The End of Technology

Almost as soon as the Xing family and his son took him away, there were suddenly exactly ten more mathematics papers signed by Ningjie on the world's paper preprint website arxiv.org.

Seven of them are naturally preparatory papers for Ning Zi's research on NP problems. The other three papers were specially selected by Ning Zi. Each has its own use, such as making it easier for him to recruit people. In short, the ten papers will be sent to the preparatory paper together. On the printed website, I would like to say hello to everyone first.

In fact, generally speaking, if a student publishes a paper, it is best not to publish the paper on arxiv.org before understanding the requirements of the journal and conference. Because this may cause the paper to be rejected by some well-known conferences or journals.

But for Ning Zi, the problem is actually not big.

It would be difficult for any journal to reject a submission from a Fields Medal winner in mathematics, even if the article has been pre-published. Famous mathematicians do enjoy some privileges after all. Of course, it doesn't matter to Ning Zi even if he is really rejected.

Anyway, his purpose in publishing these papers was to facilitate the smooth publication of subsequent mathematical theories.

Judging from his current status in the world of mathematics, there is actually little need to publish articles in the so-called top journals to prove himself.

Of course, in order to gain recognition in the mathematics community as soon as possible, he asked March to directly send the seven articles that needed to be used in the near future to the "Annals of Mathematics" at once. Peer review can still make your work more quickly accepted by the academic community.

As for whether this operation will cause any trouble to colleagues and journal editors, it is not considered by Ning Zi. He felt that classmate Lu Xiaoya was right. You can be more arbitrary and do not need to care too much about what others think.

So what if you think he cheated?

He just cheated, what the hell!

…

Boston metropolitan area, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

It is famous for the world-famous Harvard University, where Dominique Duncan once became a tenured professor of Harvard University. But many people don’t know that the Clay Mathematics Institute, which proposed the seven major mathematical problems of the millennium, is actually here.

Of course, when it comes to the Clay Mathematics Institute, Clay, a businessman, co-founded it with Arthur Jeff, a great mathematician who teaches at Harvard University. Of course, Clay mainly provided the money.

Eric Cady had just walked into his small office at the institute. During this time, he was studying his own topics at the Clay Institute, but in fact he spent most of his time working at the Poincaré Institute.

He had the opportunity to choose his favorite environment starting a few years ago.

Back then, a hermit-level mathematician in Russia solved the Poincaré conjecture. It stands to reason that he should receive the $1 million bonus previously promised by the Clay Mathematics Institute. But this mathematician was so out of character that he refused to accept the award and did not want the bonus. It’s just that as a world-renowned institution dedicated to the dissemination of mathematics, it is of course embarrassing to take back the money that should have been spent.

So the Clay Institute simply contacted the Poincaré Institute to discuss using the $1 million that was supposed to be awarded to a Russian mathematician but was rejected to sponsor a rising star in mathematics. The money would be used to support his mathematics. Research.

It’s just that this lucky person needs to be selected through layers of selection, and Eric Cady finally became such a lucky person after defeating many competitors. A standard surprise.

As a mature mathematician, Eric Kedi naturally has his own research rhythm.

In fact, many mathematicians will pay attention to arxiv. So does Eric Keady.

Although it is said that both humans and dogs can upload papers to arxiv, and the papers also have shortcomings of varying quality, but if you only focus on your own research direction, gold will occasionally appear.

The most important thing is that it is updated frequently, almost every day, and like the official journal, it also supports subscriptions. Anyway, it only takes a few minutes to take a look at it every day, but you might be surprised.

Eric Cady's favorite is the ribbon of arxiv because it is really convenient. Although free indexing is provided, it is even more considerate than many formal journals.

For example, its built-in bibliography browser can be opened according to certain sorting rules and filtering rules to display the references of the current article and the literature citing the current article. It can be sorted directly by influence, which can help scholars quickly pay attention to the current field. excellent thesis.

When he turned on his computer today, he saw a prompt in his mailbox. According to the email prompt, two papers were updated in the field of mathematics he was concerned about. To his surprise and surprise, one of them came from Ning Zi from China Yanbei University of Physical Education.

It was quite surprising indeed.

Generally speaking, when an academic master like Ning Zhe publishes a paper, he will give some lectures in advance to talk about some of his recent research directions and what results he has achieved. This can probably be understood as the process of building momentum.

