Free Web NovelChapter 372: Chapter 245: The Approach to Prove the Conjecture
"Correlation Law" was still very reliable, as Zhao Yi obtained a vague correlation between hemolytic streptococcus infection and rheumatoid arthritis pathology.
This vague correlation might not have any definite findings, but he knew where to start his research.
"We need data on respiratory diseases caused by hemolytic streptococcus infections and data on purulent inflammation caused by hemolytic streptococcus infections. We will start with research on mice."
Zhao Yi directly assigned the task, "Brother Liu, this part is up to you."
"Okay."
"Old Ai, you are responsible for studying the human immune system, the immune mechanisms that occur when fighting against hemolytic streptococcus infections, including the roles of various white blood cells. There must be a lot of completed research in this area, so we don’t need to do repetitive research, but what we need is the most detailed immune response mechanism."
Ai Lixin nodded, "Okay."
Zhao Yi turned to Zhang Wei, "Sister Zhang, you are responsible for recording and summarizing the data during the experimental process. Make sure to record everything clearly, even very small moments. First, we need to find the commonalities among various purulent infections and respiratory diseases caused by hemolytic streptococcus infections."
The last sentence was the key.
In the vague correlation obtained from "Correlation Law," the commonality of infections caused by hemolytic streptococcus was related to rheumatoid arthritis.
So the first step is to study the commonalities of infections caused by hemolytic streptococcus.
After Zhao Yi made arrangements, Ai Lixin, Zhang Wei, and Liu Chengjie looked at him with amazement.
In previous research projects, Zhao Yi usually acted as an observer. He only gave suggestions after the experiments and did not participate in any experiments or research.
But now it was different.
When Ai Lixin couldn’t figure out where to start the research, Zhao Yi directly assigned tasks?
Why?
Study the commonality of infections caused by hemolytic streptococcus-related diseases?
The main point wasn’t why Zhao Yi wanted to study this, but that Zhao Yi showed an amazing ability to make decisions and directly assigned tasks to outline a big direction for the study.
This approach was like that of a very experienced researcher, not needing any advice from subordinates, and directly assigning tasks to others based on their own ideas.
Ai Lixin and Zhang Wei both felt like they were students again.
When they were students, they just followed the instructions of their advisors for their projects, without needing to ask for any specific reasons. As long as they followed the instructions, the project would be completed in the end.
This feeling was indeed very peculiar, especially when the orders were given by a young man not even 20 years old.
Well then!
In the laboratory, Zhao Yi was the boss.
They really didn’t need any doubts, they just needed to follow the instructions.
Zhang Wei had no objections.
It was even more certain for Liu Chengjie; he always looked up to Zhao Yi.
Ai Lixin was somewhat unaccustomed to this. Even in Dai Tianqing’s laboratory, he was quite influential. However, he fully supported Zhao Yi’s approach because he had no confidence in dealing with rheumatoid arthritis.
Now that Zhao Yi was showing leadership and decisiveness, he felt a glimmer of hope.
Initially, there was no hope.
Now that there was some hope, it was pretty good to follow Zhao Yi’s approach. Maybe a miracle would happen?
...
In the following week, Zhao Yi had a really easy time because he ran out of Study Coins. He simply decided not to consume any more Study Coins and was constantly grinding coins to live a normal life.
This was also part of the exam preparation process.
Although exams were very easy for Zhao Yi, as a professor at Yanhua University, it would be embarrassing to have a low score!
So it would be best to score high, or even get full marks.
Zhao Yi was still somewhat unaccustomed to life without Study Coins. He carefully checked several tasks and found that the best way to get rid of the lack of Study Coins was to complete the Digital Compression Technology task in the computer category.
This task was actually already completed.
However, the system’s achievement tasks had this characteristic: completing work did not necessarily mean completing the task. Only when the paper was published or something else that everyone knew about, like testing the robot shopping system before, could the task be truly completed.
This was where Zhao Yi felt frustrated. He had to wait slowly for the task to be completed, hoping that Terence Tao would move a little faster.
One week.
Zhao Yi had accumulated more than 120 Study Coins again, not a huge amount, but at least free from having none at all.
The last week was the exam period.
Life during exam week was more relaxed. While others were worried about exams, Zhao Yi just did some exercises and looked at the scope defined by the teachers, which was more or less enough.
Now he had a high wisdom attribute, and whether it was memory, knowledge breadth, or thinking ability, he was exceptional, especially in terms of memory where it was most evident.
For example, taking a classical Chinese text of several hundred words that he had never read before, he could almost memorize it after reading it a dozen times or so, even without fully understanding the content, or memorizing the text in the order of the words without understanding the content.
This was extraordinary memory.
Although it wasn’t enough to be considered photographic memory, it was much stronger than that of ordinary people.
With his enhanced memory, Zhao Yi faced exams without any pressure. There were many materials to memorize, especially for open-book exams like "Current Affairs and Policies." The teachers’ defined scopes were all memorized by him.
He was even confident that he could score high without bringing any materials.
Whether he could get full marks depended on how many questions were outside the teachers’ range and how many questions required some creativity, like Chinese composition. He couldn’t guarantee that everything would be correct.
It went without saying for other subjects.
For subjects with definite answers, such as biology, chemistry, and physics, it was straightforward for Zhao Yi. He didn’t need to prepare anything because knowing the basics meant he could find the correct answers.
