Chapter 524 - The proof, completed! (1/2)
Chapter 524: The proof, completed!
More and more people had been alerted about this matter by now.
The venue was already getting overcrowded with people as large numbers of mathematicians, park visitors, and media reporters descended upon the site. Wave after wave, people arrived in droves.
”Where is he?”
”How's the attempt going?”
”Which mathematics master of our country is it?”
”What the f**k! How could it be him?”
”Right, oh my G.o.d, how could it be him!”
Every batch of people who did not know about the news and saw the young figure of a person in front of all those whiteboards had the same reaction. Other than disbelief, it was still disbelief. Some mathematicians, who were always holed up by themselves and knew nothing but equations all day long might not be familiar with Zhang Ye, but how could those reporters who were always up to date with the latest news not know about Zhang Ye infamous name? Right now, they did not care about anything else, they were not bothered by why Zhang Ye would know such high mathematics. All they knew was that the solving of Dale's Conjecture was the most important!
They had already advanced a huge step now!
Could there be another big breakthrough today?
At this time, the last key figure had reached the venue. It was Fellow Wan from the Chinese Academy of Sciences!
”Elder Wan.”
”Fellow Wan.”
”Teacher, you've arrived!”
The Chinese mathematicians had suddenly gathered together.
Fellow Wan did not care about the who the person attempting to solve the problem was at this moment. He went straight for the point of his visit and began discussing with Elder Rong, Professor Qu and the others in front of the whiteboards, pointing and speaking as mathematicians from each specialization suggested their own a.n.a.lysis on the solving of the problem.
”Are you sure?” Elder Rong asked.
Fellow Wan replied very excitedly, ”I'm very sure!”
Professor Qu turned to his side and asked, ”Professor Yan, how about the part that you're concerned about?”
The professor also said excitedly, ”I've been a.n.a.lyzing this for a very long time now and there's definitely a possibility of it logically speaking. His direction of argument is definitely correct!”
Elder Rong cried out loudly, ”Great!”
After having much discussion among the experts, everyone finally seemed convinced. Zhang Ye had not only taken a huge step forward in regards to Dale's Conjecture, he had even managed to prove all of his research was feasible. Although he might not be able to finally solve the conjecture, but at least the direction of study was possible. This meant that this crazily young mathematician was running at full speed towards solving Dale's Conjecture and with each step that he took, he was changing the history of Dale's Conjecture. He had set the wheels in motion regarding this conjecture and that was something to cheer for the people!
Elder Rong sighed and said, ”To think that I was able to live to see this day of Dale's Conjecture being solved. I have no regrets anymore.”
w.a.n.g Yiming quickly said, ”Elder Rong, you're still young.”
Professor Qu laughed, ”If this young man is really able to solve the conjecture and make it into a theorem, it would be the best. Then there would be even less regrets.”
”It's easier said than done.” a professor said.
Fellow Wan who overheard this said, ”If it were to be fully proven, then the global mathematics world should have a feast to celebrate this. By that time, our country's mathematics world would become famous.” At this time, Fellow Wan suddenly took notice of that person and asked, ”Where did you all find such a young mathematician from? Whose student is he? Why do I find him to be so unfamiliar. I don't think that I've ever seen him before?”
Elder Wan laughed out loud, ”Of course you'd find him unfamiliar. That kid has never been one of us mathematicians. Old Wan, I bet that you would never guess what this person does for a living! Hahaha! When the group of us arrived earlier just now, we were stunned to see him too!”
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Time was pa.s.sing by very quickly.
Yes, but it was going very slowly too.
Among those who could understand what Zhang Ye was writing, some were already in a daze. It was like they were under a spell, uttering to themselves as they stared at the whiteboards. Time pa.s.sed very quickly for these people as they had already lost sense of time. In fact, since Zhang Ye began his work on solving the conjecture, 5 hours had already pa.s.sed.
The 28th whiteboard......
The 29th whiteboard......
In the blink of an eye, the 30th whiteboard had also been filled to the brim with writings of equations!
Zhang Ye's method of reasoning was also getting clearer and clearer, presented detailedly in front of all the mathematicians and cameras.
He continued attacking by simplifying the conjecture, suggesting a another proposition: a.s.suming ‘Dale’s Conjecture’ was invalid, and there exists a group of non zero integers A, B, C, such that A^n+B^n=C^n. Then using the group to construct elliptic curve of the form, y²=x(x+A^n)(x-B^n), it is impossible for it to be a modular curve. If he could provide proof of these 2 propositions, then he would be able to show that Dale's Conjecture could not be established by proof by contradiction and in turn prove Dale's Conjecture.
The proving was progressing rapidly!
The direction of approach was getting stronger!
The Chinese mathematicians could no longer bear it and kept cheering!
”Great!”
”This step was solved with such great excitement!”
”It's another milestone! He's reached another important point in his calculations!”
”This person is really good!”
At this point in time, even those foreign mathematicians were starting to believe that this young Chinese mathematician could really solve Dale's Conjecture. Just the idea alone made everyone's heart beat faster. In such a setting and with such a person, it was turning out to be a really unbelievable situation!
Fellow Wan couldn't sit around any longer, ”Let's go, we should not be idling around. Let's start by verifying the equations.”
”There isn't enough time, there's such a large amount of calculations to be done....” said a professor.
Elder Rong said, ”We don't need to calculate everything. Just do a simple check so that we know everything looks to be in order. If there isn't a big problem in there, it should be fine. The details can be worked out at a later time!”
The manpower was available and everything was in place. A large number of Chinese mathematicians immediately initiated the process and started verifying each of Zhang Ye's whiteboards. With computing equipments available to them and so many authoritative experts around, the workload that needed to be done could be considered as light.
Seeing the situation, a few foreign mathematicians also volunteered to join the Chinese in the verification process and work with them in light of such a grand moment in the history of mathematics!