In short, generally speaking, the paper has not yet been released, and everyone basically already knows in which field these academic masters will bring some surprises to the mathematics world. And generally speaking, if these academic masters are not sure, they will not talk about their achievements everywhere.

Therefore, Ning Zi’s paper seems a bit sudden.

But it doesn’t matter if it’s sudden or not. It’s definitely a pleasure in life to have this kind of freshly released articles to read every morning.

While waiting for the download, Eric Cady searched for Ning Zi's name through arxiv's on-site indexing function. He had never seen Ning Zi publish an article on a preprint website before, and wanted to see if there were any surprises.

Sure enough, there was a surprise. It was even hard to tell whether it was a surprise or a shock.

This guy actually published ten papers on arxiv?

You must know that after Ning Zhi's NS equation paper was published in the "Annals of Mathematics", Eric Cady searched Ning Zhi's name on arxiv, but at that time there was not even a paper by Ning Zhi on arxiv.

It’s been less than a year since that paper was published, and there have been so many papers by Ning Zi all of a sudden. It’s crazy to think about it.

After all, who would publish a paper on arxiv?

There is no need for review, and there are no reviewers. It is completely meaningless just to put it out for people to see.

Especially for a mathematician like Ning Zhe who pays high attention, if the paper itself is not rigorous and there are big problems, it will also affect the reputation.

However, when Eric Cady accidentally entered the article page and checked the upload time of these articles, he fell into doubts about the authenticity of this world.

Good guy, all ten papers were published not long ago, and the time interval between each publication was about ten minutes. Of course, this is normal. After all, uploading papers on arxiv is not as troublesome as submitting to SCI, but there are still some necessary operations. It takes about ten minutes to upload an article, which is extremely efficient.

But no matter how efficient the upload is, it is still not as efficient as this paper.

Eric Cady took a rough look and found that these ten articles belonged to six different fields. Three of them are related to each other. According to the analysis of the citation content on the function page, they basically quote content from their own papers.

This discovery did not make Eric Cady feel happy. On the contrary, he began to seriously doubt the quality of the paper he had just downloaded.

Let's put it this way, Eric Cady felt that even if Newton dared to publish ten papers in a year in their time, it would be nothing but trouble. Not to mention that these papers belong to different research directions.

For mathematicians, more than a month is not even enough time to switch from the original research direction to a new research field. After all, mathematics is a very broad concept in this era. Specializing in number theory, algebraic geometry, K-theory, discrete mathematics...the research contents are actually different.

The quality of papers produced in a short period of time is hard to believe.

Fortunately, the paper had been downloaded at this time. No matter what, Eric Cady decided to start studying the paper, and then found that he was still superficial. What to say about this paper? It is probably that he proposed a conjecture and then proved the mathematical conjecture himself.

In mathematical language, this mathematical conjecture means that if there is an F: M F/t=-H→, then this MCF must have a way to naturally flow through the singularity defined by it.

This expression is very abstract, and it also involves various geometries that have entropy problems in Euclidean geometry. But it is very useful for Eric Cady. His research direction is the relationship between the differential structure of four-dimensional manifolds and the bilinear form of four-dimensional manifolds.

Which happens to involve the situation about average curvature flow.

This is an extremely cutting-edge mathematical research direction. Current mainstream mathematicians are not sure what happens when the codimension in the above equation is greater than 1, let alone how to make MCF flow through these singular points. Because these singular points are entropy-stable and cannot disappear through perturbation, it is still a mystery whether we can pass through these singular points at the geometric and topological levels. If we can pass through these singular points, it means nothing.

This paper by Ning Zi seems to directly solve this problem.

Eric Cady doesn’t know how valuable the other nine papers are, but he knows very well that if this paper Ningji really solves this problem, it will help many people who are researching in this direction. For example, he is the beneficiary. one.

Just when he was about to read the paper in depth, the phone rang.

"Hey Eric, I'd like to invite you to be a reviewer for a new paper. Are you interested?"

"Uh? To be honest, Robert, I really have no interest at the moment."

"No, no, no, Eric, don't refuse in a hurry. The author of this paper is Ning Zi. Although you may not have had dinner with him at the Mathematicians Conference, I think you must know what this name represents. ."

After hearing this, Eric Cady was stunned, and then said speechlessly: "Robert, in fact, I just downloaded a paper by Ning Zi from arxiv, and I am reading it. I doubt that you invited me to review it. The paper is the same one I’m reading.”

