The End of Technology

It all started when Robert Cairney, editor-in-chief of the Annals of Mathematics, noticed the name of the school on Ning’s thesis unit. In fact, compared to the first paper, the Agricultural Machinery Factory, which he had no idea what kind of institution it was, Huaxia Yanbei Sports University was slightly more acceptable.

But the Sports University still made the editor a little nervous.

There are actually no specialized sports colleges in the United States, but both public and private universities will recruit students with various types of sports talents. This is the only group that these top universities will specially recruit on the grounds of students with talents. At the same time, the United States also has college sports leagues such as the NCAA and NAIA that provide bonuses for these sports talents.

This kind of special sports admissions situation in various universities is the product of the interaction of multiple reasons. For example, the United States, as a developed country, pays a lot of attention to various competitive sports, and the development of sports is not a national system. Even for major world sports events such as the Olympic Games, people are mostly directly selected from major universities. Participate.

So there are actually no specialized sports universities in the United States. There are one or two schools that are not very famous. Naturally, it is impossible to have any intersection with top mathematics journals.

But now Ning Zi's employer is a sports university, and his profession is a student. After seeing it, it really feels very inconsistent.

Therefore, the students trained by Huaxia Sports University have solved two world-wide mathematics-related problems one after another, which makes people feel somewhat uncomfortable.

What surprised Robert Kenney even more was that he had already violated the regulations and gave various information about Ning Zi to Professor Higginson of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University. He thought that the two parties had already contacted each other. In a normal person's thinking mode, , when a university like Princeton waves an olive branch to a student with mathematical talent, it is impossible for the other party to choose a little-known sports university.

So after thinking for a moment, he forwarded the paper to Higginson via email again, and attached an email asking about the situation.

This time he did not come directly to him because he knew that Professor Higginson had been invited to give a lecture at Harvard University. It is common for well-known professors to exchange ideas among top universities in the United States. It's just that the timing is very awkward.

Robert Caney really wanted to ask what the professor thought.

Higginson, who was giving a lecture and academic exchange at Harvard, also failed to see the email sent by Robert Caney at the first time.

In fact, after he finished his lecture that day, he had been discussing Ning Zhi's paper on the smoothness and uniqueness of solutions to NS equations with Chen Tongfang, a Chinese professor at Harvard who also studies partial equations.

This is not a discussion of the paper itself, but a discussion of some of the novel mathematical tools. Of course, Higginson did not reveal to Chen Tongfang who the author of the paper was, or even tell Chen Tongfang that the author of the paper they were studying was a Chinese.

In this way, the two discussed it until early in the morning. Finally, they couldn't bear the sleepiness and sent Chen Tongfang out of the hotel. Higginson took the time to turn on the computer and saw the email from Robert Caney.

Higginson was naturally very interested in Ning Zi's submission of a new paper. I didn't even bother sleeping at the moment, so I read the paper directly.

There is nothing much to say. The proof process is only two pages long. For an old professor who has been immersed in mathematics all his life, it is not complicated to verify. The essence of this paper actually lies in its ingenious problem-solving ideas and flexible use of mathematical tools.

At the same time, this paper once again made Higginson aware of the unusual mathematical talent of this student named Ning Zi.

After reading the paper, Higginson noticed that Robert Caney had also sent an email. After reading it, he quickly dug out the author's information, and then he was completely confused.

Well, Huaxia Sports University? After being confused, there is anger...

What a joke! Sports University!

What does Fan Zhenhua do for food? !

Why would such a student suddenly become a student at a sports university? !

Even though it was already three o'clock in the morning in the United States, he still took out his cell phone without hesitation and called Fan Zhenhua.

Although this anger was unreasonable, he had to ask Fan Zhenhua, what did he do with the entrustment between friends?

…

After learning from Higginson that Ning Zi had submitted a new paper to the "Annals of Mathematics", Fan Zhenhua's mood at this time was exciting and a little lucky. This is enough to show how correct his whim was.

This is based on the judgment of Higginson.

Although Fan Zhenhua does not yet know what the content of this paper is, if its level does not meet the standards of the "Annals of Mathematics" and it is not intended to be published, Higginson would not have asked this in the first sentence when he called.

Most of its scholars are very realistic, because everyone's time is precious and will not be wasted on those who have no talent. A rubbish paper will only make the other person very angry and ask why that little guy is wasting his time and talent writing messy stuff.

So even though Higginson's tone was questioning, Fan Zhenhua was not annoyed, but replied patiently and formally: "Professor Higginson, of course I mentioned your opinion to him. And he also told me that he received your opinion. I even received an email from a professor at Berkeley, but he didn’t reply. In fact, if I hadn’t taken the initiative to come to him, he wouldn’t have wanted to talk to me.”

"How should I put it? This kid's personality is relatively reserved, and he decided to go to a sports university during college. Neither Lu nor I could persuade him to change his mind. Of course, I also did some things, and I just wanted to invite him. You help. I have signed an agreement in the name of Yanbei University with the sports university where he is enrolled, and we will cooperate to establish a mathematics major at this school, and he will be the first student in this major."

"So I hope that the journal can seek his opinion and flexibly change the author's unit to the Department of Mathematics jointly established by the Yanbei Mathematics Research Center, the School of Mathematics of Yanbei University and Yanbei Sports University. Just send him an email, and I will I believe the author of the paper will agree. I also have the confidence to convince him to meet our small request."

The person on the other side was silent for a long time before he said: "Oh my God, is he another guy who is difficult to deal with? Why does God always favor those guys who don't like to communicate? Well, I will suggest it. Let's do this for now, I think. When I have time, I will go to China, and I hope you can arrange for me to meet that child."

"Of course that's no problem, but Higginson, what other paper did he write? Is it still about partial differential equations?"

"No, no, no, this time it's about the hyperdimensional sensitivity conjecture. He solved this conjecture with extremely skilled mathematical skills. The proof process is very simple and clear at a glance, but no one has thought of using this method before. He is a mathematician Genius, Fan! A genius who is seen at least once in a hundred years!"