From all-round academic master to chief scientist

Although he had planned to publish a paper, for Lin Xiao, who had no experience at all, how to write a paper was still a problem.

He didn't understand the keywords in the abstract, let alone the literature citations and the like, and he didn't know which mathematics journal to submit to, so he still needed to look up some relevant information to find out.

Of course, Xu Hongbing was still very concerned about this. After adding prestige to Lin Xiao, he directly forwarded an article to him, which was a guidance article on how to write a paper from scratch, and also recommended it to him. Journal.

As far as the achievement of proving that there are infinitely many prime numbers in the Fibonacci sequence is concerned, it is obvious that only the top journals in the mathematics world are worthy of publishing such results.

After all, I don’t know how many mathematicians have fallen in front of this problem. Who can dare to say that those Fields Medal winners did not spend nine hours in their spare time to study What about this issue?

Obviously, no one has completed its proof so far. As for how many years has the Fibonacci sequence appeared in the world?

The year 1202 is a full 816 years away from today in 2018!

That means that this problem has existed for 816 years, which is several times longer than the Riemann Hypothesis. Of course, although when the mathematical community realized that there was such a problem, it was not that long ago.

But no matter what, this achievement cannot be compared with the combined achievements of several or even dozens of ordinary mathematicians.

Therefore, the journals Xu Hongbing recommended to Lin Xiao are the four top journals in mathematics, "Annals of Mathematics", "Advances in Mathematics", "Acta-Mathematica", and "Journal of the American Mathematical Society".

These four major journals all play a decisive role in the world of mathematics. Publishing a paper in them is enough to gain great honors. The entire country of China has only published a few articles in these four major journals independently. Ten articles, and their authors are all well-known mathematicians in China.

This is enough to know how difficult it is to publish a paper in these four top journals.

Although the Sitapan conjecture solved by that classmate Liu was also a conjecture, it was biased towards mathematical logic, or combinatorial application, rather than mathematical theory. In addition, the Sitapan conjecture is also less well-known. The difficulty is not particularly difficult, so it cannot be published in the four top journals. Of course, his paper has also been cited by papers in the four top journals, which shows that this achievement is also recognized by people.

As for whether Lin Xiao's results can be published in the four top magazines, the problem is not big.

Because his result is research in number theory, and it is a prime number problem that most top mathematicians like to study. It can be published in top journals, and it may even arouse the interest of many mathematicians who study prime number problems. If we are not careful again, can we still provide some ideas for mathematicians studying the Riemann Hypothesis?

After all, these problems are all about the distribution of prime numbers.

Moreover, after Xu Hongbing read Lin Xiao's proof, his ideas were definitely very creative, especially the process of constructing the function in the last step. The method he used was quite subtle, and it would be seen by other mathematicians. Finally, it will definitely bring some inspiration to them, and even Xu Hongbing himself has some insights.

Xu Hongbing seems to have been able to see that when Lin Xiao's paper is published, it will definitely arouse heated discussion across the country, and the same will be true in the mathematics community.

As for Lin Xiao, Xu Hongbing also undoubtedly helped him a lot. If Xu Hongbing hadn't sent him these things, it would have been a while before he could finish his thesis. But now, it would be much more convenient.

Now he will first produce the Chinese version of the paper, then translate it into English, and then ask Xu Hongbing to help revise it. By the way, he will check whether there are any problems with the format and so on.

Xu Hongbing also suggested that he find a professor at Peking University for help. After all, Xu Hongbing thought that his mathematical ability was not as good as the mathematics professor at Peking University. If there were still some problems in Lin Xiao's proof, he did not What can you see?

Lin Xiao naturally listened to Xu Hongbing's guidance. At the same time, he also knew about the first and second works and the corresponding author, so he expressed to Xu Hongbing that he was willing to give up the second work to him, but Xu Hongbing directly refused.

Xu Hongbing considers himself a good teacher, so he can't do this kind of thing. He has no contribution to this paper, so how can he have the nerve to ask for an authorship?

Lin Xiao didn't say anything about Xu Hongbing's rejection. She just remembered this teacher Xu whom she had only known for a few days.

He is also very grateful to God for allowing him to meet such good teachers. Otherwise, God knows what he would be like.

Then, in the next few days, Lin Xiao continued to study his abstract algebra, taking time to write out the paper every day, and taking the exam for the selection competition.

Time passed quickly. On January 9, 2018, the last two selection examinations ended. On the morning of January 10, the closing ceremony of the first phase of the national team training and selection officially began.

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The closing ceremony was held in the auditorium of the First High School Affiliated to East China Normal University. Many people attended the closing ceremony, not only the 60 training team members and more than 20 auditors, but also school leaders, as well as Huaguo Mathematics There will be a total of about 120 personnel sent.

The first item of the closing ceremony is also the thing that everyone is paying close attention to.

A vice president of the Chinese Mathematical Society stood behind the lecture table with flowers, facing the people present, and said with a smile: "Next, announce the team members who have entered the second stage of training and selection, and these team members Average scores on the first two exams.”

Almost everyone present held their breath, waiting for the next name, especially the training team members. Most of them were extremely nervous and wanted to know whether they could enter the second stage of selection.

At this time, the vice chairman finally read out the first name: "First place, Lin Xiao, average score, 126 points!"

When they heard the name, some people clapped, and then everyone else clapped as well.

According to tradition, the announcement was made immediately, and there was no need to applaud as the names were read one by one. However, this Lin Xiao really made everyone present feel sincere admiration, both teachers and students. This first place is absolutely deserved. , without any luck involved, so they all applauded Lin Xiao from the bottom of their hearts.

Moreover, Lin Xiao's average score shocked everyone in their hearts.

The full score for the exam is 126 points, and his average score for the two exams is 126. Doesn’t that mean that Lin Xiao still got 126 points in the exams in the first two days?

He truly deserves to be the most powerful genius in so many years!

As a result, their applause became louder.

Thanks to Momo Reading and Wuli Pipi for the 500 starting coin reward, and to Erhai Inn for the 100 starting coin reward. Thank you for your support!