"Oh? Have you downloaded it already? Needless to say, I also read the paper he just posted on arxiv. In fact, this is probably the paper that can arouse your interest."

Eric Cady sighed and said: "Then what else can I say? Of course I am happy to accept this invitation, but I feel a lot of pressure. So did he submit all those papers to the Annals of Mathematics?"

"No, no, no, we have only submitted seven papers for the time being."

After hearing this, Eric Cady was silent for a long time, and then asked quietly: "Only seven papers? To be honest, Mr. Robert, your wording suddenly made me feel very depressed. I am not familiar with the situation of other papers." Not sure, but I just read the review of this paper, and if his argument is correct, then I can probably understand how Dominic Duncan felt when he spoke at the Mathematicians Conference.”

"Who says it's not? Eric, but in this world, there are always some people whose existence seems to be a mistake and very unreasonable. Scholars of the same era as them are unfortunate, because maybe they could have had Everything will be overshadowed by the light of such people and become invisible to everyone. But at the same time, they are also lucky, because maybe problems that would have been impossible to get results in their lifetime will end in their hands. It depends on what you think. .”

After hearing these words, Eric Cady's depression finally eased, and he said: "Okay, Mr. Robert, you can send the invitation link, and I will accept the invitation. By the way, you choose Is it because Ning Zi chose me to be his reviewer when he submitted his paper?"

"Well...actually he didn't appoint any reviewers. But Eric, I don't think you need to be offended at all. Considering his age and the fact that he rarely communicates with the outside world, it is conceivable that he may know someone in the mathematics community. There aren’t many people, so… well, in fact, none of the papers he submitted had an expected reviewer.”

I have to say that the words of the editor-in-chief of "Annals of Mathematics" made Eric Cady feel a lot better.

This is probably the style of a great mathematician. Maybe Ning Zi never thought about appointing reviewers at all, right? Or maybe he doesn't care at all who is studying these things, because his hobbies are so broad, and maybe he doesn't have time to care about who is studying these things, so he just changes direction.

"Thank you for clarifying my doubts. If possible, you can give him a message for me and tell Ning Zi that I am very honored to be a reviewer of his paper. Of course, if he makes any mistakes, I will definitely find them. from."

"Of course! Good luck."

"Thanks."

After hanging up the phone, Eric Cady didn't wait long before he received an invitation link personally from the editor-in-chief of "Annals of Mathematics". After happily choosing to agree, he began this wonderful review trip.

…

Winners of the Fields Medal in Mathematics have a reputation after all.

Even though more and more journals are beginning to use double-blind review and therefore require contributors not to post their papers to pre-release websites in advance, even if these famous mathematicians do so, they still choose to compromise.

And began to look for suitable reviewers for many of Ning's papers.

This is indeed a very novel experience, because having to be a good reviewer for seven papers at a time is actually a lot of work.

Not to mention that these papers were all published by the same person. In fact, it is not often that the Annals of Mathematics decides to review seven papers on the same day. After all, 90% of manuscripts are directly eliminated by editors during the first review.

Generally, four to six reviewers will be found for a paper. Even with the minimum number of reviewers, seven articles will require contacting nearly thirty mathematicians.

Ning Zi uploaded ten papers to arxiv at once and submitted seven of them to the "Annals of Mathematics". The news spread quickly during this process.

Fortunately, it is easy to find reviewers for papers written by Fields Medal winners.

In fact, no one of the mathematicians I contacted for the first time chose to refuse, but not everyone has the same habit of logging in to the arxiv website every day like Eric Cady, so after getting the news, they would naturally log in to arxiv to check it out subconsciously. Look at the grace of this essay water god.

Yes, after many people heard that Ning Zi submitted seven papers to the "Annals of Mathematics", they subconsciously assigned the nickname of Water God to Ning Zi. Regardless of the quality of these papers, but based on this quantity alone, the word "Water God" is definitely not wrong.

Of course, other people's water articles are usually published in small journals, which are water monsters.

Anyone who dares to challenge Shuidingkan can naturally be called a god.

But after many mathematicians read the review of the paper, their reactions were different.

Because after reading it, everyone felt that these papers really cannot be described with water, because they are all problems that have not yet been solved in the mathematics community.

