Free Web NovelChapter 173: Chapter 155: Riemann Conjecture?
Sun Liang has always been an average student at the school. His Math and Physics grades were good, but his performance in other subjects was mediocre. His Chinese and English grades were so poor that they dragged his overall performance down, making it challenging for him to even make it into the top five at No.13 Middle School, let alone be a standout at the city or provincial level in Zhengyang and Nanjiang.
The high school entrance exam evaluates the total score, so does high school itself.
Even if he did extremely well in Math and Physics, the overall mediocre performance made him considered as an average student. When it comes to the "top students" in the school, people think of He Ronghua and Lin Xiaoqing, but certainly not Sun Liang.
But that has changed now.
Sun Liang won a national first-prize in the Olympiad in Mathematics, and has been contracted by Capital University. He’s become the legendary "guaranteed admission student", delivering a trans-dimensional blow to others and is hailed as a "good student" by teachers.
But Sun Liang is now feeling lost.
Already admitted to a university, he wonders, "Why bother going to school then?"
Like Zhao Yi, he reads university level Math and practices Olympiad problems to prepare for the National Olympiad Team selection competition in March. However, he still finds himself in a state of confusion.
Teachers have always said...
Everything becomes easy once you enter college, and he’s already gained admission. He should start to relax!
The Olympiad team selection competition may not matter, and while it seems challenging to fight for a place in the national team, Sun Liang also knows his own situation. He didn’t start Olympic training at a young age like the others, so he’s at a disadvantage.
The selection competition is about to take place in March, and he barely passed the National Mathematics Olympiad; it seems almost hopeless.
Sun Liang suddenly can’t identify his goal anymore.
He stands at a crossroads in his life, unsure of the path forward - specifically, he doesn’t know what he should focus on in the few months leading up to the college entrance examination.
During the big break.
Zhao Yi didn’t see Sun Liang for quite a while, as if he vanished after going to the restroom. While tutoring Zhao Linlin, Zhao Yi noticed Sun Liang walked in and asked, "Where have you been?"
"Out to buy something."
"Buy something?" Zhao Yi stared at Sun Liang’s empty hands.
"Can’t find anything I want to eat."
Zhao Yi looked puzzled and instinctively used the "Causality Law", his conclusion-
Sun Liang was lying!
With curiosity, he watched Sun Liang carefully and tried to employ the "Supervision Law", which yielded intriguing results.
First, Sun Liang had been in the building for a long time.
Second, Sun Liang seemed to not want others to know what he exactly did, which likely involved Gao Yuan.
"I... "
"Did I turn into Sherlock Holmes?"
Zhao Yi was utterly surprised, he just wanted a try but didn’t expect to succeed!
With a smirk on his face, he suddenly said, "You went to see Gao Yuan, didn’t you?"
"No!"
"Causality Law": Lie.
"Supervision Law": Sun Liang probably didn’t see Gao Yuan.
So, that’s how ’Clear Perception’ is used.
Zhao Yi felt as if he had discovered a new toy. His eyes gleamed with excitement as he continued, "Aren’t you the one who said that there are more girls in Capital University? You’re still pining for Gao..."
"Stop!"
Sun Liang quickly covered Zhao Yi’s mouth.
"Oh, oh."
Looking around, Zhao Yi noticed Zhao Linlin, Lin Xiaoqing, and Hu Tianyan all looking over. He realized it was inappropriate to speak out and was about to stop himself, but Sun Liang beat him to it with an even louder outburst, "Girls are such gossips; if you let it out, the whole school will know!"
Everyone nearby heard him.
Stunned, Zhao Yi stood there for a long time, utterly bewildered at how Sun Liang’s brain works. How could he actually say such a sweeping statement out loud that he should only think about?
As expected.
Lin Xiaoqing instantly exploded, "Monkey! Just because you got into Capital University doesn’t mean you’re superior. You’ve already been reprimanded by the teacher several times!"
"Yeah, I hate other people’s kids the most!"
"Giggle, giggle."
Zhao Yi covertly glanced at Hu Tianyan squeezing her wrist, suddenly realizing that he didn’t understand the girls around him deeply enough. Silently uttering an "Amen" in his heart, he wisely backed off and left the battlefield to Sun Liang.
What followed-
"Bam, bam, bam!"
"Pow, pow, pow!"
Everyone starts to settle old scores and grudges!
Zhao Yi gave a follow-up kick before standing in the distance and whispered in awe, "And that’s why, people, you always have to keep a low-profile!"
In the end, it was Zhao Yi who rescued Sun Liang.
When he saw Teacher Sun walk into the classroom with a stern face, he immediately shouted, "Teacher Sun is coming!"
Everyone instantly returned to their seats.
Sun Liang didn’t get beaten up badly, at least not visibly on his face, but being beaten by a group of girls might have caused greater emotional trauma.
At noon.
Zhao Yi found some time to play the therapist for Sun Liang. Not to help him forget about the unpleasant incident of course, but to urge him to continue his studies, "Monkey! You can’t be like this. You must find a goal. It is vital to have a direction!"
"Don’t listen to the teachers saying that it will be easy once you’re in university. That’s nonsense designed to give other students something to strive for."
