Chapter 368

For a whole day, the topic discussed in the mathematics community was this incident.

After all, this incident involved five current geniuses in mathematics.

Any one of these five people is enough to serve as the research team leader of a large-scale project.

And now, these five are all stuck on the subject of the narrow Hodge conjecture.

Many people felt very sorry.

They share the same view as Chairman Goins.

The fight between the five of them, Gu Lu, was equivalent to an internal strife within the mathematics community.

This is a very unwise behavior for the five of them and for the entire mathematical community.

But at the same time, everyone also knows it.

They could not change the minds of Gu Lu and Constantine.

This battle is destined to begin.

The only thing they can do is eat melon.

Someone posted a voting post on the forum, asking everyone to guess the winning rates of the two parties.

The final data is...

80% of people think that Constantine's trio will win, while only 20% think that Gu and Lu's duo will win.

This is a one-sided crushing.

And most people are optimistic about Constantine and the others.

The reason is simple.

Because in terms of paper strength of the two teams, it is obvious that Constantine's side has the absolute advantage.

There were three people on Constantine's side, while there were only two of him and Simon on Gu Lu's side.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that you can win as long as there are more people.

Facing Gu Lu and Simon, even if more than a dozen of them are dragged out, they may not be the enemies of Gu Lu and the others!

The crux of the matter is...

When the individual strengths are about the same, the difference between one person is enough to determine the victory!

Constantine is the winner of the Philippine Prize and is known as an all-round mathematician. His ability is certainly unparalleled.

As a rising star in the world of mathematics, Gu Lu is about as bright as Constantine in terms of hard power!

But in terms of experience, Gu Lu still lacks a lot.

This gives Constantine a certain advantage, but it is estimated that this advantage will not be too great.

As for Simon and Carl.

Before Gu Lu became famous, these two were the two most famous geniuses in the entire field of algebraic geometry.

The two are similar in age and have been involved in the European mathematics community together. Naturally, there will be no shortage of conflicts and disputes.

The two of them win or lose, and no one can do anything to the other.

The level of the two of them is almost 50-50.

In this case, the four people will offset each other.

However, there is one more person on Constantine's side.

Danish mathematician Alec!

This is the undisputed number one among the young generation of mathematicians in the field of algebraic topology!

Its strength is almost the same as that of Simon and Karl, and it is better to win than to win.

With Alec's main force on Constantine's side, he would of course have an absolute advantage.

That's why all the mathematicians who were obsessed with it chose to support Constantine's side.

Then does Gu Lu have no advantage?

In the eyes of everyone, Gu Lu and Simon still have an advantage.

This advantage lies in time.

According to everyone's calculations, Gu Lu and Simon probably started preparing to conquer the Hodge conjecture in the narrow sense as soon as the International Congress of Mathematicians ended.

So in terms of time, Gu Lu and Simon had about half a month's time advantage over Constantine.

However, even though Gu Lu had the time advantage, everyone was still not optimistic about them.

The proof of the narrow conjecture must be a very long process.

It will take at least one to two years to complete.

Compared with such a long research cycle, a half-month lead is almost equivalent to nothing.

As long as Constantine and the others wanted to pursue him, it would be easy to catch up.

The Internet was overwhelmingly supportive of Constantine.

And many people are paying close attention to what's happening on Gu Lu's side.

In everyone's opinion, since Constantine has brought two helpers, Gu Lu can definitely bring in one more person to help besides Simon and create a 3v3 situation.

With Gu Lu's reputation and connections in the mathematics community, it was not too difficult to recruit a mathematician whose abilities were comparable to Simon's.

However, what surprised everyone was...

For several days, there was no movement from Gu Lu.

It seems that he is preparing to stay together with Simon like this.

Simon: "Gu Lu, we really don't want to recruit anyone anymore. I know Ge Guli from the University of Munich and I can ask him to join us!"

The Geguli mentioned by Simon is a super master in the field of algebra, who has won the Cole Algebra Prize.

Facing Simon's suggestion, Gu Lu smiled softly and shook his head, "No, we won't pull anyone in, it's just the two of us! Simon, I believe you!"

There are advantages to having many people and there are advantages to having few people.

There were only two of him and Simon, so communication and task assignment were very convenient and even flexible.

With three people, it becomes a lot more complicated.

Simon was a little moved by what Gu Lu said, "Simon, do you really only want me?"

Gu Lu nodded, "Well, of course, I won't find anyone else!"

Simon clenched his fist heavily and said, "Okay, Gu Lu, from now on, I am yours!"

Gu Lu smiled slightly, his eyes calm, "Simon, believe me, I will not betray your...trust."

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At the same time, on the other side.

At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Constantine, Karl, and Alec met for the first time.

A small conference room.

Constantine and the three of them each held a cup of coffee and chatted while drinking.

The atmosphere was quite relaxed at first.

The three of them all knew each other, and their previous relationship was not good but not bad either.

It was because of Simon that Karl agreed to join Constantine's chariot.

Alec, on the other hand, agreed to Constantine's invitation to join the team simply because he was interested in the subject of the narrow Hodge conjecture.

Among the three, Constantine is the oldest, and purely in terms of strength on paper, Constantine is also the strongest.

Therefore, this meeting was led by Constantine.

Facing the two of them, Constantine rarely put down his airs this time, and smiled and exchanged pleasantries for a while.

Then, he got to the point, "Our top priority at this stage is to seize the time to build the theoretical framework of the topic as soon as possible!"

Karl nodded in agreement, "I agree! Moreover, I heard from the gossip that Gu Lu and Simon have successfully built the project framework!"

"So fast!" Alec was surprised.

"Not surprising." As an opponent, Constantine can be said to know Gu Lu's strength very well, "After all, that's Gu Lu!"

Even he must be deeply afraid of this existence.
Chapter completed!