Free Web NovelChapter 427: Chapter 267: The Right Path Laid Before Our Eyes!
Zhao Yi really took a break.
He fully immersed himself in a relaxed lifestyle, attending classes, exercising, and playing games every day.
Half a month passed quickly.
When mid-May arrived, he received a piece of good news. The Shaw Foundation officially announced that the winner of this year’s Mathematics and Science Award was Zhao Yi.
Although the news had been leaked earlier, it was still exciting to hear it confirmed, as it meant one million US dollars.
In the field of academic awards, one million US dollars is already top-notch.
The main focus of the Shaw Foundation’s award selection, which began two years ago, was the prize money. The selection period is short, so it’s hard to say how influential it is.
Other recipients of the Shaw Prizes are also attracted by the prize money.
Perhaps the influence of the Shaw Prize will increase significantly in the future, but for now, it’s indeed hard to discuss its impact.
Of course.
The Shaw Prize is willing to award world celebrities, helping them with publicity. As the awards get more media coverage, their influence will gradually increase.
This news is just an episode in life.
While enjoying college life, Zhao Yi also discovered the troubles of having an extremely high intelligence attribute. To put it simply, he felt too clever. All his courses seemed to present no challenge at all. He didn’t even need to attend lectures. Just by reading a book, all the knowledge points were memorized in his mind.
Other students had to spend time doing homework, looking up information at the library, and reviewing, but Zhao Yi didn’t need to do any of that.
This made Zhao Yi feel that college life now was very different from his previous memories.
It wasn’t about the school, status, or money, but rather his own feelings.
Even when doing the same things as other students, he felt that everything was too easy and somewhat boring.
So Zhao Yi felt a sense of idleness, even when occasionally going to the Biomedical Research Institute or discussing math and computer problems with other professors. He still felt incredibly idle, as if he was the only person in the world with free time, and life became somewhat monotonous.
"Being too smart is not good either!"
"Just looking at the content in the books, I can instantly understand it, and I can write the answers to the homework without spending any time..."
"What’s the point of that?"
Zhao Yi sat at the dormitory desk, waiting for Fan Lei and Li Renzhe to finish their homework. They had agreed to play a game of Warcraft RPG after finishing their homework. All he could do was wait idly.
He even had time to send a few messages to Lin Xiaoqing.
Although interacting with a beautiful girl was interesting, few men would enjoy the process.
It’s really...both mentally taxing and boring!
If possible, exercising would be much better. Why is dating so complicated? Women are truly incomprehensible creatures!
Zhao Yi sighed.
"How about this?" Fan Lei seemed to understand Zhao Yi’s mentality. "Zhao Yi, you can also do something. Weren’t you researching the Goldbach Conjecture? I see you have a lot of materials. While we do our homework, you can take a look."
"... Yeah, I have nothing better to do, anyway."
Zhao Yi gave Fan Lei a look that said "Being too smart is troublesome. I hope you understand." Fan Lei almost couldn’t hold back his urge to throw a stool at him. Nevertheless, Zhao Yi took out the materials he had sorted out earlier and began to read them carefully.
Zhao Yi had previously decided to pursue two methods to prove the Goldbach Conjecture, but it was uncertain which method would succeed.
He would start by trying the symmetric prime numbers method.
The idea of this proof method is straightforward and brutal; take any sufficiently large natural number N as the center, and calculate the symmetric numbers of all primes less than N (excluding 2). freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
{2n-3, 2n-5, 2n-7, 2n-11... 2n-x}
Then it gets simple and violent.
The product of all the numbers in the above set would result in an incredibly large expression. The goal of subsequent analysis is to determine the relationship between the largest factor F of the expression and N.
If F is greater than or equal to N, then the Goldbach Conjecture is proven.
Other researchers have probably thought of this method, such as the Bertrand-Chebyshev theorem, which states that there must be a prime number between n and 2n. If there is a prime number between n and 2n, then there must be a connection between these primes and the Goldbach Conjecture.
Analyzing whether there are prime numbers in the symmetric set is an incredibly complex issue. Zhao Yi’s approach was simple and direct, but it doesn’t mean that it’s unprovable.
It all comes down to the final analysis: examining the expression.
When all numbers are multiplied together, the resulting expression is complex. To simplify or find patterns in the expression, one must first multiply each term and then seek ways to substitute and simplify.
Zhao Yi has already found some conditions according to the materials he had seen.
When he continued to look for conditions, he discovered that it was really difficult, as most prime number-related materials had nothing to do with this direction of proof.
"So is it possible or not?"
"Or should I change my approach and go for a more generalized proof?"
