CHAPTER 685: CHAPTER 214: PETER, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME!

Even at a conference, he doesn’t want to be outdone. It can be said he has youthful exuberance and a competitive spirit, yet it can also be understood as someone with exceptional intelligence always having the ability to look beyond appearances and see the essence.

For example, how does he make others willingly unite around this small fellow? It’s nothing more than creating a community of shared interests.

A thousand people can have a thousand different thoughts. Especially in mathematics, where the thoughts are aplenty.

The capable rise, the mediocre fall. This saying sounds simple, but to execute it is quite difficult.

He can currently ignore the rules, firstly because he is young and no one feels comfortable haggling with him. And if someone did get upset, even if tables were flipped, the various public opinions would favor him.

Secondly, he has Elder Yuan and Tian Yanzhen supporting him, allowing him to do as he pleases.

But people do grow up.

What he could do in his teens would not be appropriate once he reaches twenty or thirty.

The former is clever and innocent, while the latter becomes arrogant.

The solution is simple: set the rules while he is still young to establish a sufficient advantage.

Qiao Yu even feels that one Fields Medal is not enough. Because he is still too young.

Others in their thirties, with a Fields Medal, can bask in lifelong glory even without further achievements, but not him.

Winning a Fields Medal at seventeen, even having a brief period of quiet might prompt some to think of him as a squandered talent.

So, to have the mathematicians loyal to him, even after Elder Yuan and his mentor retire, so he can command them as if controlling his arm, he must capitalize on the time when he can focus without distractions to produce more results.

He needs to prove that his capability is not just a fleeting moment, and he certainly can’t let Yu Wei steal the spotlight.

And just like that, another week passed in the blink of an eye.

There are only three days left until the conference scheduled for September 15.

Invited foreign mathematicians have already started arriving in Beijing. For example, Professor Andre, Professor Dennis, Professor Sam...

Indeed, the first batch to arrive in Huaxia are mostly scholars who have previously collaborated with professors and researchers here.

Traversing mountains and rivers is not easy. While not everyone comes like Pierre Derini, taking the opportunity for a vacation in Huaxia, attending just one conference might not seem worthwhile.

Coming a few days earlier provides a chance to reunite and chat with previously collaborating professors.

Especially those who have cooperated with Huaqing or Yanbei Mathematics College, their enthusiasm in attending is noticeable.

There’s no secret in the entire theoretical mathematics community. As long as it’s about known mathematicians, what they’re researching and what papers they’ve published recently are not secrets.

The same goes for the not so renowned but recently made significant achievements.

For example, reducing the upper bound of prime number gaps to 2 belongs to this category.

Ever since Zhang Yuantang proved the boundedness of prime number gaps, it was swiftly reduced to 246.

Then, for over a decade, this number remained unchanged, until finally, the Western mathematics community employed various methods to reduce it to 26.

Until Qiao Yu developed the Generalized Modal Axiomatic System, successfully reducing this number to single digits, though never reaching the ultimate value of 2.

But now someone has conquered this problem.

Evidently, the Generalized Modal Axiomatic System has advanced modern mathematics to a new stage.

At present, it seems applicable to branches like number theory, algebraic geometry, representation theory, and so forth.

Many international scholars, like Lott Degen, believe that the recent outpour of results from Yanbei University, produced by different people, indicates they possess more advanced teaching materials or educational methods.

Coming earlier under such circumstances is indeed necessary.

Such a period of great development in mathematics is rare. Missing the opportunity and trying to immortalize oneself after the wave of growth benefits are exhausted would be difficult.

Yes, for those in academic research, the ultimate ideal is probably to have one’s name left in future textbooks like their predecessors.

Distant figures like Newton, Riemann, Gauss... and closer ones like Hilbert... anyone specializing in mathematics cannot avoid them.

Human life is limited, but being remembered for generations is akin to life’s continuation, and you must strive for such an opportunity.

Thus, many people came earlier. Even though Yanbei University’s hotel arrangements start just a day in advance.

Fortunately, Qiao Yu does not have many people he needs to meet in person, only a handful, such as Peter Schultz.

Yes, Peter Schultz is one of the mathematicians who arrived early in Huaxia. As for the reason...

Perhaps he is not very pleased with Qiao Yu.

After all, during their time in Philadelphia, they agreed to jointly advance the work of using artificial intelligence to organize mathematical theorems.

Even though the International Mathematicians Conference wrapped up a month ago and it’s been a month and a half since Qiao Yu returned to Huaxia, Qiao Yu has only been engaged in limited email discussions with him.

Basically, it’s safe to say that Qiao Yu’s related work here hasn’t progressed at all. It’s well-known that mathematicians generally consider their current work to be the most important.

Peter Schultz is no exception and perhaps even more so.

If his Condensed State Mathematics plan succeeds, its significance would undoubtedly rival the Generalized Modal Axiomatic System proposed by Qiao Yu. Moreover, it could leverage artificial intelligence to facilitate the mathematics community in employing more natural tools to address various issues.