Willing to believe that the former completes the proof.

As a result, most people in the mathematics community first downloaded Lin Xiao's paper and then read his paper.

After reading it, everyone was once again amazed by Lin Xiao.

His proof process is still so rigorous and the structure is complete. When reading it, they feel a comfortable feeling of extremely smooth logic, just like when doing a math problem, there is no obstacle from beginning to end.

feel.

And until the final result, everyone was convinced that Lin Xiao's proof was successful and they could not find any loopholes, at least, they could not find them for the time being.

Then, they closed Lin Xiao's paper with satisfaction, and when they were about to express their opinions on the relevant forum, they suddenly remembered that there was another paper that they had not read.

Based on a responsible attitude towards mathematical truth, they opened Cayman's paper again and read it from beginning to end.

However, after reading it again, some people with low level felt that Cayman's proof was successful, but those mathematicians with real level and voice fell into silence.

"When this person introduced the theorem, didn't he know how to verify the theorem more?"

In Terence Tao's office, looking at Cayman's paper in front of him, Terence Tao shook his head.

In the lemma of the third part, the theorem introduced seems correct, but in fact there is a contradiction in the proof process. It only needs a simple contradiction to deduce that it is not true.

In mathematics papers, all the formulas and theorems before and after must be perfectly integrated, and a single move affects the whole body. This contradiction still determines the death penalty of this paper.

"As expected, you still can't have high expectations for this kind of guy."

Tao Zhexuan closed this paper and deleted it to avoid taking up computer space.

"I haven't seen anything that can be improved in his method before, unless there is another theory like Lin Xiao's sieve circle method that can provide a perfect direction. However, this is already impossible.

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Then, he opened his ins and sent a message to Lin Xiao.

"Lin Xiao, congratulations, you succeeded again. Sure enough, I guessed it last time:)"

Then, he posted another update.

"Sometimes I really envy Lin Xiao, because he can always get close to the truth of mathematics, but I often miss the truth."

After posting this post, he thought about whether to express his opinion on Cayman's proof, but finally gave up, lest Cayman would feel that he was persecuting him.

After all, it is undoubtedly a huge blow to publicly claim that you have proved a difficult mathematical problem, only to have someone point out that you failed.

So forget it.

Anyway, in the future, people will only remember the winners, not the losers.

Smiling slightly, he suddenly remembered that he had a number theory class to teach undergraduates next. It was just in time to share this surprising news with his students.

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Chapter completed!