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Chapter 9 Messaging Speed ​​in the Circle
Huaxia, Beijing, Yanbei University, Beijing International Mathematical Research Center.

It was already 12:30 in the middle of the night, but the lights were still on in a second-floor office in the yard.

At this time, Fan Zhenhua was sorting out the report on his desk. As the chairman of the Huaxia Mathematical Society, he was invited to participate in the National Mathematical Logic Conference to be held at Huaxia Beijing Normal University tomorrow, and after the opening ceremony to do a presentation on the recent years of Chinese mathematics research Progress report.

If it weren't for the fact that Beijing Normal University is too close, and it is the first time in recent years to hold such a relatively large-scale academic conference on mathematics, Fan Zhenhua would not want to go.He is also very busy recently. Recently, the Huaxia Mathematical Society is organizing the first BRICS mathematician conference to strengthen the connection between the BRICS countries at the academic level.

This is the most important international academic conference held by the Huaxia Mathematical Society as the organizer in recent years. As the chairman of the society, I am naturally very busy, and I have to pay attention to the big and small things.So this kind of meeting report that is not too important, just pick the night before to work overtime to familiarize yourself with it in advance.

Especially at this time, everything is quiet and the work efficiency is extremely high.

"Clang clang..."

Very suddenly, Fan Zhenhua's cell phone rang on the table, and he also diverted his attention from the report in front of him.

Fan Zhenhua frowned. He was going to hang up the phone directly and mute it, but after glancing at the caller's number, a curious expression appeared on his face. He simply put down the report in his hand and picked up the phone.

"Hey!"

"Hi, Fan, I'm sorry, it must be night for you guys? I hope I didn't disturb your rest."

"Yes, Professor Higginson, but it's okay, I'm used to going to bed late. Is there something urgent?"

"Haven't you opened your mailbox today? Fan?"

"Well, yes, it's been too busy these two days. Did something major happen?" Fan Zhenhua joked casually, pushed aside the report thrown on the table, and turned the notebook on the table to his side. Drag it, then pick up the mouse, open the browser, and prepare to enter the mailbox.

"No wonder I didn't wait for your call. It's like this, Fan, the editor-in-chief of the Annals of Mathematics, Robert Kenny, made a special trip to send me an article in person at about this time yesterday, hoping I could be a reviewer. Because he thinks this This paper may solve the problem of smoothness and uniqueness of the Navier-Stokes equations."

Hearing this, Fan Zhenhua couldn't help but said, "Wait, I remember Robert didn't study the Navier-Stokes equation before, right?"

"That's true. But under his strong recommendation, I spent a day to study this paper. Although there are many issues that I haven't figured out yet, I still need to spend some time to interpret and verify, but my intuition tells me that , this paper may really solve that problem."

"Ah?" Fan Zhenhua was lost for a moment, and the hand holding the mouse stopped.

The partial differential equation represented by the Navier-Stokes equation is exactly Fan Zhenhua's research field. He certainly knows how meaningful it is in the field of number theory to prove the universality of this equation.

In fact, this is one of the seven new century mathematical problems that the Millennium Clay Mathematics Institute has offered rewards to the world. It is consistent with other difficult problems such as NP-complete problems, four-color problems, Poincaré conjecture, and Riemann hypothesis. Both are $100 million.

So far, only the Poincaré conjecture has been completely solved by Russian genius mathematicians among the seven major problems of the millennium. The four-color problem has only been verified at the computer level for the time being, but there has not been much progress in number theory.

Fan Zhenhua is not clear about the other four issues, but the Navier-Stokes equation is a problem that Fan Zhenhua has been paying attention to. So far, the entire academic community has not had a good solution.

Small-scale eddies make the force divergent, which makes proving the conundrum extremely difficult.

Professor Higginson at Princeton University on the other side of the phone was a world leader in the study of the Navier-Stokes equations.In particular, the magnetic fluid flow calculation model he once gave through the Navier-Stokes equation has led a research and development trend in the academic world.And because of his achievements in this field, he won the Fields Medal, a proper generation of academia.

Such a great leader in academia actually thinks that someone has really solved this problem?

You must know that a scientist's intuition about his research direction is often accurate. This is not theology, but a judgment given by the subconscious after deep cultivation in a certain field.

After losing his mind, Fan Zhenhua asked in a hurried tone, "Which scholar's paper is this?"

Although double-blind review is a common practice in the journal world, it is not always adopted by top journals.Many times it is single-blind, or even two-way selection.Especially when the editor-in-chief personally brought the paper to invite an industry leader to review the manuscript, he did not believe that he would use the double-blind review method.

He soon got an answer, and Professor Higginson's tone became weird: "That's why I called you specifically. Fan, you know that there is a village in China called Ningjia Village, Luoyu County, Dongyu City, Nanhu Province. Where is the machine factory?"

Fan Zhenhua was really stunned this time, and murmured subconsciously: "Ningjia Village, Nong, no, it should be an agricultural machinery factory? Wait, you mean this paper was written by a Chinese?"

Although Higginson's Chinese pronunciation is not quite standard when reciting the address, the address has a strong local flavor, especially the agricultural machinery factory named after the village, which should belong to the style of the last century.

Is the author of the paper a Chinese?Are you still in a small county town?

At this moment, Fan Zhenhua only felt that the whole person was messed up.

"No matter what it is, in short, the author of the paper is indeed a Chinese. So I recommended you to be one of the reviewers to Robert Kenny, and the email inviting the reviewer should have been sent to your mailbox. I suggest that you first Take a rough look at the paper, and then look at the author's profile..."

Speaking of this, Higginson's tone began to become eager: "Fan, if possible, I hope you can go to that place and meet the author instead of me, and then help me convey a sentence."

"Well, if he wants, I'd be more than happy to write him a letter of introduction to come to Princeton. The promise is permanent, provided I'm alive, of course. I can't even wait to get this paper published, and then I was able to communicate with him about some of the issues in the paper."

"Damn it, spring break just ended, and I have a bunch of messes on hand now, otherwise I'll definitely fly to Huaxia and personally invite him. Of course, the premise of the above is that you can be sure that this paper is indeed from the conversation. His handwriting, you understand! I trust your judgment."

"OK!" Fan Zhenhua responded casually, and the hand operating the mouse couldn't wait to open the mailbox, found the invitation to review the review email sent by the "Annual Mathematics", and chose to accept it as quickly as possible.

He didn't forget to ask: "Higginson, this is not your style, why is it just communication? I thought that after confirming that the paper was indeed written by him, you would invite him to teach, or to work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton."

The opposite side was silent, and after a while, he said in a dreamy tone: "I made this phone call to you after doing enough psychological construction. You should understand when you read the author's introduction. Maybe you will be like me and take an hour to get there. Doubt if the world is really real."

Later, Higginson's tone became weird again: "By the way, Robert may have sent an invitation letter to Lu of Huaqing University. I don't like that guy very much. So I'll leave this to you."

"Lu? Lu Zhengyue?"

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)