After the semi-finals of the Qiu Tournament ended, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun’s study and life returned to a brief period of peace in the second semester of their freshman year. They studied, listened to lectures, played ball, played games with classmates and friends, and exchanged learning experiences.

The paper on the proof of Polignac's conjecture has been submitted to the most familiar "Annals of Mathematics". Qin Ke once again sent the editor... Oh, I heard that Miller, who has recently been promoted to deputy editor, sent an email to remind him.

Prioritize processing.

In this paper "Proof of Polignac Conjecture", Qin Ke signed his name and Ning Qingyun's name, both of whom were the same author.

But for the second article, "A new conjecture about the relationship between prime numbers and Riemann ball curves", Ning Qingyun refused to include her name in the author column, even for the second article. According to her, this conjecture is

What Qin Ke came up with was just written as a paper. She had no contribution to the core conjecture content and could not be listed as an author. Qin Ke couldn't defeat her and had to give up.

The paper on this new conjecture was also published in the Annals of Mathematics.

After settling these matters, Qin Ke thought for a while and sent a message to Wei Yuanfu, the director of the Department of Mathematics, to inform him.

As a result, less than fifteen seconds after the message was sent out, Wei Yuanfu made a direct phone call. The excitement in his voice could not be hidden at all: "Qin Ke, you mean that you have conquered the Polignac conjecture? No.

You said it would take ten days? It has only been about five days..."

"Director Wei, please wait a minute." At this time, Qin Ke was still taking the first modern history outline course in the afternoon. He had to make an apologetic gesture towards Teacher Wei who was teaching on the podium, got up and went outside the classroom.

corridor.

God knows how nervous Director Wei Yuanfu was from the time he stood up and walked to the corridor. Anyway, Qin Ke seemed to be nervous and uneasy when he heard the breathing on the other side.

"I was in class just now. Sorry, Director Wei. I said in the text message that the paper has been sent to the "Annals of Mathematics", so naturally it has been proved."

"Okay! Okay! Okay!" Wei Yuanfu said hello three times excitedly, and then asked in a semi-pleasant tone: "Does the mailing address address our Department of Mathematics?"

If someone heard that Director Wei, who has always been arrogant, actually spoke to a student in such a tone, his jaw would be shocked, but Qin Ke and Wei Yuanfu were both used to it.

Qin Ke replied: "Yes. Filled in our mathematics department."

Wei Yuanfu has reminded this matter several times before. Qin Ke also has a bachelor's degree in mathematics. It makes sense to write a mathematics department. Therefore, the mailing address for this paper he wrote is the mathematics department of Qingmu University.

An obvious sound of relief came from the other end of the phone, and then Wei Yuanfu said almost as if he was promising: "Qin Ke, you and Ning Qingyun will prepare a speech for the special scholarship when you have time. It may be useful at the end of the semester."

"Okay, thank you, Director Wei." Qin Ke knew very well that Wei Yuanfu was reciprocating kindness.

"By the way, has your paper been pre-recorded in arXiv?"

"Oh, I really forgot. I'll record it when I'm free in the evening."

"...At night?" Wei Yuanfu almost rushed over and escorted Qin Ke to operate the computer. My great-uncle, for such an important academic achievement, no one else has pre-recorded it before submitting it! What a trap!

Do you understand? This is the most important evidence. Whether you are competing for the honor of being the first to conquer the Polynian Conjecture or to avoid plagiarism during the submission process, it is very useful to enter it into arXiv.

necessary!

Wei Yuanfu took a deep breath, swallowed back the "I beg you" that was almost on his lips, and said in a deep voice: "Qin Ke, can you get the computer to prepare this paper now?"

To be admitted, with such world-class academic achievements, there can be no accidents, otherwise I'm afraid that Principal Huang will have a heart attack if he hears about it."

Qin Ke listened to Director Wei's attitude. If he didn't hurry up and pre-record, he would probably come over to nag him. He said helplessly: "Okay, I happen to have my notebook with me, so I'll just post the hotspots. It's just a matter of time."

Using a computer in class doesn’t show much respect for the teacher.”

Wei Yuanfu was going crazy. Compared with such heavyweight academic achievements, such a trivial matter was nothing!

But he really didn't dare to say a harsh word to Qin Ke, so he could only say like coaxing a child: "Qin Ke, what class are you taking now? I will go to the teacher in person to apologize later, do you think this is okay?

?”

"No, no, no, it won't take more than two or three minutes. I'm going back to the classroom to do the operation. Goodbye, Director Wei."

