At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door of the room.
Xiao Yi put down the phone, walked over and opened the door, and then saw Terence Tao and James·Maynard running over with very excited faces.
"Xiao Yi, have you received it? The bank sent a message saying that Maynard and I both received more than 1 million dollars. This should be the money from our project, right?"
Seeing the expressions of the two people, Xiao Yi smiled and said, "Yes, I received it too."
He showed the text message interface on his phone to the two people.
Although Terence Tao and Maynard couldn't understand the Chinese in this text message, they could still recognize the Arabic numerals. When they saw 6 followed by a long string of zeros, they all showed envious expressions.
Of course, this is also the distribution that was agreed upon at the beginning, so there is no room for jealousy or the like.
"Thank you very much, Xiao Yi."
Terence Tao patted Xiao Yi on the shoulder and said, "If you hadn't talked to that World Bank's Chief Information Officer that day, otherwise, I'm afraid it would have to wait three months for the money to arrive."
Xiao Yi smiled and said, "It's okay, there's nothing to thank you for. After all, this is also good for me."
Suddenly, Terence Tao's phone rang. When he saw it, it was Professor Kleinrock.
As soon as the call came through, Kleinrock shouted very excitedly, "Have you received it? Have you received it? Our money has arrived!!"
The three people smiled and said, "Copy that, Professor."
"I bought it, didn't World Bank say it would take three months to get the money? Why did it arrive so quickly this time? It's only been a few days, right?"
Kleinrock did not come to this mathematics conference. In his words, among all the reports, only Xiao Yi's report was of interest to him, but he already knew what Xiao Yi's report was about. As for the other mathematics reports, he could not understand them, so there was no need to come.
Therefore, he did not know about the conversation between Xiao Yi and Brian Winston that day.
So, after the explanations of the three people, Kleinrock said, "So that's it! Thank you so much Xiao Yi for that."
"But is your meeting over there over? Is Xiao Yi leaving too? And Maynard?"
"Yes." Xiao Yi and Maynard replied.
"That's such a pity." Kleinrock sighed. As an old man, whenever he encounters this kind of separation, he is probably most worried about whether we can see each other again in the future.
"No matter what, you are all good collaborators. I hope we can have the opportunity to meet again in the future."
Maynard smiled and said, "Maybe there will be a chance to cooperate again?"
Kleinrock smiled and said, "Hahaha, I probably won't do any more projects in the future. No matter what, I am satisfied enough to be able to achieve this result on the last project in my life, and I can even make such a large sum of money, haha! Maybe I can buy my grandson Thomas his favorite Mustang."
"Thomas will be very happy."
"Haha, I think so!" Kleinrock said with a hearty smile, "Then I won't say any more and see you again when you have the chance!"
"Okay, Professor Kleinrock."
After hanging up the phone, the three of them fell silent for a while.
After all, they all knew that it was time to say goodbye.
Finally, the eldest Terence Tao said, "Okay, two guys, although our x^2+1 prime number problem has not been solved, it is not surprising. There is no problem that can be solved so easily in mathematics."
"When we go back, we can still communicate."
"Yes." Maynard nodded and smiled, "And no matter what, we have gained a lot!"
The three of them all thought of the text message on their phones and laughed.
"Professor Zhang Yitang is lucky. Your Landau-Siegel-Zero Conjecture should be very close to being solved, right?"
Terence Tao thought of this and said.
Using Xiao's expansion, the difficulty of proving Landau-Siegel-Zero Conjecture can be greatly reduced. Although it is not said that it can be proved immediately, some mathematicians have already made predictions. At least in the next few years, Landau-Siegel-Zero Conjecture may be proven, and the mathematical community basically agrees with this.
However, Terence Tao and Maynard obviously need to know more clearly. Zhang Yitang itself has been studying Zero Conjecture for many years. Now with the help of Xiao Yi, it may not be long before they can see the paper on arxiv.
Xiao Yi said with a smile, "It shouldn't be too different."
The paper by Xiao's expansion was first sent to Zhang Yitang and then uploaded to arxiv.
Therefore, Zhang Yitang can be regarded as one of the first people in the world to read that paper.
After he read it, he called Xiao Yi directly.
Xiao Yi can probably still recall the excitement in his tone.
In the following time, Zhang Yitang began to immerse himself in research, so Joint Mathematics Meeting did not come this time.
However, he did say that he would come to pick up Xiao Yi and go to Santa Barbara. In terms of time...
Said Cao Cao Cao Cao has arrived.
