Directly holding a report!
Nutty!
"What can you do if I don't change?"
The people who frequented the Mathoverflow forum were all industry insiders. Even though some of them weren't as nutty as Lu Zhou, they were still well-known scholars in their respective fields.
This was the first time they had seen such a domineering contributor. They had never even heard of such a domineering contributor.
Especially since this report was released three days after the previous rejection. A lot of people began to imagine what happened between Lu Zhou and Faltings.
[Is this a direct confrontation with Faltings?]
[I think Annual Mathematics is involved as well.]
[No way, Professor Lu used to be a part-time editor at Annual Mathematics, and he often helped them review manuscripts. There's no way he's going to fall out over something like this.]
[Maybe it's just an academic spar?]
[I've already signed up! I've booked a hotel ticket to Jin Ling City! I have a feeling this report is going to be amazing!]
[Are they going to fight? I bet one dollar that Professor Lu will win (laughing emoji)]
[Come on, it's hard to say if Professor Faltings will come. But I agree with the previous person. This report is a must-see for scholars in the field of analytic number theory. Regardless of who's right, listening to a report like this is more rewarding than reading theses for half a year.]
[You probably don't know, but the Jin Ling University mathematics department website is down. The price of admission tickets on Amazon is US $1,000 per ticket.]
[WTF?!]
In fact, an hour after the Jin Ling University mathematics department released the report, the entire mathematics department website was down due to the surge in traffic.
Everyone knew what was going on with the servers of Chinese universities. Students could choose courses and the servers would crash, let alone these kinds of requests from all over the world.
No one expected that an academic report would be so popular.
Even though the mathematics department found a teacher from the computer science department to make some preparations, the number of visitors still exceeded their expectations. Especially because of the ticket reselling incident, they had to temporarily close the registration entrance. They changed the anonymous registration to manual academic information review, and the registration information was linked to the passport information.
In other words, when entering the venue, they had to verify that the identity on the passport matched their registration qualifications.
But even so, it didn't bring much improvement to the situation.
Not only that, but the price of the tickets that were sold earlier on Amazon seemed to have skyrocketed because of this, and it was being hyped up even higher.
Faced with such a situation, many professors didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Comparing goods to goods, one had to throw them away. Comparing oneself to others was really infuriating!
When they held a report, the most they would encounter was awkward silence.
Sometimes, they were afraid that they would lose face, so they had no choice but to drag some dumbfounded undergraduate students over to join in the numbers, and to put it nicely, "to help them expand their academic horizons." They had never even heard of a situation where the report was packed to the brim before it even started!
Dean Lu looked at the computer science department teachers working in the computer room. He was holding a vacuum flask at the door when he suddenly sighed. "Old Qin, our mathematics department is nutty this time!"
Dean Qin: "Yeah …"
Dean Lu said, "Last time was in the auditorium, right? It wasn't that spectacular. "
Dean Qin: "Yeah …"
Apart from these two words, he didn't know what else to say.
"The server is fixed, it can be started at any time." The computer science department teacher walked in front of the two of them. He had been busy since six o 'clock. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked back at the computer room. He said, "But looking at the number of visitors, I don't know how long it'll last."
Dean Qin thought for a bit and sighed.
"Just make do with it, it's only for a few days anyway … When the registration is done, we'll post the registration announcement."
"Okay."
Even though the computer science department teacher's scalp was numb, he thought about the principal's order and nodded. He then turned around and walked into the computer room.
On the other hand, at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Germany.
Professor Faltings was sitting in the director's office. He quietly read the invitation letter sent by Lu Zhou.
As a well-known scholar in the field, he obviously didn't need to go to the official website to sign up with those insignificant people. Not to mention, judging from the fierce academic debate between the two over the past three days, he was probably the person that Professor Lu wanted to invite the most.
Professor Faltings had a rare smile on his wrinkled face.
Although the smile was filled with sarcasm and rumination, it was indeed a smile.
"Professor …"
A German doctor with a beard was standing across the desk. He spoke with righteous indignation.
"That person is looking down on you, isn't he?"
As a student of Professor Faltings, Fletcher was proud of this from the bottom of his heart.
After all, the students who had graduated from this old man's school in the past were not ordinary people. For example, Shinichi Mochizuki, who created the "Theory of the Universe" and claimed to have proved the ABC conjecture, or Zhang Shiwu, who was famous in the China mathematics community …
Fletcher had no doubt that Professor Faltings was the greatest scholar in mathematics today.
Especially after the pope of algebraic geometry, Grothendieck, passed away …
"That's fine, Mr. Fletcher. When you reach half his level, you won't care about this kind of thing." Professor Faltings closed the email page. He pushed his glasses and said casually, "This is the best way. I can understand him. If we can't convince each other, then we'll see who can convince the others."
When Fletcher heard this, he nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.
WTF？
I'm on your side, old man!
Why am I being ridiculed for no reason?
Although it wasn't the first time he had been ridiculed for no reason …
Professor Faltings didn't care about his student. He paused for a second and spoke.
"Of course, understanding is one thing. There are serious flaws in his argument process, and this won't change. Even though I'm sorry, I can only embarrass him in public. "
Professor Faltings stood up from his office chair and gently adjusted his collar with his dry fingers.
When Fletcher saw his boss walking out of the office, he quickly spoke.
"Professor, where are you going?"
"I'm going to sit in the coffee shop for a while, it's time for afternoon tea … Oh, yeah."
Professor Faltings stopped at the door and looked back at his student. He said, "Remember to buy me a ticket to Jinling, China."
Fletcher looked at his boss in disbelief.
"You … plan on going?"
"Why not?"
Professor Faltings looked at his student and spoke nonchalantly, as if he was talking about the weather.
"I said, I want him to pay for his arrogance and youth."
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