"You call this..."
"A little research?!"
After hearing Zhang Zhiqiang's exclamation, Luo Dayong, Yan Jing and Zhu Ping looked over together.
They didn't hear what was said before.
Zhang Zhiqiang immediately turned around and explained with all his hands and feet, "Wang Hao! He said that he used the counterexample of 196 to refute the palindrome conjecture."
"Besides, he said it was a small study..."
He opened his mouth after saying the last sentence, but no one paid attention to him.
The palindrome conjecture is not that famous, but scholars doing scientific research in science and engineering majors will generally know that. Even Zhu Ping immediately reacted, "You are talking about the transformation and addition, it can become a positive
A guess that reads consistently in reverse order?"
Zhang Zhiqiang immediately nodded vigorously.
Luo Dayong quickly looked at Zhu Ping, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, as if to say, 'She actually knows.'
Everyone in the office knows it.
When a number read from left to right is exactly the same as read from right to left, such a number is called a "palindrome".
For example, 494, 2002,...etc.
The content of the palindrome conjecture is that any natural number is added to its reciprocal number, and the resulting sum is added to the reciprocal number of the sum... If this is repeated, after a finite number of steps, a palindrome will eventually be obtained.
number.
This is an easy-to-understand mathematical conjecture, but it is considered wrong by most mathematicians because it is easy to use computers to find some numbers. After tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of calculations, there are still no palindromes.
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196, is a very classic example.
Some professional organizations used 196 as the basis and repeated the transformation calculation hundreds of thousands of times, but still did not get the palindrome number.
So the question is, is it possible to get a palindrome number by continuing to calculate, or is it impossible to get a palindrome number no matter how many operations are performed?
This is the palindrome conjecture.
The content of the palindrome conjecture is very simple, but it has not been proven until now.
Luo Dayong and Yan Jing immediately came over to take a look. After confirming that it was a study on palindrome numbers, they were as surprised as Zhang Zhiqiang. They were even more surprised that Wang Hao was going to post the research on his blog instead of submitting it to a professional mathematics magazine.
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Wang Hao said nonchalantly, "No need to do this, it's really a small study. I didn't do a rigorous proof, I just gave a counterexample."
“Everyone knows that 196 is a counterexample,” Zhang Zhiqiang said, “but no one can prove it.”
Wang Hao ignored them. After adding a title, he published it directly.
In his understanding, proving that 196 is a counterexample to the palindrome conjecture is indeed just a small piece of research.
He only applied imperfect mathematical methods to research, or even a little bit of the research, to complete the proof that 196 is a counterexample to the palindrome conjecture.
This is just a small application of S-level research mathematical methods.
As long as the mathematical method is published, others can follow the method to solve problems like the palindrome conjecture.
So the most important results are new mathematical methods.
Seeing Wang Hao publish the content, Zhang Zhiqiang even covered his heart in pain. Others felt the same way. If it were put to them, they would try to submit to top journals no matter what.
"What a pity, such a big discovery!" Zhu Ping came over when she knew it.
Wang Hao said nonchalantly, "If you are interested in the proof process, you can read my blog."
They immediately returned to their seats and opened Wang Hao's blog to check it out.
Although they said they were heartbroken about Wang Hao's posting of the content on the Internet, they felt it was a big gossip if they didn't take it into account, so they forwarded the content of the article to other people one after another.
In just a few minutes, Xihai University knew everything from top to bottom.
Zhu Ping was the most active in this matter, because she only glanced at the content and knew that she would not be able to understand it.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it, you can forward it to others.
Forward it to the Internet, or even to the school group, with the following sentence, "I read it from beginning to end, and Professor Wang Hao's proof process is completely correct.
From now on, there will be no palindrome conjecture in mathematics!"
Luo Dayong was carefully watching the proof process when he noticed a message appeared in the reminder prompt. He glanced at the comment of the person who forwarded it, raised his head and stared at Zhu Ping's face carefully with dull eyes.
Zhu Ping also noticed it. He and Luo Dayong looked at each other for a long time. Feeling a little unbearable, he lowered his head with a blush. Then he immediately looked over and raised his eyebrows vigorously, as if to say, "You
What are you looking at!"
Luo Dayong scratched his face hard with his hand, shook his head and continued to read the certificate.
"Tch~~It's inexplicable!"
At the same time, Yan Jing gave up after reading part of it, because there was a content about convergence transformation, which involved complex limit problems, and she couldn't understand it, so she stopped reading.
Zhang Zhiqiang is also patiently reading and understanding. He feels that he should be able to understand it, because the proof process is only two pages, but some of the transformations are very clever and involve some advanced extreme transformations. He wants to understand it.
It's not easy.
Only Luo Dayong read it with gusto, and started making calculations with a pen while reading.
Later, Zhang Zhiqiang simply asked Luo Dayong, euphemistically saying that the two of them studied together. The result was that Luo Dayong was watching and talking at the same time. He himself also found that there was indeed a big gap between himself and Luo Dayong in terms of mathematical level.
At the same time, more and more people are seeing blog content on the Internet, and the number of viewers is growing exponentially.
Wang Hao's Weibo account has more than 500,000 fans, and the previous peak reached 600,000. However, because he has not posted Weibo accounts for a long time, it seems to be a dead account, and the number of fans keeps dropping.
Now a blog article was suddenly published and forwarded to Weibo News. It immediately attracted attention on the Internet. When I clicked on it, I saw the title--
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "A small research, take notes, and disprove the palindrome conjecture".
When they saw the title, many people thought it was just a small study and were interested in scanning the content. Of course, most people couldn't understand it, but after they did a reading and comprehension of the title, they were immediately shocked.
"Small research? Does it prove the palindrome conjecture? Professor Wang Hao is in Versailles, right?"
"This is 100% Versailles, so Versailles!"
"Is this proof true? Is there anyone who can help me? I deny a mathematical conjecture. It doesn't sound like a small piece of research."
Wang Hao still has traffic value.
Soon some media accounts forwarded the article, and the comments were, "Professor Wang Hao of Xihai University refutes the palindrome conjecture!"
"Professor Wang Hao actually posted the disproof of the palindrome conjecture on his blog. He thought it was just a small study."
"Does the palindrome conjecture prove? Is the proof correct? I look forward to the answer from professional mathematicians!"
In the complex office, only Luo Dayong could understand Wang Hao's certificate.
If it were put on the Internet, more than 99.99% of people would not be able to understand it. It is definitely not easy to find someone who can understand the proof process, because the vast majority of people with high levels of mathematics will not understand it.
It takes a long time to read Weibo and blog.
In addition, some truly top scholars do not care about proofs published on the Internet, because there are many similar proofs.
For example, if you search for the proof of Goldbach's conjecture, you can easily find dozens of articles. The publishers even include teachers from some universities, but no one reads most of the content.
the reason is simple.
If it is really a correct proof, why not submit it to a top journal but publish it on the Internet?
In this case, either there is a certain amount of research and it feels a bit wasteful if it is not published, or it is purely civilian research.
However, it also depends on the situation.
Who the publisher is specifically is very important.
Wang Hao is a special case.
He has completed the proof of the regularity of the Monge-Ampère equation, coupled with the more famous and influential demonstration of Artin's constant, and the results of the search for Mersenne primes, he has become very famous in the mathematical community and is placed in the
He can also be called a 'top mathematician' internationally.
When Wang Hao publishes a mathematical argument, even if it is only published on the Internet, it will be reprinted and reported by many media, and then more people will know about it.
A doctoral student at the Mathematical Science Center of Shuimu University saw the news on the Internet, and he immediately shared the news to the Mathematical Science Center group.
To be continued...