Volume 2 Academic Career Chapter 789: The Last Day of Blank Space
The entire Mathematical Congress will last for one week, which is two days less than the 9 days of the International Congress of Mathematicians.
The overall process of the conference is based on the International Congress of Mathematicians, except that the award ceremony is missing. The conference mainly consists of invited mathematicians giving academic reports.
As the organizer, Yenching Institute of Theoretical Sciences has announced the schedule for the first six days of the conference, which is the list of mathematicians who will give academic reports.
However, the schedule for the last day of the conference was blank and not announced, which gave the outside world room for speculation.
It’s just that everyone in the world knows that the last day will be the closing ceremony of the conference, so there’s really not much that can be imagined.
After Chen Zhou announced the opening of the Congress of Mathematicians and delivered a speech at the opening ceremony, the academic report session began.
As expected, Chen Zhou, as the first academic speaker, began his one-hour academic report.
This is also an academic report that has attracted the attention of all mathematicians and even the entire academic community.
Because everyone wanted to understand the purpose of Chen Zhou's holding of the mathematicians' conference from his one-hour academic report.
However, no one expected that in this one-hour academic report, Chen Zhou did not mention the purpose of holding the mathematicians' conference at all.
The focus of his academic reports is all on the application of mathematical tools and mathematical ideas.
This couldn't help but make everyone feel very surprised. Could it be that they were overthinking?
But that shouldn’t be the case. If this is all the mathematicians’ conference is about, then there’s really no need to go through all the fuss, right?
It is not to say that Chen Zhou’s one-hour academic report is not good. On the contrary, in this one-hour academic report, he truly stood at the pinnacle of mathematical thinking, expanded the entire mathematical thinking, and taught the use of mathematical tools.
Judging from this one-hour academic report alone, no one in the entire mathematics community can surpass Chen Zhou in the application of mathematical ideas and mathematical tools.
Moreover, this one-hour academic report also gave a lot of inspiration to many mathematicians.
However, although these contents are very important, they are not truly of extraordinary significance, nor are they, as Chen Zhou said, truly explaining to the outside world what has been said about the opening of a new era of mathematics.
After all, if this can be regarded as the beginning of a new era of mathematics, then Chen Zhou would have given an explanation long ago, and the new era of mathematics would have already begun long ago. There is no need to hold another mathematicians' conference.
Everyone couldn't help but speculate on the few days after the conference.
However, no matter what the outside world speculates, the Mathematical Conference is still going on.
At the invitation of Chen Zhou, or at the invitation of the Yenching Institute of Theoretical Sciences, many big names in mathematics gave corresponding academic reports at this conference of mathematicians.
This continued for 5 days.
If we only look at it from this aspect, the atmosphere of all the academic reports is still very strong, and the people who are invited to give academic reports are also very powerful.
These indirectly represent that this mathematicians' conference was a success, but there were no highlights.
After each day’s academic report, some familiar young mathematicians would gather together to discuss this mathematicians’ conference.
"What do you think is the purpose of Professor Chen hosting this mathematicians' conference?"
"Isn't this a world-class problem? How can I answer it?"
"That's right. The entire mathematics community is now looking for the answer to this question. It is indeed a world-class problem."
"Uh... can you really answer that? Well, let's not go off topic. I just can't figure it out. The Mathematicians' Conference is almost over. What exactly does Professor Chen want to do? Do we really have to wait until the last day to find out?"
"I don't know. Anyway, judging from the academic reports in the past few days, this seems to be a gathering of mathematicians, where everyone can learn the mathematical ideas of the masters in various fields."
"That's what I said, but I always feel something is wrong. This is not Professor Chen's style, nor is it Professor Chen's answer to the opening of a new era of mathematics. If this is really so ordinary, this is definitely not the Professor Chen I know!"
"Huh? Do you know Professor Chen?"
"Well, I had the honor of meeting him once, but I knew him, but he didn't know me..."
"Tsk, I thought you had some inside information, you're talking so seriously..."
"Forget it, I can tell you clearly that even if you have inside information, it's useless because those math experts who were invited to give academic reports don't know what Professor Chen is trying to do!"
"Is it true? How did you know? Why haven't I heard any news about it?"
"Well, actually I am Professor Deligne's student. Do you remember the news that Professor Deligne sought Professor Chen's help in solving the standard conjecture? It was me who revealed it..."
“Ah, this…”
In fact, nowadays, whether it is the mathematics giants who are invited to give academic reports, the young mathematicians who participate in the mathematicians' conference, or the people in the mathematics community who just join in the fun.
No one knew what Chen Zhou’s plan was, and no one knew whether the answers to their questions would appear .
It can be said that all expectations now lie on the conference process on the last day which is still left blank.
Chen Zhou has not had an easy time these days.
It’s not that there was anything worth his concern at the Mathematical Congress, but he spent a lot of effort in preparing for the new era of mathematics.
Starting from integrating all the new math problems in the collection of wrong questions, Chen Zhou sorted them out as a whole and conducted some research.
Of course, Chen Zhou’s purpose is not to solve these new mathematical problems, but to finalize the top ten mathematical problems to be announced.
Finally, after spending about five days, he finalized the top ten mathematical problems that would serve as answers to the new mathematical era.
There are problems after the Riemann hypothesis, problems extending the BSD conjecture, and difficult problems in other fields of mathematics.
After finishing all this, Chen Zhou immediately called Chen Haining to inform him that the schedule for the last day of the conference would be announced on the official website of the Yenching Institute of Natural Sciences tomorrow afternoon.
When the news was announced the next day, it did not receive much attention at first. After all, everyone's attention was still on the mathematicians' conference, and they did not pay much attention to the news on the official website.
When I was a student at Yenching University and was preparing to learn more about the Yenching Institute of Theoretical Sciences through its official website, I saw this news.
The moment he saw the news, the student thought he was seeing things. It was not until he pinched himself three times and screamed in pain that he believed what he saw.
He spread the news without stopping.
As the news spread, everyone 's eyes widened. It turned out that the answer they were expecting was on the last blank day.
