Chapter 453: Chapter 148 This Isn’t Paranoia, It’s Confidence_5
Qiao Yu could see that Professor Tao Xuanzhi was very active in the mathematics world; last year, he even teamed up with over sixty mathematicians to come up with questions and launched a mathematics benchmark called FrontierMath to test AI’s mathematical abilities.
Simply put, FrontierMath is an original question bank, containing hundreds of challenging math problems covering major branches of modern mathematics, such as Number Theory, Real Analysis, Algebraic Geometry, and Category Theory.
Then the most advanced AI attempts to solve these problems in the question bank...
Seeing this, Qiao Yu suddenly realized that Yu Wei suddenly wanting to work on AI indeed showed some foresight.
Peter Schultz is involved in AI mathematics research with Microsoft, transforming mathematical theorems into things AI can understand, while this Professor Tao Xuanzhi is working on AI mathematics test benchmark question banks.
After roughly understanding the backgrounds of these bigwigs, Qiao Yu casually logged onto arXiv and downloaded the paper "New Progress in Large Value Estimates of Dirichlet Polynomials" which Professor Zhang had recommended onto his computer.
The latest paper from a Fields Medalist is definitely worth a look, especially since it’s about prime numbers, a field these Fields Medalists are paying attention to.
To be honest, Qiao Yu is quite afraid that someone might solve the Twin Prime Conjecture and the Riemann Conjecture before him.
The former is one thing, but the latter is related to a $1.5 million prize.
At least for Qiao Yu now, he’s definitely interested in that $1.5 million. Converted to RMB, it’s tens of millions, not only given by Americans but also tax-free.
After all, mathematicians would do anything to get the Fields Medal prize, which is only about 15,000 CAD, less than 60,000 RMB.
Not to mention the Nobel Prize with its 11 million Swedish Krona prize, or the $1 million Turing Award, it’s not even on par with the Wolf Prize.
The Wolf Prize has at least $100,000!
This is probably the biggest dissatisfaction Qiao Yu has with the Fields Medal.
However, after downloading the paper, Qiao Yu thought for a moment, didn’t read the paper, but directly captured a screenshot of Zhang Yuantang’s email, opened the WeChat group, sent it, and tagged everyone.
"Comrades fighting for the same goal, please take some time to read this email, Fields Medal mathematicians want to cooperate with us, but I don’t intend to collaborate with them.
Because I believe more in our ability to complete this project independently! So let’s all work hard together! If we can achieve this result, even Fields Medal big shots will be envious!
Comrades, please reply if you receive this!"
As the initiator of this project, Qiao Yu felt that it was necessary to occasionally pump everyone up. This way, he could urge everyone to complete their tasks quickly.
Although in the group, one was a professor who had given him many suggestions, even discovering him, one was his senior, and another was his mom.
Qiao Yu always believed that as long as he wasn’t embarrassed, it was others who would be embarrassed.
It seemed to be true.
Because although the message was sent out, tagging everyone, half a day went by without any replies.
...
In the office, Xue Song was assigning tasks to his PhD students. Because he just arrived at Yanbei University, he hadn’t been allocated recruiting slots this year, but the PhD students from Yujiang University had all followed him.
Feeling his phone vibrate twice, Xue Song casually picked it up and glanced at it, instantly not knowing what to say.
Throughout his academic career, Xue Song had served as a project leader and had also worked with others on projects.
So this kind of motivational style from Qiao Yu felt both familiar and foreign to him.
Typically, when collaborating with professors, people wouldn’t do this. It was more common for mentors to occasionally encourage everyone in this way.
Especially the phrase "comrades fighting for the same goal," which made Xue Song find it hard to comment.
But on the other hand, the fact that even Tao Xuanzhi is interested in this project indeed made Xue Song feel quite excited.
But what could he reply? Just replying "received" seemed to lose face, so he simply pretended he hadn’t seen it and put down his phone.
He redirected his focus back to his student.
"Junfei, work on this project diligently. To get a diploma from Yanbei University, the requirements will be stricter. Qiao Yu’s project is a great breakthrough point. Complete the validation work quickly and submit it to me."
"Okay, boss."
...
Huaqing, Qiuzhai.
Qiao Xi glanced at the message Qiao Yu sent and thought for a moment before asking her mentor next to her.
"Teacher Yuan, is Professor Tao Xuanzhi well-known?"
"Hmm? Why did you suddenly bring him up?"
Qiao Xi handed her phone to the mentor beside her.
Elder Yuan glanced at it and laughed: "Haha, Xuanzhi does have a good eye."
Then explained to Qiao Xi: "Xuanzhi is one of the emerging leaders in mathematics. But you don’t need to worry about that, let that guy work things out, your task is to focus on building a solid foundation."
"Okay, teacher."
So Qiao Xi also casually tossed her phone aside.
This kid... using the term comrades again, probably wants someone to help him relax a bit.
...
While in a meeting, Chen Zhuoyang felt his phone vibrate, sneaked a look at it, and quickly browsed the email screenshot from Qiao Yu. He felt a lot of emotions.
After reading the words Qiao Yu posted, he was indeed planning to reply with a "received."
After all, compared to Xue Song and Qiao Xi, he truly didn’t feel that replying with a "received" was inappropriate.
But just as he was about to tap on his phone’s keyboard, he heard someone call his name.
"Chen Zhuoyang, why don’t you start by talking about it..."
Unlucky...