From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 166 An Important Breakthrough in the Twin Primes Conjecture

"In France, we have to eat slowly when eating. The longest eating time in the world is our France."

In a restaurant near the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lin Xiao was having lunch with a Frenchman.

There are relatively few people in the restaurant, and everyone is enjoying the food and chatting with friends.

After all, on March 2020, 3, the world was still peaceful and peaceful, and there was no crisis sweeping the world.

The Frenchman in front of Lin Xiao is named Alex Martin. Like Lin Xiao, he studied in the Department of Mathematics of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and also holds a Ph.D.

He can still recall the time when he met Alex Martin.

Alex and his dormitory are opposite each other. The day before yesterday, the two happened to go out together. When Alex saw him, he immediately showed a surprised expression on his face and said to him: "Oh! Excuse me. Are you Lin Xiao?"

After getting an affirmative reply, the French boy went even more exaggerated, "Oh my god, you actually came to our school. It's really a surprise."

Afterwards, Alex took Lin Xiao to take a group photo again, and told his friends about Lin Xiao living opposite him, and then he took Lin Xiao around the school and showed Lin Xiao to familiarize themselves with their school. inside and out.

All in all, the enthusiasm from Alex made Lin Xiao feel dumbfounded, and after that, they became friends as a matter of course.

Of course, for Lin Xiao, it is quite good to have someone he knows in this foreign country, at least they can take care of each other.

At this moment, the two of them were sitting in this traditional French restaurant not far from the Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure, and Alex was introducing the French dining tradition to Lin Xiao.

"When I eat at home, I eat every meal for more than an hour, chatting with my family, or teasing my sister... Oh, talking about my sister, when she knows you are my neighbor, she will be noisy I want to see you."

"Do you have a sister?"

"Of course, but her grades are not as good as mine, so she can only go to the No.11 university." Alex said with a smile: "Besides, she also studies mathematics and likes you very much. Would you like me to introduce you to you another day?" a bit?"

"Ah, this... there's no need for it." Lin Xiao quickly waved his hand.

"She's beautiful and I guarantee she hasn't had a boyfriend yet, believe me, she's the shyest of us French girls."

"I believe she is very beautiful, but I'd better study hard."

Lin Xiao looked at Alex Martin, this guy has red hair belonging to the Celtics, and a rather obvious facial contour, which makes him look very handsome, and he is also quite tall, 1.8 meters five With a tall figure and a somewhat sturdy figure, she can attract the attention of all kinds of girls when she walks on the road. .

So even Lin Xiao has to admit that this guy is almost the same as him.

And if my elder brother is so beautiful, my younger sister must be beautiful too.

It's just that it's okay to get to know each other, but if it's a girlfriend... then forget it.

"Oh, that would be such a pity." Alex could only regret, "My sister will definitely be disappointed."

"However, how do you know she likes me?"

"No, no, it's not just my sister. I believe that all the girls in Paris who study mathematics like you. We all know what you did in that Bourbaki seminar. You are in the mathematics department of all our universities in Paris. Among them, they are all legendary figures."

"Is that so?"

"Of course it is."

Alex nodded of course.

Lin Xiao touched his face, alas, can one's life only rely on talent to conquer others?
"Gentlemen, your cream of mushroom soup."

At this time, the waiter next to him came up and interrupted Lin Xiao's narcissism.

"Thank you."

After receiving the soup, Lin Xiao ate the soup and the steak next to him slowly.

"By the way, Lin, did your advisor tell you about your graduation requirements?" Alex asked again.

Lin Xiao thought about it for a while and said, "It's fine for him to let me study my own subject. As long as he thinks the final result is good, he can graduate for me."

"Oh, Lin, as expected of you, my supervisor is much stricter." Alex sighed and said, "After I came here as a doctoral student, my supervisor asked me to choose the questions, yes Gauss’ double-bubble theory needs to make a breakthrough in this theory before graduation, and before that, I still need to do a year’s project with him.”

"Double-bubble theory? The research on Riemannian surfaces is quite difficult." Lin Xiao said with a smile, "Of course, just take your time. Anyway, you have only been in school for half a year."

Alex nodded, and suddenly said, "Oh, speaking of which, have you heard of the recent twin prime number conjecture?"

"You mean, that professor of mathematics at Stanford University in the United States reduced the K value of the twin prime number conjecture to 128?"

"Of course!" Alex nodded, and said, "Besides, I heard that he used the circle sieve method you created in proving Goldbach's conjecture to complete it."

Lin Xiao nodded. The sieve circle method can be used in the research of most prime number problems. After all, the problems between prime number problems are sometimes interlinked.

He smiled and said: "Of course I knew. After creating the sieve method, I realized that it would one day be used to solve the twin prime number problem."

