From a university student to a chief academician

Chapter 18 International Forum for Young Scientists

At night, Ye Fei lay on the bed and turned on the system.

[Task: None

Physical fitness: 150
IQ: 129
Function: Mastery: Lv0 (0/100)
Rating: 0
Points: 105]

Ye Fei has already completed two missions, the first mission gets 5 points, and the second mission gets 100 points.

But he has never added points, because physical fitness and IQ need [-] points, and function needs [-] points.

With the points he has obtained now, adding a little physical fitness or IQ will help him negligibly, and the functions cannot be upgraded, and the inability to upgrade is equivalent to nothing.

So he has been accumulating points.

"The singular base has proven successful, and the next mission can begin."

"The mentor has been urging me to cooperate with him on the problem of extremely small towers."

"Now that I have nothing to do, let's study the problem of extremely small towers!"

The very small tower problem appeared in 1940 and is one of the core problems of set theory.

The question is whether two continuum cardinality invariants p and t are provably equal under ZFC.

This problem is the oldest open problem in cardinal invariant theory.

If it proves successful, it will play a huge role in promoting the development of force theory.

ZFC, the full name is called ZFC axiom system.

It is the ZF system proposed by Zermelo and Frenkel, and the choice axiom is added on this basis to form the ZFC axiom system.

It is the first axiomatic set theory system and has very wide applications in set theory.

Force-forcing theory, also known as force-forcing method, is an important method for constructing extended models in the study of axiomatic set theory. It was created by Cohen in 1963 to prove the independence of the continuum hypothesis.

To put it bluntly, whether it is a singular cardinality problem or a very small tower problem, it is very helpful to prove the continuum hypothesis.

Ye Fei was talking about creating a mission.

[Task: Prove the minimal tower problem

Details: Whether the two continuum cardinality invariants p and t are provably equal under ZFC

Reward: 100 points]

"Another 100 points? It seems that the difficulty is the same as the singular base."

From the second day, Ye Fei and Lu Yishan worked together to study the problem of extremely small towers.

After fully studying Professor Lu Yishan's previous research, Ye Fei made some supplements. The cooperation between the two made the research very fast.

Ye Feidu sighed with emotion: "It's true that fighting alone is not as fast as two people working together."

If it takes two months to study the singular base alone, but if two people cooperate, the speed will be greatly improved.

Ye Feixin said: "At this speed, it can be proved in two months at most."

Professor Lu was very surprised. He didn't know if he didn't cooperate, but he was shocked when he cooperated.

"Is this the tutor leading the students? Or the students leading the tutor?"

Many of Ye Fei's ideas are very novel. If he hadn't studied the problem of extremely small towers for many years and has a profound foundation, he would almost not be able to keep up with Ye Fei's rhythm.

Professor Lu is in pain and happiness.

The joy is that the research speed is very fast, but the pain is that he can hardly keep up with Ye Fei's rhythm and needs to supplement knowledge.

"No, I can't work twelve hours a day, just work six hours, there are still six hours left, I have to study."

Professor Lu was forced to do nothing, otherwise he really couldn't keep up with Ye Fei's rhythm.

Originally, he wanted to pull Ye Fei to join his project, and let Ye Fei follow his own rhythm.

Fortunately, now, I have to follow Ye Fei's rhythm.

But the rhythm seems to be out of control. He has to slow down the rhythm. He has time to study every day and try to keep up with Ye Fei's rhythm.

"Why didn't you know he was so perverted before?" Professor Lu complained in his heart: "If Ye Fei knows my ability, will he look down on me?"

"No, you must not be able to see your ability."

Ye Fei didn't see Professor Lu's ability.

One is less experience.

Second, the cooperation time is short.

The third is that the research is too devoted, and there is no energy to pay attention.

The fourth is that he himself is also studying while studying, and his background is shallow.

"Professor Lu's ability is quite strong. Many viewpoints cannot be learned online. They are his private collections. But after I study, I will learn online knowledge, which will help me even more."

