Chapter 77 The tragedy of a certain graduate student (please seek monthly votes for reading)
After rubbing his eyes and putting down the paper in his hand, Gowers got up and moved around. He made himself a cup of coffee and prepared to study the paper carefully in the evening.
First, the paper was so fluent that he couldn't believe it. Although he had begun to believe that the paper was correct in his heart, it was too unbelievable that he couldn't find a single error.
Second, this paper solves a world-class mathematical conjecture. Even he cannot be so easily sure that the paper is correct.
Any mathematician should maintain a rigorous scientific research spirit. To prove any conjecture or problem, it is necessary to repeat several or even dozens of times of careful diagnosis.
For Gowers, he would not allow wrong proofs to escape from his hands, which would be a serious blow to his reputation, the mathematics community, and "New Advances in Mathematics".
He would not and could not watch such a thing happen, let alone in his own hands.
After Jinling and Nanjing University submitted the paper proving the weak Weyl_Berry conjecture, Xu Chuan stopped caring about it.
Such a paper was enough for him to graduate from college.
Of course, this does not mean that he does not need to continue to learn mathematics. On the contrary, he still needs to learn a lot.
The Weyl_Berry conjecture is just a drop in the vast ocean of mathematics.
However, after the paper proving the weak Weyl_Berry conjecture was submitted, he did not continue to study mathematics for the time being, because the Weyl_Berry conjecture brought him a hint of physical inspiration.
As mentioned before, the Weyl_Berry conjecture, if confirmed, can be applied to the calculation of the shape of stars in the universe and the size of the universe.
Although the weak Weyl_Berry conjecture is not the complete version of the Weyl_Berry conjecture, it also advances the spectral asymptoticism of the elliptic operator to a higher level.
Xu Chuan found that using this new method, it seems that the sizes of some planets with clear observation data can be recalculated.
Take Betelgeuse, for example, a red supergiant star more than 640 light-years away from Earth.
Now it has entered its old age and seems to have signs of a supernova explosion. However, because the distance is too far, the current astrophysics community has not obtained a precise value of its size.
If the precise size of parameter four can be determined, the physics community will obtain more information about it, such as where it has gone, how long it will take before it explodes as a supernova, etc.
These are very valuable.
Unfortunately, although Nanda has an astronomical telescope, it has its own observation mission, and Xu Chuan is temporarily unable to apply.
Some of the data collected from the text were not applicable, and no numerical value could be calculated. Therefore, after wasting nearly twenty days on this area of research, Xu Chuan decisively put it down and returned to In the study of mathematics.
Mathematics and physics complement each other and really help each other.
The days passed like this, and one night during self-study, Xu Chuan was studying the basics of mathematics in the library when a call came to his mobile phone.
Xu Chuan took out his cell phone and saw that it was his mentor Chen Zhengping calling.
After looking around, Xu Chuan moved himself to a position that would not affect other people's studies, and then answered the phone.
"Hello, teacher."
As soon as Xu Chuan said hello, a rushing voice came from the other side.
"Where are you now? Is it convenient?"
Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment, then quickly whispered back: "I'm in the library, what's wrong?"
"Then come to my office now."
It was already dark, but the lights in the physics laboratory building were still bright.
Xu Chuan found Zhang Zhengping's office and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Soon, a voice came from inside, and Xu Chuan walked in.
What surprised him was that not only was his tutor in the office, there was also Professor Zhou Hai from the School of Mathematics, and the guy he met in the library more than a month ago. What did he remember his name being, Kun? He was still some kind of graduate student, I forgot his name anyway.
"Have you recently submitted a paper to "New Advances in Mathematics"?" As soon as Xu Chuan walked in, Professor Zhou Hai stood up impatiently and asked.
Hearing this question, Xu Chuan probably understood what Chen Zhengping wanted to do with him.
Nodding, Xu Chuan responded: "I did submit a paper to "New Advances in Mathematics" more than a month ago."
"Is this weakening the proof of the Weyl_Berry conjecture?"
Zhou Hai immediately asked, and Xu Chuan nodded again.
After confirming the answer, Zhou Hai breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at Xu Chuan and praised: "The descendants are terrible."
"Professor, how do you know? Do you want to read the paper?"
Xu Chuan glanced at Zhou Hai in confusion. He had not yet thought that "New Advances in Mathematics" had published his paper in the journal. He thought it was the familiar graduate student behind him who revealed that Zhou Hai was here to see him. He wants to read the paper.
But when I think about it, I feel like something is wrong.
Hearing this, Zhou Hai looked a little strange and said, "Did you not pay attention to your email after submitting your paper?"
"Huh?"
Xu Chuan gave a strange sound of doubt. It had only been more than a month since he submitted the paper but less than two months ago. Why was he paying attention to his mailbox? As for "New Advances in Mathematics", his paper had not been published for three or four months. Don't even think about publishing it.
As for the copyright agreement, feedback has already been given.
"Look at this."
Zhou Hai turned around with a strange expression, took out a journal from his desk, and handed it to Xu Chuan.
Xu Chuan swallowed the air and took the journal. No matter how slow he was, he would have guessed something now and knew what he felt was wrong before.
But he couldn't believe that the proof paper weakening the Weyl_Berry conjecture was published so quickly?
After flipping through "New Advances in Mathematics", Xu Chuan saw his paper on the first page and couldn't help but swallowed again.
So fast? It seems like it’s been less than two months, right?
This is inconsistent with the urinary nature of "New Advances in Mathematics".
"Xiao Cai, go get your junior a cup of tea."
On the side, Zhou Hai acted as the owner of the office and said to Cai Peng, who had been standing aside.
"Ah, no, no, no." Xu Chuan quickly waved his hand and asked the graduate student to pour him tea. How embarrassing was this.
However, Cai Peng, who was standing aside, immediately moved to find the cup, skillfully poured a cup of hot water from the electric kettle and handed it to Xu Chuan respectfully with both hands.
"Boss, please have tea."
"Boss, it's so hard for you to hide this from me. Didn't you say you only read a few books on this topic in the library before? Now all the papers have been published, and I'm miserable."
After passing the tea to Xu Chuan, Cai Peng said with a resentful look.
Xu Chuan glanced at Cai Peng doubtfully, a little confused.
What does the publication of his paper have to do with this senior?
(End of chapter)