When it came to a new theory, especially in one's own field of research, everyone's first reaction would be to doubt it. After that, doubt would be followed by doubt. As for whether they would accept it or not, that was the last thing.
Lu Zhou looked at the audience's reaction and knew that he was halfway there.
He was confident that at least half of the audience understood the Group Structure Method.
As for the other half, it did not matter if they understood it or not.
He just needed to make sure that a quarter of the people in the room could understand his thesis, as well as the reviewers who were going to peer review his thesis. Then, the main goal of this report would be achieved.
Lu Zhou took a deep breath and flipped the PowerPoint to the next page.
Next was the proof of Goldbach's conjecture.
However, he felt a lot more relaxed at this point.
When a tool was born, fulfilling its mission was just a matter of time.
That was exactly what he was going to do next.
Lu Zhou pointed the laser pointer in his hand at the screen and continued to show the PowerPoint.
[Let N represent a sufficiently large even number. Let Px (1,1) be the number of prime numbers p that satisfy N = p1 + p2. Life and limit group G = …]
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At the beginning of this stage, the atmosphere in the lecture hall was obviously pushed to a climax.
This kind of atmosphere brewed in the silent auditorium, brewed in the tip of every pen that stopped on the notepad. When the Group Structure Method broke through the core of Goldbach's conjecture, everyone in the audience held their breath. They were afraid of missing any details.
Maynard's pupils contracted as he stared at the screen on the stage, and he muttered to himself softly.
"Bombieri's theorem! I see … He really did it. Unbelievable. "
After the finishing touch, all of the foreshadowing was revealed and the sequence of steps became clear.
It was as if the fog in front of him had been removed and everything became clear.
As an expert in the field of prime numbers, Maynard had the deepest and most intuitive feeling.
However, this was not the moment he was looking forward to …
Evan, who was sitting next to him, was muddled.
This guy from England had given up on the Group Structure Method and started to wait for the final result.
Listening to what his supervisor said, it seemed like the conjecture was proven?
At this thought, Evan could not help but feel awkward.
Just a few days ago, he was still arguing with people on the forum about his supervisor's blog post. He even said that this report would become a joke.
In the end, it seemed that he was the one who was embarrassed …
Helfgott was sitting on the other side of the lecture hall. He closed the notebook in his hand and had a look of approval on his face.
Before he came here, he had already read Lu Zhou's thesis at least ten times. He wrote down all of the problems in the thesis on a notepad and prepared to ask questions during the Q&A session.
But now, it seemed that this little notebook would probably not be of any use.
The areas where he thought there were problems had already been answered to his satisfaction.
Not only did Helfgott get the answer he wanted, but Lu Zhou, who was standing on the podium, also got what he wanted.
From those pairs of eyes, he could feel the affirmation from his peers.
Finally, he reached the last step.
[Obviously, we have equation (30), Lemma 8, Lemma 9, and Lemma 10 to prove that Theorem 1 is true.]
[Proof complete.]
The PowerPoint stopped at the last page. The silence in the lecture hall also stopped at the last second.
This solemn silence continued until Lu Zhou spoke.
Lu Zhou had been speaking for forty minutes. He cleared his throat and said with a hoarse voice, "The proof of Goldbach's conjecture is over. I think I have proved this proposition. "
The audience did not make him wait for long.
They had been waiting for this sentence for a long time.
The letter from Moscow to Berlin in 1742 crossed the Austro-Prussian War, crossed two and a half centuries of wind and rain.
After the efforts of countless generations of scholars, the bricks and tiles added to this edifice had finally been completed by his hands.
Counting the treasures that they had obtained, the human civilization had already obtained too much.
As soon as he finished speaking, the lecture hall was filled with applause.
The applause lasted for a long time …
…
To Lu Zhou's surprise, he originally thought that the real challenge would be in the Q&A session. However, the Q&A session was easily passed.
Several big names in the field of analytic number theory asked a few simple questions and then sat back down. The Q&A session was supposed to run out of time, but it happened to be solved in the 20 minutes that he set aside.
After the report, Peter Goddard, the dean of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, walked on stage with a bottle of champagne and gave Lu Zhou a warm hug.
This mathematical physicist, who was famous for his string theory research, once won the Dirac Medal, which symbolized the highest honor in the field of mathematical physics.
"Congratulations, Dr. Lu Zhou," said Goddard as he patted Lu Zhou's shoulder. He smiled and stuffed the champagne into Lu Zhou's arms as he said, "Take it, this champagne belongs to you!"
Lu Zhou took the champagne and smiled. He then said humbly, "Isn't there a peer review?"
It felt a little too early to open the champagne.
However, Goddard did not think so. He smiled and said, "Of course, Annual Mathematics will organize a six-person panel of reviewers to independently review your thesis based on today's meeting notes. However, it is Princeton's tradition to open the champagne after the report. This is Princeton's congratulations, or you can think of it as a form of pressure. "
Accurately speaking, this was a tradition from Oxford and Cambridge. However, Princeton was one of the few universities in the United States. Goddard also completed his PhD in Cambridge, so it was not an exaggeration to call it a tradition.
The review process for a world-class mathematics problem could be very fast or very slow. It depended on the complexity of the proof process and the prover's own understanding of the process.
During this time, Lu Zhou had to answer all the questions from the panel of reviewers.
Therefore, this champagne was not only a congratulatory gift, but it was also a motivation for him to persist until the end.
Because if he gave up, it meant that he would have to return the champagne.
Although it was only a few hundred dollars, no one wanted to do this.
Lu Zhou held the champagne in his hand and felt the pressure of victory.
Goddard smiled at him and patted him on the shoulder. "Open it, this glory belongs to you!"
With the encouragement from the dean, Lu Zhou no longer hesitated.
Considering the possibility of failure was not something a winner should do. At least, it was not something he should do as he stood on the podium at this moment.
Not to mention, his proof had already been confirmed by an "advanced civilization".
He believed that he could answer all the questions from the reviewers.
Right now, what he needed to do was to show more confidence in his research results. He wanted to make his parents, his alma mater and Princeton, and even his country, proud of the glory he had achieved at this moment.
Bubbles came out of the bottle and the people sitting in the front row were more or less sprayed with bubbles. However, no one complained. Instead, they laughed.
The people in the back looked at him enviously. They wanted to be a winner, but they were too far away and the aisle was too crowded.
The reporters standing on both sides of the lecture hall used their cameras to record this historic moment. They tried to pass through the crowd and get first-hand information.
Maybe tomorrow, Lu Zhou would be on the cover of Time Magazine, just like Wiles.
However, right now, Lu Zhou did not pay attention to these unimportant things.
He swore that this was the most delicious wine he had ever tasted.
The taste was extraordinarily mellow and sweet.
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