Qin Ke didn’t pay much attention to the entry of this Polignari conjecture paper into arXiv, because the core of this paper is mathematical methods, and this was originally named “Hypergeometric Method of Function Groups” and now plans to rename it “Qing Dynasty”.

The new mathematical method of "Ling Lemon Number Theory Hypergeometric Mapping Method" was not elaborated in the paper. Even if someone did plagiarize his proof process, it would only be incomprehensible. As long as Qin Ke came up with this "Ling Lemon Number Theory Super Geometric Mapping Method"

"Geometric mapping method" is enough to ruin the reputation of the plagiarist.

But Wei Yuanfu was so nervous, and pre-recording it on arVix would indeed help to avoid the trouble of being plagiarized. Qin Ke thought about it and decided to spend a few minutes to get it done first.

Qin Ke returned to the classroom and smiled apologetically again at Teacher Wei, who was giving an outline of modern history. Teacher Wei responded with a nonchalant smile.

Teacher Wei has a very good impression of Qin Ke. This world-famous academic god does not regard this kind of liberal arts as a burden like other top students. He either skips class or does his own thing. He just does a surprise before the exam anyway.

attitude.

Qin Ke really listened attentively and followed his lecture ideas to taste the magnificent modern history and draw historical nutrients from it.

This gave Teacher Wei a special sense of accomplishment, and also inspired most students in the basic science class to have a correct attitude in listening to classes.

So when he saw Qin Ke taking out his laptop to work on, Teacher Wei just smiled tolerantly, thinking that it was probably related to the phone call just now, and Qin Ke must be in an emergency.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Ning Qingyun next to him cast a curious look, Qin Ke explained a few words in a low voice, then quickly took out his laptop and logged in to his arXiv website.

After logging in, he unexpectedly found that he had tens of thousands of followers.

You must know that arXiv is only used by researchers, teachers, scholars, and scientific researchers. Ordinary people have never even heard of it. It is a website in the academic circle. The number of users cannot be compared with that of bib, Facebook, etc. Qin Ke’s account

He has never done any publicity. The reason why he has such a high amount of attention is probably because he proved the twin prime conjecture by interested people.

Qin Ke quickly completed the uploading and pre-recording of the paper. After seeing that the submission was successful, he stopped caring about it. He closed the laptop, sent a message to Director Wei Yuanfu saying that the pre-recording was completed and continued to listen to the class carefully.

He didn't know that Director Wei Yuanfu was already on his way to the Vice-President's office when he talked to him earlier. At this time, he heard that the pre-recording had been completed and he quickly called Professor Tian Jianlan to ask her

Let's go to the principal's office together.

After thinking for a while, he made a few more calls and called several senior professors who had some ability in number theory.

As he expected, after listening to his report, Gu Bojun, the vice president in charge of the mathematics department, took him without saying a word and went to find Principal Huang Ruide in the office next to him.

Upon hearing this, President Huang Ruide immediately said: "Call Professor Ueda Jianlan, it is best to find a few professors from the mathematics department to come over and take a look at this paper together!"

Wei Yuanfu said hurriedly: "I just informed him that they are on their way here."

"Okay!" Principal Huang's face lit up. Last year, Qin Ke's paper proving the twin prime conjecture had given the school a taste of the sweetness. At the education conference at the beginning of this year, Lao Chen appeared in front of all the presidents of colleges and universities across the country.

He praised Qingmu University's mathematics teaching achievements by name, and the envy and jealousy in the eyes made the experienced Principal Huang feel proud and elated.

For the first time in many years, Qingmu University has raised its proud head in mathematics!

Now that he heard that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun actually conquered the Polignac conjecture again in less than half a year, one can imagine Principal Huang's excitement.

Soon, Tian Jianlan and several other professors from the Department of Mathematics arrived at the principal's office. The secretary had already prepared the round table conference room and projector nearby, so the group moved to the round table conference room.

At this time, Wei Yuanfu explained the reason why the professors came. Several professors from the mathematics department, including Professor Tian Jianlan, were startled, and then they all expressed great interest.

Qin Ke's arVix account was applied for by the school. Although he changed his password, many professors at the school still followed him. At this time, Tian Jianlan logged in to his arVix account and immediately saw a pop-up prompt on the website, which account you are following.

"" has new pre-collected papers, classified as "Analytical Number Theory" - "Problems related to prime numbers".

