Looking at this scene, Principal Qiu smiled slightly and returned the microphone to the host teacher.

The host teacher smiled and said, "Since everyone agreed, there is no problem. Then, everyone asked questions, but they had to maintain the auditorium discipline and come one by one. Otherwise, I am very worried about your problems and will suddenly put them in.

Chen Zhou, who solved the problem of hail conjecture, was confused."

When everyone heard the host's words, they smiled knowingly, but the basic discipline was settled.

"Next, hand over the stage to our classmate Chen Zhou."

After saying that, the host teacher stuffed the microphone to Chen Zhou, pushed Chen Zhou to the front of the stage, and quietly reminded him, "If you want to hear about someone's question, just "order someone".

Chen Zhou nodded silently to show his understanding.

Although I was extremely reluctant, I finally had a "press reception".

Thinking of this, Chen Zhou saw that the reporters in the audience were all holding their hands, waiting for Chen Zhou to flip the cards.

Chen Zhou glanced around and found a cute female reporter, who started the Q&A.

The female reporter who was flipped looked excited, obviously she didn't expect that she would be the first one.

She took a deep breath, and various questions kept flashing through her mind.

There is only one chance, let alone the opening.

She felt that she was wasting opportunities without giving up a question that was enough to grab the headlines of tomorrow.

"Please tell me!" Chen Zhou asked again politely.

The female reporter was brought back by Chen Zhou's voice. She organized the language a little and asked: "We know that the hail conjecture was proved by you recently, but before you proved this conjecture, it had existed for more than 70 years.

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"In the past 70 years, countless mathematicians have studied it and tried to solve it. The result is that it has not been proved by you until today. I also believe that you must have spent a lot of time and energy to finally end up

Solved this world-class problem.”

"So, I think many people are like me, and I want to ask you, what is the guess? Is it really worth spending so much time and energy to prove a guess? What's the point?"

The female reporter's preparation for the last question is just for this last question.

It is true that in the eyes of people who do not understand mathematics, there is such a problem.

That is, mathematical conjecture is so difficult, why do you still need to study it?

The results of the research often get nothing and waste a lot of time and energy.

Isn’t it good to use this time and energy to study other aspects?

Moreover, even if the math problems are solved, they do not necessarily have any impact on the world?

On the contrary, in today's society, a mobile phone or a software can influence the world.

Chen Zhou glanced at the female reporter, his eyes froze, and he said slowly: "Mathematical symbols or numbers don't make any sense in your opinion, but you don't know that it is the tool to promote human development.

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Speaking of this, Chen Zhou slowly glanced at everyone in the audience: "I believe you all know that Toy Story is a powerful tool for Apple to open up a new era of mobile, but what you may not know is that in order to make Toy Story, Apple has summoned a large number of

Animation production is irrelevant mathematician.”

"Why should we call a mathematician?"

Chen Zhou asked.

But no reporter could answer.

At this time, everyone's eyes were all gathered on Chen Zhou in the entire auditorium.

Principal Qiu, who was sitting in the audience again, as well as Dean Sun of the School of Mathematics, President Zhou and other Yan University leaders also looked at Chen Zhou together.

"Because mathematicians are the key to success in Toy Story!" Chen Zhouru said, "The production staff applied mathematical knowledge and used sophisticated and complex mathematical formulas to create a group of animation characters that are more vivid than hand-painted."

"Thus, mathematicians have developed new technologies using mathematical-based computer graphics, which we often call cg. What you think is meaningless mathematical symbols and numbers used here are,

Including geometry, differential formulas, etc.

"In the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, a large number of huge waves are shot by the boat, which is also made by CG technology. The reason why this movie can depict the surging waves and millions of water droplets is also because it is the only way to do it.

The Navi-Stokes equation is applied to the CG technology!”

"Not only that, the commonly used search engines are also developed using mathematical algorithms. The 4g network technology that is emerging now (in 2015) is also a technology that modifies and expresses complex fluctuations based on the Fourier transform formula in mathematics."

"These are manifestations that mathematics really affects people's lives. As for..."

Chen Zhou paused for a moment and found that the reporters in the audience were holding small notebooks and keeping their books in mind.

Some reporters were anxious to look around, asking what the Navig-Stokes equation is, and asking about the content of the Fourier transform.

Chen Zhou couldn't help but smile. These reporters were also quite interesting.

"It is not only where people see it, but also where people cannot see it, mathematical symbols and numbers have a huge impact. They are the means for people to know themselves, the world, and the universe."

"Newton created calculus in order to study gravity."

"When Einstein founded the general theory of relativity, he transformed the gravitational problem into a mathematical problem, and found that mathematical knowledge was not enough. So he found his old classmate Grossman, and Grossman helped find Riemann's relevant literature.

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"It was also after this experience that Einstein said that in physics, the path to deeper basic knowledge is linked to the most sophisticated mathematical methods."

"So, the mass-energy equations in Einstein's theory of relativity are so concise and full of mathematical beauty."

"Let's talk about Chang'e flying to the moon and thousands of households flying into the sky. Human beings have long been yearning for space. Since the ancients, they have worked hard to fly into the sky. However, the key to conquering space is rocket technology."

"The breakthrough in rocket technology is the Thiorkovsky formula. It is this formula that makes it possible to use rockets to conduct interstellar navigation and launch satellites, and becomes the key to humans' conquest of space."

"Why can the former Soviet Union kick off the space age? Why can it launch the first artificial satellite? Why can it send the first astronaut into space?"

"It's because of the Thiorkovsky formula!"

"As Thiorkovsky said, the earth is the cradle of mankind, but man cannot live in the cradle forever!"

Chen Zhou's words instantly made everyone in the audience excited.

This is exactly the meaning of mathematics.

This is also the charm of mathematics.

Whether it is life or dreams, it is inseparable from mathematics.

After looking at everyone in the audience, Chen Zhou began to end the question.

"Let's talk about the problem itself, what is the meaning of spending so much time and effort studying mathematical conjectures?"

"Mathematical conjecture is a powerful driving force for the development of mathematics and an important way to create mathematical ideas and methods. I just said that Einstein created the general theory of relativity because he learned about Riemann's non-European geometry. So do you know Riemann's conjecture?

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"This is an unproven conjecture. But people have already dug up many treasures in the process of studying it. In today's mathematical literature, there are more than a thousand mathematical propositions called Limann

It is based on conjecture and is promoted. It has a profound impact on the development of mathematics."

"In fact, in the process of human beings studying and proving various conjectures, even if it is not so important to the development of mathematics, this process is also a catalyst for the development of human thinking, thinking depth, logical ability, etc.

The effect of the style.”

"If people only know to look down at their feet, they will never know the beauty of blue sky and white clouds. This is true for humans to spend so much time and energy studying mathematical conjectures."
Chapter completed!