"But we already have our goals, don’t we? You must want to learn something useful, right?"
"I’m working on a project. It’s quite interesting, high-end, cutting-edge technology. Something you would definitely not touch during your undergraduate years."
"So, join us!"
"You’ll have a PhD guiding you, don’t worry, we won’t charge any tuition, how does that sound?"
Zhao Yi said a lot, but the last sentence was the kicker.
A PhD as a guide?
"Really?"
Sun Liang’s eyes lit up.
"Of course."
Zhao Yi spoke earnestly, "A postdoc who previously worked in a national key laboratory will guide you. You’ll definitely learn something, and I believe it will greatly help your future, perhaps even uncover some of your hobbies...".
He said a lot.
Sun Liang kept nodding, "Zhao Yi, I thought you were always trying to trick me, but you really came through for me!"
"Of course, who else but us."
Zhao Yi said with a sincere smile.
...
Zhao Yi was working on an automated shopping robot system.
The core of the automated shopping system includes a few points. One is automatic navigation – to accomplish automated shopping, navigation and automation are essential. If the robot gets stuck halfway, it would be a joke.
Secondly, robot motion control – specifically accuracy in grabbing items from the shopping shelf and placing them into the shopping cart. Xu Chao played a major role here.
Zhao Yi could design codes to allow robots to flexibly control their fingers, but controlling the fingers was only part of it. The flexible control of the arm and the connection with the fingers were also issues.
This involves underlying automation control.
It would not be easy for Zhao Yi to solve this alone as it requires learning a lot of new things. Xu Chao’s previous lab specialized in automation, he was bound to know a lot about this field, and thus could provide a lot of help.
The third point, the most crucial, is object identification. freёwebnovel.com
What gave Zhao Yi headaches wasn’t designing the identification code but building a ’supermarket item’ database. They needed to investigate the characteristics of each item, which went beyond merely color and size, but also included many details. Ironically, the key ’item name’ was the least important.
If they started from having the robot identify text and understanding the content represented, it would not be something a small team could accomplish.
Therefore, Zhao Yi needed... manpower.
And who would be more at leisure than Sun Liang?
Of course.
Zhao Yi was not the kind of person to exploit good friends. He would certainly give the promised pay. When he said ’no tuition fee’, it was only in jest. Project development must have reliable people involved.
Five days later.
Zhao Yi finally met Xu Chao.
After Xu Chao had formally resigned, he boarded a plane to Zhengyang.
Zhao Yi had been looking forward to this for a long time. He even helped buy the plane tickets. Xu Chao’s arrival gave him another person capable of working twelve hours a day.
This was the main workforce.
Now Zhao Yi could take it easy. He had originally planned to write more code himself as other people’s code wasn’t as complete and efficient as his.
The existence of "Supervision Law" seemed to be for the purpose of making his life easier.
Some of the coding work was directly assigned to Xu Chao. After Xu Chao finished, Zhao Yi used "Supervision Law" to review it. This way, he could quickly spot problems and imperfections, and even identify errors quickly.
This was a godsend for debugging code!
Zhao Yi felt like things were going smoothly. The thing he did most daily became studying mathematics.
Zhao Yi cleared out a room for Xu Chao to use as a workspace.
Xu Chao was diligently writing code. In his spare time, he also studied the Rubik’s cube calculator algorithm, getting ready to start the ’writing’ work.
Zhao Yi, on the other hand, leisurely propped his legs up on his desk, looking at a textbook and learning about some mathematical conjectures.
The Riemann Conjecture.
When you delve deeply into number theory, prime numbers are unavoidable. A thorough research and discussion of prime numbers inevitably involve several related mathematical conjectures.
The Riemann Conjecture is a mathematical conjecture related to prime number distribution. Its reputation may not be as widespread as Goldbach’s Conjecture, but proving the Riemann Conjecture is far more significant than proving Goldbach’s Conjecture.
The Riemann Conjecture involves a function.
Simply put.
Riemann observed that the frequency of primes is closely related to the behavior of a carefully constructed so-called Riemann zeta function ζ(s).
The Riemann Hypothesis asserts that all meaningful solutions to the equation ζ(s)=0 lie on a straight line.
This is the Riemann Conjecture.
Listened to the content of the Riemann Conjecture, it appears to be just an issue with a function. In reality, understanding the function’s content requires extensive mathematical knowledge. The mathematical ramifications of the Riemann Conjecture are too vast to delve into.
Zhao Yi merely skimmed it. Looking at the complicated functions and equations, and the intricate analyses, he began to favor the Goldbach Conjecture.
At least... the Goldbach Conjecture was understandable!
Zhao Yi still earnestly read on. Suddenly remembering the "Supervision Law", he used it to assess the logical analysis of the Riemann Conjecture in the textbook.
"It worked?"
Realizing the information reflected in his mind, Zhao Yi is surprised and agape.
How did it work?
When he gained the ability of "Connection Law", he immediately tried to prove the mathematical conjectures, but all he got were failures. Clearly, the conditions were ’insufficient’, and his energy was certainly lacking.
So how did "Supervision Law" succeed?
Zhao Yi examined the feedback information in his mind, and turned his attention onto the Riemann Conjecture’s function.
