The dinner table suddenly became quiet. Seeing Wei Yuanfu's serious expression, Ning Qingyun subconsciously nervously held Qin Ke's hand.

Qin Ke smiled and shook Ning Qingyun's little hand to reassure her.

The girl's hands are small, soft, smooth and greasy, and feel particularly good.

Holding Ning Qingyun's little hand, Qin Ke felt confident in his heart and said to Wei Yuanfu: "Director Wei, please stop playing riddles and give me some good news first."

Wei Yuanfu smiled bitterly and said: "I really don't want to play riddles. This is actually a bit difficult to say. I just called from a friend of mine in the American mathematics community. He works at the American Mathematical Society and is relatively well-informed. He just said that we

Students named 'Qin Ke' and 'Ning Qingyun' from the school have been invited to the 'Scientific Breakthrough Award' academic conference. Of course, it is you two. By the way, have you heard of the 'Scientific Breakthrough Award'?"

Ning Qingyun shook his head, but Qin Ke was a little impressed: "Is it the so-called 'science award with the highest prize money in the world'?"

When Jiang Zhenjie, the fat man next to him, heard "the highest bonus", he couldn't help but ask: "What is the highest bonus?"

Ximen Hui was well-informed and answered directly for Qin Ke: "3 million is a dollar."

Jiang Zhenjie took a breath. His family's tea business was quite profitable, but the amount of AR still staggered him. This huge amount of money could almost buy a decent three-bedroom and two-living house in a top city like Shencheng.

.

Seeing Ning Qingyun's surprised look, Qin Ke explained: "This 'Scientific Breakthrough Award' is a scientific award initiated by the founders of top world technology companies such as Google, Facebook, and Penguin to commend scholars and scientific research.

Achievements made by personnel in the field of scientific and technological innovation. If I remember correctly, they should be divided into 'Breakthrough Award in Life Sciences', 'Breakthrough Award in Basic Physics' and 'Breakthrough Award in Mathematics', as well as the 'New Horizon Award' for young scientists.

."

Wei Yuanfu nodded and said: "You know I won't explain anymore. You are invited to give a thirty-minute report at the 'Mathematical Report'. The topic should be 'Lime Number Theory Fourth-order Transformation Method'. The academic invitation letter will be sent directly

Send it to the school, and we will forward it to you when we receive it. If you have received the invitation letter, you should be on the list of candidates, but it is hard to say whether it is the 'Mathematics Breakthrough Award' or the 'Mathematics New Horizons Award'.

The winners of this award will not be announced until the end.”

Jiang Zhenjie couldn't help but envy: "Isn't this good news for Brother Ke and the school committee?"

In front of Director Wei, he did not dare to call Ning Qingyun "sister-in-law" anymore, so he called him "student committee" which is commonly used by his classmates.

"This is good news. Another not-so-good news is... Qin Ke, your Kohl Prize may be in doubt." Wei Yuanfu sighed: "Tomorrow's issue of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society will be...

Published a paper authored by Lyons Bowie, the youngest mathematics professor from the University of Cambridge in the UK, with the title..."

Wei Yuanfu paused, then said bitterly: ""Prove that for all odd numbers k, there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers (p, p

2k)》.”

Jiang Zhenjie's expression changed: "Does this prove that Polignac's conjecture is true under odd number conditions?"

Wei Yuanfu sighed: "Yes, this paper can be published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and the content should be no problem. In other words, the 'Weak Polignac Conjecture' has been overcome."

The Polignac conjecture exceeds the twin prime conjecture in terms of significance and difficulty. Even the "weakened version" of the Polignac conjecture is still more important than the twin prime conjecture.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are working on the "Polignac Conjecture" topic. Everyone present knows that now that the "Weak Polignac Conjecture" has been proven, the impact is not trivial. If we don't seize the lead soon, it may lead to

This topic was solved in advance, and all the work of the two people was in vain.

For Qin Ke, the impact is greater.

