From all-round academic master to chief scientist

"I understand, thank you then."

When Lin Xiao heard this, he expressed his appreciation for their arrangement in his heart. When he learned from Chen Wei that the details of his report were not posted on the official website before the conference, although he didn't say anything, he still complained in his heart. Just for a moment.

"That's what we should do."

The staff member said with a smile.

Lin Xiao nodded, said no more, turned around, and left. The staff member looked at his back and couldn't help but think of the situation when he stopped Lin Xiao just now. He stopped someone for the equivalent of an hour. The boss of the reporter.

Fortunately there were no accidents.

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The next time is to wait for the official start of the conference.

On August 1, the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians officially began.

At nine o'clock in the morning, all participants were seated. Professor Marcelo Viana, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, first delivered a speech and welcomed all comers, followed by Shigefumi Mori, Chairman of the International Mathematical Union and winner of the Fields Medal. Speech.

After the speech, the meeting entered its climax, which was the five major awards of the International Congress of Mathematicians.

The first three awards are the Gauss Award, the Chen Shengshen Award, and the Leelavati Award.

The fourth award is the Fields Medal, which is also the award that attracts the most attention to everyone.

As each name appeared, the audience gave warm applause, and the winner that attracted everyone's attention the most was Peter Schulz. He was only 30 years old, and most people were over 36 years old. Among the Philippine Award winners, he stands out.

And he was also the mathematician who had the loudest call for winning the Fields Medal before this conference, so he can also be called a genius in the world of mathematics.

After the Fields Medal was over, the conference continued with other projects until after eleven o'clock, it finally ended.

However, at this time, something happened that made everyone dumbfounded, because the medal of a Fields Medal winner was stolen, and he put it in his briefcase. As a result, the briefcase was not lost, and the medal inside was stolen. The medal was lost.

This incident made everyone feel funny, and at the same time they felt sympathy for the unlucky winner. The medal was gone in the blink of an eye even after half an hour.

The organizers of the conference also took this very seriously and immediately contacted the police, but they would not be able to find it for a while.

As for Professor Wiana, after learning about the incident, he hurriedly dealt with it. He didn't like such unexpected things the most. Why do accidents always happen?

However, this can be regarded as an episode. If it cannot be found, the conference will also issue a new medal to the winner later.

With the end of the opening ceremony, this International Congress of Mathematicians has also entered into its main theme.

Reports and lectures came together. On August 2 alone, there were more than 40 reports and lectures, including 34 45-minute reports. Originally, according to the plan, Lin Xiao’s report was here Among the 34 games, the attention was obviously not as high as the one-hour report.

On August 3, there were also many reports, and participants did not read every report, including the plenary session report. If the topic was not an area of ​​interest or research, then basically all It won't attract many people to see it.

However, when the Amy Noether lecture ended at seven o'clock in the afternoon, almost all the mathematicians, whether they were resting in the hotel or after listening to the lecture, started to go to the Rio Centro Convention and Exhibition Center. Exhibition Hall 3.

Because there is a special report about to begin, and the subject of the report is the accurate prediction of the distribution of Mersenne prime numbers.

When they all received emails from the organizing committee of this conference a few days ago, they were all a little surprised, because it is rare for a conference to temporarily arrange a one-hour report, or it has never happened even in previous conferences. It has happened, especially since the email also stated that this was originally a forty-five-minute report, but it turned into a one-hour report, which is even more rare.

However, when they saw the theme of the report, they all understood why the organizing committee had arranged it this way.

For such an important achievement, it is true that only the temporary arrangement of a one-hour report can highlight its status as a monument in the field of mathematics.

The study of Mersenne prime numbers is too extensive in the mathematical community, and prime numbers, something that mathematicians love and hate, really make every one of them want to explore its mysteries.

What is the use of studying prime numbers?

There may be many people who have this problem. Studying these numbers will neither allow people to eat well nor have any impact on their lives. Moreover, Euclid also proved in his "Elements of Geometry" that there are infinitely many prime numbers. Then What's the point of studying something infinite?

At most, it can only be related to something related to the RSA password. The RSA password is implemented by using the principle that it is difficult to decompose a large number into prime factors. For example, multiply a six-digit prime number by an eight-digit number. digits of prime numbers, get their product, and this product is obviously a large number.

Then use this large number as your own password. Only by entering these two prime factors can you pass the verification. If it were someone else, it would obviously be difficult to decompose this large number into these two prime numbers.

But for mathematicians, their study of prime numbers is obviously not to develop RSA cryptography, but to challenge the pinnacle of human wisdom.

The prime numbers are there one by one. They are like girls who deliberately tease the mathematicians, showing off their enchanting figures and telling the mathematicians, "Come on, be happy." But when the mathematicians want to touch them , they would take a step back, and then lay out pieces of paper with "Goldbach's conjecture", "Polignac conjecture", "Riemann's conjecture" and so on written on them, so that mathematicians had to give up. In the end, we can only watch from a distance and cannot play with it.

Only by successfully challenging these problems can you enjoy the fruits of victory. At the same time, this also proves to mathematics, the universe, and even the illusory Creator that human wisdom will continue to achieve breakthroughs, and Lieutenant General Touch the truth.

And now, the young man named Lin Xiao began to announce to all of them that he had solved one of the 'girl's' problems, called "The Distribution of Mersenne Prime Numbers", but if he wanted to enjoy this 'girl', he had to It needs to be recognized by everyone, so they are here, and they want to witness with their own eyes whether human wisdom has really broken through to such a level in the pyramid of prime numbers.

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Yu Yan, please give me a monthly ticket T T