Chapter 214 This project is not going very smoothly

But in fact, Xu You had already completed his answer in less than an hour.

Of course, this is the effect achieved in the state of deep learning.

Converted into normal time, it would take two or three hours.

After all, these are college entrance examination questions. No matter how difficult they are, most of the questions are easier to solve than college questions.

But if Lou Song's self-esteem was damaged because of his own cheating, Xu You felt that this would not be good.

Therefore, Xu You deliberately waited for Lou Song to finish his answer before putting down his pen.

Next, the two entered into the exchange and correction process.

Although the four sets of papers have a large amount of questions, both of them corrected them relatively quickly.

No surprise, both of them got full marks in the four sets of college entrance examination papers.

But for some of the questions in it, the two still found some shortcomings.

"One paper of the new college entrance examination is still quite difficult, and it feels a bit like a test in a math competition. It is still difficult for most students to finish answering this set of papers within two hours."

"That's right, for the conic section, we also tested the deformation of Lagrange's mean value theorem. If you don't know this secondary conclusion, this question is really not easy to solve in a short time."

"It seems that the average score of this class may be relatively low. Maybe some students' mentality collapsed during the exam."

"That's right, it's fine if you take each question individually, but if you put it in a set of papers, the calculation amount will be a bit large."

After finishing the college entrance examination questions, both of them looked like they were still unfinished.

It's like an appetizer before a meal, it's impossible to fill your stomach.

"Lou Song, this time we can have a good talk about the Riemann Hypothesis."

"Hmm, your old classmate doesn't seem to like math that much."

Recalling Lu Zhiyao's appearance at the dinner table, Lou Song was a little disappointed.

He was obviously a better student than Xu You in high school, so how could he not like mathematics?

"Haha, she wants to be a philosopher, mathematics is not her strong point."

Next, Lou Song carefully told Xu You some of his experiences over the past year, as well as several goals for the future.

"So far, six of the seven major problems in mathematics have not been solved. For each problem, there is a prize of one million yuan. I hope we can solve them all in our lifetime. Each of us will share three

That’s a good question.” Lou Song smiled.

"What you said is really arrogant. But, I like it very much."

Xu You and Lou Song are both still young. It would be too boring if they were as steady as those old scholars in everything.

Young people should have some passion and enterprising spirit.

"Well, I think this is really possible. After staying in the United States for a year, I did come into contact with many powerful mathematicians, but compared to you and me, they may not be more powerful. If we can't do it alone, we can solve it together.

It’s okay, the bonus and honor are half for each person.”

Lou Song would also be very happy if he could work with Xu You to solve these problems.

"Okay, then when the time comes, just put your name first."

"The order of names should be determined by contribution. If it doesn't work, just toss a coin."

At this time, the two of them suddenly swelled up.

My guess is that the problem of name sorting has been taken into consideration.

"I have an idea. Perhaps, the Riemann Hypothesis may not be true. If we can prove it or not, it will also be a success."

"Your idea... is really interesting." Xu You complained.

When searching for Planet X at that time, Lou Song also put forward the theory that Planet X did not exist at all.

However, this is indeed a possibility.

However, if the Riemann Hypothesis is not true, then more than 1,000 mathematical propositions based on its validity will not be true.

"Actually, even if the Riemann Hypothesis is really not true, the impact is not that serious. Maybe we will discover other more wonderful theorems because of this. Of course, it is also very difficult to find a counterexample to overturn and falsify the Riemann Hypothesis.

big."

The hundreds of millions of zero points calculated so far are all consistent with the Riemann Hypothesis.

After Lou Song explained it carefully, Xu You probably understood some of the main difficult issues in the process of proving the Riemann Hypothesis.

"Regarding the zeta function, the current conclusions focus on the functional-equation level. But the Riemann Hypothesis is a conclusion on a higher level. How to use the Euler product correctly is a key issue."

Although both of them were full of enthusiasm at this time, this thing definitely couldn't be proved in one night.

Even if it takes several years to complete the proof, it is something to be proud of for a lifetime.

The two chatted all night long, until they became extremely sleepy late at night and gradually fell asleep.

…

In the following days, Xu You still lived a very fulfilling life every day.

Solving these unknown mathematical conjectures is not Xu You's main task, nor is it a subject that is easy to produce results.

But through the process of studying these unknown conjectures, Xu You's mathematical level can also be improved to a certain extent.

Xu You believes that mathematics will be of great help to other fields.

A few more weeks passed, and Xing Shuping reorganized the project members for a meeting.

After everyone arrived one after another, Xing Shuping walked in.

Looking at Xing Shuping, his expression seemed a little heavy.

Xu You listened to Xing Shuping's speech and also understood that the project progress during this period was not very smooth.

"Since we discovered a superconductor with a superconducting critical temperature of 202.26K, our work has continued, including the search for high-temperature superconductors, the improvement of material preparation processes, and the work of material molding."

"Unfortunately, since then, we have not discovered a superconductor with a higher superconducting critical temperature, and progress in material preparation processes has been slow."

After a pause, Xing Shuping continued:

"The most important thing is that the molding technology of this material has not made any progress. If it cannot be molded and processed, its application value will be very small."

As a result, the material will be difficult to apply in the most important part of current transmission.

It can only exist as a test material in the laboratory.

"Everyone, please tell me what you think about the next plan."

Although the discovery of 202K superconducting material is exciting enough.

But if it cannot be applied, this is not the original intention of the project.

Simply breaking records is really meaningless.

"I think we can continue to study other high-temperature superconducting materials. If 202K is not enough, we can also study 180K, 170K, and 160K materials. Some of these materials are easy to prepare and easy to shape and process."
Chapter completed!