Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 918: Chapter 470: I Won’t Rest in Peace if I Don’t See It in Service!_1

Yang Cong, Li Jianming, and Sun Mengfei were unaware that they had been misled by the information provided by Lei Yong.

Lei Yong and Bao Enhong believed that Zhao Yi’s inspiration came from model airplanes, but that wasn’t the case at all. When designing aircraft, Zhao Yi did not need inspiration; what he needed was just a breakthrough.

Of course, different breakthroughs would lead to different designs, but if one were really to talk about inspiration, it would come from Lei Yong and Bao Enhong, from their validation report of the toy model airplane.

Lei Yong and Bao Enhong treated the validation of the toy model airplane as if it were just an assessment task when in fact, Zhao Yi had made improvements to various components based on their validation.

Thus, Lei Yong and Bao Enhong played a very important role in the design, but they themselves were unaware of it. They even thought Zhao Yi was really looking out for them. Otherwise, how could they explain that despite doing nothing, Zhao Yi was highly satisfied with their work, included their names in the design report, and even entrusted them with significant responsibilities to aid in the design acceptance work at the Aviation Group?

In short, they had misunderstood.

Zhao Yi didn’t care about the misunderstanding. He saw no need to take all the credit for himself, sharing some of the accolades with others was quite normal.

He was now not even considering the aircraft design acceptance work, focusing solely on the research of the NP problem.

Zhao Yi had not started validating or actually tackling the NP problem. He had not yet decided how to solve it or where to start. Instead, he was delving deeply into the problem during his normal studies, work, and daily life.

Such contemplations led to many ideas, and when he came across a slightly better one, he would record it.

After nearly a month of continuous reflection, Zhao Yi felt somewhat neurotic, muttering about linguistic logic problems even as he walked down the street.

"What’s the next prime number? Test them one by one; if X is prime, the problem is solved."

"Testing X is the fastest way to a solution, the process P. If X is a known prime, then during the testing process, it’s possible to deduce if there are any other large primes between X and the starting number, but then the number of tests would be a finite set, not an infinite polynomial..."

"What if we put the ’square’ on the problem?"

"The square of a large prime is definitely not prime, but it has only one regular factor. Squaring the problem may not be precisely described in words, but it can be understood this way..."

"Ula Ula~~~"

Thinking about linguistic logic problems made Zhao Yi’s head spin. Of course, his work wasn’t about linguistics, but purely mathematical logic. He had to clarify the logic expressed in language before he could mathematize the problem and solve it with pure mathematics. Otherwise, he might encounter unclear logic during the solving process.

After more than two weeks.

Zhao Yi had almost clarified the logical relationships and recorded a lot of content in his notebook. He knew he could begin formal research.

Once he found a breakthrough for the problem and completely transformed it into mathematics, things became much easier, although, of course, the proofing process was not simple.

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The NP in front stands for a polynomial that cannot be directly computed, while the corresponding P is a specific case within the polynomial, representing the quickest and most effective method to solve the NP problem.

Thus, one could hypothesize the existence of a method Y to deduce P from NP and directly address the NP problem.

Y would be the answer to the NP problem.

If Y’s existence were proven and it could be articulated, it would indicate that there is a viable method to solve the complex, random NP problem that otherwise could only be verified one by one.

If it were proven that Y does not exist, it would mean that the NP problem is unsolvable.

Either way, the proof of the NP problem would be completed.

The NP problem is indeed very complex, being the first of the seven millennial math challenges. In reality, because the problem is very simple, involving only logical issues, Zhao Yi could derive the answer directly with "Law of Cause and Effect," and the answer was ’Y does not exist.’ There is no specific method to directly solve the NP problem. This outcome was not surprising, as more than ninety percent of mathematicians believe the NP problem has no solution. The key lied in how to prove ’Y does not exist.’

Zhao Yi thought of a graphic method for the proof.

In a three-dimensional coordinate system, set a point A. From point A, spread countless irregular, random lines that fill the entire coordinate system, while there is an endpoint S, with only one line’s endpoint being S.

If one had to find S starting from original point A, one would need to verify each line because A spans countless lines, and the computation for verification would be enormous.

So, could one find an expression Y that, by making judgments around point A, would lead to finding the line P leading to S using expression Y?

If expression Y were assumed to exist, one could use endpoint S and line P to counter-validate expression Y, then use Y to infer back to original point A. During the inference, all that’s needed is to prove that there’s no connection between Y, A, and P to establish that Y does not exist.

Having thought of a method for proof, Zhao Yi began to seclude himself in the faculty residence to conduct his research.