Professor Tian Jianlan clicked on this paper and found that more than 3,000 people had clicked to read it. There were many English replies below. The translation into Chinese is roughly:

"Isn't this Qin who proved the twin prime conjecture? He even solved the Polignac conjecture? My God, this is incredible, less than half a year has passed!" - A number theory researcher at Stanford University

members of the team.

"If you haven't had time to read more than fifty pages of content, please leave your name first and then go and read it." - A PhD student in mathematics at Harvard University.

"When I saw the title, I thought it was a paper from some civil sciences. I was wondering if there was something wrong with the website's review mechanism. How dare you push such a junk paper to me? Then I found out that it was from an account I follow... from

Xia Guo's Miracle Boy, it seems this paper is worth reading." - A certain professor at MIT.

"Qin Shen actually cracked the Polignac conjecture silently? Leave your name on the tongs." - This is written in Chinese, and it seems that it is a message from a Chinese.

This once again proves that Qin Ke has attracted the attention of many interested people in the mathematics community at home and abroad.

Tian Jianlan didn't have the time to read these messages in detail and started reading directly from the first page of the paper.

Several other professors from the mathematics department also put on reading glasses and looked at the lines of English on the big screen.

Principal Huang, Vice Principal Gu and several school leaders who heard about it all held their breath and did not dare to disturb the professors' thinking.

Even if they have great confidence in Qin Ke, they cannot be 100% relieved until these professors nod.

The professors watched this for the whole afternoon. The tea on the conference table became cold and was changed again and again. It was repeated countless times, but none of the professors moved. Even the school leaders could only stay with them.

Look, so far, a school meeting scheduled for the afternoon has been postponed.

But even if they are all from engineering or science backgrounds, this argumentation process is too professional and complicated, and they can barely understand part of it, and most of the content is like a bible.

This made them have to say "really geniuses" to Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, freshmen students.

It wasn't until the sun set that Professor Tian Jianlan rubbed his temples tiredly, took out the eye drops he carried with him and dropped a few drops before taking a sip of tea.

Several school leaders were able to keep their composure, but they couldn't help but sit up straight and all their eyes fell on her.

Wei Yuanfu naturally couldn't let the elders speak, so he had to ask himself: "Professor Tian, ​​do you think there is any problem with this paper?"

Because he was so nervous, he swallowed subconsciously.

"From my professional point of view, no problem has been found. As for whether it is a perfect proof, I have the same view as before. I don't care. I have to wait for the top international mathematics masters to review it before I can make a final conclusion.

but……"

Professor Tian Jianlan paused and looked around the crowd: "These two children used a brand-new mathematical method in the demonstration process, which was more powerful than their original 'fourth-order transformation method of lime number theory'. It used hypergeometry, function groups

, the knowledge of the Riemann sphere is advanced layer by layer, from point to surface, forming an overwhelming momentum, amazing, quite amazing! This is a more advanced mathematical method that goes beyond the sieve method, circle method, and group theory method."

Professor Tian Jianlan shook his head and sighed: "Although we can only see the shadow of this mathematical method from the demonstration process and cannot get a full picture of it, I dare to say that the significance of this mathematical method itself is greater than that of breaking Polignac."

Conjecture is even more important. Based on this mathematical method alone, they are afraid that they will be qualified to be professors in any foreign university."

The other mathematics professors nodded their heads when they heard this.

Principal Huang and others all looked happy. Professor Arita Jianlan’s words made it almost 100% certain that Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun had successfully conquered the Polignac conjecture!

This is even more influential than the twin prime conjecture, and it is a world-class mathematical conjecture that is much more difficult!

Once published in top international journals, it will push the Department of Mathematics of Qingmu University to the top position!

In the future, who will dare to say that Qingmu University is only good at engineering and not science?

Does Yanda have the nerve to boast that the level of its mathematics department is higher than that of Qingmu University? Even if their mathematics school has more academicians and more senior professors, so what? Our Qingmu University has two world-class academic achievements in mathematics.

Do they? No!

Just as several school leaders looked at me, unable to hide the joy on their faces, a new prompt suddenly popped up on the big screen:

"The user you follow '' has uploaded a new pre-collected paper, classified as 'Analytical Number Theory' - 'Problems related to prime numbers'."

Everyone: "????"

What's going on? Qin Ke uploaded it again?

Professor Tian Jianlan clicked on the prompt and a new page immediately popped up.

""A new conjecture about the relationship between prime numbers and Riemannian spheres"?" An old professor adjusted his glasses, read in disbelief, and suddenly lost his voice: "He...he proposed a new mathematical conjecture?"

The whole place was silent, and then... it exploded.
Chapter completed!