From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 167 Getting Touched?
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris.

Lin Xiao was sitting at his desk, looking at the paper that narrowed the gap between pairs of prime numbers to 128 in the twin prime number conjecture.

The author of this paper is David Kayman, a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. He used to have a certain reputation, but he is not famous, mainly in the United States.

However, this Professor Caymanian made a breakthrough in this paper and produced a relatively powerful result. Now his fame has spread all over the world.

After all, that is the twin prime conjecture.

The twin prime number conjecture refers to whether there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers whose difference is 2.

For example, 3 and 5, 29 and 31, these numbers are all prime numbers, and the difference between them is 2, then they are called twin prime numbers.

In 2013, Chinese mathematician Zhang Yitang made a breakthrough in the twin prime number conjecture, proving that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers whose difference is less than 7000 million, which is a weak form of the twin prime number conjecture.

And the method he used in this proof process also brought the possibility for other people in the mathematical community to continuously reduce this number, so other mathematicians followed Zhang Yitang's method and within just one year. The 7000 million figure shrinks to 246.

But after that, people have no way to continue shrinking. This is also the limitation of Zhang Yitang's method.

Only by reducing this value to 2 can the twin prime conjecture be thoroughly proved.

And this Professor Kaymanian combined Lin Xiao's sieve circle method with Zhang Yitang's method, and achieved another breakthrough.

"Well written."

After reading the whole paper, Lin Xiao nodded slightly.

The Caymanian professor found a bridge between the two methods, and then incorporated the sieve circle method into Zhang Yitang's method, realizing this last step.

However, in front of Lin Xiao, it was still just good.

Because his number sense told him that this method can only reduce the number 246 to two digits, but cannot reach the limit of single digits. Naturally, it cannot really be reduced to 2, which completely proves the twin prime number conjecture.

This also means that this method still has limits.

"Perhaps, the sieve circle method can solve the twin prime number conjecture without using other methods at all?"

Lin Xiao had this idea.

Of course, the premise is that Lin Xiao perfects the circle sieving method again. After he created the circle sieving method, he always thought that there was still room for improvement in this method.

"However, if the sieve circle method needs to be perfected, in which aspect should it be perfected?"

Doubts arose in Lin Xiao's heart.

this is a problem.

But at this moment, there was a 'dong dong dong' sound at the door.

"Lin! Are you there?"

It was Alex's voice, which seemed anxious.

Lin Xiao was a little puzzled, what happened?
Leaving his seat, he opened the door.

Then I saw a very angry look on Alex's face outside the door. After seeing Lin Xiao, he said, "Lin, have you seen it? That American is really disgusting!"

Lin Xiao was taken aback for a moment: "What happened?"

"It seems you don't know yet."

Alex said, and then walked directly into the room.

"Look at this news! That American is really shameless."

Lin Xiao walked up, it was hateful and shameless, which American is it?
Alex took the mobile phone and showed Lin Xiao a piece of news displayed on it.

This is the news from the "Los Angeles Times", and the headline of the news is [Professor Kayman: My work is as important as Lin Xiao's work]

Seeing this title, Lin Xiao was taken aback for a moment, why was he mentioned?
He looked down again, and was immediately speechless.

That Kayman claimed that he reduced the gap between prime numbers in the weak-form twin prime number conjecture to 128, which is as important as Lin Xiao's circle sieve method, and said that Lin Xiao's circle sieve method is just a combination of sieve method and The improvement of the method, and the same is true of his work, the contribution of the two is the same.

Seeing Lin Xiao finished reading, Alex said angrily: "How can there be such a shameless person, he actually said that the sieve method is just a combination of the sieve method and the round method? Just?!"

"How dare he say such a thing? If combining the sieve method and the circle method is as easy as he said, previous mathematicians would have completed this step long ago, and Goldbach's conjecture would have been proven long ago."

"I thought he was very good before, but looking at it now, if this is the level of a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, then I think I can do it!"

"Americans are all the same, it is really hateful."

Seeing Alex defending himself, Lin Xiao, who should have been even more angry, was a little bit dumbfounded at this moment. It seemed that he wanted to help persuade him?

Of course, what Alex said is also true. Combining the sieve method and the circular method seems to be very simple to say, and it can be done in a few words, as if attracting the N-level and S-level of two magnets together Just as easy.

However, its difficulty is actually how to make the N and N stages of the two magnets attract together without external force.

