"Is this... an email Schultz sent me personally?"
Seeing the email in his inbox, Xiao Yi looked surprised.
A Fields Medal winner, a world-famous mathematician, had actually taken the initiative to email an ordinary minor like him, someone unremarkable who had merely published a paper at IHES?
He had even said he was "eager" to discuss things with him and sent him an invitation?
Who could have seen that coming?
Ahem...
Of course, no matter what, he was not actually that unremarkable.
"But this mathematical conference Schultz mentioned... could it be that one?"
Seeing that the email mentioned a mathematics conference to be held on September 13, Xiao Yi quickly recalled the news online.
The final conference that would completely settle the mathematics world's eight-year abc conjecture drama... eight-year dispute?
His interest was immediately piqued.
After following all sorts of news these past few days, he had also learned about the abc conjecture, a famous unsolved problem in mathematics.
As an important problem in number theory, the abc conjecture had been proposed in 1985, and its original purpose had actually been to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.
Because if the abc conjecture held true, Fermat's Last Theorem could be proven in just one page.
However, a few years after the abc conjecture was proposed, Fermat's Last Theorem was proven by Andrew Wiles, while the abc conjecture remained unsolved and instead became an even more important problem in number theory.
Once the abc conjecture was proven, it would help mathematicians easily solve many more problems in number theory.
However, even fewer people researched the abc conjecture than Far Abelian Geometry. There were probably no more than two or three hands' worth of mathematicians worldwide who dared study it.
Among those top mathematicians, Shinichi Mochizuki stood out the most.
So Xiao Yi also