Author: Big fish eats small fish

As the organizer, Xia Guo Mathematics Society has done a very good job in providing services.

Accommodation is arranged in a five-star hotel, with two people sharing a room.

Ye Feishi and Yuan Zhengsong shared a room, Xu Wen and Zhou Lin shared a room, and Academician Wei and another Academician Xia Guo shared a room. The rooms for the five of them were next to each other, making it very convenient to move around.

Wait until the five people enter the room and pack their luggage.

Academician Wei called several people to the room where Ye Fei was.

Five people gathered in a group, some sitting on the edge of the bed and some on chairs.

Academician Wei looked at the group of people and said, "We are here neither too early nor too late. The dozen or so rooms near us on this floor are all Xia scholars. You can communicate with them."

“This not only allows you to make connections, but also exchange academic issues.”

Ye Fei and the other four nodded, agreeing with Academician Wei's statement.

In academia, you must not work behind closed doors, this is a taboo.

The painful lesson of seclusion should be engraved in the blood of Xia people and will never be forgotten.

If you don’t communicate with others about academic issues for a long time, your knowledge may fall behind the world in a few years.

Academician Wei said: "There are many foreign scholars here. You can also communicate with them, but remember..."

Academician Wei said seriously: "Some knowledge cannot be exchanged. For example, if some of you are doing technical research, the scientific and technological content must not be leaked."

Mathematicians not only do theoretical research, but also applied research.

For example, Ye Fei once conducted some experiments.

The three of them, Xu Wen, must have done experiments before.

It would be unrealistic to say that we keep doing theory and not apply it.

Very rare in the entire scientific community.

"If it leaks out, you will know the consequences. This will not only be your personal loss, but also the country's loss."

"There are too many foreigners here, and they are all smart people. You can't guarantee whether some of them have ulterior motives."

"In places like this where there are many foreigners, I often encounter people trying to trick you and you are tricked into it without even realizing it."

"By the time you react, you will already regret it."

"So, when communicating with these foreigners, you must be alert."

Zhou Lin muttered: "It's so dangerous. If we don't communicate with them, we will only communicate with Xia scholars."

"What are you talking about?" Academician Wei glared at him fiercely and said, "If you don't communicate with them, how do you know their academic achievements and how far they have gone in their research?"

"How do you know the new academic knowledge in the world?"

"Can't you think about it? They can trick us, can't we trick them?"

"We and them are both opponents and friends, a game and a cooperation."

"You should understand these principles!"

Ye Fei and the four others nodded. They are all smart people and understand what Academician Wei said.

They said: "Understood!"

"As long as you understand." Academician Wei said, "Also, the contents of the academic reports you give on stage must not be leaked."

"Although the paper you need to make an academic report has been posted on Arxiv, the content of the academic report is definitely different from what is on Arxiv."

Everyone nodded, yes, it is true.

There is only the first draft on Arxiv, and the final draft is in their heads.

Moreover, the content gap between the final draft and the first draft is very large.

It can even be said that the similarity is less than one-third.

The first draft is equivalent to an outline, and the final draft is the specific content.

"If you leak it out, you will be inspired by them."

"Although there is no loss to the country, there is a loss to you personally."

"You will go on stage to give an academic report later. If the content is the same, I don't think you can give an academic report."

Think about it, if the content of an academic report is similar to that of someone else, the person who did it first will be fine, but the person who did it later will be considered plagiarized.

When the time comes, the audience will ask the person who did it last to get out. The scene will be very embarrassing.

Zhou Lin smiled and said: "Academician Wei, don't worry, we know this, how could we leak the contents of the academic report to them."

"Even if they want to trick us, we will never mention the content of any academic report."

"It's good that you know."

Seeing that everyone looked very nervous, Academician Wei said with a smile: "Don't be too nervous. Relax. This is not the Olympics. There is no scoring competition. You may encounter a crash on the academic report topic, but the probability is very high."

Low."

"So, your opponent is not others, but yourself."

"As long as you defeat yourself, you will win."

Xu Wen smiled and said: "Academician Wei, we may not have an academic report on car crashes, but someone may crash a car."

"Huh?" Academician Wei asked doubtfully, "Who?"

"Ye Fei!" Xu Wen said with a smile: "He may collide with James Maynard's son, Amata Maynard, on the academic report topic."

Academician Wei said in surprise: "Is it James Maynard, the 2022 Fields Medal winner?"

"Yes!"

Academician Wei frowned and asked, "What is his son's name?"

"Amata Maynard!" Xu Wen said.

"Yes, Amata Maynard." Academician Wei said: "What are his abilities?"

Xu Wendao: "The ability is very strong."

"Graduated from Cambridge University with a PhD in Mathematics at the age of 18. At the age of 19, he proved the factor coefficient conjecture. At the age of 20, he proved the minimum interval of prime numbers. At the age of 21, he proved the maximum interval of prime numbers. At the age of 24, he proved the Littlewood conjecture of Diophantine approximation. At the age of 26, he proved

Lehmer’s conjecture of algebraic discreteness.”

These conjectures, except for the factor coefficient conjecture, are no less difficult than the continuum hypothesis once proved by Ye Fei.

The remaining conjectures are all more difficult than the continuum hypothesis.

"At the age of 27, he made significant contributions to the BSD conjecture of elliptic curves."

This is another puzzle, harder than any of Amata's past puzzles.

Because the BSD conjecture is one of the eight major conjectures in mathematics.

Although he does not directly prove the BSD conjecture.

But the BSD conjecture of elliptic curves is of great help to the BSD conjecture.

Problems related to the Eight Conjectures are very difficult.

One can imagine the difficulty of the BSD conjecture of elliptic curves.

Of course, Amata did not prove the BSD conjecture of elliptic curves.

If he could prove it, he might win the Fields Medal.

But even so, he made significant contributions to the BSD conjecture of elliptic curves.

It's also very powerful.

"Now at the age of 28, he has become the youngest full professor of mathematics at Cambridge University."

"At the same time, he is also an intermediate researcher at the Mathematics Center of Cambridge University."

"Maybe he will be promoted to senior researcher in two years."

Researchers are divided into intern researchers, assistant researchers, associate researchers and researchers.

Among these four levels, they are divided into elementary, intermediate and advanced.

A junior researcher is equivalent to a fourth-level professor, an intermediate researcher is equivalent to a third-level professor, and a senior researcher is equivalent to a second-level professor.

The higher level is an academician or fellow, which is equivalent to a first-level professor.

If you are a first-level professor who has not obtained academician or fellow.

In mathematics centers, it is usually at the deputy director level.

If you are an academician or fellow, it is usually at the director level.

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Judging from Amata Maynard's resume, he was indeed very strong.

He is a guesser almost every year, and is also an Intermediate Research Fellow at the Mathematics Center of Cambridge University.
To be continued...