"The end of abc conjecture, the talent of a seventeen-year-old genius!""
"17-year-old math boy vs. 51-year-old math master, the boy wins!""
"Another Schultz, Terence Tao in mathematics? Watch a seventeen-year-old boy end an eight-year feud in mathematics!"
"Shocked!" A seventeen-year-old boy actually attended an international mathematics conference..."
As September 13th gradually draws to a close, various headlines appear on the front pages of major media outlets around the world.
The amount of attention continues to rise. After all, people always like to pay attention to geniuses.
Especially the video of Xiao Yi being interviewed by European News Television, after it was posted on YouTube, the number of views quickly exceeded 100,000.
In the video, Xiao Yi's answers to reporters' questions also made international netizens sigh with emotion.
Reporter: "What are your thoughts on successfully defeating Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki?"
Xiao Yi: "I did not defeat Professor Shinichi Mochizuki. Professor Mochizuki is a mathematician that I admire very much. His work on Far Abelian Geometry has brought me a lot of inspiration."
"In addition, there are no victories and failures on the road of mathematics. There is only how far we are from the final answer. Today's results only tell us that the distance between each of us and the ABC conjecture has not changed. But on this road, as long as one person succeeds, it will be the success of the entire mathematical community."
Reporter: "That's really good. Then I heard you mention Far Abelian Geometry. As far as I know, Far Abelian Geometry is a very difficult direction in mathematics. There are very few people studying it, but you can master such a mathematics very deeply."
"According to the information I know, it seems that you discovered the problems in Professor Mochizuki's theory in the Far Abelian Geometry direction through Professor Mochizuki's narration, so he was able to defeat... well, the irreconcilable contradictions in his theory."
"So how did you learn Far Abelian Geometry to this point?"
Xiao Yi: "Well... for this question, the only thing I can explain is... I have read more books? So when I studied Far Abelian Geometry, I figured it out as if it came naturally."
Reporter: "If you put this out there, I'm afraid it will make people who don't know how much mathematics study sleepless."
Xiao Yi: "Then you won't release this part, right?"
The reporter laughed, "Of course I will release it. Otherwise, how can others know the difference between themselves and geniuses?"
Xiao Yi has a helpless face.
Then the comments under this video exploded.
Netizens from all over the world burst into tears, especially those students majoring in mathematics.
[Oh my god, Far Abelian Geometry, you learned it after reading some books? Why can't I do it?!]
[This reporter is so disgusting, why don't you cut this paragraph out? Well now, I really know the gap between me and genius!!]
[Hou Li Xie Te, the talent of this Chinese boy is really enviable!]
[It's understandable that Mochizuki-kun loses to this guy, because this guy is a mathematical genius that is once seen in a century!]
The first half of this video is an interview with Xiao Yi, and the second half is European News Television interviewing famous mathematicians who participated in this seminar and asking them to talk about their evaluation of Xiao Yi.
Faltings is the first.
Generally speaking, he doesn't like to be interviewed very much. In his opinion, he doesn't need to talk too much with these guys who don't understand mathematics. To use a certain mathematician's violent argument, people who don't understand mathematics are all monkeys.
So why should he talk too much to these monkeys.
But after learning that the question the other party wanted to ask was about Xiao Yi, he readily accepted the interview.
"I once said that Schultz is one of the three best mathematicians I have ever seen in my life."
"But today, I saw an opportunity for a fourth person to emerge from this young Chinese man."
"He has a talent that almost all mathematicians do not have, and that is his independence in thinking and logic. He will not be affected by any existing experience or judgment, and can always maintain absolutely independent thinking. Any other knowledge will eventually become his reference."
"With such a talent, no matter what he studies, such as physics, chemistry, or philosophy, I believe he will be able to embark on a great path and lead to a great end."
"Of course," Faltings paused, and finally said with a smile, "This young man wisely chose mathematics. This is the path that suits him best and needs him the most. Therefore, I believe he can lead to a greater end."
Faltings undoubtedly gave Xiao Yi a very high evaluation.
This is quite rare, because people who are familiar with him know that with his temper, even mathematicians who have been famous for many years do not dare to speak nonsense in front of him. If they make a mistake, they will definitely be criticized by him, and he rarely gives praise.
But obviously, this seventeen-year-old boy made him make an exception.
Of course, Faltings is not the only one. Behind him, the two great mathematicians Deligne and Bombieri have not been let go by European News Television.
These two are also among the top mathematicians on the scene, and they are not stingy in their praise at all.
Deligne: "There are many outstanding mathematicians, and there are many outstanding geniuses, but what I can believe is that there should be no geniuses who are younger and better than this seventeen-year-old boy."
Bombieri: "I think Faltings and Deligne have said enough about how outstanding this young man is. As a mathematician who studies Diophantine Analysis, I will briefly talk about the abc conjecture, the most important issue in Diophantine Analysis."
"Once the abc conjecture is proven, we will easily prove Fermat's Last Conjecture, Mordell Conjecture - of course these two have been proven. In fact, there are many unsolved problems that will also be easily solved, such as Voita Conjecture, Bill Conjecture, Hall Conjecture, etc."
"So, the conclusion of the ABC conjecture is very important."
"We were all happy to see it proven before, but when it gets involved in disputes, we don't want to see it, because it means that other people who want to study this issue may hesitate. For example, in the middle of the study, the dispute suddenly ends and it is successfully proven, but the fact is that its results can never be obtained."
"Xiao Yi successfully liberated this issue from the dispute. In the future, anyone can safely and boldly study this issue without worrying too much."
"So the math community needs to thank this boy."
"Of course, no one can say for sure whether this boy will be the one to end ABC's conjecture in how many years."
Speaking of this, Bombieri also had some expectations in his eyes.