In a blink of an eye, a week has passed, and tomorrow is the day for the International Forum for Young Scientists.

Professor Lu breathed a sigh of relief. Ye Fei went to participate in the forum these few days, and he had to use these few days to supplement his knowledge, otherwise he was afraid of dragging Ye Fei back.

On the morning of November 11th, at the gate of Zhonghu University.

Professor Lu and Ye Fei were standing at the school gate. Suddenly, Professor Lu waved his hand and said, "This..."

Soon, a young man in his 30s came over.

The young man looked very refined, with fair skin, tall and thin, wearing glasses, carrying a black briefcase in his hand, and wearing a suit.

"Professor Lu!" The young man walked up to Professor Lu and said.

Then he looked at Ye Fei and said with a smile, "You are Ye Fei, right? I've heard your name for the past few days and I can tell you're callused."

He stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, my name is Dong Siyuan."

"Hi!" Ye Fei shook hands with him.

Professor Lu said: "Ye Fei, Dong Siyuan also graduated from the mathematics department of our school. He is a student of Professor Liu Yisheng. This time he will go to the forum with you."

Ye Fei smiled and said, "Senior, please help me a lot."

Dong Siyuan smiled and said: "Wherever it is, I am a guide, and the forum is your stage."

"Okay." Professor Lu said: "Stop talking nonsense, you guys have to catch a plane, hurry up!"

Taking advantage of Ye Fei not paying attention, Professor Lu quietly said to Dong Siyuan: "Try to come back as late as possible."

Dong Siyuan was startled, not understanding what Professor Lu meant.

But Professor Lu didn't explain, and urged them to hurry up.

After more than three hours, they went to stay in a hotel near the International Forum, which had already been taken over by the forum, and all scholars could check in for free by presenting their invitation letter.

Dong Siyuan said: "This time, there are more than 45 scholars from 1000 countries participating in the forum, and almost all Asian countries have participated."

"The forum is divided into five lecture halls, namely mathematics, physics, biology, materials and energy."

At 01:30 in the afternoon, they came to the forum on time, and after the doorman read the invitation letter, they walked to the mathematics lecture hall.

Dong Siyuan said: "Generally, there are not too many people who come to participate in mathematics forums, and 100 people is not bad."

"Why are there so few?" Ye Fei asked, "Isn't mathematics the mother of all subjects?"

"It is the mother of all subjects." Dong Siyuan nodded and said, "But other subjects can see more practical things than mathematics."

"For example, aerodynamics in physics can help the development of the aviation industry."

"But the math, it's to help with aerodynamics."

"So, people want to see something more than a set of numbers or a formula."

"Unless there is a major breakthrough in mathematics, it will attract a lot of attention."

Ye Fei nodded.

While talking, they came to the door of the mathematics lecture hall, and pushed the door to enter.

"Uh..." Ye Fei looked at the lecture hall in astonishment.

I saw that there were more than 500 people in the lecture hall at this time.

Ye Fei asked in surprise: "Senior, it seems that there are more than 100 people!"

Dong Siyuan nodded and said: "It seems so, maybe there is some accident!"

He pulled a young man beside him and asked, "Hello, why are there so many people today?"

The young man stared blankly at Dong Siyuan and asked, "You don't know?"

"Know what?" Dong Siyuan asked suspiciously.

"Ye Fei!" the young man said, "We heard that Ye Fei is coming to give a report, so we all want to come and see him. We heard that he is only 22 years old this year, and we just want to confirm whether that is the case."

"The people present are all from the top universities and research institutes in Asia, and a few are from the Americas and Europe."

"Everyone is young, we are very unconvinced that he can achieve such an achievement at the age of 22."

After the young man left, Dong Siyuan looked at Ye Fei dumbfounded and said, "It looks like you're under a lot of pressure today!"

Ye Fei smiled wryly and shook his head: "I didn't expect this to happen."

They found a place to sit at random, and in order not to attract attention, they specifically found a corner to sit down.

(End of this chapter)