Chapter 396 The Temptation of Independent Proof

Su Yi fell into deep thought.

Professor Max didn't rush her, but just waited quietly.

After a while, Su Yi suddenly woke up and found that the phone was still on the line. He quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, Professor Max, for taking up so much of your time. I've benefited a lot from your words. I seem to have a new inspiration."

Professor Max smiled and said, "Gu, you are a very talented child. I look forward to your continued success in mathematics!"

"Thank you for your compliment. I will continue to work hard."

"By the way, your teacher, Professor Zhang Yuan, and I are good friends. I once invited him to be a professor at Polytechnic University, and today I'm also inviting you, his student, to be a professor at our university. Would you be willing to do so?"

Su Yi said gratefully, "Thank you for your affirmation, but I currently have no intention of teaching abroad. My family and friends are all in China, and I deeply love my motherland. Although I cannot come to the Polytechnic University for further studies, I hope I will have the opportunity to ask you for help with math problems again."

"Of course no problem, this will not affect our mathematical communication!" Professor Max agreed readily.

After hanging up the phone, Su Yi quickly called his teacher who was far away in China.

It's past nine in the morning in China now.

Professor Zhang Yuan did not answer the first call because he was in class.

She didn't continue, but immediately took out a pen and paper and started working.

It was not until after ten o'clock that Professor Zhang Yuan called her back.

"Yi Yi, what's wrong?"

"Teacher, Professor Max came to Princeton University to give a lecture today. I asked him about some confusions about differential manifolds. Regarding the bottleneck we're stuck on, here's my thought: By reanalyzing the proof steps using complex manifolds..."

Su Yi's thoughts once again shocked Zhang Yuan.

When it came to the Goldbach conjecture, this student of his proposed the "pseudo-proposition idea" that no one else had ever tried to prove it, which also gave him new inspiration.

And now, she once again breaks out of her fixed thinking circle and uses another kind of mathematical thinking and knowledge points to prove the Kakutani conjecture.

This disciple of his seemed to be born to break the rules!

Zhang Yuan's breathing became slightly rapid. "So, you've proven it?"

"No, I just think this idea seems to be correct, and I want to discuss it with the teacher." Su Yi said embarrassedly.

For some reason, Zhang Yuan felt inexplicably relieved.

He knew that the other party's talent in mathematics was unique to him, but it had only been less than half a year since he proved the Goldbach conjecture!

"Then you can discuss it with the other members of the team when the time comes, you..." Zhang Yuan suddenly stopped talking.

Su Yi was a little confused: "Teacher?"

Zhang Yuan paused, then asked her, "Yi Yi, the Kakutani conjecture is your group's research topic. If you can prove it on your own or with your group, the significance will be different..."

Su Yi immediately understood what Zhang Yuan meant.

She couldn't help but smile and said, "Teacher, this is the topic our group has been working on together. The other seniors are the same. If they have new ideas, they will definitely share them."

"If you really think so, teacher will be relieved." Zhang Yuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then his mood became more and more happy. This was enough to prove that Gu Su was a person indifferent to fame and fortune. What she pursued was real mathematics without any worldly interests.

Any academic research requires people with simple minds who strive to contribute to scientific research. Only such people can truly devote themselves wholeheartedly to academic research.

"The complex manifold you mentioned sounds fine to me at the moment, but the specific calculation steps still need to be checked. How about this: first, email me your thoughts and proof, and then we can discuss it with the group..."

After hanging up the phone, Su Yi looked at the time, sent another message to Shen Yanting, and then lowered his head to continue calculating.

In fact, Su Yi had not been exposed to the Kakutani conjecture for a long time. To be honest, she only joined in the middle, and her inspiration was based on the original research results of the team members.

If she really took the research results for herself, what difference would she make from those scum in the academic world who took over other people's research results?

May.

Su Yi's exchange time at Princeton University is finally coming to an end.

Here, Su Yi is not only a professor who comes for exchange, but also a student. When she has free time, she will attend classes that interest her, or stay in the library to absorb knowledge crazily.

Every day is extremely fulfilling.

If possible, she would certainly like to stay at Princeton University to study, because the learning atmosphere here makes her very comfortable.

But in the end, reason and reality prevailed.

She declined the attempts of Dean Andrew and many professors to retain her and resolutely embarked on the journey back home.

But on the first day of her return, she received an unbelievable news: she had won an invitation to the Fields Medal in Mathematics!