From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 108 Fatal question? !

"awesome!"

"Amazing 666!"

"Si Guoyi"

"сильный!"

The applause was mixed with praise from the audience.

On Huaguo's side, although a dozen or so students couldn't understand it, it didn't stop them from yelling "Big guy is awesome".

A doctor of mathematics from Modan University clapped his hands and asked his professor.

"Did he prove successful?"

"Basically... it proved to be successful."

The professor also applauded, but he smiled wryly in his heart. He studies topology and doesn't have much research on number theory, so when he got to the back part, he couldn't understand it.

But he was also embarrassed to tell the students that he didn't understand, but everyone applauded anyway, didn't the bosses sitting in the front row also applaud?
Professor Yuan Ya, not far away, also applauded. He understood it, but this was because he had read Lin Xiao's thesis beforehand. If he read it on the spot, he might not be able to keep up.

"It seems that I can write a letter of recommendation when I get back to the hotel later."

Xu Chen next to him nodded.

For this young man, he used to think he was a person who could communicate on an equal footing, but now it seemed that he was completely convinced in his heart.

With such a remarkable talent, one can easily feel the huge gap.

Lin Xiao on the stage smiled until the applause from the audience gradually subsided, then he said: "Then, if any friends have any questions, you can ask them now."

Soon, someone below raised his hand. It was a man who looked to be in his twenties or thirties, quite young.

"Hello, Professor Lin, what I want to ask is, on page 34, line 3, why is j(τ) a modular form with zero weight?"

Lin Xiao waved his hands with a smile: "I'm not a professor or a doctor now, just call me... Mr. Lin."

Then he opened his thesis and looked at it, and then answered: "j(τ) is invariant under the complete module group SL2(Z), that is, j[(aτ+b)/(cτ+d)] =j(τ)...so this conclusion can be drawn."

The questioner thought about it for a while, then suddenly realized, and thanked: "I understand, thank you Professor Lin...ah, Mr. Lin."

Lin Xiao smiled at him, then looked at the others, and said, "Next."

Soon, someone raised their hand again and asked their own questions, and Lin Xiao answered them one by one.

Of course he had read his papers many times, and had guessed what questions they might have, so answering them was easy.

So just like that, after answering about five people's questions, no one raised their hands off the court.

He asked again politely: "Any more questions?"

At this moment, he saw an old man sitting in the third row raised his hand.

Lin Xiao turned to look at the old man, smiled at him, and waited for the staff to pass the microphone to the old man.

However, he felt that when the old man raised his hand, other people in the field were quiet for a while, and many people looked at the old man, and it seemed that some people also started talking.

He looked again, and the person sitting in front of the old man was Professor Pompieri.

Seems like a big boss?

At this time, the old man also got the microphone and said with a smile: "Hello, the future Professor Lin."

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the field couldn't help laughing.

Just now Lin Xiao said that he is not a professor, but the old man said that he will be the future Professor Lin.

It's kind of funny. Of course, it's more optimistic about Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao also didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and simply recognized it, and said, "Hello, the current professor."

He didn't know who this old man was, so he just called him the professor.

Anyway, the old man knew at a glance that he was a professor.

The old professor smiled: "Hehe, your report is excellent. It reminds me of how I proved that all elliptic curves have parameters in the form of modules in the process of proving Fermat's last theorem."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar in the field. People who did not recognize the old professor like Lin Xiao realized the identity of this old professor.

Prove Fermat's last theorem?

Isn't that Andrew Wiles?
Everyone couldn't help being surprised.

Does this Professor Wiles think that there are problems in Lin Xiao's theory?
This caught everyone's attention.

Just now, the people who asked the questions were not well-known in the academic world, and most of them were relatively young. Their problems were basically because they did not understand a certain part of the report.

And there is a problem with this kind of real bull, which may be fatal to the entire argumentation process.

They couldn't help but wiped away the sweat for Lin Xiao.

At this time, Andrew Wiles finally asked his own question: "However, a question I once considered has now appeared in another form in your report, so I want to ask, How are you going to fix this and mine is on page 41, line 10."

Everyone was taken aback, page 41?
Isn't that the core part of the whole report?

Everyone quickly turned to page 41 and found line 10.

At this time, Wiles finally asked his own question: "Have you ever considered that c(LM)^1/2 is less than (S0), how should your inequality (12) be established?"

Hearing Wiles' question, everyone quickly looked to where Wiles said.

After thinking about it for a while, soon, those who understood the question couldn't help but gasp.

Of course, only a small number of people see this problem. Others still don't even understand Wiles' question and need to understand it.

Pompieri, Deligne and the others also frowned at this time.

Indeed, there is indeed a problem here.

It's small enough, it hides deep, but it's a deadly threat to the whole argument.

And Wiles was able to see this problem, but also benefited from his previous research on this problem, as well as a sense of number derived from intuition.

Everyone looked at Lin Xiao in the stands, and found that he was reading the paper with no expression on his face.

Although he didn't appear anxious, in the eyes of everyone below, he had encountered a problem.

Because when answering other people's questions before, Lin Xiao simply looked at the question and answered it directly.

At this time, he had already read the paper for ten seconds.

The whole audience fell silent, and there was no sound in tacit understanding.

No one wants to disturb Lin Xiao's train of thought. They also want to witness the birth of such an excellent new theory.

But any theory that wants to appear will inevitably face challenges. Even if Wiles doesn't ask it out today, someone else will ask it out sooner or later.

If Lin Xiao can't answer, then the "form group transformation method" he proudly named just now will disappear in smoke.

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