Another half hour later, the large conference room gradually filled up. Professors such as Wiles and Professor Nan who were familiar with Lu Qiujian surrounded him and comforted him with concern. They all assured that Princeton has your strong backing and they will never

If we sit back and watch Lu Qiujian's research results being plagiarized, we will definitely seek justice for him.

William Timothy Gowers, Andrew Wiles, Edward Witten, Charles Fefferman, William Thurston, Cincon Bourgan, Pierre-René Deligne

, Vladimir Vvotsky, Enrico Pompieri, Pierre Deligne, Atel Selberg... At a glance, the little

There are more than a dozen mathematical giants in the conference room who have won Fields Medals.

Coupled with Wolf Prize winners such as Robert Langlands, it is not an exaggeration to say that one-third of the best in the mathematics community are gathered in this conference room.

If someone were to drop a bomb now, human scientific progress might be delayed for several years, Lu Qiujian suddenly had this thought in his mind.

"Gentlemen, please be quiet!" Professor Philip Griffiths, who was most excited after receiving the news, acted as the temporary host. In addition to his profound attainments in mathematics, he has also been engaged in mathematics since 1972.

Teaching and research work on intellectual property, so after hearing this scandal, I was even more angry than Lu Qiujian himself.

"Professor William Thurston, please explain to us what happened first!" Seeing that everyone was quiet, Professor Griffith didn't talk much and directly asked Thurston to come on stage.

"Many people only heard some situations on the phone and did not understand what really happened, so let me announce good news and bad news here first!" Professor Thurston turned on the computer on the podium, "The good news is

The Poincaré conjecture that has troubled the mathematics community for nearly a hundred years has been solved recently, and the person who solved this problem is Lu Qiujian, a junior exchange student in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton!"

Lu Qiujian stood up and bowed, and there was a round of warm applause. The faces of these mathematicians showed sincere blessing smiles; Lu Qiujian also saw Professor Nan talking to Dyson, with a proud smile on his face.

I’m afraid it’s to ask Dyson to cash in on his last bet, right?

The applause lasted for five minutes. It was a tribute to a great mathematical achievement and an encouragement to the young Lu Qiujian, hoping that he could make greater contributions in his future academic career.

Then Professor Thurston turned on the projector, showed Lu Qiujian’s proof process on the big screen, and briefly introduced Lu Qiujian’s problem-solving ideas, “As for the detailed process, I will let Lu do it for everyone later.”

A lecture! I believe Princeton will be happy to host this lecture!”

"Okay, now that the good news is over, it's time to tell the bad news!" Professor Thurston shook his head regretfully, opened his mailbox on the computer, and displayed his mailing list, "Some time ago, General Lu

After the paper was written, it was sent to me for review. After I confirmed it was correct, Lu sent the paper to Science."

At this point, there was a little commotion. These mathematicians were a little puzzled that Lu Qiujian chose "Science" instead of the four major journals.

“Then Science rejected the paper!” Thurston shrugged, seeming to laugh at the editors and reviewers of Science. “After receiving the news, I thought it was because the paper was too long.

Because it was too professional and difficult to be understood by people across the field, Lu was asked to resubmit to the "Annals of Mathematics"!"

At this time, the professors in the audience nodded, seeming to agree with Thurston's suggestion. In their opinion, the four major journals are more authoritative than "Science" and "Nature".

"Just when I thought this was just another missed opportunity for "Science", I received such an email today!" Thurston opened the review paper that "Science" sent him today, and he wrote this

I opened the paper and put it next to Lu Qiujian's paper for comparison. "This paper is exactly the same as Lu's paper. And considering that Lu had sent the paper to me and them before, I had to become suspicious!"

"

There was a buzz in the audience. Although only a few pages were shown, these mathematicians had already seen that the formulas used in the two papers and the proof processes were exactly the same. This was plagiarism from Hongguoguo!

At this time, Professor Nan also stood up. He told the story of sending the wrong test papers to Lu Qiujian, and then sent copies of the test papers and printing paper to the professors present, "I received this test paper at that time.

I called Professor Thurston immediately after taking the test paper. Professor Thurston witnessed the entire process of producing this paper. There is no doubt that the ownership of this paper belongs to Lu Qiujian!"

When he heard that his assistant mistakenly sent the seven major mathematical problems to Lu Qiujian as exam papers, the professors burst into laughter, especially Dyson. He felt that he had lost the bet unjustly. If he had known better, he would have taken the piece of paper with him.

He left, but even if he knew what would happen next, he would still put the piece of paper back on Professor Nan's desk, right? Maybe he would take away the test paper prepared by Professor Nan just to be on the safe side.

"At first I thought it was Lu who resubmitted the manuscript." After the crowd calmed down, Professor Thurston continued, "But Lu decisively rejected this possibility. After he came to my office to confirm, I immediately called

I called "Science" and finally found out the truth of the matter!"

He then opened Lu Qiujian's paper, "Through Science, I found out that the reviewers of this paper were Professor Forsman of Harvard and Professor Ferrig of Yale. Professor Forsman passed the review, and Professor Ferrig of Yale passed the review.

Professor Ferrig rejected the paper on the grounds that it contained loopholes.”

Thurston took a deep breath and seemed to be controlling his emotions. He opened the paper he received today, "The author of this paper, Soman, is from Yale like Professor Ferrig! And through my application to Yale

A friend’s phone investigation revealed that Professor Ferrig is Soman’s mentor!”

Professor Ferrig first rejected Lu Qiujian's submission, and then his student submitted another identical paper within a short period of time. No wonder there was nothing fishy in it!

Mathematics is a subject that pays great attention to logic. The mathematicians present quickly figured out the ins and outs of the matter from Professor Thurston's words.

Philip Griffiths stood up again and said seriously, "This matter must not be resolved privately. For the long-term development of the academic community, Lu's research results must be respected, and Professor Ferrig and Soman must pay the price!"

Pierre-René Deligne is almost a grand slam winner in mathematics. He has won the Fields Medal, the Crafford Medal, the Wolf Medal and the Abel Medal. In 2006, he was awarded the title of Viscount by the King of Belgium;

By the way, his doctoral supervisor was the awesome Grothendieck. The Ferrig plagiarism incident was based on the fact that Ferrig, a professor of medicine at Yale University in 1979, and his student So/Man plagiarized Helena from the National Institutes of Health.

The incident and the story are exactly the same as this article.
Chapter completed!