Chapter 106: On Stage
Wu Tong vaguely had some ideas about the direction of material matching, but these directions still needed to be verified in the laboratory. Only after having further data could she determine the direction more precisely and deduce the next step.
The birth of a new material is never achieved overnight. It requires countless scientific researchers to work tirelessly day and night, experience countless failures, and also a bit of luck before there is a flash of success.
Although she has a combination that is equivalent to assisted fast-forwarding, it is obvious that she is not yet so magical that she can create something out of nothing.
The material ratio and production process still need to be tried out in detail before she can have more advanced data, which she can use as a basis for more in-depth preparation. Perhaps, after returning to China, she can ask the school if she can borrow the school's material laboratory to try it out?
With an absolute direction, she felt that she still had some guarantee of success!
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Thinking about some dangerous rumors she had heard before, Wu Tong felt that although the things she had tinkered with were not top secret, she should still be more cautious when she was abroad.
She will not leave this notebook for the time being.
In fact, she knew all the data in her mind. Burning it would have been the best option, but hotel rooms generally had smoke alarms, so there were certain operational risks in implementing this idea.
At half past one, Li Yisheng knocked on the door gently, "Wu Tong, it's time to go to the venue."
At two o'clock, the No. 1 venue was packed with people. Almost all the mathematicians who attended the opening ceremony that day were present. The front row was full of big names, and there were many top mathematicians.
Oh, you are here too. Everyone exchanged a knowing look.
After a brief opening ceremony on stage, Wu Tong, led by the guide, walked out from the backstage with firm steps. The hem of her skirt, which was gradiently smudged with ink and blue, fluttered gently as she walked.
She stood in the center of the stage and looked down. The three to four thousand attendees were clearly visible to her. Everywhere she looked were familiar or unfamiliar faces. The venue was almost overcrowded.
She took a deep breath, calmed herself down, nodded gently to the audience, and then spoke.
"I am the speaker of this event, Wu Tong, from China!"
"Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to attend my report. I was very surprised when I received the invitation to the conference. I thought that I didn't have any outstanding results, so I tried my best to try the Polignac conjecture that I had just started. I thank the organizing committee for trusting me and giving me enough time to present it here for everyone to listen to and discuss with you."
She calmly and orderly delivered the opening speech she had rehearsed in her mind. From the moment she stood on this international stage, she represented more than just herself. Of course, she was not stage-frightened either. Her perfect proof and rich knowledge reserve were her best confidence.
Wu Tong clicked the laser page-turning pen in her hand and showed the first page of her report to everyone. On the huge screen, the enlarged theme appeared, a new group proof method and the proof of Polignac's conjecture.
"Before I tell you about my proof of the Polignac conjecture, I would like to explain to you the tool I used to overcome the Polignac conjecture, the infinite group proof method."
"Among integers greater than 1, the ones that can only be divided by 1 and the number itself are called prime numbers. Two thousand years ago, our ancestor, Euclid, proved that there are infinite prime numbers... From the topological principles introduced by Zellberg to supplement the sieve method, I got the direction..."
Wu Tong's opening was not difficult to understand. Some students or ordinary scholars who followed the teacher to learn from him could not help but wonder,
That's it? That's enough to prove the Polignac conjecture. It feels like they can do it too!
However, as Wu Tong's explanation became more and more in-depth, starting with this group of students, some gradually could not keep up with the pace of Wu Tong's thinking. If they couldn't understand one step, it meant that they all got carsick. Those who were a little disdainful at the beginning, now all started to ask, "Who am I? Where am I? What is said above?"
Such superficiality naturally has nothing to do with the big guys in the front row. When the content turns to the in-depth part, it is the part that they are most interested in.
Andrew Wiles smiled and said to Terence Tao: "Zellberg, who first mentioned the topological sieve method, probably didn't expect that the sieve method could be used in this way! I remember that he seemed to want to use it to give future generations some clues to the Goldbach conjecture."
"Please include me here. This is something I didn't expect. It seems that the potential of screening method still has room to be further explored. It is not as many people think that it has reached its end!" Tao nodded and whispered. This part of Wu Tong's research touched him a lot on the current project he is working on.
"This kind of logic seems to be applicable to my L-function logic!" Deligne rested his elbow on his hand. "I think Langlands will be very interested!"
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"Wu Tong stepped firmly with that step. I knew that Wu Tong could do it!" Zhou Wenping relaxed his nervous mood. Before Wu Tong went on stage, he was a little worried that Wu Tong might be too nervous since it was his first time on such a stage.
"Young people are to be feared!" He was a senior brother, but he was instantly crushed by the dazzling performance of this junior sister. His decision was right. He could do research in China. The moon abroad is not rounder than that in China. The achievements of this junior sister are the best proof!
"... Therefore, we can determine that for all natural numbers k, there are infinitely many prime pairs (p, p + 2k)!"
As Wu Tong delivered his last sentence, there was a burst of warm applause from the audience. When the applause gradually died down, Wu Tong faced the audience and continued with the last step of the report, answering questions and resolving doubts.
"Next, everyone can ask any questions you have."
"Professor Wu Tong, page 56, line 7, why do you introduce Wilson's theorem and go directly to n=...?" The person who stood up was a Western scholar in his thirties, and he used the word "professor" as a respectful title.
"I'm not a professor yet. You can call me Wu Tong, or Researcher Wu!" Wu Tong explained the title issue. She remembered that she was also a researcher at the Peking University Mathematics Center, which could also be used as a title.
"This idea comes from Goldbach, based on the Fermat sequence Fn=···1, n=0, 1, 2, 3····. In order to prove the infinity of prime numbers, I proved that any two Fermat numbers are coprime, that is, no integer greater than 1 can divide both Fermat numbers at the same time. To achieve this goal, we want to verify the iterative expression····"
"Wu, page 37, line 3..."
One after another, some people, including the big guys in the front row, raised more profound questions. However, they all got satisfactory results from Wu Tong's answers, and no one continued to ask questions.
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