Alex asked: "Then why didn't you try it on it later? Proved the Goldbach's conjecture, and the twin prime conjecture... I have to admit, such a thing is really cool! Two-thirds of Hilbert's eighth question has been completed in your hands!"

Lin Xiao frowned slightly: "It seems...it's really interesting. It seems that in the next time, I can study this conjecture."

It just so happened that he had been in the Paris Normal University for a few days, and he hadn't made a decision about his next research problem. It would be good if he chose the twin prime number conjecture.

Anyway, the difficulty of twin prime numbers is not as high as Goldbach's conjecture, and it is simpler to a certain extent.

When Lin Xiao said this, Alex was stunned, "Do you really want to study the twin prime number conjecture?"

"of course."

Lin Xiao nodded.

Then he saw Alex took out a small notebook and a pen from the windbreaker beside him, and started writing on the table.

Lin Xiao stepped forward and took a look.

[March 2020, 3, at one o'clock in the afternoon, bistrot10 restaurant, I had lunch with Lin Xiao, who proved Goldbach's conjecture, and then he told me that he wanted to prove the twin prime conjecture.I believe this is a historic moment because I have been waiting for the day when he will complete the proof. 】

Looking at what Alex wrote, Lin Xiao couldn't help being stunned: "What are you... doing?"

"Of course it is recorded."

Alex said with a smile, "After you really prove that you are successful, I can share this diary on my Facebook."

Lin Xiao couldn't help asking amusedly: "Why is this necessary?"

"Of course it is necessary, and it will definitely bring me more attention." Alex said with a smile: "Oh, by the way, how much is your Facebook? We generally use Facebook Books as communication software."

"some."

Later, Lin Xiao and Alex became friends on Facebook.

"You have so few friends...Huh?! This is Terry-Tao, do you have Tao Zhexuan's friends?" At this moment, Alex looked at Lin Xiao's friend list and suddenly exclaimed.

"Yes, I still have his ins friends." Lin Xiao said, and then pointed to his other rare friends, all of whom are world-renowned mathematicians.

"This is Professor Laforge from our college. He seems to have joined Warwick now. This is Schultz, the winner of the Fields Medal in 2018. This is..."

Looking at these friends of Lin Xiaojia, Alex envied: "That's great, your friends are all big figures in the mathematics world, unlike me, almost all of my friends are girls."

Lin Xiao: "..."

"It seems that I will have to be like you in the future and add more friends in mathematics. If there are girls who want to add me as friends in the future, I have to give her a math problem, and I can add me after I solve it."

"All the girls took the initiative to add you?"

"Of course, when I usually go to the library to sit, there are girls who want to add me as friends."

Lin Xiao: "..."

Are you showing off?
You are definitely showing off, right?
"You don't accept my sister, so let me introduce you to some female friends? In France, people will be despised if they don't have female friends."

Alex asked eagerly again.

No matter how Lin Xiao looked at it, he felt that he was trying to bring himself down.

"Let's talk about this matter later, let's continue eating for now."

Seeing that Lin Xiao was not interested, Alex had no choice but to nod, "Okay then."

……

For one lunch, he ate from [-] o'clock to [-] o'clock in the afternoon, which made Lin Xiao realize that the French eat fast, which is notoriously slow.

And Alex has always maintained enthusiasm for introducing him to female friends.

I heard that the French are keen on sharing before, so Lin Xiao has learned a lot now.

However, after finishing this lunch, Lin Xiao returned to his dormitory.

After picking up Mimi and masturbating, he took out the computer and looked at something related to the twin prime number conjecture.

Now that he decided to prove this conjecture, of course he had to start making preparations.

In this way, he entered into his own study.

……

Meanwhile, Stanford University.

In a classroom of the Department of Mathematics, a professor of mathematics in his 50s and [-]s was interviewed by the media.

"Professor Kayman, may I ask you to successfully advance the value of k in the twin prime number conjecture to 128, what does it mean to the mathematical community?"

The Kaymanian professor said with excitement and pride on his face: "The twin prime number conjecture has existed in the mathematics world for a long time. How to solve it is of unparalleled importance to the mathematics circle. It is like challenging human beings." Mount Everest of wisdom is full of countless hardships and hardships. My success also means that I have completed an important breakthrough for the mathematics world.”

"I heard that you used the sieve circle method of that Chinese mathematics genius in the proof process? So have you improved his sieve circle method?"

Kayman frowned, and then said: "No, no, the sieve circle method is a method that combines the sieve method and the circle method, and the sieve method and the circle method are also methods that have existed many years ago, so Lin and I Akatsuki's work is just an improvement of these two methods, although I did have his help in my results, but without my work, we would not be able to achieve this level."

The reporter laughed, "Then thank Professor Kayman for your contribution to the mathematics community, I believe everyone will remember you."

"of course."

Kayman nodded slightly.

(End of this chapter)