Originally, Qin Ke was very likely to win this year's Cole Prize in Number Theory, the highest international award in number theory, for proving the twin prime conjecture. But now that Ons Bowie's new paper came out, he was immediately suppressed.

With Qin Ke out of the limelight, the ownership of the Cole number theory prize has become confusing.

Seeing that the atmosphere seemed a bit dull, Ximen Hui hurriedly said: "Director Wei, who is this Onsée Bowie? Why don't you seem to have heard of his name?"

Wei Yuanfu said: "China has always paid attention to some older and more famous internationally renowned mathematicians, and paid less attention to the younger generation. In fact, Lyons Bowie is very extraordinary. In the British mathematics community,

He is extremely famous. When he was in his third year as an undergraduate, he published a research paper on prime numbers in the top international journal "Journal of Mathematics" and was praised by 'Andrew Wiles' as 'a rising star in the British number theory community'."

Andrew Wiles, the elder brother of the Philippine Prize, was known to everyone present. Jiang Zhenjie was speechless again. He swallowed the words that came to his lips, "I only published papers in international mathematics journals in my junior year, which is much weaker than Brother Ke."

Went back.

Wei Yuanfu continued: "Later he went to MIT in the United States to study for a Ph.D., during which he won the Sloan Foundation Scholarship in the United States and the Danzik Prize. After obtaining his PhD, he returned to the UK and taught at the University of Cambridge. He

He is only 27 years old this year and is already a full professor. He is also the youngest full professor in the Department of Mathematics at Cambridge University. I heard that he is likely to win the Adams Prize, the oldest and most influential mathematics award at Cambridge University, this year. By the way,

He also received an invitation from this 'Scientific Breakthrough Award' academic conference."

Even though they were used to seeing Qin Ke's "super god", Jiang Zhenjie and Ximen Hui were speechless when they heard this seemingly cheating resume of Lyons Bowie.

No wonder Wei Yuanfu said it was bad news. Such a terrifying mathematical genius, armed with the weapon to prove the "weak Polignac conjecture", is indeed qualified to compete with Qin Ke for this year's Cole number theory award!

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Qin Ke also sighed a little. He had seen Grandmaster Tao’s introduction before and wondered if the other party was also cheating. Now he heard this and came to Ans Bowie

, he also had the same association.

But...it turned out to be just a weak Polignac conjecture. Qin Ke's somewhat worried heart was immediately relieved, and he was completely relieved.

Nothing to worry about.

Some people may think that if it has been proved under the conditions of odd numbers, and then it is proved to be true under the conditions of even numbers, then the addition of the "two weak" means that the Polignac conjecture has been proved?

On the surface, it does make sense. Just like Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun initially proved Zhou's conjecture using this method, respectively proving that the assumption condition K is an odd number and an even number, Zhou's conjecture is established, and then concluded that under the condition of natural numbers

Zhou's conjecture was established, thus turning Zhou's conjecture into Zhou's theorem.

But this is just what people who don't really understand Polignac's conjecture take it for granted.

Qin Ke also tried a similar method at first, but later found that this direction was not feasible at all. The difficulty of proving odd conditions and proving even conditions were not the same, and it was easy to fall into self-contradiction.

Just like the weak Goldbach conjecture, "Any odd number greater than 7 can be expressed as the sum of three odd prime numbers" was proven more than ten years ago, but almost all those who continue to study in this direction have gone into

dead end.

Moreover, the biggest problem with this method of proving odd and even numbers separately is that it will separate a complete mathematical method.

The greatest significance of the proof of a conjecture is not only that it solves a difficult problem, but also provides a powerful mathematical method and a powerful tool for solving similar problems or problems in a certain direction.

Qin Ke dared to assert that if Lyons Bowie continued to prove that the Polignac conjecture was true under even numbers, even if it took ten years, there would be no results.

When Wei Yuanfu saw that Qin Ke was silent, he thought he was a little sad and uneasy, so he comforted him: "You may not have a chance to win the Cole number theory prize. After all, Anse Bowie only proved the 'weak Polignac conjecture'."

