From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

"These three are all Mersenne primes?" Zhu Jianrong was in a daze, apparently in a state of confusion.

Chen Qinghua asked more levelly, "You mean, the Mersenne numbers corresponding to these three black prime numbers are all Mersenne prime numbers?"

The two asked each other a question, and then looked at each other, feeling a little confused in their thinking.

It takes several years on average to verify a Mersenne prime number. It is the first time that a Chinese scholar discovers a Mersenne prime number, which is already big news for China.

It can be said that this Chinese scholar quickly found the second Mersenne prime number, which can be said to be very incredible, and it is a major achievement that has attracted international attention.

They discussed for more than an hour, just chewing on words on the announcement issued by the school, because they all knew that the announcement would definitely attract many people's attention, and many media reporters had already come to the door, just wanting to know about the news about Mersenne prime numbers.

The results of it?

You tell us how many Mersenne primes are 'queued' waiting to be verified?

Is this finding Mersenne primes?

This is……

"Then verify it quickly!" Chen Qinghua immediately realized, remembering what Wang Hao told him about the research, and immediately rushed out of the laboratory to find Zhang Zhiqiang.

Zhang Zhiqiang was sleeping soundly while lying on the single bed, when he was dragged up by Chen Qinghua, and he was dragged to the central laboratory without knowing what happened.

"Hurry up, set up, verify!"

Chen Qinghua simply said six words, which made Zhang Zhiqiang understand. He immediately cheered up, turned on the software customization function, and verified several numbers.

at the same time.

Zhu Jianrong pulled Wang Hao aside and asked carefully, "Wang Hao, are you sure? Those are really Mersenne primes? This is not a joke."

Wang Hao thought for a while and said, "I'm not 100% sure, so I need to verify."

"How sure are you?"

"More than 90%." Wang Hao pursed his lips forcefully, but he didn't say anything dead.

Zhu Jianrong swallowed when he heard the number, and he nodded vigorously, "90% is enough!"

"I believe in you!"

After leaving a sentence, he quickly walked out of the laboratory building.

Zhu Jianrong returned to the Science and Technology Department of the school, holding the handwritten announcement in his hand, and just sat back to his seat when Li Ming asked, "Do you want to issue an announcement? I have already written it, and I am waiting to submit it."

"What announcement! Delete it quickly!"

Zhu Jianrong said anxiously, and then crumpled up the handwritten announcement, "I won't post it, write it again."

"ah?"

Li Ming was very puzzled.

Zhu Jianrong ignored Li Ming, but typed on the computer——

[Congratulations to Professor Wang Hao of our school, who has made a major breakthrough in the research of Mersenne prime numbers, and with the help of the Mason Number Science Laboratory of the School of Computer Science of our school, he has discovered two Mersenne prime numbers in a row. 】

Li Ming watched from the side, and couldn't help giving a thumbs up, "This passage is written very well."

"but……"

"Mason Mathematical Sciences Laboratory, is it from our school?"

Zhu Jianrong glanced at him, shook his head and said with a smile, "You don't understand this. It didn't exist before, but it will exist in the future."

"ah?"

Zhu Jianrong didn't explain much, and continued to write the next sentence--

[At the same time, the Mason Number Science Laboratory is continuing to verify other numbers, among which new Mersenne prime numbers are expected to appear. 】

[Thank you for your attention from all walks of life! 】

[If there are new discoveries, the Mason Mathematical Sciences Laboratory will announce the relevant results as soon as possible. 】

Li Ming still felt a little confused from the beginning to the end. He asked repeatedly, "What is this Mason Mathematical Science Laboratory?"

Zhu Jianrong shook his head and said, "Don't worry about this. Now we are preparing a major achievement report related to Mersenne prime numbers, and then we will apply to the superior for funding!"

"Didn't the school always plan to develop a computer college? It also planned to develop a computer laboratory."

"Now is the opportunity!"

"Last year, we allocated funds to buy two servers, both of which are the most basic configurations for the key laboratory. With this achievement, let alone building a supercomputing center or expanding the computer laboratory, there is no problem at all. The province will happily allocate funds at that time. .”

"but……"

"It's better to talk about Wang Hao and let him be the chief researcher of the Mason Mathematical Science Laboratory!"

Li Ming kept nodding his head, and couldn't help but look at Zhu Jianrong a few times.

He is already the deputy director of the Science and Technology Department, but it seems that he still has a lot to learn in terms of finding opportunities to fight for the interests of the school's development.

...

After Xihai University's announcement was released, it immediately aroused huge repercussions.

The discovery of two Mersenne primes in a row within a week is definitely a shocking news for the academic circles. The discoverer of the Mersenne primes is also the same Chinese scholar, which is enough to make the news cross-border and arouse huge public opinion.

The heat of public opinion in the country has lasted for a whole morning, and many people are waiting for the confirmation of Xihai University.

As a result, Xihai University issued an announcement, and it was exactly as they thought, finding the second Mersenne prime number within a week.

At the same time, another news with an accompanying description is even more shocking.

