Regressing the π(x) function…
Qin Yue thought to himself while staring at the ceiling of his Princeton office.
After a moment of silence, he suddenly shook his head with a brooding look.
“If that’s the case… Then the work Molina is doing is useless?”
It’s not just Molina…
If this spreads throughout the mathematics world, I think the entire community would be shocked.
Especially the people in the field of analytic number theory, research on the Riemann hypothesis will totally change…
After all, Professor Lu had already solved two Millennium Prize Problems. Professor Lu thinking something was unreliable was the same as a death sentence.
Qin Yue hesitated for a bit and decided to keep his mouth shut. After all, he wasn’t sure if Lu Zhou was being serious.
However, what Qin Yue didn’t know was that, shortly after he hung up the phone, Lu Zhou uploaded the complete thesis to Arxiv.
This was going to cause a sensation in the mathematics world…
…
“Ahh… I feel like all my hair is going to fall off.”
Han Mengqi sat at her desk and stared at the question on the piece of draft paper. She bit her pen and scratched her head. She had no idea how to solve this problem.
“For any real number s > 1, define ζ(s) = Σ1 / (m ^ s)… Prove that ζ(2n) is a transcendental number.”
Han Mengqi repeatedly read the equation with a pouty face.
After a while, she sighed and leaned back in her chair in defeat. She stared at the ceiling and began to daydream.
“What if there’s no answer?”
Han Mengqi sat up straight and searched the question on Baidu, and like before, she couldn’t find the question anywhere.
Looks like Lu Zhou came up with this question himself…
The girl sighed in defeat and sat with her feet on the chair. She wrapped her arms around her knees and stared blankly at the draft paper.
Tools used in computational materials science couldn’t be applied to pure mathematics at all.
She knew it would be beneficial for her to look through the relevant literature and try to find similar studies that she could use as references. However, she was completely new to the analytic number theory field, so she didn’t even know where to begin.
She was totally lost…
“Does he really not want me…”
Han Mengqi buried her chin between her knees.
Quickly after, she slapped herself on the face and began motivating herself.
“Pfft…
“So you think I can’t prove it?”
Han Mengqi imagined how surprised Lu Zhou would be when he found out that she had solved the problem. Her eyes were filled with determination.
“I can do it!”
…
“Achoo!”
Lu Zhou was back in his Zhongshan International mansion. He just came out of the shower and pulled out some chocolate milk from his fridge. He sneezed two more times.
“Is someone talking about how handsome I am…”
Lu Zhou closed the fridge and walked into his study room. Xiao Ai, who was next to the coffee machine, flew into the air and chased him.
“Master, sneezing once means someone is thinking about you, sneezing twice means someone is insulting you, sneezing three times means you are sick. No one is calling you handsome…”
Lu Zhou: “Shut up.”
The drone speaker turned off. A line of characters appeared on the display.
[(•̀∀•́) …]
[Master, you are handsome~]
Lu Zhou ignored Xiao Ai and sat down in his study room. He placed his laptop on his desk. Suddenly, his phone began to vibrate, and two messages popped up on his screen.
[Come to the office tomorrow!
[Don’t forget!]
Lu Zhou looked at Chen Yushan’s messages. He smiled and replied [Ok]. After that, he set his phone aside and logged onto arXiv.
His thousand-word thesis, which was uploaded less than five hours ago, already had thousands of downloads. It was even referenced by someone.
Is five hours even enough time to read through my thesis?
Lu Zhou logged on to his Mathoverflow account and looked at the international mathematics community discussing his thesis.
However, the discussions weren’t exactly academically focused…
“Unbelievable.”
[Levinson’s algorithm has produced the best Riemann hypothesis research results we have ever seen. But does anyone think this road is not feasible? Does that mean Conry’s critical line theorem is useless?]
[Professor Lu’s thesis did not state that. He thinks that this idea might produce valuable results, but it is very difficult to solve the Riemann hypothesis.]
[I agree with Professor Lu’s point of view. A while ago, Professor Molina from Princeton and her partner Vera proved the Conry zero-bound theorem using the Odlyzko–Schönhage algorithm. They failed to increase the 0.4 number. This might mean 0.4 is the limit.]
[Remember the twin prime conjecture? Using the sieve method, people were able to reduce the 70 million number to 246, but Lu Zhou was the one that used a topological method to solve the conjecture… Maybe the same applies to the Riemann hypothesis.]
“Doesn’t anyone have an ounce of creativity?”
After reading through the forum for a while, Lu Zhou didn’t find one coherent academic argument. It was all a bunch of mathematics PhDs freaking out.
But this did make sense. It was extremely difficult for someone to understand his thesis in a short amount of time. After all, the Riemann hypothesis was at the top of the food chain. Forget about normal PhDs, even people like Professor Deligne had trouble understanding the Riemann hypothesis.
Lu Zhou yawned and saw it was getting late. He turned off his computer and left his study room.
He still had to meet the Russian visiting group tomorrow, and there was probably a banquet afterward, so he planned on getting a good night’s sleep.
Even though he didn’t have to pay much attention to the Lunar Orbit Committee, as the chief designer, he still had some work to do.
While Lu Zhou was sleeping, the discussions on Mathoverflow grew, and this attracted the attention of many big names in the field.
It wasn’t just Mathoverflow, all major mathematics forums around the world were discussing this topic.
Professor Lu plans on attacking the Riemann hypothesis!
He’s already made some progress!
This was just like what Qin Yue had envisioned.
The mathematics community went crazy because of Lu Zhou’s thesis…
