Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Institute of Mathematics.
Director Dai Huohong was sitting at his desk and reading the thesis. He squinted his eyes and stroked his sparse beard as he spoke.
"Wonderful, it's really wonderful!"
Unlike Professor Faltings.
After seeing the proof of the ABC conjecture, Director Dai's reaction was quite frank. It took him less than ten minutes to read the paper from beginning to end. He then began to flatter Lu Zhou.
Academician Xiang Huanan, who was sitting on the sofa, couldn't stand it anymore. He couldn't help but complain.
"What are you talking about?"
Director Dai closed the paper and spoke with a smile.
"Of course it's Academician Lu's paper, what else could it be?"
Academician Xiang: "…"
Although he really wanted to tease her by saying, "Did you understand what he wrote? It's so funny." However, he resisted the urge to ridicule her and changed the topic.
"Some time ago, I told you not to rush to poach people everywhere. I told you to wait and see the situation at Jin Ling University, but you didn't listen. Now that Academician Lu has solved this problem by himself with his team, where are you going to put the Chinese number theory professors you poached from overseas institutions? "
"I've already poached them, what else can I do?" Director Dai was open-minded. He didn't feel like he was losing out. He said with a smile, "We can't just kick them away after the problem is solved, right? Anyway, the money for poaching people is a special fund from the Ministry of Science and Technology. It won't occupy the resources of other projects in the institute. What if it is needed in the future? It's hard to say. "
Academician Xiang Huanan couldn't help but curse.
"You old guy, you're quite cunning."
"What are you talking about? Can't you change it to something nicer?"
It was impossible to say that it wasn't a pity.
After all, whoever proved the ABC conjecture would have the hope of getting the 100 million yuan annual scientific research funding.
Although the 100 million yuan wasn't directly given to the research institute, it was given to the person who solved the problem. However, the money couldn't be directly transferred to the professor's account, right?
Generally speaking, it was first transferred to the special account of the university or research institute, and then reimbursed in batches according to the usage.
As was customary in the academic world, universities would take a management fee from the fees. As for the percentage, it was determined by a series of factors such as the management rules issued by the relevant departments, the professor's status, the scale of funding, the nature of the horizontal and vertical research, etc. On average, it was about 5% to 10%, and the latter was the highest, even accounting for 30% to 40%. However, it was not common in China.
So why did all the universities like to compete for academicians?
One of the most direct reasons was money!
How happy it was to have a research fund of a hundred million yuan in the account. There was no need to explain it, everyone could feel it.
Even without considering the management fees, the money was enough to support countless "sub-projects" under the big project, as well as the Changjiang Scholars and researchers who relied on the sub-projects to make a living.
Thinking of this, Director Dai still felt a little heartache.
If it weren't for Lu Zhou, the Chinese Academy of Sciences would be the most promising person in China to solve the ABC conjecture.
Regardless of what this probability was, at least it was relatively large.
But how to say it, although it seemed like they wouldn't be able to eat it, there were other opportunities in the future.
After all, there were still many opportunities to communicate with the "extraterrestrial civilization". Seeing that they were so obsessed with the ABC conjecture, it was most likely because of the charm of mathematics.
In this regard, not only was Director Dai full of confidence, but most of the mathematics research institutions in China had similar ideas.
As the saying goes, numbers make friends.
Maybe one day in the future, number theory would become the first bridge of friendship between earth civilization and extraterrestrial civilization …
…
Lu Zhou actually had some ideas about how the proof of the ABC conjecture would affect the mathematics community and the world before uploading the paper.
However, even though he considered many things, he still underestimated the scale of this tsunami to a certain extent.
Also, the wide impact area!
Especially when Xiao Ai told him that the arXiv website was paralyzed on the day the paper was uploaded, and it was definitely not done by him, Lu Zhou was dumbfounded.
What to say?
It seemed that the whole world regarded the ABC conjecture as the key to opening the door of dialogue with extraterrestrial civilization.
Governments even convened the United Nations General Assembly to urgently discuss the establishment of a loose political alliance similar to the "Human Alliance" or the "Earth Federation" in order to seek a unified position on "foreign" issues and study "foreign" policies in line with the overall interests of mankind.
However, only Lu Zhou himself knew that there was no such thing as an "extraterrestrial civilization". Maybe it did exist somewhere in the universe, but at least for now, everything was just an illusion.
Meanwhile, the key in his hand was not as awesome as people imagined it to be. All it could open was a treasure chest left behind by a Void civilization.
If there were only a few thousand tubes of energy medicine or a large pile of processed alloy ores inside, then the joke would be huge.
According to the system's unconventional behavior when it came to rewards, it might really play this kind of international joke on him.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Lu Zhou only hoped that the results of his trip to Mars would not have any negative impact on the future development of human civilization.
Especially the "Human Alliance", "Earth Alliance" …
Every time Director Li excitedly asked him which name was better and could better show China's power to other countries, Lu Zhou was even more anxious.
But he had to smile and come up with ideas together.
After all, disregarding the inside story that only he knew, this was indeed a joyous occasion that everyone should celebrate. If he didn't act happy, it would be hard to explain when the problem was exposed in the future.
In addition to these major effects, there were also some aftershocks that rippled in a small area.
For example, according to Xiao Ai's report, because of the collapse of the arXiv server, the traffic volume of the LSPM website attached to his personal homepage and paper suddenly became another outlet for this huge traffic.
The average daily number of visitors exceeded one million, and tens of thousands of posts were piled up asking for resources. For a time, this temporary discussion page in the form of a BBS jumped to the world's largest academic exchange forum.
Faced with such a situation, Lu Zhou did not expect it.
After some consideration, he finally adopted Xiao Ai's suggestion and allowed it to upgrade the website and open up several additional sub-categories.
On the one hand, it was to divert the onlookers and give the people who didn't know the truth an environment to discuss. On the other hand, it was also to allow those who could pass the threshold of answering the questions to discuss academic issues.
After all, the original intention of Lu Zhou to set up this temporary discussion page was to give everyone in the mathematics community an opportunity to review the paper together.
At the same time, he could also improve the results of his teammates …
Time passed day by day, and the day of departure was getting closer and closer.
After several meetings and discussions, the launch schedule was successfully released.
The second wave of immigrants to the Guanghan Special Economic Zone would depart in mid-May.
At the same time, the scientific research team to Mars would also follow this flight to the Moon Palace, where they would stay for a while, change to a new colonial ship, and travel to the desert planet tens of millions of kilometers away.
Although he felt a headache about the upcoming second contact, Lu Zhou had no better way. He could only take it one step at a time.
However, just when he had made all the preparations to go to Mars, something unexpected happened.
Lu Zhou did not expect that Schulz, who had just returned to Germany, would be sent back to Jinling.
Also, Director Li came with him …
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