Where She Lived

"What an arrogant... guy..." Ou Ye listened to Shen Qi recounting interesting stories from the World Chemistry Congress, and eventually fell asleep.

Shen Qi tucked Ou Ye in, then sat by the bed quietly watching his wife and everything else in the ward.

The computer Ou Ye brought was on, and next to it were several math reference books and a few sheets of white paper with mathematical formulas written on them.

Shen Qi tiptoed to the computer desk and flipped through the formulas written by Ou Ye.

My wife is also very hardworking; she didn't forget her math lessons even while she was hospitalized.

Shen Qi carefully studied Ou Ye's derivation and proof of the BSD Conjecture. Page one: addition of Elliptic Curve groups; page two: calculation of a copy of a special set of integers; page three: calculation of the rank of Elliptic Curve; page four: reverse proof of the rank of Elliptic Curve using Group Theory...

Wow, she's really grasped the essence of the BSD Conjecture; she might be getting closer to the truth.

Shen Qi looked at the sleeping Ou Ye; she was her own god, in the place where she lived.

The last page describes an incomplete infinite product, L(E, s)=∏(1-ap/ps... eating, sleeping, beating up little Qiqi...

One of the properties of infinite products is that when an infinite product converges, its general term must converge to 1.

"You're getting more and more cheeky, Little Yezi. You've even written out the formula to punish me." Shen Qi thought to himself.

But honey, the infinite product L(E, s) you wrote is incomplete. Let me complete it for you.

Shen Qi continued writing on the paper:

...∏(Np/p+p+c1(s-1)... The necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence of the small odd-odd pattern is ∑ln(1+αn)...

Honey, you'll figure it out for yourself when you wake up.

Shen Qi restored Ou Ye's manuscript to its original state, and then used Ou Ye's computer to log in to arXiv.

The arXiv pre-recording website does not have a dedicated chemistry section. Shen Qi found a new paper pre-recorded by a member with the ID "Tachibana Masashi" in the biology section, titled "Synthetic Strategies for a Class of Chemical Treasures".

Shen Qi quickly skimmed through the paper, which had been pre-recorded 20 minutes earlier.

Hey, you weren't just making this up!

Shen Qi carefully reviewed it again.

Then he fell into deep thought.

This Mr. Tachibana is something else; he's not crazy.

Even if he's mentally ill, he's a mentally ill person with extremely high intelligence and outstanding academic abilities.

The initial assessment concluded that the relatively unknown Mr. Tachibana had academically refuted the nominee for Irie Jack.

At the end of his paper, Mr. Tachibana wrote, "The academic approach and specific methods presented in this paper are offered free of charge to scholars interested in researching Gene Drugs."

This academic attitude is truly noble and virtuous, comparable to that of Perelman.

Perelman's paper proving the Poincaré conjecture was pre-recorded on arXiv.

The Poincaré conjecture is such an important Millennium Prize Problem, yet its prover Perelman, never published a formal journal article on it. All he did was scan his manuscript, upload it to arXiv, and then go eat and sleep.

Mavericks player Perelman doesn't even have a workplace; he lives in seclusion in a rural-urban fringe area of Russia, refusing to accept the Fields Medal, and his bizarre behavior is hard to fathom.

Perhaps some geniuses are just just that unconventional.

Pre-recorded papers on arXiv are virtually indistinguishable from their future formally published journal articles in terms of format and content.

Mr. Tachibana's article, "A Synthetic Strategy for a Class of Chemical Treasures," has no mailing address, no email address, only a solitary author's name Tachibana Masashi.

It seems Mr. Tachibana isn't planning on publishing a formal journal article. So what's his motive?

Just to show off in front of a group of chemists?

It's fun to act cool for a moment.

It's always fun to show off.

Shen Qi could only conclude that.

The following day, it was cloudy with average air quality.

The World Congress of Chemistry has entered its second day. Shen Qi will deliver a keynote speech on "Macrocyclic Compounds, Novel Rearrangement Reactions and Their Applications in Related Chemical Drugs" at 9:00 AM this morning in the main conference hall of the Capital International Convention Center.

By 8:30, the main conference hall was already full with hundreds of seats.

At 9:00 AM sharp, Shen Qi's academic lecture began on time.

Shen Qi's report was delivered in Chinese, and attendees who did not understand Chinese could use simultaneous translation devices to comprehend it.

"I am Shen Qi, thank you all for attending my presentation. This presentation is mainly divided into two parts. The first part is the synthetic strategies for Macrocyclic Compounds, which will include discussions of novel rearrangement reactions. The second part is based on the latest research findings on Macrocyclic Compounds, demonstrating their latest applications in chemical pharmaceuticals..."

The main lecture hall quickly quieted down. In order to ensure that the simultaneous translation of various languages could keep up with the pace, Shen Qi slowed down his speech.

Shen Qi can certainly speak English; his English is quite good, and his level is quite high.

Whenever he gave a presentation in China, Shen Qi always spoke Chinese.

Shen Qi's report was based on a very detailed paper, which included charts, data, a detailed synthesis route, and a theoretical framework.

Shen Qi believes he has made a breakthrough in his research on Macrocyclic Compounds.

The study of Macrocyclic Compounds is one of the optional tasks for students advancing from Chemistry Level 13 to Level 14.

Shen Qi had been dealing with the system for over a decade, so he was quite familiar with its upgrade settings.

Whether it's solving the Riemann Hypothesis or working on the N-S Equation, if Shen Qi locks himself in a dark room and secretly finds the correct answer, the system won't acknowledge that he's completed the task. Only when he gains recognition from the academic community will the system acknowledge that Shen Qi has completed the task.

This is also the purpose of Shen Qi's report meeting today.

Three hours passed quickly, and Shen Qi finished his report as planned, "My report is complete. Thank you for listening. At 2 PM this afternoon, I will be in Conference Room 2 for a face-to-face discussion on <Macrocyclic Compounds, Novel Rearrangement Reactions, and the Application of Related Chemical Drugs>. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have during the discussion. Thank you, thank you again!"

A round of enthusiastic applause erupted, and Shen Qi politely withdrew from the stage.

The system still hasn't acknowledged the completion of the chemistry promotion to level 14.

The system will probably only recognize it after the Q&A session in the afternoon is successfully completed.

As soon as Shen Qi left the main conference hall, before he even entered the media interview area, someone rushed up to his side.

This person is clearly a journalist, as he is wearing various journalistic gear.

Shen Qi glanced at the man and said, "Dude, this is the reporter's rest area, not open to the media... Oh, you're from the People's Daily Newspaper Office, no wonder you were able to get in."

"Hello Academician Shen, I'm Xiao Shen from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Daily Newspaper Office, specializing in reporting science and technology news. What a coincidence, we're from the same family, hehe." Reporter Xiao Shen started by trying to get on his good side, then continued, "Your speech was very successful, congratulations! We understand that your research results on Macrocyclic Compounds have a very good chance of making it onto the Nobel Prize list this year. What are your thoughts on that?"

Shen Qi replied, "Winning the Nobel Prize is irrelevant; I've long since passed the stage where I'd collapse if I didn't win one. I just hope that our research results can be put into practical application as soon as possible and achieve good results, so as to save more lives and cure more patients."