Chapter 38
At the current exchange rate, 100 bitcoins were worth five million dollars.
Sam BBC News quickly broke the news to the world.
"Professor Faltings, who understands the Riemann Hypothesis best and has studied it most deeply, has endorsed Jiang Ye's proof of the Riemann Hypothesis and personally stated that he was right: he solved the Riemann Hypothesis!"
The International Mathematical Union followed with an announcement: "At present, we can confirm that he has crossed out the biggest and boldest of the seven question marks in the hall of mathematics. We still need time to verify the remaining results, but there is no doubt that he will become one of the most influential mathematicians in the world today."
Before long, the Clayton Mathematics Institute issued an announcement: "Jiang Ye is probably the person closest to the truth in the world today. For the first time since Mr. Grothendieck passed away, we feel so strongly that there is another person in this world who may know the answers we all long to know."
The three announcements came one after another, leaving viewers around the world reeling.
In the international livestream:
"Shit, this has to be fake news. A hacker must have spoofed my information bubble. It's all fake."
"Baka, that's the Riemann Hypothesis, the greatest crown in mathematics today. How could someone from Dragon Country have taken it?"
"Shibal, Jiang Ye is actually one of our Great Han People. If you trace his ancestry back, his forebears came from our side. He carries our people's bloodline."
"I'm dying laughing. Hey, Korean, why don't you just say everyone in Dragon Country is descended from you? Fuck you. You're the most shameless people in the world."
"Keep talking tough. This is only the beginning. Don't believe it? Just wait. Soon you'll have no choice but to believe it."
And when the news reached home,
the influencers who had previously championed the claim that Jiang Ye had cheated were dumbfounded.
Back then, they hadn't just blindly chased popularity. At the very least, they had looked into the seven Millennium Problems.
They had all believed that Jiang Ye would most likely fail.
But then...
Just as they were sweating buckets and discussing what to do,
another piece of news broke internationally, conclusively confirming that Jiang Ye's proof of the Riemann Hypothesis was genuine.
Faltings posted a tweet on his personal Twitter account.
"He did indeed prove the Riemann Hypothesis. The theoretical tools of the Hyperelliptic Curve Analysis Method made me slap the table in admiration. I find it hard to believe he's really only twenty!? His Holiness the Pope wrote in a letter that whoever could snatch the crown called the Riemann Hypothesis from the devil's hands would have a chance of accomplishing a feat no one has achieved in over a thousand years."
"That is, unifying algebra and geometry!"
"I believe that day will come before long!"
Immediately afterward, the Chinese-American mathematician Terence Tao posted a tweet: "What he is playing is the opening of an era. The solution to the Riemann Hypothesis will set a series of great changes in motion."
Scholze of Iron Will Country: "I've met many people who boasted that they would solve the Riemann Hypothesis, but without exception, not one succeeded. Quite a few brilliant mathematicians I knew well threw themselves into the Riemann Hypothesis, only to have their weapons broken and buried in the sand. Now it's all over. Thank God we can keep pushing forward through the gates of truth."
Chapter 38: Cleaning Out the Scum, a Crackdown Across the Internet (Begging for All Kinds of Support)
After Faltings spoke out, more and more leading mathematicians researching algebraic geometry followed, publicly stating that Jiang Ye had solved the Riemann Hypothesis.
This completely set off and reversed the tide of public opinion at home.
"Those people claiming Jiang Ye cheated don't seriously think the Riemann Hypothesis was also worked out here at home to support him, do they? No way! There can't really be idiots like that, can there?"
"If I could prove the Riemann Hypothesis, even if the country asked me to hand the credit over, never mind how reasonable it was, the compensation would at least have to be equivalent, right? And what compensation could possibly match the honor and money that come from proving the Riemann Hypothesis, not to mention the supreme status and a place in history?"
"Before, the whole internet was clamoring to get Jiang Ye banned, socially ruin him, and drive him off the show. Heh, weren't you just green-eyed and jealous of what he achieved? You're incapable yourselves and only know how to dance to someone else's tune. A bunch of trash. Calling you tools would be giving you too much credit."
"That's right. You can't even think for yourselves, and you kneel down and call foreigners daddy. Go on, call them that now and see if they pay you any attention. Especially those influencer streamers-come out and say something now! Come out and apologize! Where are you?"
"He only solved the Riemann Hypothesis. What's so great about that?"
"Haha, I'm dying laughing. Is this your last stubborn attempt to show how ignorant you are!?"
"Has anyone noticed that Chen Haoyu's Weibo account doesn't seem to show up in searches anymore?"
At the mathematics school of Shuimu University in Dragon Country.
In that same spacious lecture hall.
When the confirmed conclusion reached them,
they looked at the young man on the huge screen on the wall, his face still a little youthful.
All the teachers and students fell silent.
The classroom was deathly quiet.
An old man broke the silence.
He stood up and began to applaud.
Clap, clap, clap...
Applause gradually rose, spreading from the front row to the back.
A light drizzle turned into a torrential downpour.
It wasn't just applause.
Students in the back rows stood up, whistling and cheering.
The most eye-catching question mark in the hall of mathematics had been gently crossed out by a piece of chalk.
And the person who crossed it out was their compatriot.
The applause poured down like a torrential rain, filling the entire classroom in an instant and continuing without end!
At that moment, the dean of the mathematics school lowered his voice and said to a staff member standing beside him, "What are you standing there for? Take pictures!"
"Oh, oh."
At a certain special department.
Zhang Puze was holding a meeting with a group of colleagues.
"This operation is called the Sunset Plan. The documents are in front of you. If you have no questions after reading them, begin immediately."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of pages turning filled the room.
The documents listed the largest internet platforms of every kind in the country, including Weibo, Bilibili, Kuaishou, Douyin, Pipixia, Zuiyou, and so on.
Under each platform, they also listed in detail the influencers, marketing accounts, streamers, uploaders, and others with huge numbers of followers.