Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

In Professor Feverman's office.

Looking at Professor Feverman, who was sitting behind his desk, staring at the paper in his hand meticulously, Professor Sanak, who came to the door, asked curiously.

"What are you looking at?"

The paper in his hand turned a page, and Professor Fefferman did not look up, but replied casually.

"Milestones of the LSPM."

"What are the milestones of the LSPM?" Professor Sanak was slightly stunned at first, and then the whole person suddenly seemed to have been struck by lightning, and a shocked expression appeared on his face, "So fast?!" Where have they got? ”

Already completely immersed in the process of the amazing argument, where did Feverman have time to deal with him at this time, and said casually.

"The printer is right next to it, you can type a copy yourself and see if you know."

Without stopping for a moment, Professor Sanak, who heard this, immediately walked to the side of the printer and operated the printer to type a paper himself.

Holding the paper, which still had the warm scent of ink, Sanak stared at it, and spent about an hour scanning it quickly.

The moment he finally put down the paper in his hand, his face was already filled with a shocked expression.

"Incredible......

"It's the equivalent of—"

"A new language of mathematics," said Professor Feverman, who had also finished reading his paper, taking a sip of his cold tea, and interjecting into a sentence, "although it is a simple version, it is sufficient to describe the ABC conjecture...... The person who came up with the idea was a genius, and the person who made it happen was a devil. It's hard to imagine that such an amazing result could be achieved in two weeks. ”

"What's even more unimaginable is that they would choose to upload such an important phased result." Looking at the contents of the paper, Professor Sanak couldn't help but say.

The results of this paper are very close to the final proposition of the ABC conjecture, and they have obtained a weak form of the ABC conjecture by refining Baker's theorem and using the conclusion [d6 through this weak form and in a very concise way, and then the establishment of Fermat's great theorem is derived!

In other words, if the weak form of the ABC conjecture had been born twenty or thirty years earlier, there would have been nothing to do with Wiles.

It is precisely for this reason that, in Sanak's view, this phased achievement is almost only a layer of window paper away from the final answer, as long as it is pierced, the proof of the ABC conjecture is in front of you!

"It's nothing," Professor Feverman smiled noncommittally at Professor Sanak's statement, "even if it's just a final kick from this weak form to the proof of the ABC conjecture, do you think anyone can kick this ball in faster than they do?" ”

Hearing this, Professor Sanak was slightly stunned, and an embarrassed smile immediately appeared on his face.

"That's what I said......"

Professor Lu alone would be able to rule out this possibility, not to mention that in addition to him, there are also young mathematicians like Schultz in this LSPM group, as well as people like Perelman and Shinichi Mochizuki.

The difficulty of getting ahead of these four people is no easier, if not better, than proving the ABC conjecture from scratch.

In this way, it seems that my worries are purely unnecessary.

"I'm looking forward to it now," Professor Feverman said with a smile, "and my gut tells me that by the end of this month at the latest, we'll be able to give the ABC conjecture a definitive answer." ”

"At the end of the month?" Professor Sanak frowned, "But there's only a week left until the end of the month. Although their strength is indeed strong, and this stage result is close enough to the final proof, ......"

"Do you want to gamble on something?"

Professor Sanak coughed dryly.

"This ...... Forget it. ”

……

Early in the morning of April 29th.

It has been almost four weeks since the establishment of the ISPM research group.

Lu Zhou, who opened his eyes from the bedroom, got up and got out of bed, went to the bathroom to wash up briefly, and then finished eating the omelette and sandwich prepared by Xiao Ai before going out unhurriedly.

The retreat ended on the 28th, or more specifically, yesterday at 3 p.m.

He hadn't had much rest in all this time, so he got up a little late today, arriving late at the library until nine o'clock.

When Lu Zhou arrived here, three of his teammates had been waiting here for a long time.

"Sorry, I'm late."

"It's okay, we were still guessing whether you would wake up in the afternoon, but I didn't expect you to be only an hour late......" Schultz smiled absently and said jokingly, "Seriously, you don't want to go back to sleep for a while?" You haven't had much rest these days, and anyway, we only have the last step left in our work, and it's okay to finish it a day later or a day earlier. ”

"Still not," Lu Zhou said with a smile, "Although this offer is tempting, I prefer to enjoy my leisure time after everything is done...... Let's get it over now. ”

Three hours of time.

Each person reported their research progress in turn, and put the board in charge of their own board on the whiteboard.

The fragmented clues are like broken puzzle pieces, and when they are put back together, all the clues are connected together.

Looking at the last line of the last whiteboard, Shinichi Mochizuki's face was full of disbelief.

"I originally thought that so many processes would take at least a few days to run in, but I didn't expect ......"

Schultz: "I didn't expect everything to go well? ”

Mochizuki nodded.

"That's right."

"That's a good thing," Lu Zhou said with a sense of accomplishment looking at the whiteboard that almost covered the walls of the activity room, "It means that we have touched something closer to the essence than the ABC conjecture itself." ”

Shinichi Mochizuki frowned and fell into deep thought.

"Essence...... What is that? ”

"The essence is naturally the essence, and it is difficult to describe what it is, not to mention that even I will have to digest it for a while before I can put it into words," speaking of this, Lu Zhou smiled and continued, "And I'm sure that what the four of us feel from it must be different." ”

However, this shouldn't take too long.

If the situation is optimistic, he intends to complete the work before going to Mars.

Perelman, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "I can understand what you said...... In fact, I feel that way too. ”

Schultz nodded.

"It's vague...... But it does exist. ”

Shinichi Mochizuki didn't speak, just frowned and fell into deep thought. Although Lu Zhou's statement is very mysterious, subconsciously, he seems to have a little similar feeling.

Glancing at the wall clock next to him, Lu Zhou proposed to say with a smile.

"It's not early, let's go have a meal first."

When I come back from dinner, I will sort out these things on the whiteboard and publish them, and I will almost be able to draw an end to this cooperation.

"Wait a minute," Schultz proposed, smiling, raising his hand, "this is the ABC conjecture, and in honor of this great and glorious moment, I propose that we leave an autograph on it together!" ”

Shinichi Mochizuki hesitated, "Signature? But don't they all have to be wiped off in the end? ”

"Not necessarily," Lu Zhou said with a smile, "I'm sure our dean would be more than happy to keep them intact." ”

Perelman, though not very interested in such meaningless things, has no other opinions.

In this way, at Schultz's suggestion, the four people left their signatures on the whiteboard, and then stood in front of the whiteboard to take a group photo as a souvenir.

After doing these things, Lu Zhou left the library and went to the cafeteria.

It happened to be the peak of the end of class, and the cafeteria was full of students who had just finished class, and it was almost impossible to find a place to stay.

I definitely couldn't find the "special seat" in the corner of the cafeteria, but Lu Zhou was not the kind of picky person, and after queuing up for dinner, he casually found a vacant seat and sat down.

After a busy morning, my stomach has already begun to growl.

I couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks, and just as Lu Zhou was about to start eating, he suddenly heard excited discussions from several students sitting next to him.

Student A: "! Did you read today's news? ”

Student B: "Look! It's awesome!! ”

Student C: "What's the news?" What are you talking about? ”

Student A: "That prehistoric relic on Mars! You don't even know such a big thing, did you just get on the Internet?! ”

Student C: "I ...... My phone was just sent for repair, what's the matter? Prehistoric ruins? Mars? ”

Lu Zhou: "......??? ”

Damn?!

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