Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1127: Chapter 554 Zhao Yi and Wiles_3

"Yanhua University? China?" Wiles was very surprised. "This place..."

Wiles hesitated.

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Zhao Yi had the sudden whimsical idea of inviting Wiles because he recognized Wiles’s level—could there be difficulty in producing a mathematical proof that the Newton Institute was incapable of disputing and that no mathematician around the world could find fault with?

Inconceivable.

Wiles’s understanding of elliptic curves and hyperbolic functions was, unquestionably, among the very best in the world, and he had spent his life researching the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. It was precisely through the proof of the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture for semi-stable elliptic curves that he proved Fermat’s Last Theorem.

Although it was later shown that his proof process contained errors, no one could deny Wiles’s level.

But Zhao Yi’s invitation to Wiles was not because of his mathematical theoretical research abilities but because of his work experience.

Wiles had served as a researcher, professor, and chair of the mathematics department at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His position at Princeton University had reached the highest peak, one that could no longer be climbed.

Additionally, he had teaching experience at Oxford University and served as the Royal Society Research Professor there.

Such experiences were incredibly valuable.

Even if just in the field of education, Wiles was indeed among the world’s elite.

Although Wiles was already sixty years old, sixty was an age where one could give up theoretical research to focus solely on education, and to exert a few more years of influence to nurture young people was a very meaningful endeavor.

Therefore, Zhao Yi invited Wiles with the hope that he would come to the Yanhua University College of Science and join the Mathematical Center.

Wiles was very surprised by Zhao Yi’s invitation, as China was quite foreign to him.

He needed to think it over carefully. freewebnσvel.cѳm

Zhao Yi was very sincere. After talking with Wiles, he went to the main hall to take an interview with the reporters.

He brought Wiles along with him.

The interviewing reporters recognized Wiles and were immediately astonished. Zhao Yi made a special introduction, "This is Andrew Wiles, my friend."

The reporters, driven by curiosity, asked, "How did you become friends?" freewebnσvel.cѳm

"We have always been friends."

Zhao Yi said, "I pointed out his mistake, but that’s how mathematics is, no one intentionally makes errors. Andrew is a top-level mathematician, which I have always believed."

The camera focused on Wiles.

Wiles flashed a smile, "That’s right, Zhao Yi and I are friends." After saying this, he felt much more at ease, and his movements became more natural.

Wiles’s appearance was just an episode; the reporters were primarily there to interview Zhao Yi, inquiring about the news related to his proof of the Riemann Conjecture.

Zhao Yi and Edward Witten said much the same thing, "Edward and I were working on string theory together, hoping to perfect some aspects of multidimensional spaces, but ended up proving the Riemann Conjecture by accident. It was really unexpected, as we were only using the content of the Riemann Conjecture as a canonical description of topological shapes."

Although the statements from the two were quite similar, the reactions following their reports were entirely different.

When Edward Witten mentioned that he was working on string theory research and happened to prove the Riemann Conjecture, his announcement stirred up a load of criticism.

All the criticism could be summarized in two words—showing off!

Now, when Zhao Yi made a similar statement, once released, it turned into, "God Zhao is so awesome, he accidentally proved the Riemann Conjecture while researching string theory."

"String theory is the main focus, and the Riemann Conjecture is just incidental!"

"God Zhao: I didn’t expect it either!"

"God Zhao: Turns out the Riemann Conjecture is so easy, I proved it incidentally."

"Mathematicians all over the world are crying~~~"

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