Top Student at Their Peak Chapter 596 - 184 Are You Going to Reflect on Yourselves?

Liu Zhao Yuan of the Computing Institute probably heard this news about an hour later than Lu Yanxiang.

It’s not that Liu Zhao Yuan is out of the loop. It’s mainly because the work at the Computing Institute has been very busy lately.

In fact, the work on this side of the Computing Institute has always been busier than that of the Academy of Sciences. There’s no way around it, as this side mainly deals with more practical computational work.

With an impatient client, they’re eager to call several tis a week urging progress.

This was also the reason for the unpleasantness between Professor Liu of the Computing Institute and Ma Botao of the Material Institute at the ti.

There’s no way around it; everyone in research thinks their project is the most important, and projects by others are just a waste of the country’s limited research funds.

Alright, regardless of what’s in their hearts, this is definitely what they say outwardly. Over ti, they start to believe it themselves.

The specific manifestation is that when they find out the Computing Institute is helping others rather than focusing on their own projects, it’s seen as neglecting their duties.

Evidently, this certainly makes many mathematicians working in computational support feel overwheld. Receiving calls like those from Ma Botao, who is doing material research, naturally doesn’t elicit a very good attitude.

Moreover, for those engaged in computational mathematics, there is not much interest in mathematical theory.

After all, computational mathematics is more concerned with the application of mathematics to real-world problems and the implentation of algorithms, as they deal with practical issues every day.

As for the theoretical completeness or the abstract beauty of logic, that’s sothing those working in theory are more inclined to focus on.

So no one specifically called Liu Zhao Yuan to talk about these things.

However, now a group of elite forces at the Computing Institute has already beco Qiao Yu’s "fanboys".

Each profession has its specialization, and there are also distinctions in the access to knowledge, so it’s a tradition for frontline tech workers to admire exceptional talents.

After dinner in the evening, when he called the tech experts still working overti into the office to inquire about the progress of the lunar landing program’s calculations, he heard about this matter.

"Qiao Yu claims to have solved the Riemann Hypothesis?"

"Yes, you didn’t know? It’s already spreading fast across the internet!"

Alright, this statent is actually a bit of an exaggeration.

It can only be said that it has spread within a small circle. After all, it’s only been about two or three hours since the paper was published on arXiv.

But it’s not too much of an exaggeration. After all, even they already know about this news.

Many leaders in the mathematical community have posted this news on their respective social platform accounts. For instance, Tao Xuanzhi posted related content on his blog and announced that he had agreed to beco one of the co-review panel mbers for the paper.

Although most of the ti, renowned journals would use double-blind or single-blind review thods, it’s evident that such thods are not applicable to a paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis.

Since Qiao Yu has already published the paper on arXiv, this ti they directly used a thod combining open review and international discussions, or so-called mathematical community validation, among others.

This is similar to what Lott Degen is doing by directly inviting twelve top experts in the field to conduct an open joint review.

In this model, there is no anonymity between the author and the review panel mbers, because as Lott Degen said to Qiao Yu, both parties need frequent direct academic communication instead.

Qiao Yu maintains open lines of communication at all tis to answer any questions posed by the review panel mbers on the details of the paper’s proof, ensuring that every detail is clearly explained.

This review model naturally does not require reviewers to keep their identities confidential. The advantage of this is that it can not only greatly shorten the paper review ti but also ensure that there are no issues with the judgnt of paper details.

Whether it’s Perelman’s proof of the Poincaré Conjecture or Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, they both underwent similar validation thods.

The forr’s proof was verified by multiple international research teams over three years. Wiles’ proof also went through a lengthy community review and refinent phase.

Of course, there are reasons why the validation of these two papers took a longer ti.

The forr’s proof process was quite a roller coaster, with many, including Elder Yuan, believing that Perelman’s initial work was insufficiently detailed and too brief to be acceptable.

Many key steps were either briefly ntioned or skipped, with details not fully expanded upon. These international research teams made many augntations based on Perelman’s work.

As for Wiles’ proof, he used sothing that seed obvious then, but evidently, the "obvious" he used was not so obvious.

And it just so happened that this "obvious" was a key step, requiring a completely new technique to complete what later ca to be known as the Euler system’s structural derivation.

The review team found a logical flaw in this step, so Wiles spent a year and a half addressing this "obvious" issue, but thankfully, in the end, he succeeded.

Evidently, from a certain perspective, this review mode is much stricter than double-blind or single-blind review. Countless eyes around the world are on both the paper and the reviewers, ensuring that no logical flaw in the paper goes unnoticed.

Moreover, researchers have more access to these external pieces of information than ordinary people, so it’s not surprising that those at the Computing Institute concerned with Qiao Yu could learn about this news.

Of course, all this fell on Liu Zhao Yuan’s ears, and he truly didn’t know how to evaluate it.

Even though he is not into theory, he is certainly well aware of the importance of the Riemann Hypothesis.

So he couldn’t help but wonder, what about the promise to contribute to computational mathematics and build a cross-century computational platform to solve problems for everyone? Now the money’s been taken, and turning to prove the Riemann Hypothesis, what’s that all about?