Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Towards the end of the month, another dramatic event has recently taken place in mathematics, with its influence not only in academia, but even beyond.

The office of the Institute of Advanced Studies, sitting in front of the computer browsing the conference information, suddenly stopped after seeing the news.

Immediately after, he barely shouted out in surprise.

“Professor, have you heard that Lehman's guess has been proven?! ”

Ark: “Oh? ”

Like the discovery of a new continent, Hardy said with excitement: "What I saw on mathoverflow, Sir Michael Attia of Cambridge University, England, is said to have declared a simple way to prove Lehman's assumptions and will be presented at the Heidelberg Awards Winners' Forum. ”

Mathoverflow is a well-known online mathematics community where many mathematical bulls have their own accounts, such as TAO God, who is particularly active on it, not only regularly updates blogs, but also interacts with visitors on a regular basis.

After hearing Hadi's words, the Ark laughed, joking, not joking.

“If he does, he will undoubtedly be the greatest mathematician of the century. ”

Hardy: “Do you keep an eye on his proof? ”

The Ark did not answer this question directly, but simply expressed its views.

“Sir Attia is a brilliant scholar and a dual recipient of the Abel and Fields Awards, but the elderly are now 89 years old… it is difficult to be honest. ”

In fact, Attia was definitely not the first scholar to claim to prove Lehman's assumptions.

Academically alone, Professor De-Branges, a well-known scholar in mathematics around '04, also claimed to have solved Lehman's speculation and provoked a lot of sensation at the time, but unfortunately was not recognized by the mathematical community.

Had it been earlier, even Hardy would have claimed to have proved the problem.

Hardy hesitated and continued: "But… he is Sir Attia, the dual recipient of the Abel and Fields Awards, and if he wasn't sure, would he make such a claim? ”

Upon hearing this, Ark laughed and said with joy, "My dear Hardy, if you intend to be an academic, then you must remember that medals are glory, but only glory. Or in other words, it is precisely because the mathematical community has awarded him these two honors that he should respond to well-founded questions rather than ignore those who question him as fools. ”

Faced with the gaze of Hadi's inquiry, the ark paused for a moment and continued.

“And as opposed to Lehman's guess, I would like to know more about Sir Attia's negative proof as to whether there is a reconstruction on the six-dimensional spherical S ^ 6, and what is happening now. ”

Hardy: "… Six-dimensional spherical S ^ 6 superstructure? ”

The ark nodded: “This is an outstanding famous difficulty in the K-theory of algebraic topology, which, although not a millennium difficulty, is no less important in the field of algebraic topology than the millennium difficulty. In about 16 years, Sir Attia gave a negative answer to this proposition, but he came up with an unsatisfactory paper. Not only was the proof process only half a page in the true sense, but he even talked about the history of mathematics in the fourth part of the paper...”

Paused for a moment, the ark shrugged, continuing, "At least according to information on Mathoverflow, he has not yet responded to people's questions about him, and academia is sceptical about his thesis. ”

The paper on the complex on the six-dimensional spherical S ^ 6 is searchable on Arxiv, which is not his message.

In less than two years "solving” one of the most important challenges in the mathematical world and in the mathematical world as a whole…

The Ark certainly hopes that this is true, after all, there is a bit of heroism in the mathematics business.

But for this ninety year old man...

Honestly, he doesn't have much hope.

Mathematics is a young discipline and there is no old saying. When a person ages, whether it is memory or thinking, it is obvious that they will decline.

As a result, few mathematicians are able to achieve better results in later life than they did in younger times.

In short, regardless of the end result, the old man should be happy...

……

Lehmann thought it was an interesting subject, but it was not of the utmost concern to the Ark at this moment.

Once he had set a label for his attention to the report, he put the focus of his work back on the task chain of the light of fusion.

The direct design of the simulator was too large and the quantum computer was still far away. After considering various factors, he eventually chose the superconducting material as his next topic.

To be honest, the superconducting material is not simple, but for now it is the closest subject to his field of study.

Frick Chemical Lab, the ark saw Connie.

Due to a collaborative project with Professor Pablo Herrero, he spent most of the past six months on exchange visits at MIT until he came back last week.

After seeing Connie, the ark opened its doors to the mountains and asked, "How's the superconducting material project going? ”

“I can't give you an accurate result, but overall, it went well.” Hand over a USB drive to the Ark, Connie continues, "I've written a summary of my visit, which I was going to send to your mailbox, in a folder that starts with" C. "”

After taking the flash drive from his hand, the ark nodded.

“I know, I'll see. ”

Looking at the sincere look on the face of the ark, Connie said with some excitement: "Professor, are you finally going to do it? ”

The ark briefly said, "Well… for various reasons, I have recently shifted the focus of my work from mathematics to the subject of superconducting materials. ”

And why, of course, he wouldn't say it.

After letting Connie do his thing, the Ark went to the desk and sat down, plugged the flash drive into the computer, and opened the report that Connie had written.

After a quick half-hour reading of the report, the Ark quickly gained an overview of the progress of the subject.

In short, the Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Laboratory, led by Professor Herrero, does theories, mainly studying the symmetry of this superconducting phase, the forged energy gap, the columnar phase, and so on.

Institutes of Computing Materials and Sarott Laboratories, on the other hand, are using a large number of experiments to find a way to maintain this superconductivity under conditions that increase the concentration of graphene carriers.

It has to be said that Professor Pablo Herrero is indeed a big bull in the field of graphene, and with $10 million in funding from star science and technology, the progress of the study can be described as a burst in.

With the help of these theoretical results, the research of the Institute of Computing Materials of Jinling and the Sarot Laboratory in the field of application has also produced many beautiful milestones.

However, there is still a considerable distance from the final outcome.

Thinking for a moment about the images on the computer screen, the ark quickly gained a clear understanding of what it needed to do.

What he's good at is calculating materials, mathematically looking for patterns in materials.

So for him, the first thing that needs to be done is to build a reliable mathematical model based on the data that three laboratories will have collected over the course of almost a year.

Secondly, in order for the project to be quicker, he needed more staff.

Professor Chirick, for example, is a good candidate...