Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 956 - 346: An Unconventional Invitation Letter (Part 2)

Chapter 956: Chapter 346: An Unconventional Invitation Letter (Part 2)

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West University, California, Los Angeles Branch.

When Tao Xuanzhi opened his email like usual, the first thing he saw was the pinned email.

The automatic pin was because he set Qiao Yu’s email as a priority.

After all, he didn’t want to miss any emails Qiao Yu sent him.

There was even a time when not receiving an email from Qiao Yu left him with an indescribable sense of loss.

As he once joked with a friend, in this era, the only indisputable thing in the math world is probably Qiao Yu’s academic level.

A person more than twenty years younger than him has been leading the development of mathematics in the entire era.

Even in the formal sense of establishing a school of thought, at least in his view, since Qiao Yu proposed the Generalized Modal Axiomatic System, his status in the math world has already surpassed all past mathematicians.

Newton, Gauss, Riemann... all those historically deified giants’ contributions to mathematics pale a little in comparison to Qiao Yu’s contributions.

Of course, his view has not been accepted by the mainstream Western math community. But Tao Xuanzhi doesn’t think this is important.

History is written by later generations. Future mathematicians will surely give a relatively impartial judgment.

So he naturally pays more attention to Qiao Yu’s emails.

Upon opening it, he found it to be an invitation, an intriguing invitation.

The invitation merely stated that Qiao Yu would hold a report at Yanbei University’s Hundred-year-old Lecture Hall titled "Commemorating Lott Degen and the Value Dynamics from Modal Axiomatic Systems to Elementary Mathematics".

In view of his online blog post specifically asking what Qiao Yu had been busy with during his years of silence, he was specially invited to attend this report.

However, the invitation did not provide the exact time of the report or the contact person’s phone number.

Instead, a long string of modal expressions was attached...

Alright, for Tao Xuanzhi, this wasn’t something too complex to understand.

After all, he had been researching Qiao Algebraic Geometry for years, and after simply analyzing the formula, he roughly understood the meaning of the expression.

He only needed to calculate the result of Δt, then substitute it into the t_ref of the expression structure, to get the exact time of the report.

The attachment also noted that the modal number generated in solving this problem would be converted into digits, representing the contact person’s number for the report.

The letter corresponding to the modal number itself was the contact person’s email.

It was also noted that a total of three thousand invitations had been sent out, all to mathematicians who had researched Qiao Algebraic Geometry in the past three years and whose papers had been cited a certain number of times.

But the Hundred-year-old Lecture Hall at Yanbei University, where the report was to be held, could only accommodate around two thousand one hundred people, so about nine hundred people might miss this grand event.

So he hoped that the invited mathematicians wouldn’t publicize their results if they figured out the answer.

If all three thousand mathematicians solved this problem within the stipulated time, got the report time, and the contact person’s email and phone number, thus obtaining the event registration code, then who could attend would be determined by a random draw.

Moreover, the letter specifically emphasized that when announcing the final list of invitees to the report, they would not disclose whether attendance was selected by random draw or problem-solving speed.

To be honest, this was the first time Tao Xuanzhi received such an invitation.

It was very interesting, but to be fair, Tao Xuanzhi felt it seemed quite intriguing.

Especially the latter part of the title of this mathematical report.

Value dynamics at the elementary mathematics level.

If it were another mathematician hosting a report and coming up with such new terms, he would probably dismiss it.

Let alone solving the problem, he wouldn’t even bother to glance at the invitation.

After all, he had been deeply engaged in the math world for so many years and had seen too many mathematicians who loved "innovation."

But unfortunately, 99.99% of such innovations are self-indulgent.

Creating a new term, but the actual content doesn’t hold water, and some writings are even logically chaotic...

This even includes some former math experts.

For this, Tao Xuanzhi could only say these people have gone senile...

For example, when a certain math expert in their later years announced solving the Riemann Conjecture, it directly threw the global math community into chaos.

Many people avoided discussing the issue altogether.

After all, solving the Riemann Conjecture with just four pages of paper, either you had proven effective preliminary research results, or it was nonsense...

At least at that time, there was no breakthrough new research method targeting prime numbers, so when he first heard about this, Tao Xuanzhi knew it was nonsense...

In the end, the facts indeed proved him right.

But after all, the new term was coined by Qiao Yu, which was very attractive to Tao Xuanzhi.

It’s like when Qiao Yu first released the Generalized Modal Axiomatic System, it was also a new term for the math world, but its impact was significant.

The millennium’s seven major problems that have troubled mathematicians for over a century had only one solved using traditional mathematical methods before the Generalized Modal Axiomatic System appeared.

But now three more have been solved, and research on the remaining three issues has made significant progress.

Especially the Hodge Conjecture and BSD Conjecture.

According to the latest related papers, the proof paths for these two problems are becoming clearer.

The final step towards a solution is within reach.

As for the NP-complete problem that most troubles mathematicians, word is some methods have already been found.

So when Qiao Yu proposed a new concept, Tao Xuanzhi didn’t feel any aversion but was rather excited.

If another new and extremely rigorous mathematical system is constructed, it means Qiao Yu has once again brought a whole set of new tools to the math community.

This also means mathematics can be elevated to new heights again.

For someone truly passionate about mathematics, such a report is not to be missed.

So Tao Xuanzhi feels that using this method as an entrance ticket to this conference is at least acceptable to him.

And honestly, Tao Xuanzhi thinks inviting three thousand people to this report is indeed a bit much.

Tao Xuanzhi doesn’t think there are so many people who can understand Qiao Yu’s report at this stage.

In fact, even now, there aren’t many mathematicians worldwide who can keep up with Qiao Yu’s thinking.

At least in Tao Xuanzhi’s view, there are definitely fewer than three thousand.

And many professors like to bring students to such conferences.

To be honest, Tao Xuanzhi feels this doesn’t help those students much. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

After all, some concepts proposed by Qiao Yu are extremely abstract, and for students who haven’t thoroughly understood abstract algebra, autonomous forms, and L-functions, it’s too difficult to comprehend.

The problem in the attachment serves as a perfect filter.

Although he only glanced over the problem, Tao Xuanzhi already felt that without a deep understanding of Qiao Algebraic Geometry and modal number systems, finding the correct answer would be quite challenging.

Feeling intrigued, Tao Xuanzhi decided to put aside his current work and seriously begin solving the problem.

An hour later, he decided to retract his previous comment.

Even with in-depth research in Qiao Algebraic Geometry and modal number systems, solving this problem still requires some effort.

The modal function in this problem is quite "complex," even involving tiered nesting techniques.

The outer layer’s modal zeta function is defined on the non-commutative torus Tmod, while the inner layer acts on the section of Singer from Sg...

Not to mention that the problem itself presents topological obstacles.

Originally, Tao Xuanzhi thought one hour would be enough to solve the problem, but who knew he got engrossed from the morning, and it wasn’t until three in the afternoon that he finally found the answer, having even forgotten lunch.

Alright, looking at the final result, with his stomach growling in hunger, Tao Xuanzhi felt Qiao Yu went a tad overboard this time...