Free Web NovelChapter 218: Chapter 177: I’m Going to Prove His Evidence Wrong
Andrew Wiles, Head of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University.
He is widely acknowledged as one of the top mathematicians in the world, having proven the Fermat’s Last Theorem when n>2. In other words, he validated the Fermat’s Last Theorem, renowned in the mathematical world alongside Goldbach, and transformed it into ’Fermat’s Last Theorem’.
The magnitude of his personal influence is quite imaginable with such achievements.
When Wiles gave an interview and mentioned ’not completely understanding the three-dimensional tremor waveform,’ ’unable to guarantee accuracy,’ and ’possibly a scheme by the Chinese’, major mainstream media in the western world quickly picked up on this, initiating reports surrounding this ’conspiracy theory’.
In no time, this ’conspiracy theory’ swept across the globe.
Of course.
Most media outlets just ran the story without any targeted commentary. This was because the only one discussing the ’conspiracy theory’ was Wiles, with no other heavyweights joining in.
The impact of Wiles’ interview shortly manifested itself.
This ’conspiracy theory’ resonated with the public who harbored hostility towards the East, making it seem as if the East had indeed created a ’function weapon trap’, waiting for Western countries to fall straight into it, ultimately giving them easy access to safely decrypt passwords.
Zhao Yi’s notoriety promptly skyrocketed in Western countries, becoming known not just in the global mathematics and computer science communities, but also among many ordinary people. However, the way they talked about him was different--
"He’s an extremely cunning mathematician!"
"He has created a function weapon! A highly terrifying function weapon! Did you know? This kind of function weapon can break into our computers, satellites, and even missiles and nuclear bombs!"
"That is indeed terrifying!"
"If his conspiracy comes to fruition, perhaps upon the command from their Eastern leaders, our aircraft carriers might end up turning their guns towards Washington!"
The press coverage from Western countries became quite interesting once it reached home; domestic media reported on it purely as an amusing piece of news.
The reports were framed comically, with headlines like--
"Wiles Claims Zhao’s Function is a Great Conspiracy!"
"European Media Reports, Zhao Yi Manipulates Their Warplanes with Functions!"
"Chinese High School Student Becomes Number One Conspirator against the West!"
"Western Media: The Power of Zhao’s Function Far Exceeds Ten Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers!"
That day, while Zhao Yi was in class, he received a few system notifications.
"[Research Coin +10]"
"[Academic Reputation Enhanced!]"
"[Research Coin +10]"
"[Academic Reputation Enhanced, Study Coin +1000]"
"How come these were added?" Zhao Yi felt somewhat puzzled.
After his paper on the ’three-dimensional tremor waveform’ was published, he had already received the reward for his research achievement. He had earned research coins, totaling 32, along with 1600 study coins.
Now, he had an additional 20 research coins and 1000 study coins.
"Why is that?" Zhao Yi carefully examined the system and checked his own attributes--
"[Name: Zhao Yi]"
"[Brain Domain Development Level: 6.3%]"
"[Wisdom: 71]"
"[Energy: 113/128]"
"[Study Coins: 3320]"
"[Research Coins: 119]"
"[Abilities: Law of Cause and Effect, Connection Law, Supervision Law (to activate the next stage of your Ability, 18000 study coins need to be spent)]"
In recent times, the biggest gain has been the study coins.
Normally, earning study coins from everyday life is hard. With just twenty or thirty coins a day, the accumulation is painfully slow. However, with research achievements, things are different. If your influence is significant, you can earn over a thousand study coins.
Research coins, on the other hand, seem to be more than enough, because every time a research result is produced, the consumed research coins can be quickly replenished with a huge surplus.
Of course.
Research coins must be cherished and used sparingly; they cannot be wasted recklessly. After all, a little over a hundred coins equate to over a hundred hours. Once spent, earning them back would be quite hard.
After carefully analyzing the system data, Zhao Yi found that the study coins and research coins had indeed been added. However, there was no explanation in the system prompts as to ’why the academic reputation was improved’, so he was still clueless about what had actually happened.
