The night before the college entrance exam results were released, I redeemed my Peking University ad

"Who disagrees?"

There were no small talk, no formalities, and no platitudes about thanking the leaders or guests.

They didn't use any English to say it either.

To put it simply, who disagrees?

The moment the simultaneous interpreter landed precisely, the entire audience fell silent for three seconds.

Academician Zhou's smile froze instantly, and his hand, which was halfway raised to clap, hung in mid-air.

Charles's smile vanished instantly, and his eyes narrowed sharply.

The foreigners in the audience looked at each other, and they all saw surprise in each other's eyes.

This young man doesn't give me any face at all?

The next second, the barrage of comments completely overwhelmed the server!

"Holy crap!!!!"

"So cool!!!!"

"Who disagrees??? This is the kind of confidence you should have as a home team!"

"Academician Zhou was so humble just now, but Ji Bai's single sentence completely turned that around!"

"Hilarious! If you want to be short, don't drag Ji Shen down with you!"

"I've proven Goldbach's Conjecture. Who disagrees? I could brag about that for ten years!"

"That's insane! But it's so insane it sends chills down my spine! This is what a Chinese genius should be like!"

"Academician Zhou: I've already paved the steps for the foreigners. Ji Bai: I'll just tear them down for you."

"That feels so good! That fucking good! All that breath I was holding in just now just came out!"

……

After a brief silence, the meeting room erupted into a cacophony of voices.

No one expected that this eighteen-year-old boy would speak so bluntly, so aggressively, and so relentlessly, leaving no room for anyone else.

But as he stood there, dressed in an ordinary school uniform, his eyes calm and resolute, he somehow managed to arouse no doubt whatsoever.

A blond man in his thirties in the front row suddenly stood up, his face showing some resentment, and shouted loudly:

"I disagree!"

"What do you disagree with?" Ji Bai asked.

"On page five, you skipped a step in the core transformation logic of the circle method, jumping directly from the Hardy-Littlewood circle method to the sieve method fusion, which is fundamentally flawed!"

Ji Bai glanced at him, his tone as calm as if he were explaining a problem to an undergraduate: "This is the ternary variant of the Goldbach-Vinogradov theorem. I did a weighted processing of the near-prime sieve, compressing the Linnick constant of the large sieve method by two orders of magnitude, just in a different form."

Can't you even see such a basic deformation?

When you were in school, did your tutor ever teach you the equivalent conversion between the circle method and the sieve method?

Which school are you from?

"I……"

The foreigner's face flushed a deep liver color, and he opened his mouth but couldn't utter a single word for a long time.

He is one of the youngest lecturers in the MIT Mathematics Department, and being able to get a ticket to this conference is a recognition of his abilities in the industry.

But at this moment, he didn't even have the courage to say what his school was!

He lowered his head dejectedly, sat back down in his seat with a thud, and didn't dare to look up again for the rest of the time.

"Who else?"

Ji Bai's voice rang out again, calm and undisturbed, yet carrying an invisible sense of oppression.

After a brief commotion, the second person stood up.

This was a scholar in his forties, whose attitude had become much more restrained. He no longer said "disagree," but instead spoke in a deep voice: "I have a question. On page 17, regarding the estimation of the upper bound of the exception set, your derivation path seems to be different from the traditional method."

"What's different?"

Ji Bai reached out and pulled over the portable blackboard next to him, picked up the chalk, and with a flick of his wrist, lines of formulas flowed smoothly onto the blackboard.

"The traditional method uses the Borobini-Vinogradov theorem for mean estimation. I took a different approach and used the orthogonality of the Dirichlet eigenvalues ​​to perform a split, compressing the error term to an exponential order."

See, starting from here, let's perform a Fourier transform and work backwards again...

The sound of chalk slicing across the blackboard was clearly audible, and countless pen tips below the stage were rapidly calculating.

Less than half a minute later, the German scholar who had just asked the question suddenly widened his eyes and muttered to himself:

"So that's how it is..."

"You can do that...?"

"Genius! Absolutely a genius idea!"

He bowed slightly to Ji Bai and sat down with sincere admiration.

"Next."

"Hello, Ji Bai. I have a small question I'd like to ask you."

The scholar who stood up this time spoke in a completely humble tone, as if seeking advice.

Ji Bai has always believed that if someone treats me with respect, I will repay them with even greater respect.

"Speaking."

"On page 23 of the proof, in your generalization of the three prime theorem..."

Ji Bai smiled and lightly tapped the blackboard with chalk: "I used..."

The scholar stared at the blackboard for more than ten seconds, then sighed, "Okay, thank you! I understand completely!"

"Next!"

……

One question after another arose.

One by one, they were dealt with by Ji Bai.

The live stream chat was already in a frenzy; viewers were absolutely thrilled, getting goosebumps all over.

"Ji Shen is awesome!!! This is what you call dominating the world!"

"The Holy Son has attained enlightenment, and all the immortals bow in reverence! Those who were jumping around the most excitedly just now don't even dare to lift their heads now!"

"That kid was the youngest math lecturer in Massachusetts, and he didn't even dare mention his own alma mater!"

Massachusetts: This is the first time I've ever found it so difficult to say!

"That was awesome! So awesome!"

"Academician Zhou previously said he would ask foreigners for help to improve it, which is hilarious. Who's teaching whom here?"

"Watching my boy dominate the world, I couldn't help but burst into tears!"

"What is an emperor? This is an emperor! He can suppress all who dare to defy him with a mere wave of his hand!"

……

The expressions of the domestic bigwigs in the audience also changed.

Some were gratified, some were happy, some were expectant, and some were expressionless.

As for the top scholars abroad, their expressions grew increasingly solemn.

Laymen watch the spectacle, experts see the details!

Ji Bai's answer was not read from a prepared script at all.

He can readily provide three different derivation paths, instantly see through the questioner's blind spots in knowledge, and reconstruct his proof using a more concise method.

This means that his understanding of this proof system is so profound and thorough that it is ingrained in his very being.

It's not the result of memorization, but a mathematical intuition that is truly engraved in my mind.

Charles and William, in particular, both had their palms slightly clenched.

They originally thought that even if an eighteen-year-old boy did prove his conjecture, it was mostly a flash of inspiration or a clever trick.

But now it seems that this person's mastery of number theory is terrifying.

……

After lunch break, the Q&A session continued in the afternoon.

"Does anyone have any questions?"

"Next!"

"Who else?"

……

Ji Bai leaned against the podium, speaking as casually as if he were chatting in his own living room.

One scholar after another stood up, and one after another sat down with expressions of sudden realization.

Some people who were initially determined to find fault ended up taking out their notebooks and diligently taking notes.

It was 3:30 p.m.

There is still a full hour and a half left until the end of today's conference.

"Who else?"

One minute.

Two minutes.

three minutes.

Five minutes passed.

In the vast auditorium, among thousands of top mathematicians from around the world, not a single person stood up.

Immediately afterwards, there was a commotion.

Everyone's faces gradually became excited.

No one asked anymore, which means... Goldbach's conjecture has indeed been proven?

We... witnessed history?