ps: I'm sorry, the fat man finally came out of the construction site, there is no tj in this book, and there is no bad ending, it should be over this week, I hope everyone can be satisfied with the ending.

Tao Zhexuan said to Wiles: "This Liu Meng is really arrogant, he has a temper with Perelman, and there are several reviewers in my group who have questioned several parts of the paper, and guess what I said when I communicated with him by email?"

"How?" Wiles, too, was interested.

"The email reply asked me to read it a few more times and explain it to them, and it seems that this guy is sure that his paper is perfect and does not need any revision. Tao Zhexuan was still indignant when he said it, he showed a talent for mathematics at a very young age, and he has always been the object of praise from people, when has he ever met such an arrogant person.

Wiles also had a big headache, and his group obviously had this kind of thing happening, and said with a wry smile: "At that time, I had just released the paper proving Fermat's great theorem and returned to Princeton, and I waited anxiously for the reviewers to complete their tasks every day. I don't celebrate with pleasure until my thesis doesn't have my heart at all. I even interrupted my work altogether during this time to deal with the questions raised by reviewers in emails. Although I'm also confident that these questions won't cause me a lot of trouble. After all, I have double-checked the proof before handing it over to the reviewers. So, apart from mathematical errors caused by grammatical or typographical errors and a few minor mistakes that I was able to correct right away, he didn't expect any more problems. It's so meticulous that I can't help but feel uneasy when I walk to the school path every day, and sometimes I don't see the professors I know when I greet me, so that some old guys think that I have become famous and alienate them. It's really wronged. ”

Tao Zhexuan said with a smile: "This is the attitude of dedication to academic discussion, at that time, the review team found a little flaw, and I was able to sweat deeply for the professor at that time." ”

Wiles recalls the situation without a little panic, and the loss of the supreme glory was painful, muttering, "Until August of that year, the small problems found by the reviewers were relatively easy to solve, until Kaze came across something that seemed to be just another small problem." This time the issue was a little more complicated, so I sent him a fax back. But the fax didn't seem to answer the question, so he emailed him again. I received another fax from him, but he was still not satisfied. ”

"I thought it was a mistake as simple as all the others, but Kazz's persistence forced me to think about it. I can't answer this seemingly naïve question right away. At first glance, it seemed to be on the same level of difficulty as the other problems, but then sometime in September, I began to realize that it was not a trivial difficulty at all, but a serious flaw. It was a mistake in a crucial part of the argument related to the Fletcher method, but it was so subtle that I completely ignored it until then. This mistake is too abstract to be realistically described in simple terms, and even explaining it to a mathematician would require the mathematician to spend two or three months studying that part of the manuscript in detail. ”

Tao Zhexuan's eyes lit up, and he asked curiously, "Professor Wiles, what is going on here, can you tell me a rough story?" At that time, I was also very curious about the twists and turns. ”

Wiles let out a sigh and laughed, "The essence of the problem is that there is no guarantee that the Fletcher method will work as I originally envisioned. It was expected that the proof would be expanded from the first term of all elliptic equations and modulo forms to include all terms, thus providing a way to knock down the dominoes one by one. The original Fletcher method only worked with special limitations, but I firmly believe that it has been adapted and strengthened enough to suit all his needs. In Kez's view, this is not necessarily the case, and the consequences are dramatic and very destructive. ”

"This mistake doesn't necessarily mean that my work can't be remedied, but it does mean that I have to step up my proof. The absolutism of mathematics requires me to prove beyond doubt that my method works for every term of every e– sequence and m– sequence. ”

Tao Zhexuan exclaimed: "Absolutism in mathematics is simply a devil, and for so many years, I have not dared to touch this kind of problem. It's just too easy to have flaws and loopholes, and when you're indulging in the wonderful joy of proving your success, and suddenly a basin of cold water is poured on your head, it's unimaginable. ”

Wiles was still apprehensive at this point, and somewhat complained, "When Katz realized the severity of the mistake he had detected, I began to wonder why he had missed this in the spring. I had given him a report for the sole purpose of identifying any mistakes. ”