Deciding not to dwell on it, Zhao Yi continued with his class as usual.
After school, upon returning home, he shared a parting kiss with Lin Xiaoqing that made the young girl blush. In doing so, he earned a study coin. With a relaxed mind, he then got home, opened his computer and noticed several messages from a few people.
First, he saw the message from Xu Chao.
Having brought the robot to the capital, Xu Chao returned to work at the Intelligent and Automated Laboratory under the guise of a ’collaborator’. This was probably a novel experience for him.
His former colleagues at the Intelligent and Automated Laboratory would probably also find this very novel.
Zhao Yi was curious about what Xu Chao would say, but he didn’t expect Xu Chao to simply send several website links. Only after conducting a security scan did he open them and take a brief look, "Zhao Yi’s function greatly surpasses the power of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers?"
"What’s this about?"
Zhao Yi carefully read the news content and found himself laughing and crying at the same time.
The Western media had portrayed him as a conspirator, claiming that the ’three-dimensional tremor waveform’ was a massive conspiracy? free𝑤ebnovel.com
He opened messages from other people and found that messages from Luo Zhijin, Zhang Zhen, and others were essentially telling him about this news. It was also being discussed in the ’Computer Technology Exchange Group’.
Meng Ruohao tagged him in a rather representative message, "Big Zhao, the terror scientist, when are you planning to overthrow the world?"
Many people following chimed in--
"From now on we should call him Big Zhao, the Conspirator!"
"Terrifying! The mere eighteen-year-old high school student in this group is actually a dark scientist who will flip the world upside down!"
"Zhao Yi’s Function is the most advanced superweapon!"
Zhang Zhen spoke up, "Actually, this is also one way to think about it. Create something that other countries think is very useful. Wait for them to use it and then... hehehe..."
"I think solving the Riemann Conjecture is more straightforward!"
"Exactly!"
"As long as you can find the prime number solution rule for the Riemann Conjecture, it would be just like what Wiles said."
Zhao Yi found the messages amusing, yet he responded, "Comrades, I’m researching an even more advanced weapon that can launch attacks through the internet. Don’t you dare speak ill of me!"
"Everyone, be careful!"
The chat suddenly became even livelier.
Zhao Yi continued to browse the news on the internet and found a few excerpts from foreign media reports, gaining a rough understanding of the situation.
Wiles put forth the ’Function Conspiracy Theory’, which was covered by major Western media.
In fact, from these Western media reports, it’s evident that they don’t believe in any conspiracy theory, as no other heavyweight figures have stepped forward to support Wiles’ views. On the contrary, a professor from Princeton, Wiles’ colleague, came forward to refute Wiles’ opinion.
The reason is simple: it doesn’t correspond to reality!
The ’Three-Dimensional Tremor Waveform’ is just a function, an extension of the Riemann Conjecture, and the reason it’s referred to as ’unfamiliar’ is because the Riemann Conjecture remains unsolved.
The two are directly related.
The Riemann Conjecture is public and used in many advanced cryptographic applications. Cracking it isn’t simply proving it, but requires figuring out the pattern of its prime solutions.
That’s hard!
The prefix of the ’Three-Dimensional Tremor Waveform’ is ’random’, so cracking it would mean deciphering the pattern of its prime solutions.
Zhao Yi is indeed the creator of the function, but he derived it based on the Riemann Conjecture. It’s different from a function developed by studying the pattern of prime solutions. Their circumstances are different and thus the impacts are worlds apart.
In fact.
The conclusion that ’Zhao Yi knows the prime solution pattern of the Three-Dimensional Tremor Waveform’ is not believed by any real mathematicians.
China’s mathematical community is not lacking; it has been improving rapidly in recent years. But to say it surpasses the West is impossible. The gap does exist and even if an extraordinary mathematician emerges, it’s impossible to leapfrog levels and become this powerful. Discovering the pattern of prime solutions is akin to overpowering the mathematical community across dimensions.
