What the hell is this?
Luo Wenxuan and Lu Zhou's students weren't the only ones who were surprised. Even Lu Zhou himself couldn't believe the content of this email.
After reading Professor Faltings's review opinion, Lu Zhou roughly understood what he meant.
According to Professor Faltings's opinion, there were major controversies in some parts of the thesis, which led to serious proof flaws in the core part of the thesis. It was not enough to prove that when ε takes an infinite value, there is no non-zero trivial point of the zeta function in the region Re (s) ≥ 1-ε.
Honestly speaking, this was the first time Lu Zhou was asked to correct this thesis.
Luo Wenxuan stood behind Lu Zhou and read the review opinion from beginning to end. He gulped and asked.
"Proof there is a problem?"
Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "It's too early to make a conclusion, let me take a look first."
He Changwen, who was sitting next to him, pricked up his ears. He almost spun the pen in his hand out of his hand.
Of course it is.
When other people received a reply suggesting changes, their first reaction would be to just make the changes and that would be it. They would only approve the manuscript when the reviewer was satisfied with the changes. However, this big shot still wanted to take a look at the manuscript first …
Thinking of this, He Changwen could not help but sigh in his heart.
Lu Zhou is indeed a big shot …
I wish I could be this nutty …
He didn't notice what his students were thinking.
After Lu Zhou finished speaking, he bent down and pulled out the thesis that proved the quasi Riemann's conjecture from the cabinet under his desk. He checked the position that Professor Faltings pointed out, line by line.
Because Luo Wenxuan didn't understand analytic number theory, he stood behind Lu Zhou with a muddled look. He pretended to understand and quietly waited for Lu Zhou's results.
Just like that, about ten minutes passed.
Just when Luo Wenxuan was about to yawn, Lu Zhou suddenly closed the thesis in his hand and threw the stack of papers on the table.
Seeing that Lu Zhou had finished reading, Luo Wenxuan quickly asked curiously.
"What was the result?"
Lu Zhou shook his head.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with what I wrote."
Luo Wenxuan hesitated for a moment and asked, "Then … could it be that Professor Faltings made a mistake?"
When he said this, he didn't have any confidence in his heart at all.
That was Professor Faltings, the number one mathematician after Grothendieck.
In terms of influence in the mathematics world, Lu Zhou was probably even more influential than his mentor, Edward Witten.
However, this old man was also known for his eccentric temper, and he wasn't as popular as Witten in the academic community.
"It's too early to discuss who's right and who's wrong." Lu Zhou stood up from his chair and paused for a second. He then said, "I will talk to Professor Faltings about this issue."
"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to communicate with Professor Faltings … He basically won't change his mind, and …" Luo Wenxuan hesitated for a second and said, "If you can't convince him, I'm afraid he'll continue to ridicule you."
"That's not important," Lu Zhou said nonchalantly. He said, "If he's right, I'll just correct it. If I'm right, I won't change a single symbol. "
Luo Wenxuan asked, "What if neither of you can convince the other?"
This kind of situation was quite common in the mathematics world. When two people's academic standards were almost the same, it was really difficult for them to convince each other on some specious issues.
After all, the more in-depth the research was, the more things were not as obvious as they seemed. Sometimes, for the same problem, two different schools of thought had two different views, and they would argue for a long time. This was also possible.
Of course, this was the charm of mathematics.
No matter how big the controversy was, no controversy could last forever. The correct side would always stand out from the crowd. Even though there had been three mathematics crises in history that shook the foundation of the entire mathematics building, in the end, people still found a suitable way to resolve all the controversies.
"If neither of us can convince the other …"
Lu Zhou paused for a second and spoke nonchalantly.
"Then it depends on who can convince the others."
…
There was no such thing as an impenetrable wall in this world.
Especially when there was a group of gossipy people on the side of the wall.
On the same night that Lu Zhou received the Annual Mathematics review opinion, something big happened on Mathoverflow.
Someone suddenly revealed that the "quasi Riemann conjecture" thesis that Lu Zhou submitted to Annual Mathematics was rejected by the reviewer, Professor Faltings.
As soon as this news came out, it became a hot topic on the entire forum. Anyone who opened the forum would see people enthusiastically discussing this matter.
[Professor Lu's thesis was rejected?! The sun is rising from the west!]
[I told you guys that his proof is seriously flawed, and you all scolded me. Look at it now, I'm not the only one who thinks this way, even Professor Faltings thinks this way. Go and scold him! Idiots!]
[It's just that rejection is pretty common, right? Even top scholars will inevitably have some small flaws in their theses.]
[It's not as simple as rejection. Didn't you see the screenshot? The wording of the rejection isn't as simple as a small flaw, it's "major flaws in the core argument". Do you know what this means? Generally speaking, the appearance of this sentence means that if you can't provide a satisfactory supplementary explanation, then the next time you won't be called back for correction, but directly thrown into the wastepaper basket!]
[No matter what, this is too unusual …]
[There's nothing unusual about it. After all, the reviewer is Faltings. This old guy is famous for being ruthless. Otherwise, he wouldn't have left Princeton and gone back to Germany to teach … This is too offensive, please allow me to remain anonymous.]
[…]
In fact, strictly speaking, the review process should be strictly confidential. However, for some reason, a screenshot of the review comments was leaked by a bored person.
After the editorial department of Annual Mathematics found out about this, they immediately contacted the Mathoverflow forum administrator. The M forum administrator cooperated and deleted the post. However, this was how the internet worked. Once a secret was known by more than two people, it could no longer be considered a secret.
Not to mention the lack of gossip in the mathematics world. Even a sesame seed could cause a heated discussion in the academic community.
Not to mention that Faltings and Lu Zhou, these two nutty people, were arguing about the Riemann's conjecture …
The debate lasted for three days, and neither party responded.
One of them didn't go to these kinds of forums. As for the other one, even though he had an account, he was probably the type of person who didn't want to explain.
While the discussion continued to ferment, people were talking about what Lu Zhou or Faltings would do. Jin Ling University, which had always been outside of the vortex of public opinion, suddenly released a piece of heavy news on their official website.
The content of the news was very short; it was only a few hundred words.
However, the amount of information was so huge that almost no one could react.
[On December 18th, our school will hold an academic report with the theme of "Proof of the quasi Riemann conjecture" in the old campus auditorium. We will answer questions from scholars from all over the world. Currently, the registration channel is open. Those who are interested in participating, please submit your registration information before the deadline of December 7th.]
[Report presenter: Lu Zhou (academician)]
On the same day this news was released …
The entire mathematics world went crazy!
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