it crazily with exclamation marks.

“In 2000, the advisory board of the Kress Institute selected eight millennium problems, selecting the problems that were of most central significance to the development of mathematics and the most coveted to be solved by mathematicians, and offered a reward of up to one million country E dollars for each problem. One of the eight problems was solved in less than a year? I feel like I’m dreaming!”

“More than a hundred years have passed since the emergence of the Riemann hypothesis. I never imagined that I would see it proven in my lifetime.”

“Do any of you understand what it says? I was dumbfounded after reading the first page.”

“I can guarantee that only big guys who have won The Fields Medal (Nobel Prize in Mathematics) can fully understand it.”

“Oh! Oh my gosh! Go read Professor Nordnam’s blog!”

Nordnam was a world-renowned mathematician. If we must select the person who had made the greatest contribution to the entire mathematical community in the past twenty years, then this position must be his.

Graduate students, Ph.D.s, and professors entered this mathematician’s blog one after another, only to see the other person praising crazily in an unparalleled and stunning tone: “I am honored to be selected as a reviewer for this paper by the journal! After more than ten days of research, I finally passed its review. This is the most perfect paper I have seen in the past few years! The author’s smooth thinking and rigorous style amazed me. I regret that I didn’t know about his existence in the past! I really hope to be able to discuss mathematics with him face to face, it will be very enjoyable. “

Even this big shot said this…

In the forum, this group of guys who undoubtedly stood at the pinnacle of human wisdom were in shock for a long time.

For a time, their curiosity about “Qi·Si” was raised to the highest level, and everyone couldn’t wait to know who he was! What was he doing?!

Si Qi was sitting in the classroom, listening to the professor’s lecture.

The huge classroom was full of people, everyone stared at the blackboard seriously, and the learning atmosphere was particularly strong.

Probably the recent events had stimulated them too much, and the word “reluctance” was written on all of their faces.

Suddenly, the old professor pushed open the door and rushed in with a group of professors with the same red faces, and ran in front of Si Qi.