The night before the college entrance exam results were released, I redeemed my Peking University ad
Chapter 43 No, are you treating Weibo like Nature?
"Why are all the officials in the court silent?"
This sentence was like a spark falling into a powder keg; the next second, the entire comment section exploded into pieces.
"Holy crap! Poincaré!!!!"
"The Seven Millennium Problems!!!!"
"I'm dumbfounded... The first three are classic number theory problems, and this jumps straight to the Millennium Seven??"
"For your information: The Poincaré conjecture is one of the seven Millennium Problems and is the most fundamental proposition in topology."
"Hey, you trolls! Where's the person who was forcing an apology? Come out here!"
"Where are those rational, neutral people who were just making sweeping generalizations and labeling you? Keep going! You said he was arrogant and conceited, that he treated academics like a joke?"
"Emperor Ji Bai: Apology? Forget about it. Here's the Millennium Problem for you all, figure it out yourselves."
Other people's Weibo posts: selfies, boyfriends, inspirational quotes; Ji Bai's Weibo posts: a series of proofs for world-class problems!
"No, Ji Bai, are you treating this Weibo post like it's a Nature publication?"
"Weibo servers: What did I do to deserve this? Why did you crash me again in the middle of the night??"
……
Tens of thousands of comments flooded in, triggering an alarm in Weibo's backend system. The server load was instantly maxed out, causing the page to freeze for ages before refreshing.
In less than ten minutes, the hashtag #JiBaiPoincaréConjecture# shot like a rocket to the top of the trending topics list, followed by a bright red "Explosive" character.
The entire internet was stunned.
No one expected that Ji Bai would not explain or apologize, but instead throw out a bombshell.
In the conference room of the city guesthouse, several graduate students who were still discussing the "Ji Bai Law" froze on the spot the moment they saw it on Weibo.
"Holy crap..."
The second-year graduate student, who had won a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad, nearly dropped his phone when his hand trembled.
"It's true... the Poincaré conjecture..."
"What??"
Several people immediately surrounded the screen, their eyes wide with disbelief.
"Not a dream? He actually proved the Poincaré conjecture?"
"Ji Bai's Law...it really is Ji Bai's Law!"
"The fiercer the public outcry, the more ruthless the results! This isn't just a rule; it's a weapon of causality!"
"Is he even human? Solving three number theory conjectures in three days is one thing, but then, just one day later, he tackles the Millennium Problem? Does his brain contain the entire mathematical universe?"
"Don't just stand there! Quick! Go get the teachers!"
The group scattered like birds and beasts, knocking on doors one by one along the corridor, making as much noise as setting off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year.
Academician Wang had just dozed off for a while when he was woken up by urgent knocking on the door.
He opened the door, still a little sleepy, wearing his coat, and slowly asked, "What's up? Did Ji Baifa post on Weibo? What's it this time? The ABC conjecture or the Four Color Theorem?"
The student at the door was panting heavily, barely able to speak: "Professor Wang... no... it's the Poincaré conjecture!"
"What?"
The sleepiness on Academician Wang's face vanished instantly, his reading glasses slipped down to the tip of his nose, and he grabbed his student's arm:
"What did you say? Which Poincaré?"
"It's...it's that one of the Millennium Seven Problems...the Poincaré Conjecture!"
"My God!"
Academician Wang let out a low exclamation, his previous leisurely composure completely gone. He even put one of his slippers on backwards, turned around and walked towards the conference room, his steps so fast that the students could hardly keep up.
When he arrived, Lin Boqian, Dean Wu, Director Zhang, and others were already there.
Everyone was clutching a newly printed certificate, their heads huddled together, their eyes glued to the formulas, barely daring to breathe.
Hearing footsteps, Lin Boqian looked up, his face showing an expression as if he had witnessed a miracle, his voice trembling:
"Professor Wang...look, he didn't use Perelman's Ricci flow method, nor did he create any of his own mathematical tools. He used the path of classical algebraic topology throughout, deriving it step by step..."
Academician Wang walked quickly over, bent down and stared at the paper, his fingers slowly moving along the push wire.
From the definition of the fundamental group to the topological classification of three-dimensional manifolds, and then to the construction of homology groups, every step is solid, as if carved in stone, without any shortcuts or ambiguity.
In fact, the Poincaré conjecture has been proven once.
However, it's quite controversial!
The core issue is that the provers at the time introduced too many overly advanced, self-created methods, which took many scholars several years to understand, naturally leading to constant controversy.
But Ji Bai's is different.
He used only the classic tools recognized by the topology community, and took a path that everyone could understand but no one had ever successfully traversed.
"Perfect...it's too perfect..."
Academician Wang muttered to himself, his fingers trembling slightly.
"There is no point of contention. If this is verified, it will be a done deal, and the whole world will not be able to find a single word to criticize it."
The room was filled with academic luminaries, who exchanged glances, their eyes brimming with shock and elation. They had been worried the verification conference would fail, and concerned about the negative public opinion surrounding it.
Now?
The Poincaré conjecture has been put forward.
Mathematicians all over the world would probably be scrambling to buy tickets to fly to China!
……
External network.
When the news reached international websites, American netizens were stunned.
The American trolls who were spamming the screen with "Make Ji Bai apologize" and "Cancel the verification conference" just a second ago, stared at the words "Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture" on the screen and collectively froze.
"Oh my God... Poincaré? Is that the Poincaré conjecture, one of the seven unsolved problems of the millennium, from my textbook?"
"Wait a minute! Weren't we waiting for him to apologize? Why did he throw out this Millennium Problem instead??"
"I swear I was calling him arrogant and rude just ten minutes ago, but now I just want to know if he's even human."
"Apologize? What's there to apologize for? They practically flipped the table over, what's there to apologize for?"
"This is insane...this world has gone mad! An eighteen-year-old Chinese boy has proven the Poincaré conjecture? This is absurd even in a science fiction movie!"
……
Everyone gasped in surprise, but no one questioned it!
Would a genius who has supposedly proven Goldbach's Conjecture, the Collatz Conjecture, and the Twin Prime Conjecture joke about something like this?
Sure enough, not long after, top figures in the global mathematics community spoke out one after another.
The topology community was the first to be affected.
Fields Medal winner and the founder of Ricci flow theory, Richard, a leading figure who came within a hair's breadth of the Poincaré conjecture, immediately published a lengthy article on his personal homepage:
"I spent three whole hours reading through Mr. Ji's entire testimony."
Unbelievable! He didn't follow Perelman's Ricci flow path, nor did he introduce any self-created tools that would require the academic community to spend ten years understanding. He simply used the most classic and basic algebraic topology methods to complete this path that everyone thought was impossible.
This is not a simple proof; it paves a smooth new road for the entire field of topology.
I've already booked the next flight to China. Regardless of whether there's an official meeting or not, I must meet this young man in person and ask him for advice!
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