PS: Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a monthly pass, the fat man is at the construction site, and it's hard to send a chapter.

After giving a lecture at the Einstein Institute, he didn't even bother to summarize it, but handed over the work to Lisa, who happily accepted the great work, sorted out and compiled Liu Meng's manuscript and submitted it to the journal "Mathematical Inventions".

As soon as the journal received the manuscript, its editor, Barry Mayschel, began the process of selecting reviewers. Liu Meng's paper involved a large number of mathematical methods, both ancient and modern, and was the most difficult to conjecture proof method in both worlds, so Maychel made a special decision not to appoint only 2 or 3 reviewers, as is usually the case. It is not like the 6 reviewers who reviewed the proof of Wyles's Fermat's theorem, but a record-breaking search for 15 reviewers, as soon as the news came out, in addition to Liu Meng, the famous mathematicians expressed a strong interest in the reviewers of this work, this work, is not a cat and a dog are qualified to be reviewers, the first to determine is Mr. Wiles, followed by the genius Tao Zhexuan, and then the confirmation work is not so smooth, before the rise of Liu Meng, the first two in the mathematical community are very clear, the third is difficult to define, and finally Maychel in order to balance the complex relationship, so as not to offend these cautious mathematicians, we had to expand the reviewers to 18 people again, divided into two groups. Wiles and Tao Zhexuan served as team leaders respectively.

Among them, because Liu Meng's paper has two super weird mathematicians who have also come out of the hidden state, that is, Perelman of Russia and Shinichi Mochizuki of Japan, the rumors about these two people are very interesting.

In 2003. Russia, Perelman said he proved was also a century-old problem for more than a hundred years, the Poincaré conjecture. Everyone was shocked, who is this person? Ask the experts on this trip, and the experts will say that this person seems to be very NB. But where is NB? I don't know, and I haven't seen him post any articles or anything. And it's not in the United States, it's a researcher at a Russian university.

The question was so important that universities in the United States began to read his proofs. How do mathematicians read the articles of their peers? It was like this at the time. One professor, with a few postdocs, plus a few PhDs. Form a group. Once a week, everyone reads a page or two and discusses it together to figure it out. Yes, I can only read one or two pages a week. Then a bunch of geniuses are like consulting the secrets of martial arts. Weekly quarrels and discussions can only be understood. I've been reading this article for more than a year on a few hundred pages. Everyone thinks there is no problem, and they seem to understand it. Then the world found out, ah, the person who wrote this martial arts cheats turned out to be a master. Looking at it with such effort, wouldn't the person who wrote it have an IQ beyond the edge of the universe.

At this time, suddenly there was a group that announced that they had found Perelman's article wrong. Just as Wiles was also found to be at fault. But this time it's a different ending, and Perelman's reply to the world is just one sentence: "My article is right." It's a fool who doesn't understand." And then, in the end, it turned out. The professors in the group that picked the wrong one were discredited.

Perelman's thesis turned out to be correct, and universities, professors, and journalists from all over the world flew to Moscow to find the sweeping monk. As a result, no one was there. No lectures, no awards, no interviews. Don't want a reward of millions of dollars, or stay in the old house and nibble on black bread. It was really black bread, because the reporter interviewed the salesperson of the supermarket he frequented, saying that Perelman always came to buy groceries with a scruffy beard and rags, and he couldn't afford all the high-end things, so he bought black bread and macaroni every day. That's the truth, that's the master.

After that, no one knew where Perelman was doing or what, and everyone speculated that he might be staying at home to study the next big problem, but this is such a strange person After Liu Meng solved the Goldbach conjecture and the Riemann conjecture, he actually shaved off his beard, put on a suit, showed a handsome face, sold all his property and flew directly to the United States to find Meschel, who was responsible for organizing the review of Liu Meng's paper, and repeatedly said only one sentence, "Lao Tzu must be allowed to participate in the review, otherwise Lao Tzu will kill you." ”

Another one who came out of the mountain because of Liu Meng's paper is Shinichi Mochizuki. On the first page of this person's personal homepage is a big "cosmic geometrician". It looks like a copycat, right? But in fact, people are gods. Born in Japan, he went to the United States at the age of six, graduated from Princeton University with a doctorate at the age of 23, and has published countless articles. But after graduating, he returned to Japan quietly, and after staying at Kyoto University, he was never heard from again. Finally, many, many years later, when he was in his forties, the young talent turned into a middle-aged uncle, and he announced that he had proved the ABC conjecture. This is another big problem for hundreds of years. This time the world is boiling again, because he was very good when he was young, and what he wrote has credibility, and it is unlikely that he will be ruined.