Tao Zhexuan said: "When you listen to the lecture, you do feel nervous, and you don't know whether to understand everything or let the speaker continue to speak. If you keep interjecting, 'I don't understand here, I don't understand there,' then the speaker can't articulate anything, and you don't get anything. On the other hand, if you never interject, you're a little confused, and you nod politely, but you haven't actually checked anything. It's really hard to tell the line between asking too much and asking too little, and I think it's clear that Katz made the mistake of asking too little. ”

Wiles nodded, "I think it might be." Just a few weeks ago, the global press hailed me as the world's most brilliant mathematician, and number theorists believed that we were finally better than Fermat after 350 years of failure. After the honor, I suddenly faced the humiliation of having to admit that I had made a mistake, and in those days, I was so frightened that I even thought about ending my life, but fortunately, my youngest son suddenly broke into my study because he was mischievous, and I played with him like a child all day to release this pressure. Before admitting that I had made a mistake, I decided to give it a try and focus on filling the gap. ”

"And as soon as I started solving the problem, I knew I was never going to give up, and I was completely hooked by the problem. I still believe that the Fletcher method only needs a little tweaking. I just need to modify it on a small scale and it will work just fine. I decided to go straight back to my old state, completely cut off from the outside world. I had to refocus, but this time in a much more difficult situation. For quite some time, I thought that the remedy might be just around the corner, that I had just forgotten something simple, and that maybe the next day it would be perfect. Of course things didn't happen like that, on the contrary, the problem seemed to be getting more and more intractable as time went on. ”

Tao Zhexuan's heart was suddenly shocked, and he was a little distracted. He had never dared to challenge those problems that had not been solved for hundreds of years because he was afraid of this situation, but after listening to Wiles's feelings, he couldn't help but feel that his life should go through such a hellish catastrophe. praised: "That period of time in his life is particularly memorable, no wonder Professor Wiles is still vivid in the details of a dozen years later. ”

"Yes, I will never forget it for the rest of my life, and sometimes I will have nightmares about it, and I hope to correct that mistake before the mathematical community knows that there is a mistake in the proof. My wife has witnessed 7 years of preoccupation with the original proof, and now has to watch her husband wrestle with a mistake that could ruin a single thing. It was her optimism that allowed me to persevere in September. She said that the only birthday present she wanted was proof of the right that her birthday was on October 6. I only had 2 weeks to hand over this certificate, but unfortunately I failed. ”

"What's worse at this time is the pressure of public opinion, although I have made very public statements, but except for a very small group of reviewers, no one has seen the paper, so mathematicians have been waiting for the paper that I promised in June. Everybody said, 'Well, now that this theorem has been distributed.' We want to know how it is now. What the hell is this guy doing? Why don't we hear anything from him?' It's a little annoying that they're kept in the dark and don't know anything about it, they just want to know what happened. Later, the situation gets worse as the shadow of doubt slowly focuses on the proof itself, and rumors begin to spread that there is a flaw in Chapter 3. Just like the great honor at the beginning, the gossip at this time was rampant. As I and the reviewers denied that the proof was flawed, or at least declined to comment, outside speculation began to run wild. Frustrated, the mathematicians began sending emails to each other, hoping to get the inside scoop on the mysterious event. ”

Tao Zhexuan's courage that he had just mustered was a little discouraged. He sighed, "If you want to climb as high as you want, you must first have the ability to fall from there, and fortunately, Professor Wiles, you have succeeded in becoming the greatest mathematician alive." ”

Wiles smiled slyly: "Don't compliment me, a proof of Fermat's theorem has exhausted me, like wandering in hell and suddenly discovering the way to heaven, you look at our Professor Liu Meng, solved the Goldbach conjecture and the Riemann conjecture at once, there are as many as 18 reviewers, divided into two groups, but he didn't take it seriously at all, I really want to find a fatal flaw, see if this guy can be so chic and free." ”

Tao Zhexuan shrugged his shoulders and smiled bitterly: "It's just a pity that the mistakes we found all proved us wrong in the end." ”

Wiles's thief smiled: "Wait and see, Perelman and Mochizuki Shinichi are two crazy people who have come out of the mountain for this, but they will not give up so easily, I think these two people want to find the flaws and solve them, and seize the honor of the century that finally proves the Goldbach conjecture and the Riemann conjecture." (To be continued) R655