Cannon Fodder Is King

Arc 1.3

Meng Zezhi spent a whole afternoon cleaning up the garbage in the living room, and then changed all the daily necessities in the house to a new set according to the habits of his predecessor, even the dishes and chopsticks were not spared.

Early the next morning, he drove to Beijing University.

As a professor, his predecessor had his own independent office at Beijing University. The space is small, about forty square meters, with a desk, a set of filing cabinets, a sofa and coffee table, and a whole wall of books and periodicals.

Xu Jiaqing had an accident at the end of July. It was summer vacation. Although her predecessor had been depressed for more than a month, it had little effect on her work.

At the beginning of school, according to the usual practice, Meng Zezhi sent a message to the student group and asked the students to come to him with papers in batches.

The predecessor was studying mathematics, but unlike his teacher Professor Wan Zhexian, who was mainly engaged in the study of typical groups and geometry, the main research direction of the predecessor was number theory.

He has brought six doctoral students and fifteen postgraduates under his name, all of which are three-year students.

After sending the message, Meng Zezhi walked to the bookshelf and pulled out two journals from his memory.

The name of the journal is "Chinese Journal of Mathematics". Among the nineteen core mathematics journals in China, the influence of "Chinese Journal of Mathematics" can only be ranked in the middle and lower reaches. The two predecessor papers that were exposed in the academic fraud scandal were published in these two journals.

The main mission Meng Zezhi can't do it temporarily, Jiang Qiyang is in Hollywood right now. As for Chen Yinglong, how can he be an ordinary person who can randomly put out 50 million to invest in Jiang Qiyang's movies and TV shows? It is said that when his father coughed, the domestic sugar industry would tremble three times.

He is a learned person, and has no power and influence. It is really not a wise move to go up and be tough with Jiang Qiyang.

That's why Meng Zezhi decided to start with a side mission-restoring the reputation of his predecessor.

There are three stains on his predecessor. Domestic violence caused his wife's miscarriage, academic fraud, and confusion in his private life.

There was not much time left for Meng Zezhi. Five months later, these two papers were stolen explosively, which became the fuse for the predecessor to commit suicide by jumping off the building.

Meng Zezhi went through these two papers roughly and thought about it in his mind.

Those who study number theory will inevitably imagine that one day they will be able to solve one or more global number theory problems—Goldbach’s conjecture, twin prime conjecture, Riemann hypothesis, Fermat’s last theorem...

Among them, the most familiar to Chinese people should be Goldbach's conjecture.

In the 1930s, the Chinese analytic number theory school represented by Hua Luogeng emerged.

In 1956, Academician Wang Yuan successively proved the problems of "3+4", "3+3", "2+3" and "1+4".

In 1962, Academician Pan Chengdong and Barbarn of the Soviet Union proved the "1+5" problem.

In 1966, Academician Chen Jingrun proved the "1+2" ​​problem, and in 1978 proved the "1+1" upper limit formula.

It is precisely because Chinese mathematicians have made outstanding contributions to proving Goldbach’s conjecture that this conjecture was given a ‘political label’ beyond academic significance by the country early on, inspiring younger mathematicians all the time.