But as soon as everyone read it, they were confused, and no one could understand this thing. The entire mathematical system that Shinichi Mochizuki basically re-established, in order to understand it, at least he had to read all the thousands of pages he had written before. A few thousand pages may not sound like much, but come to think of it, math is something that you can only read one or two pages a week. There is really a professor who took a year of annual leave from the department and was determined to stay at home for a year to understand the reading, but he escaped back to work after a month of study. According to him, he estimated that he would not be able to read for ten years. And then everybody collapsed. We don't understand, so I invited Shinichi Mochizuki to the United States to tell us about it, and Harvard sent an invitation, but Mochizuki only replied with one sentence, "I can't explain my things to you", and then there was no news.

The world is waiting for someone who is willing to spend ten years reading Mochizuki's things. Whoever wants to read it, read it, and if he understands it, we'll just listen to him explain the general idea.

Mochizuki Shinichi is so high, the reason why Liu Meng's paper is out of the mountain is because Liu Meng explained his random distribution theory and certainty at the mathematics annual meeting, that is, there is a little flaw in Mochizuki Shinichi's paper, and as a result, Mochizuki Shinichi's classmates at Princeton University immediately told him the news, and this is okay, there is a fledgling kid who proved the Goldbach conjecture and the Riemann conjecture, and even questioned Lao Tzu's paper, Mochizuki Shinichi's heart is not big, and he immediately flew out of the turtle shell and flew directly to the United States, strongly asking to participate in the review, and asked to review Liu Meng's new theoretical draft.

Engaged in mathematics, the heart is so big, Lao Tzu can not be famous, do not want profit, Lao Tzu shows IQ, who wants to say that Lao Tzu's research is problematic, to the end, this matter is absolutely not over.

About 30,000 papers are published in various journals around the world each year, but Liu's paper, both in terms of its length and its importance, suggests that it should withstand extremely rigorous scrutiny. To make the review easy, the 500-page testimonial is divided into 18 chapters, with each reviewer responsible for one of them.

Chapter 1 was reviewed by Wiles, who had already checked this part of Liu Meng's proof at the beginning of the year, and said: "It's an honor to have a mutual friend, Professor Liu Meng trusted me so much to show me a part of his work before it was published, and after I finished reading it, I felt that I was going to be surpassed by this kid, of course, I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, but I am even more proud of the entire mathematical community and even mankind, and we have taken another step forward in the Chilean limit." When I was given a review assignment, I took all 500 pages of proof with me, and the chapter I was responsible for was 35 pages long. For the sake of communication, the 18 mathematicians in charge of the review are still living in the Einstein Institute, and we meet several times a day, basically explaining to each other and trying to understand the content of each part. To be precise, we just review the manuscript line by line to find a way to make sure there are no mistakes. Sometimes we don't understand something, so the progress is slow every day, and sometimes we can't finish one page a day, and this review is also a big challenge for us. ”

Liu Meng's proof is a very large argument, intricately constructed from hundreds of mathematical calculations and thousands of logical links. As long as there is a calculation of the wrong cuò or a chain link that is not connected properly, then the entire proof will most likely lose its value.

Whether it's Wiles, Tao Zhexuan or Perelman who came out, Shinichi Mochizuki immediately threw himself into the work of reviewing, these math maniacs often argue together, the atmosphere of discussion is far less peaceful than Wiles described, in the Einstein Institute every day there are tearing stories, several of them came to discuss their research work with Perelman and Shinichi Mochizuki, as a result, these two guys directly blasted people out, and these two guys immediately asked for a meeting of all reviewers to discuss as soon as their heads were wrong, originally these two people were arranged in the Wyles group, Maychel felt that the current mathematical community was able to press the two of them, and Wyles was annoyed, I had to arrange Mochizuki Shinichi to Tao Zhexuan's group.

Mochizuki Shinichi accepted the arrangement very gentlemanly, but when Tao Zhexuan discussed the progress of the review with him, he ignored it directly, and the expression was: How old are you, when Lao Tzu galloped in the mathematics world, why were you still breastfeeding, don't think that you have a reputation as a mathematical prodigy and show off your power in front of Lao Tzu, it's not good, I'll tell you!

Tao Zhexuan, a generation of mathematical prodigies, was distressed, and the recognized second highest IQ in the world could not handle a bunch of in the review team. (To be continued......)