"There are still numbers to verify, and it is likely to be a Mersenne prime number? The announcement of Xihai University should mean this?"

"Really or not? It's terrible. Could it be that Professor Wang Hao has already cracked the mystery of Mersenne prime numbers?"

"Impossible. In the morning, there was a professor of mathematics at the Mathematical Science Center of Shuimu University. He said that Mersenne prime numbers cannot be regular, otherwise they would have been discovered long ago."

"If the law of Mersenne prime numbers can be deciphered, it means that there are laws of prime numbers, and it is not simply a matter of finding Mersenne prime numbers."

"But what does Xihai University mean? They can't be fooling people, can they?"

"Didn't the announcement say that Professor Wang Hao has made great achievements in the research of Mersenne prime numbers? What kind of achievement is this? I'm really looking forward to it."

Many people are looking forward to it.

When the first Mersenne prime was found, many people thought that Wang Hao was lucky. When the second Mersenne prime was found, some people had already doubted that people's luck could not be so good.

Now Xihai University has publicly stated that Wang Hao has made a major breakthrough in the research of Mersenne prime numbers, and there are other numbers in the process of verification, which immediately aroused heated public opinion.

Research results of Mersenne primes? What is the result? Is it true that there are still a few numbers in the university announcement that are being verified?

Public opinion is boiling.

The announcement of Xihai University has attracted a lot of attention and discussion in a short period of time, and the hot search rankings on several online platforms have also rushed to the top three in one breath.

At the same time, a large number of media reporters rushed to the so-called Mason number science laboratory.

They searched and asked, but they didn't find out where the so-called "Mason Mathematical Science Laboratory" was. Finally, they came to the computer laboratory building.

Because of the large number of people, the reporters were stopped by the security guards and could only wait at the entrance of the building together.

After waiting for about half an hour, a professor from the laboratory building came out and led them to the sixth floor. Dozens of reporters and equipment blocked the corridor.

Then they meet the so-called Mason Number Science Lab.

It was just a bigger room. Looking inside through the glass window, one could see that the inside was a bit messy, and there was the humming sound of the main computer.

In front of the door of the house was a piece of white paper with a few large characters written on it——

Mason Number Science Lab.

"Isn't this lab too miserable? There's not even a sign? There's only one room and a few computers? It doesn't look like a computer room for students to attend class."

A reporter who reacted quickly recorded it immediately, "Professor Wang Hao completed the research on Mersenne prime numbers under such a difficult environment, and found Mersenne prime numbers by using old computers for detection and analysis."

Entry to the Mason Number Science Laboratory is not permitted on the grounds that major research is being conducted.

The reporters could only take a look outside, take a few photos by the way, and then they were arranged in the small conference room downstairs, crowded inside to conduct interviews and ask questions.

Chen Qinghua, Zhang Zhiqiang, Qi Xiao, Zhu Jianrong were interviewed, and two doctoral students were called and introduced as participants of the project.

They talked together that Wang Hao completed the research on Mersenne primes under difficult circumstances, and detected Mersenne primes using the computer in the laboratory.

After hearing this, the reporters hurriedly took notes, and then proposed to interview Wang Hao.

it is a pity……

It wasn't that the school didn't allow Wang Hao to be interviewed, but that Wang Hao had already left. Because he had to wait for the verification for a long time, he went back to rest.

A group of reporters could only wait downstairs for the experiment, and then some people simply went outside to find a hotel, squatting and waiting to interview Wang Hao.

In the school, there are reporters squatting on guard.

On the Internet, more people are waiting for the news. They saw the timely interview news released by the reporter and knew that the Mason Number Science Laboratory of Xihai University found the Mersenne prime number according to Wang Hao's research.

At the same time, it was also determined that other Mersenne numbers were being tested.

The reporter also interviewed specific testing news.

"It takes about 13 hours for the first number." For the detection of a number, thirteen hours is an amazing time, but after some people have done science, they feel that the time is already very short.

How can it be so easy to do primality testing for numbers with tens of millions or hundreds of millions of digits?

At this time, public opinion not only appeared in China, but also abroad.

According to the information interviewed by the reporter, Xihai University normally uses the PRIME software as a detection tool, and the PRIME software has the function of timely reporting and updating on the GIMPS website.

As a result, many people began to squat on the GIMPS website, hoping to get first-hand news.

It was not one person, it was a large group of people.

The GIMPS main website and forums were hit hard immediately, and the server stopped running for more than four hours before resuming operation. The good news is that more people know about GIMPS, and the number of newly registered and participating GIMPS users has increased significantly, and new CUPs have been added. The number has doubled several times.

This may be the biggest wave of publicity since the establishment of GIMPS.

Many people are waiting.

When the time comes to thirteen hours, will there be news updates about the new discovery of Mersenne primes?

Ten hours, 2.5 million people online.

Twelve hours, 3.2 million people online.

Thirteen hours, the number of online users exceeded 5 million...

suddenly.

A message in red font was refreshed on the homepage of the website, "The new Mersenne prime number has been verified. The number is M8XXXXXXX from user WangHao in China."

The next moment, the website crashed again...

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