Volume 2 Academic Career Chapter 776: Shells on the Beach
The time came to nine o'clock in the morning and the report meeting started on time.
As Chen Zhou walked towards the stage, everyone in the venue stood up at the same time, accompanied by warm applause.
Compared with the past, the applause seemed to be more enthusiastic.
In addition to the people in the venue, the people outside the venue, watching behind the curtain, also stood up and applauded at the same time.
Even the majority of people watching the live broadcast stood up and clapped their hands vigorously.
Chen Zhou walked to the center and bowed slightly. After the applause died down and everyone returned to their seats, he said, "Time flies. The last report meeting seemed like it was just yesterday, and we are reunited again today..."
After hearing this opening remark, most people will smile knowingly.
Time flies, and it does fly fast, but it cannot be as fast as the research efficiency of the young man on the stage.
After his opening remarks, Chen Zhou went straight to the point and began his research report on the BSD conjecture.
The report meeting was scheduled for two days in total. The first day was about the BSD conjecture and the second day was about the Riemann hypothesis.
Although the influence of the BSD conjecture is not as great as that of the Riemann hypothesis, its value in the field of mathematics is by no means low.
Because the value of a mathematical conjecture is not just to look at the mathematical conjecture itself, but the many mathematical tools and mathematical ideas that are born in the process of studying this conjecture.
These will have a profound impact on research in the entire field of mathematics.
A whiteboard is a must-have item at a conference, and this time Chen Zhou's PPT was extremely simple.
All the core proof processes, as well as the new mathematical tools and mathematical ideas he used, were presented to everyone through the whiteboard.
As long as you can keep up with Chen Zhou's thoughts and the characters he slowly writes on the whiteboard, it will be a huge gain for anyone.
It’s a pity that not many people can really keep up.
Chen Zhou completed the research report on the BSD conjecture at his most comfortable pace, followed by a question-and-answer session.
During the question-and-answer session, no one raised any questions that excited Chen Zhou. Instead, Chen Zhou asked and answered his own questions, and analyzed in depth and in a simple way some points that he thought might be questionable.
Naturally, this scene was seen by everyone.
Whether it is mathematics giants such as Deligne and Langlands, young mathematicians, or students who are diligent in their studies, they are all deeply shocked.
When attending other people's lectures, everyone is like picking bones in eggs, thinking about the problems with a magnifying glass, and eager to find loopholes in the proof process.
But at Chen Zhou's report meeting, not only did everyone fail to create problems for him, but people created problems for themselves.
The gap is huge and obvious at a glance!
All I can say is that Chen Zhou is truly at the pinnacle of mathematics in this world. Looking around, there is no one who can beat him.
Deligne and others in the audience suddenly had a question in their minds at this moment.
That is, what position does Chen Zhou rank among historical mathematicians?
Judging from Chen Zhou's research field alone, he is a truly all-round mathematician, and perhaps the only one who can be compared to him is Gauss.
If Gauss once dominated an era of mathematics, then the young man in front of us probably opened a new era of mathematics and dominated this era!
Then, Chen Zhou’s status in the mathematics community is naturally self-evident.
The first day's report on the BSD conjecture research paper ended smoothly, and the dinner for the report meeting in the evening was also held in a warm atmosphere.
Chen Zhou naturally attended the dinner that day, but he found something strange.
That is, in addition to his idea of inviting people to join the institute, old men like Deligne were also actually promoting his institute to everyone.
"This... the business is expanding a little too fast..."
Chen Zhou originally thought that they would only help poach talent from the Princeton Research Institute, but he did not expect that they had already developed new businesses independently.
Chen Zhou was naturally secretly happy about this. With the assistance of these mathematics giants, he was no longer worried about the development of the School of Mathematics.
On the contrary, the number of people he invited to the School of Physics, School of Chemistry and School of Biology was far from enough.
However, Chen Zhou also believed that once the phoenix tree grew up, there would be no need to worry about not being able to attract the golden phoenix.
The next day, the report on the Riemann hypothesis went on as scheduled.
Like the previous day, Chen Zhou mainly used the whiteboard to demonstrate the entire proof process.
The question-and-answer session was the same as the day before. Although there were more questions asked, Chen Zhou still asked and answered his own questions in the end and added a lot of questions.
Finally, a young mathematician stood up, looking a little nervous.
The question he asked was not about the Riemann hypothesis , but a question that everyone was paying attention to and wanted to know very much.
That is, what will be Chen Zhou’s next mathematics topic?
As soon as this question was asked, everyone, whether they were inside or outside the venue or those watching the live broadcast, pricked up their ears and listened.
They wanted to know what Chen Zhou's answer was.
Chen Zhou glanced at everyone in the conference hall and slowly said, "Mathematical research is endlessly fun, and the field of mathematics is like the ocean. I just picked up a shell on the beach by chance while pursuing fun."
"These shells are very precious, but there are countless more beautiful shells in the entire ocean, waiting for me and you to discover."
"If you ask me about my next math subject, I may not be able to answer this question for the time being, but I believe that every shell will be attractive to me as I continue to pursue this fun."
As soon as he finished speaking, the audience burst into applause.
Everyone has a different resonance with Chen Zhou's words.
In this world, everyone can be said to be chasing fun, hoping to find shells in the fun.
It’s just that some people are luckier and have picked up many beautiful shells, but there are still many shells, and they are still waiting for the people who are chasing them.
After a pause, Chen Zhou said mysteriously, "Perhaps in the future, I will give the mathematics community a surprise, which can be regarded as an answer to what you said about opening a new era of mathematics."
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience was boiling.
"What does Professor Chen mean by this?"
"Could it be that Professor Chen has new research results that have not been published?"
"What is the surprise for the mathematics community and the answer to the opening of a new era of mathematics?"
"This is definitely the most important news of the entire conference."
No one knows what Chen Zhou meant by this, and most people speculate that Chen Zhou has new research results.
But thinking about what Chen Zhou said before, it didn't seem right.
For a moment, everyone started speculating.
Deligne and the others, on the other hand, vaguely felt that it was related to the Yanjing Institute of Theoretical Natural Sciences, but they didn't know the specific meaning of Chen Zhou's words.
"Okay, thank you all for coming to the two-day seminar. This concludes the research report on the BSD conjecture and the Riemann hypothesis!"
Chen Zhou did not explain anything further, but finally announced the end of the report meeting in a summary manner.
After saying this, he bowed slightly and walked to the backstage.
Behind him, there was a group of people who were still guessing but still clapping hard.