And how to attract the N-level and N-level of two magnets together, there is only one way, that is, to reconcile their magnetism, and to combine the sieve method and the circular method, you need to reconcile these two methods first, so that They do not repel each other.

But obviously, their difficulty is extremely high, at least the mathematics community has been stumped for nearly a hundred years, and it was not completed by Lin Xiao until last year.

But now, this Professor Kaymanian just erased the difficulty of it with just a light "just", and then put his own achievements and Lin Xiao's achievements on the same level, calling it shameless, and also No exaggeration.

In addition, this newspaper did not understand the facts, and then reported the incident, which made people suspect its intentions.

All in all, their actions are like touching Lin Xiao's porcelain.

However, Lin Xiao is now in France and not in the United States, so it is impossible to come to his door to protest, and he is a professor at Stanford University, and the media is the "Los Angeles Times", he has no power, and he can make them apologize ?

Seeing Alex's angry look, Lin Xiao patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Well, there is nothing to be angry about, and this is my business, you don't need to be so angry .”

"That's okay, you are my friend!"

Alex said: "I will mobilize other friends to scold him under this news!"

With that said, Alex was about to call his friend.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao quickly grabbed him and said, "Thank you, Alex, but I have my own solution to this kind of thing."

Alex was taken aback, "Your own solution?"

Lin Xiao nodded and said, "Yes, my own solution."

He smiled slightly: "As long as I complete the proof of the twin prime number conjecture, do you think this is the most powerful counterattack against him?"

Hearing Lin Xiao's words, Alex sighed and said, "Lin, although you have proved Goldbach's conjecture, the twin prime conjecture is equally difficult. Are you sure you can prove it?"

Lin Xiao shook his head, "Not yet."

"but……"

There was a kind of confidence in his eyes, "Do you think I can't prove it?"

Alex was startled, looking at Lin Xiao's calm but inexplicably convincing face, he suddenly felt that even though it was the twin prime number conjecture as famous as Goldbach's conjecture, in Lin Xiao's hands, it seemed to be true. A miracle can happen again.

After a while, Alex nodded and said, "I believe in you, you will definitely succeed."

"now it's right."

Lin Xiao smiled, and then patted Alex on the shoulder.

"Meow~"

And at this moment, another soft meow came from the dormitory.

Lin Xiao turned his head and looked at the bed. Mimi looked at him as if she was also cheering him on.

"Huh?! Do you even have a cat?"

And Alex was surprised when he heard the cat meowing.

He had never been to Lin Xiao's room before, and he really didn't know that Lin Xiao had a cat.

Lin Xiao stepped forward, hugged Mimi, and said with a smile, "Of course, this cat flew here from Huaguo with me, and is very close to me."

Alex also stepped forward, reached out and stroked Mimi's fur, and said, "That's great, if I didn't find it troublesome, I would have raised it too."

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Sometimes when studying mathematics, raising a cat can also bring inspiration to myself."

"Really? Then I want to try."

"Of course, Tao Zhexuan also raised a cat last year, just listened to my recommendation."

"Then I have to give it a try."

Alex laughed.

Next, after the two chatted for a few more words, Alex planned to leave without disturbing Lin Xiao.

However, before going out, he said to Lin Xiao again: "By the way, Lin Xiao, no matter what, I and my friends will still help you. We are all in Paris, and you are our own."

Here is the mathematics center of the world, and now there are people who want to do things in this pure land of mathematics, to touch their mathematics geniuses, and none of them will agree to such a thing.

In this regard, Lin Xiao did not stop him. The behavior of the American professor must be immoral. If the other party can learn some lessons, Lin Xiao would be happy to see it.

"Thank you then."

"We are friends!"

Alex smiled and left here.

Lin Xiao carried Mimi back to the table, stroked it gently, and suddenly received an ins, and took a look, it was from Tao Zhexuan.

Looking at the content, Tao Zhexuan obviously also learned about the news, so he expressed comfort to him.

"You don't need to care about that guy, we don't like this kind of person"

Seeing this news, Lin Xiao smiled slightly. Sometimes it is good to know more friends.

Then he replied: 'Thanks, I don't care, I'll just hit him back in my own way. 』

After sending this message, Lin Xiao turned his attention to the paper in front of him again.

Before the final pushback, order an appetizer.

Then, let’s first prove that Kayman’s method still cannot completely solve the twin prime conjecture.

And it's not that hard.

(End of this chapter)