"In my previous life, I used to worry for a long time before every exam during college..."
"Now it’s so much easier."
Exam week was almost over.
There were two more days until the last exam, "College English Ⅰ", and the atmosphere in the dormitory was relaxed.
Fan Lei managed to get a dormitory form with names and a few phone numbers of female dormitories recorded on it.
Fan Lei, Li Renzhe, and even Meng Zheng’s spirits were lifted.
With nowhere to release their energy, the boys started looking for ways to have fun. They picked up the dormitory’s landline phone and dialed the numbers on the form one by one.
"For this call, you talk first, just look for the girl on the form, Zhang Qian!"
"Okay!"
Li Renzhe agreed, but when he picked up the phone, he didn’t say a word. The person on the other end kept asking, "Who is this?"
"..."
"Did you dial the wrong number? Who are you looking for?"
"..."
"Give it to me!"
Fan Lei, irritated, snatched the phone and spoke into the receiver, "I’m looking for Zhang Qian, she’s in your dorm, right?"
"Zhang Qian? She’s not here."
"That’s fine, I can talk to you too." Fan Lei began to tease her with a smile on his face, "I don’t know who you are, and you don’t know who I am, but we are both students of Yanhua University. Don’t you think that’s fate?"
"What fate? What are you talking about? You’re so slick, what do you want?"
"I just want to chat with you."
"If you don’t have anything to say, I’m hanging up."
"@#￥%..."
Fan Lei really did chat with the girl on the line, stretching the conversation and even learned the girl’s name and phone number.
This skill...
Zhao Yi gave him a thumbs up.
After they hung up, Fan Lei turned to Li Renzhe, "Why didn’t you speak? Do you know how precious the favor I just did for you is?!"
"Uh-huh, uh-huh!"
"Don’t be afraid, there’s nothing to fear; they don’t even know who you are."
Fan Lei had a lecturing tone. freeweɓnovel.cøm
Li Renzhe was the most introverted in the dormitory, barely talking to strangers, let alone teasing them on the phone like Fan Lei.
The next call connected.
Fan Lei whispered a reminder, "Don’t be nervous! Just ask if Huang Wenqian is there and say you’re her friend."
"But I don’t know Huang Wenqian!"
"I don’t care if you know her or not; just say so. If Huang Wenqian answers, tease her by having her guess who you are. Just keep chatting, good luck!"
Fan Lei even gave Li Renzhe a pep talk.
After the call connected, Li Renzhe fell silent as the other side asked ’who’s this,’ leaving Fan Lei exhausted from watching and repeatedly giving Li the finger.
Apparently unable to take the provocation, Li blurted out after a long silence, "I am... Zhao Yi’s roommate..."
"You can go to hell!"
Zhao Yi, who had been listening in amusement, slammed the table when he heard Li mention him. He finally understood why Li always brought up his name when talking to women.
Zhao Yi’s roommate?
What did this title have to do with flirting?
"Damn it!"
Zhao Yi swiftly took the phone and said, "This is Zhao Yi, from Class 1 of Biological Sciences. My roommate, Li Renzhe, likes Huang Wenqian from your dorm, so we wanted her number. Can you tell us her number, please?"
The girl on the other end perked up when she heard Zhao Yi, "Is it really Zhao Yi?" It seemed that several girls came over, all chattering, "It sounds like Zhao Yi!"
"Class 1 of Biological Sciences, probably no one would pretend to be Zhao Yi."
"You never know."
"Huang Wenqian is looking for you, why don’t you..."
There was a burst of giggles.
Somehow, after a moment of silence and negotiation, a girl finally gave them the phone number.
"Done!"
Zhao Yi put down the phone and turned to the dumbstruck Li Renzhe, "No need to thank me."
"No, it’s just..."
"What else do you want?"
"I don’t even know what Huang Wenqian looks like... What if..." Li Renzhe took out his phone, clearly flustered.
"Brother, remember this!"
Zhao Yi patted Li Renzhe’s shoulder, "You made the date yourself... Even if you cry, you have to finish it! It’s what a man has to do!"
"..."
Zhao Yi returned to his computer feeling much better, silently praying, "Huang Wenqian must be ugly, Huang Wenqian must be ugly, Huang Wenqian must be ugly..."
He suddenly stood up and looked at the form in Fan Lei’s hand, noticing that Huang Wenqian’s major was ’Software Engineering’?
Seems legit!
Ninety-nine percent chance she’s ugly!
Zhao Yi suddenly felt even more relaxed, seeing Li Renzhe sitting in his chair, pondering over his phone. Zhao Yi just remembered the two math problems Li Renzhe had asked about a week ago.
He furrowed his brow.
Right!
Could world-class math problems also be related to each other like ordinary math problems?
It was impossible to find commonalities directly, but they could still look at some related mathematical proofs, right?
For example, Bertrand Chebyshev’s proof that there must be a prime number between N and 2N.
Chen Jingrun’s ’1+2’ proof.
And Euler’s research on prime numbers.
And so on.
They could review any proof analysis related to prime numbers and perhaps find some commonalities using "Correlation Law"?
Could this help improve the conditions for proving the Goldbach Conjecture?
And then prove it.
Zhao Yi thought carefully and had a sudden revelation, his view of Li Renzhe significantly improved.
Li had a lot of flaws and the things he did were hilarious, but at least he provided inspiration!
