Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 113: An Unexpected Surprise

　　Peer review of a major conjecture is often not as rigorously double-blind as a typical journal submission because there are only a few people working in the field, and Orion is required to explain any problems found during the review.

　　As soon as the presentation was over, Orion received the review list from Annals of Mathematics.

　　Since the Annals of Mathematics was jointly operated by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, to Orion, it was probably similar to a " college journal" which was open to the public, so this list did not appear in his mailbox, but Evans, the editor-in-chief, personally delivered it to Orion's hand.

　　"...... Your paper will be reviewed openly, fairly, and independently by Faltings, Helfgott, Iwaniec, and six others. Enjoy the evening banquet, you'll have your hands full starting tomorrow." Evans said with a smile.

　　Looking at the list, Orion's head spun for a moment.

　　It was reasonable that Helfgott would appear in the list, after all, he also studied Goldbach's Conjecture, and his understanding of the circle method could be said to be the number one today, just like Chen Jingrun's for the large sieve method.

　　But Faltings, a bigwig in the algebraic geometry world, what's the point of coming to the table? ......

　　Though he did solve quite a few problems in number theory using algebraic geometry.

　　Gathering up the list, Orion coughed lightly, "...... I hope the bigwigs are merciful."

　　"Mercy? Impossible, this is one of the crowns of analytic number theory," Evans laughed, patting Orion's arm, "Professor Peter Sarnak of the Institute for Advanced Study was quite optimistic about your paper, so you can be a little more confident in yourself. I'm optimistic about you, go for it!"

　　Orion naturally knew who Evans was talking about Professor Sarnak, there were quite a few professors with the surname Sarnak in Princeton, but there was only one famous one, and that was Peter Sarnak, the editorial board member of the Annals of Mathematics, and the winner of the 2014 Wolf Prize.

　　Although not as famous as the two greats, Faltings and Iwaniec, his authority in the field of number theory is unquestionable.

　　However, because of various reasons such as avoiding suspicion, there is only one researcher from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in this review list. Instead, it was researcher from the École normale supérieure, which took up two places.

　　Actually, Evans is still not accurate enough.

　　Not from tomorrow, but right after this presentation, Orion was already busy.

　　When he had just left Lecture Hall 1 of the Institute for Advanced Studies, the reporters who had been waiting for a long time chased after him.

　　"Mr. Orion, I am a reporter from the Philadelphia Daily News, may I ask if you will teach at Princeton? Will you return home?"

　　Orion: "Of course, I'll go back eventually. But in the meantime, I like the purely academic environment of Princeton, it's a good place for academic exchanges, and if Princeton is willing to offer me a teaching position, of course I'd be happy to accept."

　　"Hello Mr. Orion, I'm a reporter from the Daily Mail, may I ask how you feel about your presentation?"

　　"Nervous, as well as excited ...... So, I need a break now, very, very much. You can interview Professor Deligne who is my supervisor, he has helped me a lot and he knows a lot about my research ......"