Chapter 359: Shameless

In the morning, several people followed the crowd into the press conference.

Apparently, Country H had made a big splash this time, and even quite a few Westerners were visible. Come to think of it, this was the Goldbach conjecture, one of the world's three most difficult conjectures. Just imagine how far it would go if someone could prove it in advance.

The witness was a mathematics professor named Cho Jae-hyeon from Seoul University. He had some reputation in the mathematics community, but it was not a good one because he was very arrogant. He knew he was not strong enough, but he looked down on everyone, especially his fellow Asians. He treated some Western countries like lapdogs.

The other party had just released the preprint version of the paper last night. After checking that version, Su Yi and Zhang Yuan were so angry that they laughed.

90% of the other party's paper came from what Su Yi had said at the Dongdu Exchange Conference, and more than half of the remaining 10% came from what Hanyu Nohara had said at the exchange conference. The two were combined and pieced together, and Cao Zaixian himself may have written about 3%.

What’s the difference between this and directly plagiarizing her mathematical ideas and using them as proof steps in her paper!

It also proves that country H has really taken shamelessness to the extreme.

However, it has not even been two weeks since the Dongdu Exchange Conference, and Cao Zaixian has already written the paper. He did put some thought into it. Unfortunately, although the paper seems reasonable, it actually falls into the trap designed by Su Yi.

In this case, the master and disciple might as well let Cao Zaixian become famous in the international mathematics community!

The entire lecture hall was filled with people, and there were even many people standing in the corridor waiting. Cao Zaixian stepped onto the podium amid everyone's anticipation, with a look of pride and satisfaction on his face.

Soon, the press conference began.

Then the other party began to talk about his own proof ideas...

It was almost a one-to-one copy of Su Yi's speech at the Dongdu Exchange Conference, which shows that the other party must have recorded it at the time.

Several people sat quietly in the crowd, listening to each other talking, but their eyes became increasingly cold.

At the very end, after Cao Zaixian finished explaining his proof, his assistant smiled and walked over to the side, summarizing, "The above proof is Mr. Cao Zaixian's complete approach to the Goldbach conjecture. Mr. Cao Zaixian's successful proof means that he has solved the Goldbach conjecture, one of the three most difficult mathematical conjectures in the world. It is of epoch-making significance!"

Throughout the entire proof process, Su Yi's name was not mentioned in the entire text, and it seemed to be the research result of the other party alone.

If Su Yi and others had not come, the history of mathematics would only record that the mathematician Cao Zaixian from Country H proved the Goldbach conjecture and became the greatest mathematician of the contemporary era.

As for her efforts and contributions, they were all wiped out.

Next is the question-and-answer session for those on site.

Cao Zaixian is a very smart person. He chose to hold a press conference so hastily and did not even invite any mathematicians from China, just to avoid China's questioning. However, they did not expect Su Yi and Zhang Yuan to appear at the press conference.

The staff didn't know them.

So when the other party picked out Su Yi and handed the microphone to Su Yi, Cao Zaixian also recognized this Chinese girl, and his eyes were obviously panicked for a moment.

"Mr. Cao, did you complete all the proof ideas of this paper independently?" Su Yi asked in fluent English.

Cao Zaixian gritted his teeth secretly, complaining in his heart to the organizers, how could they let this Chinese girl sneak into the press conference? As long as he could hold the press conference smoothly today, even if China gave him trouble again, it didn't matter, he was already famous!

"It turns out that Ms. Gu from China is here in person. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart. It was your remarks at the exchange meeting that gave me ideas. I got inspiration after returning to China. I wonder if you have any questions now?" Cao Zaixian asked with a smile.

"Then I'd like to ask all the mathematicians and media friends present here: 90% of the proof ideas in Mr. Cao's paper came from my speech at the Dongdu Mathematics Exchange Conference two weeks ago. Is this what you call 'providing inspiration'? If that's true, Mr. Cao is truly lacking in inspiration!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a commotion at the scene——

In fact, some people who attended the press conference had also attended the Dongdu Mathematics Exchange Conference. They also wanted to raise this question. If it was really Cao Zaixian who proved it independently, it would be fine, even if he borrowed some thoughts from others. However, the overlap of up to 90% is unacceptable.

But before they could even ask, the person involved actually showed up in person to demand an explanation!

Cao Zaixian didn't expect that this Chinese girl would be so direct and didn't give him any face at all, and questioned him directly.

His face instantly turned gloomy.

Seeing this, the assistant beside him immediately said, "Madam, Mr. Cao also thanked you for the inspiration. This proves that the steps were indeed completed independently by Mr. Cao. You cannot deny this fact!"

I don’t know how the other party has the nerve to say the word “independence”.

Su Yi chuckled softly, his pleasant yet ironic voice echoing through the lecture hall. "In that case, Mr. Cao, are you aware that Professor Chen from China once proved the steps involved in '1+2' and was recognized by the International Mathematical Association, a feat still documented today? And in your proof, when f=2, it intersects with Professor Chen's '1+2' and proves that Professor Chen's '1+2' proof is invalid?"

"Or perhaps Mr. Cao actually has sufficient evidence to prove that Professor Chen's proof of '1+2' is wrong? Is it through the prime number sieving method? Let's try to reverse the reasoning and follow Mr. Cao's proof steps. Not only does '1+2' not hold, but even the '1+3' proved by Soviet mathematicians in 1965 does not hold..."

Su Yi deduced Cao Zaixian's proof step by step, and what he said was well-reasoned and he could even state the calculation results accurately.

Upon hearing this, Cao Zaixian's expression gradually changed from calm at the beginning to panic, and he even knocked over the cup next to him!

The tea flowed down his neatly ironed trousers...