The knock on the door rang again.
Xiao Yi went to open the door again and saw Zhang Yitang standing outside.
"Professor Zhang, you are here."
Zhang Yitang smiled and nodded. He seemed to be in a good mood and asked gently, "Have your luggage been packed? I drove here and will go back directly later."
"It's been packed up." Xiao Yi nodded.
Terence Tao and Maynard also came up, greeted Zhang Yitang with a smile, and said, "Professor Zhang, then Xiao Yi will be left to you."
"No problem." Zhang Yitang said OK.
Terence Tao and Maynard nodded, and then said, "It's time for us to leave."
The time of separation finally arrived.
After saying goodbye, Terence Tao got on the car back to Los Angeles, and Maynard headed to the airport.
As for Xiao Yi, he got on the car of Zhang Yitang and headed to Santa Barbara.
From San Jose to Santa Barbara, you need to pass California State Route 1, which is a famous landscape highway with sea views and vast plains along the way.
The scenery is very nice.
However, when their car passed by the Sea View Highway, Xiao Yi felt a bit blind at first glance.
Finally, he suddenly thought of the game he played when he was a child, which was the picture of the coastal road in Road Rash.
The more he looked at it, the more it looked like it. He checked it online and found out, my dear, the Highway 1 of love is really the prototype of the picture Road Rash.
Ever since, looking at the coastline next to him, he seemed to recall that afternoon 10 years ago, when he was kicked into the sea by the AI opponent on the brain case computer.
"What are you thinking about?"
The voice of Zhang Yitang suddenly sounded.
"Thinking about how to snatch a baton from a Mountie."
Outside the car, a mounted policeman roared past. Xiao Yi remembered the operations inside Road Rash and said subconsciously.
Zhang Yitang immediately looked at him in horror. "What did you say?!"
Please!
The police are right outside, okay!
Xiao Yi suddenly came back to his senses, "Ahem..."
He smiled awkwardly and politely, and then he explained briefly.
"Oh! So you were talking about that game." Zhang Yitang suddenly realized it, and then smiled and said, "I also played it for a long time, but later I forgot about it because of my mathematical research."
Then he said fondly, "Speaking of it, so many years have passed."
Xiao Yi also nodded with emotion.
So why not for him.
The old man and the young man sighed with each other for a while, and finally got back to the topic.
"Thanks to your Xiao's expansion, after these days of research, I have solved many of the problems I encountered before, and now I am only focusing on the last few key problems."
Xiao Yi nodded, "What are the main problems?"
"I've recorded it, take a look."
Zhang Yitang opened the armrest box and took out a stack of scratch paper.
The above are all manuscripts he used in the research process.
Xiao Yi took the scratch paper and started reading it from the beginning.
The front of this stack of draft paper is mainly the results made by Zhang Yitang during this period.
"Well... you have proved that the inequality V1j(y)T^c follows the Polya-Vinogradov inequality and the summation of parts."
"Oh? The relationship between the lower bound of L(1, χ) and the non-disappearance of the central value of this key automorphism L-function has also been given."
"And..."
Soon, Xiao Yi nodded. "Now we are indeed very close to the final answer."
"Haha, the main thing is that Xiao's expansion's method works well enough." Zhang Yitang said with a smile while driving the car.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so surprised when he saw the Xiao Yi paper.
"Well..." Xiao Yi nodded slightly and continued to open the next piece of draft paper, "Then, the remaining question is..."
"We need to solve the zero point problem of L(s, ψ) in Ω, mainly to prove that the gap between any different zero points of A(s, ψ) in Ω is larger than α(1c′αL)."
"And use this to prove the most basic proposition. When θ (mod k) is the primitive feature, the function equation of L (s, θ) is L (s, θ) = Z (s, θ) L (1s, θ)."
"These questions..."
Looking at the descriptions of these problems, Xiao Yi started to think.
Zhang Yitang stopped talking and drove the car quietly.
The only sounds in the surrounding area were the sound of the car's engine, the sound of the wind outside the car window, and the sound of waves coming from the sea.
The last few problems are also not easy to solve.
However, for Xiao Yi, even though it was difficult to come up with a direct solution, he still found an angle from which to achieve a breakthrough.
In the afternoon of the same day, University of California, Santa Barbara arrived, and under the arrangement of Zhang Yitang, Xiao Yi also moved into the student dormitory of UCSB again.
After a brief dinner, he and Zhang Yitang came to the latter's office and discussed Landau-Siegel-Zero Conjecture.