Chapter 321 Mathematical Research

Although Shen Yanxiu did not come, he also gave his sister-in-law a big red envelope. The whole family now regards Su Yi, the little lucky star, as a treasure, and she has replaced Shen Yanting's position as the "darling" of the Shen family.

Since finding their biological daughter, Gu Dashan and Liu Mei have been living a better and better life. Although their daughter plans to settle in Beijing in the future, the couple has found their own way of living in S Province, and their caring in-laws often visit them.

Now the two of them are in better and better condition and look a lot younger.

Under the subtle brainwashing, Liu Mei has begun to learn how to take care of herself. She goes for beauty treatments every week and even becomes a good sister with Zuo Wenhao's mother. The two of them often make appointments to go shopping and watch movies together.

Gu Dashan also found his own hobbies, playing chess and practicing Tai Chi.

The couple would take a day off every weekend, and the shop also hired two employees under Shen Rou's persuasion.

As for Liu Lan, because of the loan sharking incident, the couple were forced to sell their house to pay off their debts and finally had to rent a house. At first, she would harass Liu Mei and her husband, but later for some reason, she disappeared.

Liu Mei was also heartbroken. She would occasionally think of her elder sister, but she could not bear the thought that she had cheated her daughter of her money. In addition, she had made friends and had a new lifestyle now, so she gradually forgot about it.

This is the brilliance of Shenrou.

Although she was gentle and kind, she was also aware of the weaknesses of her honest in-laws, so she took a gentle approach to gradually change their thoughts and attitudes towards life.

Su Yiyuan lives in Beijing and often video chats with her parents. She can clearly feel the changes in them and is very happy.

There is still less than half a month left before school starts, and Shen Yanting decided to go back to S Province to study at Shen Corporation. However, Su Yi is not only a student but also a researcher, so he naturally cannot take such a long leave to go back to S Province with him. After discussing, the two decided to stay apart for a while.

However, Chen Yanting was definitely worried about Su Yi living alone at home, so he let her live in the old house, and even gave Aunt Xiu a lot of instructions, because Su Yi's period was coming soon.

Although the Second Young Master Shen is a little childish on weekdays, he is absolutely impeccable in taking care of Su Yi. If there is a selection for the "Best Husband in the World", Shen Yanting will definitely win first place.

Shen Yanting's efforts and progress were noticed by everyone bit by bit.

There was nothing important to do in the AI Research Institute during this period, so Su Yi left Dabai to them and stayed in the Institute to study a topic with his teachers. Their topic was a mathematical conjecture - the Kakutani conjecture.

The Kakutani conjecture states that if a positive integer x is odd, it is multiplied by 3 and then added to 1. If it is even, it factors out the even factor 2⁻¹. After a certain number of times, this process eventually returns to 1, hence the name 3n+1 conjecture. This conjecture was discovered by the renowned mathematician Shizuo Kakutani.

It has not been proven yet.

Su Yi is good at number theory, but the Kakutani conjecture is in the field of algebraic topology, so it has been less studied. Fortunately, she has already taught herself advanced mathematics and has a relatively clear understanding of algebraic topology.

This topic had been determined long before Su Yi joined the project team.

In fact, it was Professor Zhang Yuan who suggested that Su Yi join his research group. He believed in this disciple's talent in mathematics, especially in number theory. However, Zhang Yuan wanted to test how large the circle of this disciple's talent could be.

Research topics in different fields can better train a person's active thinking. It is often through continuous attempts that one can discover one's limits.

"This project has been started for some time. You were busy with artificial intelligence before, so the research progress fell behind a lot. Have you finished reading all the information I gave you before?" Zhang Yuan asked.

Su nodded: "I've finished reading it."

"Okay, then tell me what you think." Zhang Yuan asked her in front of the group members.

Others were also curious about how talented the youngest full-time researcher at the Institute of Mathematics was in mathematics, and where they were lacking.

Although it is known that Su Yi has independently solved difficult mathematical conjectures, this Kakutani conjecture is considered a cross-disciplinary conjecture.

Su Yi used a simple narrative to talk about his thoughts after reading the materials, and Kakutani's conjecture also involved programming informatics, which was Su Yi's strong point, even higher than his mathematical talent.

At the beginning, what Su Yi said was easy to understand for the group members. However, when he started to talk about programming verification in informatics, they gradually found it difficult to keep up with Su Yi's ideas.

Fortunately, this is only the initial stage.

"There are currently two universally recognized methods for proving the Kakutani conjecture: one is the process of elimination, and the other is the method of reverse thinking. However, I have another idea that might be worth trying, such as differential manifolds."

As soon as the words fell, everyone was stunned.