That’s unreasonable.
While reading the reports, Zhao Yi also felt a bit frustrated. After careful thoughts, he realized the issue lay with Wiles.
Andrew Wiles.
The man who proved Fermat’s Last Theorem...Fermat’s Last Theorem?
Zhao Yi suddenly furrowed his brows; he remembered a piece of news from about a decade ago stating that there were errors in the proof process of Fermat’s Last Theorem.
At the time, he only swiftly skimmed it, not caring about the specifics. He only remembered the incident itself because Fermat’s Last Theorem was so famous.
He immediately asked in the group chat, "Does anyone know where I can find Wiles’ paper proving Fermat’s Last Theorem?"
Soon after.
’Science Missionary Ma Xiaojun’ provided a webpage link to the "Mathematical Progress" journal website. After paying a fee, previous papers could be downloaded and viewed.
Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem initially involved three talks at the Newton Institute, followed by a 200-page paper submitted to "Mathematical Progress."
Using non-Chinese credit cards to pay foreign websites is inconvenient. Zhao Yi couldn’t manage even after a long trial. In the end, he contacted Luo Zhijin.
Luo Zhijin was incredibly capable and seemed to be able to solve anything.
Luo Zhijin indeed impressed him. He quickly found an electronic copy of the paper for Zhao Yi, saying, "It’s from Professor He, who asked me to pass it onto you. He studied the proof process of Fermat’s Last Theorem and mentioned there might be a problem, but I didn’t quite catch what the problem was."
Zhao Yi replied, "Please thank Teacher He for me."
He didn’t interact much with Professor He, who apparently didn’t ’recognize’ him as a disciple. Thankfully, Professor He had given him the research manuscript of Fuzzy Mathematics and occasionally offered help, so it’s not a loss to identify himself as a quasi-student.
Being the head of Yanhua University School of Information, it’s perfectly normal to address He as ’teacher’. Zhao Yi didn’t have any objections.
Upon receiving the 200-page electronic manuscript, Zhao Yi commenced a meticulous inspection, flipping through it page by page.
His scrolling speed accelerated, faster and faster...
After a few dozen pages, his mouse was incessantly clicking, continuously ’next page’, ’next page’, as he couldn’t comprehend the content within.
This wasn’t surprising.
Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s theorem was said to only be comprehensible to a few people. The process was so complex that several top mathematicians were enlisted to review different sections of it. freeweɓnovel.cøm
The principle of the entire proof process is to prove the incomplete Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture, mainly demonstrating the proof on semi-stable elliptic curves, which involves various fields including hyperbolic set, analytic number theory, modular forms, and so on.
The names of some of these subjects are unheard of by most people.
Zhao Yi was no exception.
Eventually, Zhao Yi stopped flipping pages and simply closed his research. He decided to use the "Supervision Law" on the electronic manuscript before him.
System prompt—
[Using the "Supervision Law" will consume 61 energy points, do you wish to proceed?]
Zhao Yi glanced at his energy points, gritted his teeth, and gave an affirmative response. "Yes!"
The next moment, his head felt like it was about to explode.
He didn’t hesitate and swallowed six Study Coins in a succession. The pain disappeared instantly, as if it had been an illusion.
"Phew~~"
Zhao Yi exhaled deeply, very certain it was not an illusion because his entire body was soaked in sweat in an instant.
"Must be more careful next time!"
"That was unbearable!"
"If it causes any harm to the body, it’ll be a bigger loss. Consuming over sixty energy points all at once, indeed..."
"Phew~~"
He sat quietly for a while, his mind blank, before he finally started to recover. Then he was shocked by the feedback information.
There are four errors reported in Wiles’ paper proving Fermat’s Last Theorem.
One is a direct error, namely the logic does not hold and cannot prove itself.
And there are three more hints pointing at issues, but it’s unclear what the issues are.
Zhao Yi immediately perked up.
This...
"Damn it!"
"This guy is calling me a conspirator, I’ll prove that his proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem is wrong!"
