Chapter 441: Chapter 146 I Take It Back!_3
Even though he didn’t care whether his project could be selected, he still needed to have the right attitude.
After all, both his mentor and Elder Yuan were sitting in the front.
At this moment, the atmosphere in the conference room started to become somewhat peculiar.
There weren’t many gazes resting on the academician from the Mathematics Science Research Institute on the stage, instead, they were involuntarily looking at the sixteen-year-old boy sitting in the back row.
In fact, in this world, it’s inevitable to encounter situations where seniority is emphasized, especially in the academic field.
The fact that a project application submitted by a sixteen-year-old could enter their view is, in some sense, already a miracle.
Even though Qiao Yu has already achieved accomplishments that many professors have not, his age is indeed quite exceptional.
If Qiao Yu’s mentor wasn’t Tian Yanzhen and had a great relationship with Yuan Zhengxin, this certainly wouldn’t be a project proposal that should be discussed at today’s meeting.
So not only does Qiao Yu think that his mentor and Elder Yuan are being hasty, but every expert present at the meeting also feels there’s no need for this.
Everyone has selfish motives.
Every year, there are only so many youth base projects available, and many professors are just at the age threshold. If they don’t get it this time, there might not be another chance.
For a sixteen-year-old kid to come and compete truly seems unreasonable. Even though this concept is indeed valuable, everyone knows that many concepts have value.
For example, all the sub-conjectures of the Langlands Program haven’t been completely proven yet. Moreover, Qiao Yu’s ideas are very novel, and it’s well-known that novel ideas invariably incite debate.
There are debates even about fully proven ideas, let alone something that still mostly exists as a mere framework.
And Qiao Yu is someone who doesn’t play by the rules, with a track record to prove it!
Just when the Geometric Langlands Conjecture was about to be recognized, he suddenly found a bug in the proof process and then personally stitched up the bug...
In this process, he directly ousted two professors from their research group, took down their paper, and put his own up. Theoretically, there was nothing flawed about it, but it left people feeling hard to comment.
A sixteen-year-old genius who’s hard to evaluate and has already made a name for himself in the world - this truly gave the expert panel a headache.
Whether to approve or reject this project proposal was a stress-inducing dilemma.
This is probably why Qiao Yu’s project proposal was dragged to the last. To solve the most difficult problem at the end.
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"...Regarding the significance, breakthrough, and innovation of the study on the general modal number theory axiomatic system over multiple transcendental spaces, I’ve already introduced enough. Next, let me talk about the problems.
First, from the current project proposal report submitted, the definition of the geometric structure of the modal space proposed by Qiao Yu is not sufficiently clear.
This involves two aspects: the physical and geometric meanings of the modal parameters are not clear, and the method of determining the dimensions of the modal space is rather abstract.
Secondly, I haven’t seen a clearer or sufficient mathematical basis for the definition of modal distance in the report. I think we’re still a long way from giving an axiomatic definition of distance.
Third, I noticed there’s an extension in the research goal to handle complex, high-dimensional modal space issues. But as the modal space extends to higher dimensions, the computational complexity and theoretical construction increase exponentially. I haven’t seen any ideas on how to keep it under control.
Fourth... and finally, I’ve carefully reviewed the credentials of the research group’s members, and I’ve found that some key members lack research experience, making me doubtful about their ability to achieve the project’s preset goals.
That’s the end of my review opinions regarding this subject."
Alright, this time Qiao Yu really listened very attentively.
The academician is indeed competent. Being able to raise six issues in such a short time at least shows that Academician Zhang Yuanling has seriously reviewed the report he submitted.
Some of the issues he can address right now. It’s not that the questions posed by Academician Zhang are lacking, but rather the report’s length constraints, which couldn’t cover everything.
There are also issues he can’t provide a definite answer to at the moment.
For instance, the third issue pertains to the study of high-dimensional aspects, which is a direction for the future.
As things currently stand, tackling the problems in two-dimensional and three-dimensional modal space with this axiomatic framework is already quite impressive.
As for extending to high-dimensional space and the solutions to theoretical and computational complexity issues, Qiao Yu hasn’t even considered it yet.
Because his purpose for creating this framework was to solve the Twin Prime Conjecture assigned by his mentor, from Qiao Yu’s perspective, a three-dimensional modal space is sufficient to address this problem.
One dimension represents the basic sequence of prime numbers; two dimensions describe the gap between prime pairs; three dimensions provide geometric information such as periodicity or local symmetry.
Introducing more dimensions would purely increase complexity and the difficulty of proof exponentially, which is entirely unnecessary.
In light of the above reasons, after Academician Zhang finished speaking, Qiao Yu very naturally raised his hand high.
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For the overwhelming majority, if not ninety-nine percent, of those attending today’s meeting, it was very clear how the meeting should proceed.
The only exception, as it seems, was Qiao Yu.
For instance, during the time each expert was presenting about the project proposals, each project representative was present in the audience, but no one was expected to speak; they only recorded the questions raised by the experts.
Because the morning session was just for expert opinions. The specific session requiring a response would occur in the afternoon, after the experts had a preliminary discussion on each project plan.