Lu Zhou's guess was correct.
Xiao Ai successfully uploaded the thesis five minutes ago. The system notification also came around the same time.
However, even though the thesis had been uploaded, it wouldn't be easy to read it now.
Because in the span of five minutes …
The arXiv server was completely down!
Normally, academic websites like this didn't have a lot of traffic. Considering operating costs and other factors, there was no need to set up a large server.
But now, mathematicians from all over the world who set up a tracking tag for Riemann's conjecture received a notification.
Coincidentally, it was 9 am in the morning in North America. It was as if half of the world's mathematicians — some of them weren't even mathematicians at all — had all gone to download the thesis.
The administrator of the arXiv website hadn't figured out what was going on. He was dumbfounded by the number of visitors that was like a DOS attack.
Then, the server went down.
While arXiv was down, Mathoverflow, a mathematics forum for people from all over the world, exploded with discussions about this topic.
[Proof of Riemann's conjecture?! Did you guys see the push notification on arXiv?!]
[What the f * ck! The website is down. What the hell are you looking at?
[I was lucky enough to see it, but it wasn't in the push notification. I saw it in my tracking tag … I thought I was reading it wrong.]
[Jesus, I looked at the calendar! Today isn't April 1st!]
[Is there anyone who has finished reading the thesis? Come out and tell me what the paper says. Did he prove it or not?]
[This is beyond my field of research, but looking at Professor Tao's status, he seems to have printed out the thesis. Also, looking at his schedule, it seems like he canceled all of his classes and conferences for the next week.]
[Wait a minute, he's not at the ICM conference? I mean, he didn't go to St. Petersburg?]
[He didn't go this year, apparently he's regretting it.]
Professor Tao wasn't the only one regretting this.
In fact, many scholars who didn't go to the conference for various reasons were regretting their decision.
Why did it have to be this year?
Why did it have to be the year they didn't go?
Two days later, it was Professor Lu's 60-minute report. The topic was the research on the Riemann conjecture.
Many of them were filled with regret!
At the same time, in the executive lounge of the Corinthia Hotel.
In the corner by the window, two well-known mathematics professors were sitting there in a low-key manner.
One of them was Faltings, and the one sitting opposite him was Deligné.
The two were drinking coffee while talking about the future of the mathematics world.
"… What happened to Miss Pulyuy is really regrettable. This is a heavy blow to the entire mathematics world. Before coming here, I was planning to invite her to join my plan, but I didn't expect something like this to happen. "
"The weather is unpredictable, and people have their ups and downs … there seems to be a saying in China. We can only pray that she will suffer less pain in the few days that she has left. "
Professor Deligne paused for a second and sighed. He looked at Faltings and changed the topic. "Speaking of which, you're quite old, it's not like you can stay idle."
"It's precisely because I've reached this age that I want to leave something behind before I retire … To be honest, I understand Sir Atiyah a little now."
Professor Deligné gave him a noncommittal look and didn't say anything.
There had been too many sad things happening recently, and he really didn't want to talk about those sad topics.
Suddenly, he heard footsteps coming from the entrance of the executive lounge.
Professor Fefferman walked over with a depressed look on his face.
He looked like he had been frightened, but it didn't seem like he had encountered something terrible.
Professor Deligne looked at him and raised his eyebrows. He was about to ask him what happened, but Deligne spoke first.
Moreover, as soon as he opened his mouth, everyone stopped what they were doing.
"The Riemann conjecture has been proven."
The atmosphere suddenly became quiet.
It was like the sound of a needle falling to the ground could be heard.
Professor Faltings didn't even look up as he said, "That's impossible."
Professor Deligné shrugged and said, "This joke isn't funny at all."
Professor Fefferman knew what the two were going to say, so he didn't look surprised. He just said to Deligné, "The person who proved it is your student."
This time, the expressions on the faces of the two people who were sitting there calmly changed in an instant.
Especially Professor Faltings. His mouth was wide open. He finally raised his head and frowned.
He frowned and said, "You mean Lu Zhou?"
"Yes." Professor Fefferman nodded and said, "Other than Lu Zhou, I don't remember any of my old friends' students researching in this area."
"…"
Professor Faltings instantly stopped talking. He looked at Deligné, waiting for his opinion.
However, Professor Deligne also had a look of astonishment on his face; he was even a little dumbfounded.
He opened his mouth and raised his trembling index finger to touch the glasses on the bridge of his nose. He then looked at Professor Fefferman and spoke in a serious manner.
"Are you sure that's what he said?"
Professor Fefferman recalled the scene he saw in the lecture hall and sighed.
"I don't even need to confirm it, he has already uploaded the paper to arXiv. If you have a Mathoverflow account, you should be able to see that the entire mathematics community is discussing these things. As far as I know, there are already mathematics institutes studying the preprint on arXiv … "
Professor Deligné took a deep breath and gradually relaxed his shoulders. When he heard that the preprint had already been uploaded, he wasn't in a hurry to confirm the arXiv paper.
Faltings, who was sitting across from him, was the same.
The old man's shock was no less than his own. He only looked at him silently and then opened his mouth.
"I didn't expect to witness history."
After a long period of silence, Deligne finally let out two hurried sighs from his tightly shut mouth.
"… Yes."
"This is too sudden."
It was no exaggeration to say that if Lu Zhou really proved the Riemann conjecture … The history of mathematics in the 21st century would be reduced by at least ten pages because of Lu Zhou. And the textbooks on analytic number theory would be added at least twenty pages because of Lu Zhou.
Of course, the premise of all of this was that Lu Zhou was right.
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