Basically, if you solve one of them, you are eligible to win a mathematics prize... After all, the mathematics prizes in this world are not only the Fields Medal, the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize, but also such as the Danzik Prize, Bergman Award, Polya Award, Cole Award, Crawford Award, Gauss Award, etc...

It's just that these awards are not as well-known as several international awards, but it is still very difficult to win them.

Of course, if there are no problems in the seven papers and all these problems are solved, then it is not a matter of winning a few awards. After all, contributions to the mathematics community can be accumulated, just like quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes.

At the same time, these papers also have great impetus for some cutting-edge mathematical research directions.

Of course the confusion is the same...

The publication of so many results in one day is definitely like a magnitude 10 earthquake for the entire mathematical community.

Don't you want to play like this?

After all, some of these problems are problems that many mathematicians are studying. Now, someone has solved them all at once.

Yes, when most serious mathematicians see that row of papers, they probably feel like there are countless horses whizzing past their minds, so much so that they begin to doubt the authenticity of this world.

Mathematicians can be efficient, but how can they be this efficient?

That Ning Zi, is he crazy? !

Yes, he must be crazy, right?

…

Xu Shuqing also thought that Ning Zi had gone crazy.

Of course his arguments are not the same as those of mathematicians.

After all, who would give back tens of billions to fight against others?

This was especially confirmed when he received a call from the school in the hotel and learned that Xing Jianxin and his son had been taken away for investigation.

Crazy, completely crazy!

Originally, he thought that kicking Xing Jianxin out of Double Dan at noon would be a bonus, but who would have thought that it was not enough? This was because he was unwilling to completely suppress Xing Jianxin.

This also directly caused him to have more issues to consider.

If the chips are not enough, how can the two parties understand each other?

Just when his mind was as big as two, the phone suddenly rang again.

When he saw the number, Xu Shuqing felt something bad in his heart.

Because this call came from Li Kecheng, chief professor of the Pearl Mathematics Center of Shuangdan University. He was also one of the few academician professors who made him feel relieved and relieved this morning.

Professor Li is the only academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences among the professors who received the invitation letter from the National Sports University Ningyuan who directly stated to him that he would stay in Shuangdan.

It's just that it's nothing serious. Academician Li shouldn't have called him again at this time.

But no matter how he felt, Xu Shuqing could only answer the phone immediately, and made his voice full and enthusiastic: "Hey, Academician Li, are you still up so late?"

"Hey, I can't sleep, Principal Xu. I just have something to tell you. Well, I've changed my mind. I still want to visit the National University of Science and Technology."

"No, Academician Li, what's going on? Weren't you still helping me persuade everyone this morning? Why did you suddenly change your mind?"

"Well, Principal Xu, you also know that I have been studying high-dimensional nonlinear conservation law equations and shock waves over the years. Just now Ning Zi uploaded a paper, which happens to be consistent with my research. I plan to Go and have a look…”

"Ah? Ning Zi published another paper? Where was it published?"

"In fact, it is not published. He only pre-published ten papers on arxiv. It is said that seven of them have been submitted to the "Annals of Mathematics". Of course, these are not important. The main thing is that one of his articles I just reviewed I browsed through it, how can I put it... it is indeed very insightful, and many of the arguments are thought-provoking and thought-provoking... So, hey, of course I will take over the work of Shuang Dan..."

"These...ten papers? Well, Academician Li, okay, even if Ning Zi has research in these directions, can we invite him to give lectures in the name of academic exchange? We don't have to go there..."

"Actually, that's what I thought, but let's not talk about Ning Zi's character first. Considering the current relationship between the two schools, do you think we can really invite him to the Pearl? Or maybe he will invite us when he holds a lecture in the capital. Is it? Hey... Young people nowadays are not easy to deal with. Anyway, I just want to inform you first. It was really an accident. I’m really sorry, Principal Xu."

After saying that, Professor Li hung up the phone without waiting for Xu Shuqing to reply.

Maybe he was really embarrassed to say anything more on the phone. Xu Shuqing actually had nothing to say, and now he was crying after saying so many words.

If he had known that it would develop like this, if Ning Zi proposed to kick Xing Jianxin out of Double Dan yesterday, he should have agreed immediately without hesitation. But who would have dared to think that it would develop like this in less than a day?

Also, what the hell are ten mathematics papers?

There is an epidemic nearby, and there are so many people queuing up to do nucleic acid tests... It takes too much time, so the update is late. Sorry for the delay.