', but you proved the 'Twin Prime Conjecture', 'There are infinitely many Mersenne primes', 'There are infinitely many Fibonacci numbers', and the combined weight of the three always exceeds the 'Weak Polignac Conjecture'.

', not to mention that you have proved the 'Zhou's Conjecture' and other mathematical conjectures. The school will also work hard to mobilize various relationships to help you win..."

Qin Ke smiled and held Ning Qingyun's small hand tightly. The girl was smiling at him with her lips pursed. As a member of Qin Ke's research team, she certainly knew that the direction of the proof by Lyons Bowie was wrong.

"Thank you, Director Wei, but don't comfort me. This 'weak Polignac conjecture' is meaningless."

Wei Yuanfu was stunned, Jiang Zhenjie was stunned, and Ximen Hui was also stunned.

Qin Ke felt that it was too troublesome to explain, and he was afraid that when the director of health returned to school, he would report to the school leaders about Onsé Bowie, which would cause a flurry of chaos, so he simply said directly: "If you are interested, I

It can take two hours to write it, and then you can compare it with the paper published tomorrow to see if the argument process is similar."

Wei Yuanfu couldn't believe his ears. He stood up with a bang and asked in surprise: "You mean, you can also prove this weak Polignac conjecture?"

"Yes, but it's really pointless. If nothing else happens, my project will be completed in about ten days."

"Conclusion? Do you mean to prove... prove the Polignac conjecture? Is it a strong conjecture, not a weak conjecture?" The surprise came so quickly and suddenly that Wei Yuanfu felt that he could not keep up with the student's thinking.

, actually confirmed repeatedly like a repeater.

Qin Ke nodded and said calmly: "Give Qingjun and I another ten days, and the final paper will be published by then."

There was silence in the private room, and after a while, there was a soft popping sound.

This is the kuaizi in Jiang Zhenjie's hand that fell to the ground.

…

After dinner, everyone dispersed.

Ximen Hui only took the "Analysis and Partial Differential Equations" course in Qiu Saili in the morning. It was the end of his journey and he returned to school directly after dinner.

Jiang Zhenjie took one more course of "Probability and Statistics" than she did, and had an exam in the afternoon. However, he had the habit of taking a nap. He planned to go back to the dormitory and nap for half an hour before taking the exam at YSU, so he and Ximen Hui took Wei Yuanfu's car.

Return to Qingmu University.

Before leaving, Jiang Zhenjie was still mumbling random thoughts such as "Brother Ke is worthy of being Brother Ke, he's so awesome."

Ning Qingyun did not go with them.

She doesn't have to take exams in the afternoon, but she still has "Geometry and Topology" in the evening. She plans to find a study room at Yanda to study in the afternoon so that she can have dinner with Qin Ke.

Qin Ke naturally walked side by side with her and sent her to the study room.

Ning Qingyun's steps were brisk, and her pretty face was flushed with pride.

"Qin Xiaoke, I'm a little happy."

Qin Ke smiled and said: "Are you feeling a little proud to find that the so-called British genius professor actually walked into a dead end that we have avoided without knowing it?"

"There are some reasons for this. The main reason is that you are more powerful. And I think that Lyons Bowie was probably pushed too hard. He should have been eyeing this year's Kohl Prize, but he ended up losing out halfway.

You forced him to play this trump card in a hurry."

Qin Ke snapped his fingers: "My Jun'er is just smart, I guess that's probably it. With his level, I'm afraid he can see that there are problems with this direction, but in order to compete for the Kohl Prize, he had to send it out first, at least in terms of momentum.

To the upper wind."

Ning Qingyun blushed a little at the praise. She lowered her gaze in embarrassment, but took the initiative to hold Qin Ke's arm: "Qin Xiaoke, can we really complete the proof of Polignac's conjecture in ten days?"

Qin Ke sniffed the fresh air on the Yanda campus and the touching lime-like body fragrance of the girl next to him. He couldn't help but kiss her little face: "You are now my powerful assistant. With your help
To be continued...