Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 277: Report meeting? Not important!
Seeing that Chen Zhou didn't say anything, Dean Zhou thought that Chen Zhou accepted his suggestion.
Dean Zhou then continued, "Besides, this is your first time attending an international academic conference, and your academic report is on the first day. If you change your ticket, you will miss it. Facing a mathematical conjecture that may not be solved, I think this is not worth it."
What Dean Zhou said was actually not wrong.
There are very few direct flights from Yanjing to Boston, and only one airline, Nanhai Airlines, flies this route.
The rest need to be transferred.
Although you can change the flight on the 13th, which is Friday, to the 14th.
But what if Chen Zhou didn’t take flight on the 14th?
That would be troublesome.
Next, there are only sizes 16 and 18 left.
Because Nanhai Airlines' flights from Yanjing to Boston are on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays every week.
The flight time is at least 13 hours.
We also have to consider many things over there, such as adjusting to the time difference.
Therefore, under uncertain circumstances, Dean Zhou still felt that it would not be too late for Chen Zhou to do research after he got there.
Moreover, many big names in mathematics will attend this academic conference.
If there are any questions, Chen Zhou can also communicate with them.
As far as he knew, there were several reviewers of Chen Zhou's paper.
There is also Professor Deligne from the Belgian mathematics community who proved the Weil conjecture.
He is a "grand slam" mathematician who has won the Fields Medal, the Crawford Prize in Mathematics, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, and the Abel Prize.
Chen Zhou naturally understood what Dean Zhou meant, but he had to abruptly interrupt his research and instead travel more than ten hours to give a report in the United States.
He said he didn't want to do anything.
He's not going anywhere until the results come out.
He had experienced the feeling of not being able to grasp inspiration.
He didn't want to taste it a second time.
Who knows, would these ten-plus hours of flight disrupt his train of thought?
"President Zhou, I still want to change my flight ticket." After a pause, Chen Zhou continued, "I will write an email to communicate with the conference organizer right away."
"But if you miss it, it will be a great loss for you." Dean Zhou wanted to persuade Chen Zhou again.
Chen Zhou said decisively: "Dean Zhou, you are wrong. In my opinion, the report meeting is not important. If you miss it, there will be another time. But the opportunity to solve the Cramer conjecture may not come again!"
These words left Dean Zhou speechless for a moment.
After a long time, he sighed softly. Maybe this is the reason why Chen Zhou can solve mathematical conjectures?
Dean Zhou thought about this and said slowly, "Then I will report to Dean Sun right away."
Chen Zhou smiled softly and said, "Thank you for your help, President Zhou. If it's inconvenient for you to change the ticket, I can do it myself . I can pay for the ticket change fee myself."
"Don't worry, kid. The school still has this little money. You don't have to pay for it yourself!" Dean Zhou said unhappily.
Chen Zhou immediately chuckled twice.
After a pause, Dean Zhou asked cautiously, "How confident are you?"
Chen Zhou was silent for a while before he slowly said, "Fifty percent!"
"So high?!" Dean Zhou blurted out in surprise.
That’s right, 50%, that’s already a very high chance of success.
When it comes to the research on mathematical conjectures, how many people dare to say that they are 50% sure?
"Then..." Dean Zhou hesitated slightly, "Then which number will you change your ticket to?"
Chen Zhou thought for a moment and said, "Let's change the date to the 16th."
"Okay!" Dean Zhou didn't ask any more questions. After hanging up the phone, he went to report the matter to Dean Sun.
What surprised Dean Zhou was that Dean Sun just said calmly that he knew it.
He also asked Dean Zhou to assist Chen Zhou as soon as possible if he needed anything.
Also, he will coordinate at MIT and try his best to help Chen Zhou adjust the time of his 30-minute report to the last day of the academic conference .
When Chen Zhou heard the news, he felt somewhat grateful.
Although he has communicated with MIT, the other party has also expressed that adjustments can be made.
But with Dean Sun's help, he doesn't have to worry about anything extra.
One o'clock in the afternoon.
Dean Sun, along with his senior fellow student Xu Chenyang and two other young professors, came to the airport to wait for the flight.
Xu Chenyang looked left and right, feeling very curious. Where was Chen Zhou, one of the legendary "two heroes" of the new generation of Yanda University?
Seeing Xu Chenyang looking around, Dean Sun said, "No need to look, he's not going with us today."
"Ah? Why?" Xu Chenyang asked in confusion, "Isn't this a scheduled itinerary? And his report meeting is on the first day . If he doesn't go today, won't he have to give the 30-minute report?"
The other two people who went with him this time also looked at President Sun with confusion.
At least, before they came, they had not received any news that Chen Zhou would not attend this academic conference.
Dean Sun explained, "He changed his flight to the 16th and will arrive before the end of this meeting."
At this point, Dean Sun glanced at Xu Chenyang and the other two beside him, and then slowly said, "Chen Zhou has found a clue about the Cramer conjecture he is studying."
This one sentence made Xu Chenyang and the other two stand still in a daze.
Any idea?
What's the meaning?
Two months later, he is going to solve another world-class mathematical problem?
After a while, the airport broadcast announced that it was time to board the plane, and President Sun called the three people back to their senses.
Xu Chenyang asked in disbelief: "Dean, is what you said true or false? How sure is Chen Zhou?"
Dean Sun said, "I think he's 50 percent sure. He said so himself."
Xu Chenyang remained silent, his brows furrowed on his slightly plump face.
After boarding the plane, Xu Chenyang said again: "This junior is really surprising. I'm looking forward to his coming soon."
Hearing this, Dean Sun smiled and said, "Why? Do you think he can solve the Cramer conjecture?"
Xu Chenyang replied, "Probably. From what I understand, he always does what he says in advance. So this time, he should be more than 50% sure."
Dean Sun was stunned. He had never thought of this.
"It seems that this academic conference will be a little different because of him."
Xu Chenyang nodded: "I am looking forward to him coming over soon."
At this time, Chen Zhou, who was in the library, happened to pick up the cup and drink a sip of water.
When his eyes fell on the watch on his wrist, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
After the change of ticket, he still has three days.
These three days are enough!
On the draft paper in front of Chen Zhou was a question he had written about the revision of Cramer's conjecture.
Below this question is a long paragraph of text written in a flamboyant style.
[…Using the mathematical idea of Gaussian distribution and combining the methods and ideas of the circle method and the sieve method, we can study the distribution law of prime numbers and the problem of prime number intervals…]
Although Chen Zhou has not yet solved the Cramer conjecture, he has not even solved the problem of correcting this conjecture.
But he put the ideas in his mind into practice.
He cleverly combined those strange and seemingly unrelated mathematical tools.
As planned, he constructed a mathematical method and mathematical thinking to solve the problem.
This new tool isn’t perfect yet, though.
But Chen Zhou believes it is powerful enough.
He also believes that this tool will be improved step by step in future research.
Looking at the words on the draft paper, Chen Zhou thought:
"It uses the ideas of probability and statistics, and also has research tools from the field of number theory..."
"So, what should it be called?"
