Chapter 108 Fatal question? !
“awesome!”
"Awesome six six six!"
"Sri Guoyi"
"сильный!"
The applause was mixed with the praises of the audience.
On the Hua side, although more than a dozen students couldn't understand it, it didn't stop them from shouting "Boss is awesome".
A Ph.D. in Mathematics from Modan University asked his professor while applauding.
"Did he prove successful?"
"Basically... it's proven successful."
The professor also applauded, but he smiled bitterly in his heart. He studied topology and not much about number theory, so when he got to the back part, he could no longer understand it.
But he was embarrassed to tell the students that he didn't understand, but everyone applauded anyway, including the big guys sitting in the front row, didn't they all applaud too?
Professor Yuan Ya, who was not far away, also clapped. He understood it, but this was because he had read Lin Xiao's paper in advance. If he had read it on the spot, he might not be able to keep up.
"It looks like I can write a letter of recommendation when I get back to the hotel later."
Xu Chen next to him nodded.
For this young man, he used to think he was a person who could communicate as an equal, but now it seems that he is completely convinced.
With such extraordinary talent, one can easily feel the huge gap.
Lin Xiao, on the stage, was smiling. After the applause from the audience gradually subsided, he said: "Then, if any friends have questions, you can ask them now."
Soon, someone below raised his hand. He was a man who looked to be in his twenties or thirties, quite young.
"Hello Professor Lin, what I want to ask is, line 3 on page 34, why j(τ) is a modular form with zero weight?"
Lin Xiao waved his hand with a smile: "I am not a professor now, nor am I a doctor. Just call me...Mr. Lin."
Then he opened his paper and looked at it, and answered: "j(τ) is invariant under the complete module group SL2(Z), that is, j[(aτ+b)/(cτ+d)] =j(τ)…so we can draw this conclusion.”
The questioner thought about it for a moment, and soon realized it, and said thank you: "I understand, thank you Professor Lin... Ah, Mr. Lin."
Lin Xiao smiled at him, then looked at the others and said, "Next one."
Soon, someone else raised their hands and asked their own questions, and Lin Xiao answered them one by one.
Of course he had read his paper many times and had already made guesses about what questions they might have, so it was easy to answer them.
So just like that, after answering questions from about five people, no one raised their hands.
He asked again politely: "Any more questions?"
At this moment, he saw an old man sitting in the third row raising his hand.
Lin Xiao turned to look at the old man, smiled at him, and waited for the staff to deliver the microphone to the old man.
However, he felt that when the old man raised his hand, everyone else in the venue became quiet. Many people looked at the old man, and some people seemed to start talking.
He looked again and saw that the person sitting in front of the old man was Professor Pompieri.
He seems to be a big shot?
At this time, the old man also got the microphone and said with a smile: "Hello, future Professor Lin."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the venue couldn't help laughing.
Just now Lin Xiao said that he was not a professor, and the old man said that he would be Professor Lin in the future.
It has a funny meaning. Of course, it is more optimistic about Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he simply recognized it and said, "Hello, this professor."
He didn't know who this old man was, so he just called him Professor.
Anyway, you can tell that this old man is a professor at a glance.
The old professor smiled: "Haha, your report is excellent. It reminds me of how I proved that all elliptic curves are represented by modular parameters in the process of proving Fermat's last theorem."
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar on the field. People who did not recognize the old professor like Lin Xiao all realized his identity.
Prove Fermat's last theorem?
Isn't that Andrew Wiles?
Everyone couldn't help but be surprised.
Does Professor Wiles actually think there are problems with Lin Xiao's theory?
This made everyone pay attention.
Just now, the people who asked questions were not well-known in the academic world, and most of them were relatively young. Basically, they had questions because they did not understand a certain part of the report.
And there are problems with this kind of real big cow, which may be fatal to the entire argumentation process.
They all couldn't help wiping sweat for Lin Xiao.
At this time, Andrew Wiles finally asked his question: "However, a question I once considered has now appeared in another form in your report, so I want to ask, How do you solve this problem, and my question is on page 41, line 10."
Everyone was stunned, page 41?
Isn't that the core part of the entire report?
Everyone quickly turned to page 41 and found line 10.
At this time, Wiles finally asked his question: "Have you ever considered how your inequality (12) should be established if c(LM)^1/2 is less than (S0)?"
Upon hearing Wiles' question, everyone quickly looked towards where Wiles was talking.
After thinking about it for a while, everyone who understood this question couldn't help but gasp.
Of course, only a small number of people see this problem. Others still don’t even understand Wiles’s problem, and they still need to understand it.
Pompieri and Deligne also frowned at this time.
Indeed, there is a problem here.
It is small enough and hidden deep enough, but it poses a fatal threat to the entire argument.
Wiles was able to see this problem because of his previous research on this problem and his intuitive number sense.
Everyone looked at Lin Xiao on the stage and found that he was holding a paper and looking at it with no expression on his face.
Although he didn't show any anxiety, in the eyes of everyone below, he had encountered a problem.
Because when answering questions raised by others before, Lin Xiao simply looked at the question and answered directly.
At this time, he had already been reading the paper for ten seconds.
The whole place fell silent, and everyone remained silent in tacit agreement.
No one wanted to disturb Lin Xiao's train of thought. They also wanted to witness the birth of such a brilliant new theory.
But any theory that wants to emerge must face challenges. Even if Wiles doesn't ask it today, someone else will sooner or later ask it in the future.
If Lin Xiao cannot answer, then the "form group transformation method" he proudly named just now will disappear.
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