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Chapter 162 New York Times Front Page

"This idea is good." Wiles smiled, "To be honest, I also want to see what this genius looks like."

Then, Deliney discussed some questions about this paper with Wiles, and then said goodbye and left.

A week later, "A Method of Proof of the Fermat Conjecture" was also highly praised by Peter Sanak, Nick Cates, John Coates, and Richard Taylor.

By mid-February, news that the Fermat's conjecture was proven began to spread in the international mathematics community.

Soon, the news spread from the mathematics community and began to attract media attention.

On February 20, New York Times reporter Hurstraphael interviewed Pierre Delinje, director of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, on phone, and confirmed the accuracy of the news from Delinje.

Time, the New York Times published an article on the front page headline "Chinese mathematicians create miracles and plagued the world for 366 years to solve the mathematical conjectures."

As soon as the news came out, it quickly caused a sensation in the Western world.

...

Zhong Shuyang is a Xinhua News Agency reporter in New York and has been in the United States for nearly two years.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has become the only superpower on the planet. Coupled with the devastating victory of the Gulf War two years ago, Iraq, known as the fourth military power in the world, has directly brought back its original form.

Therefore, Zhong Shuyang has always had an envy, jealousy and awe for the United States.

In other words, this is the mentality of most Chinese people towards the United States in this era.

In the United States, the status of Chinese people has always been in a relatively awkward position.

Due to the influence of Confucian culture, Chinese families attach importance to education and generally do not have much difficulty in getting better, and their average economic level is even comparable to that of whites.

But when it comes to the ethnic discrimination chain, even the lowest-class blacks are qualified to discriminate against Chinese.

Therefore, even if Zhong Shuyang lives in the United States, he still adheres to a low-key attitude.

In the past two years, except for completing the work in the society regularly and sending various reports back to the United States to China, Zhong Shuyang has basically not integrated into American society.

And the pride for the descendants of Yan and Huang deep in my heart could not make Zhong Shuyang lower his noble head to the Americans.

Zhong Shuyang is very clear about the views of Western countries on China.

In Western media, even if there are occasional reports about China, Chinese people are basically negative.

The yellow-skinned monkey is their name for this people with a history of civilization for 5,000 years.

In the eyes of Westerners, China is still in an uncivilized era, and the ghost of gzy is still shrouding China.

Of course, most of the time, Western media rarely report on China.

The closed country on the Asian continent is not worthy of their direct eyes.

But Zhong Shuyang never thought that one day, the Chinese people's name would appear in the most influential media of the Western superpower with a positive image, and it was also a front page headline!

After get off work today, when I passed by the newspaper booth, Zhong Shuyang accidentally turned his head and glanced at it, and then saw the front page headline of the New York Times, with the words "Chinese".

So, before he could read the title, Zhong Shuyang spent a little five dollars without hesitation to buy the New York Times issue.

And when he finished reading all the titles, he suddenly became dull.

Chinese mathematicians, solve mathematical problems that have plagued the world for more than 350 years?!

The next moment, Zhong Shuyang quickly turned his attention to the main page.

"New York Times, according to the news received by our reporter Hestrasse Raphael from Princeton University, the Fermat Conjecture, which has plagued the world for 366 years, has been solved by Chinese mathematician Xue Lin Pang. The paper has passed peer review and will be published in March in the academic journal "Mathematics Annual" co-organized by Princeton University and Princeton Advanced Research Institute. Professor Pierre Deligne, the director of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University and the winner of the Crafford Prize, highly praised the achievement and believed that the solution to the Fermat Conjecture will become one of the most important academic achievements in the international mathematics community in the 20th century..."

Before we knew it, tears filled Zhong Shuyang's eyes.

Excited, excited, proud...

All kinds of emotions came in a flood.

In this era when the Internet has not yet started, wandering in a foreign country, I suddenly saw the name of a Chinese man, and entered the authoritative media of the most powerful country on the planet with an extremely positive image. Zhong Shuyang could not describe this feeling in words.

The next second, Zhong Shuyang suddenly seemed to have something sounded, and he ran towards the office.

He couldn't wait to contact the country and ask who this Pang Xuelin is!

...

February 22, 1993, 9:00 am.

Capital.

Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Editorial Department of Journal of Mathematics.

While looking through the latest papers, Wu Kangyu smiled and said to his colleague Zhu Hanliang, who was sitting opposite him, said: "There is something to do with the Mathematics Research at Lincheng University. This researcher named Pang Xuelin actually submitted two papers at once, and both of them are very high. One is "On the Auto-isomorphic Group of Finite Abelp Groups", and the other is "Inverted Random Differential Equations Driven by G-brown Motion under Monotonic Conditions". I'll see who is more appropriate to send to. According to the level of these two papers, I feel that the next issue of "Journal of Mathematics" is not a big problem..."

Zhu Hanliang was slightly stunned: "Lincheng University? In my impression, only Luo Jianzhong and Wang Chongqing's level is OK. When will Pang Xuelin be released again?"

Wu Kangyu said: "Maybe he is a new recruit... It's a pity to be in Lincheng University..."

Zhu Hanliang smiled and said, "If you feel sorry, you can tell the editor-in-chief. Maybe the editor-in-chief will transfer someone to our institute!"

"Hey, I don't know anyone, why are you doing this little business?"

The two were chatting when they saw another colleague, Qu Feng, walking in mysteriously.

"Hey, Lao Zhu, Lao Wu, have you heard of it? The Ferma conjecture was solved by a mathematician in our country!"

"What?!"

Wu Kangyu and Zhu Hanliang looked at each other and suddenly widened their eyes.

The Fermat Conjecture, together with the Four Color Conjecture and the Goldbach Conjecture, is known as the top conjecture of the world's three major mathematical problems.

The Four Colors Conjecture was proved by American mathematicians Appell and Haken with the help of computers in 1976. The Fermat Conjecture and Goldbach Conjecture remained helpless.

In particular, the Fermat conjecture has plagued the mathematics community for more than three hundred years, and countless mathematicians have been working hard to solve this problem.

Some even began to wonder whether there was a way to prove the Fermat conjecture in a true sense.

Is this problem that can be called the crown jewel of the mathematics world solved by Chinese mathematicians?

Wu Kangyu said: "Which master is this? It's so awesome!"

Qu Feng tilted his head and said, "This is what I just heard in the editor-in-chief's office. It seems like a mathematician named Xue Lin Pang. I have never heard of it. A person from Xinhua News Agency came over and asked, saying that this person has already joined the New York Times. Now the editor-in-chief is looking for people to inquire about it!"

"Learn Lin Pang, learn from Lin Pang..."

Wu Kangyu murmured to himself, always feeling that the name is a bit familiar.

The next moment, he suddenly widened his eyes, looked at Zhu Hanliang, and said in unison: "Pang Xuelin!!!"
Chapter completed!
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