Chapter 53 You ask him if he wants to be my student

Something big has happened.

This was the only thought in Zhou Wu's mind at this time.

He read the paper over and found that there were no problems in all the calculation processes. It was so perfect that he even applauded it.

Especially the function finally constructed through analytic continuation, it even reminded him of his original process of learning Riemann and obtaining the Riemann zeta function through analytic continuation. It was really wonderful.

The only pity is that he doesn't know much about this area of knowledge, so he has no way to tell Lin Xiao that there is nothing wrong with this paper and that he needs to seek help from professors in other fields of number theory in the college.

But no matter what, Lin Xiao's amazing talent in this paper has made him completely remember this student's name.

Moreover, once it is finally confirmed that Lin Xiao's paper is indeed correct, then what Lin Xiao said about publishing the "Annals of Mathematics" will not be a problem at all.

This kind of important result, coupled with the fact that it is an unsolved problem in number theory, is inherently high-profile. I believe that the four top mathematics journals will be willing to show great enthusiasm to welcome this paper.

However, he now has to find a professor to help Lin Xiao take a look.

Who to look for?

"It seems that Professor Xu Ji is here today, right?"

Zhou Wu thought of a name.

Xu Ji can be said to be a major pillar that supports their Mathematics major at Beijing University to always be ranked first in the country.

As a professor in the Algebra and Number Theory Teaching and Research Section of Beijing University, he is also the vice chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society. He also served as the dean of their School of Mathematical Sciences at Beijing University, but later he did not continue to serve because of academic reasons.

As for his academic achievements, of course there are more. He is quite prestigious internationally. He has published papers in the top four journals before, and even more in other top journals other than the top four.

All in all, this big shot is definitely their face, and it will probably take less than two or three years for him to be elected as an academician.

The most important thing is that Xu Ji mainly studies pure mathematics and is very experienced in number theory. It is very suitable to read Lin Xiao's paper.

Zhou Wu also believed that Xu Ji would be interested in this paper.

So he copied Lin Xiao's thesis to a USB flash drive and went directly to Professor Xu Ji.

Soon, he arrived at Professor Xu Ji's office and knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

There was a voice inside, and then Zhou Wu walked in and saw the old professor sitting on the desk, who was Xu Ji.

"Professor Xu." Zhou Wu greeted respectfully.

Xu Ji looked up, smiled and said, "Director Zhou, Xiaoliang, give Director Zhou a glass of water."

One of Xu Ji's graduate students responded and went to pour a glass of water for Zhou Wu.

"Thank you." Zhou Wu took the water, and then said helplessly to Xu Ji: "Don't call me Director Zhou from now on. Just call me by my name. If you can't, just call me Xiao Zhou."

Facing this big boss, he had to treat him with respect. Even though he was the deputy director, his professional title was only associate professor.

There is no shortage of directors and deputy directors at Beijing University. If you just throw a piece of tile from the teaching building, the person you hit might be a super expert.

Xu Ji smiled and pointed to another graduate student, "That one is also called Xiao Zhou. I won't be able to tell the difference then."

Zhou Wu touched his nose and said, "Then just call me by my name."

"Okay, let's get down to business. Why did you come to see me?"

Zhou Wu stopped gossiping, took out the USB flash drive, and said to Zhou Wu: "There is a paper here, I hope you take a look."

Xu Ji took the USB flash drive, inserted it into the computer, and asked with a smile: "Oh? Did you write it recently?"

"No, it was written by a student. I'm a little unsure and wanted to check with you."

Zhou Wu decided not to mention that it was a paper written by a high school student because he wanted to see how surprised Xu Ji would be when he found out later.

"Written by students? You're not even sure?"

Xu Ji couldn't help but become interested. Although Zhou Wu was still an associate professor, he was selected as the deputy director and still had academic ability. Of course, Zhou Wu was not a graduate tutor yet, so there was a high probability that this thesis was not a graduate student's thesis. It was very high. Possibly an undergraduate thesis.

Zhou Wu: "In terms of number theory, I am not in this direction, and this student wrote it... Anyway, you can just read it."

"Okay, I'll take a look."

Xu Ji smiled and nodded, then opened Zhou Wu's USB flash drive, quickly found Lin Xiao's paper, and opened it.

As soon as he saw the title, Xu Ji knew that this paper was not simple.

Prove that the Fibonacci sequence has infinitely many prime numbers?

Now, in addition to proving that there are infinitely many prime numbers in natural numbers and other simple regular sequences, they can also prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers in other complex regular sequences. Basically, they are still unsolvable.

The Fibonacci sequence is certainly one of them.

Although proving that this problem has no practical significance, for pure mathematicians, most of them don't care whether this thing is meaningful. Some mathematicians are even proud that the mathematics they have studied has no practical use at all. And he despises mathematicians who study applied mathematics.

Of course, Xu Ji is not that extreme. He has also done some research on mathematical physics.

He took a look at the number of pages of the paper. There were more than 20 pages. It looked like it was done seriously. However, there was only the name "Lin Xiao" on it, and it did not indicate which class it was from.

He turned over the draft paper and pen from the side and asked at the same time: "Have you read it? Didn't find any flaws?"

"Don't talk about the flaws, I didn't even find the flaws." Zhou Wu shook his head and said, "I even had to look through the book for some of the things in it. This student's foundation is so solid that I feel ashamed, so I just Came to see you."

Xu Ji nodded, said no more, and read attentively. At the same time, he also followed his thoughts on the draft paper and started calculating.

Time passed by, and Zhou Wu could still see Xu Ji nodding or frowning from time to time, then writing a few more formulas on the draft paper, calculating, then relaxing his brows again, and continued. Look down.

All in all, Xu Ji didn't say a word.

If you don't say it, it means there is no problem.

Just like that, on the third to last page, Zhou Wu saw that Xu Ji had solved the new function constructed by Lin Xiao based on the ideas in the paper.

Then he heard Xu Ji say with emotion: "Beautiful."

Obviously, Professor Xu Ji was also amazed by this brand new function.

Needless to say, Xu Ji quickly finished reading the last few steps. When he saw the last two words "certificate", he put down his pen, turned to Zhou Wu and said, "Which class is this Lin Xiao from? Ask him if he wants to be my student."

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