Solving the Riemann Hypothesis in three years...
That sentence sounded far too familiar.
Faltings could recall no fewer than ten names of people who had once made similar boasts.
It even reminded him of an old acquaintance who had been dead for some time.
That old acquaintance was named Weil, the man who had proposed the famous Weil Conjecture.
It was said that in his youth, Weil had made a groundbreaking extension to the problem of the distribution of zeros of the Zeta Function of algebraic curves over finite fields. From this, he proposed the Weil Conjecture and optimistically believed that it might offer ideas valuable enough to guide the proof of the true Riemann Hypothesis.
He had even made plans: if he proved the Riemann Hypothesis as a result, he would deliberately delay publishing his paper until 1959—the hundredth anniversary of the Riemann Hypothesis's proposal.
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However, that optimistic attitude had vanished by his later years.
It was not until the 1970s that Professor Deligne proved the Weil Conjecture, while a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis remained nowhere in sight.
Faltings clearly remembered that until the old man's death, he had kept talking about how he hoped to see the Riemann Hypothesis solved in his lifetime, though that had already become unlikely...
Three days passed quickly.
The academic conference came to an end, and scholars from various countries began departing one after another.
Over the following days, Professor Faltings did not trouble Lu Zhou to take him up the mountain again. Instead, he spent his time wandering around Jinling University.
According to posts on the school forum, the old professor had apparently visited the library, gone to Drum Tower, and even sat in on a Mathematics class at the new campus... Though he probably could not understand