Chapter 348 Declaration of War

The process of the Asian mathematics exchange event hosted by Country R was similar to that of the event that Su Yi participated in. There was an opening ceremony performance, followed by discussions in the conference hall on recent mathematical topics and discussions of mathematical questions from various countries.

Until the part they were most looking forward to finally arrived——

Challenge.

Participating Asian countries will send out the young mathematical geniuses they consider to be the most talented to compete in a competition with questions provided by the International Mathematical Union.

Moreover, the questions are set up on the spur of the moment and the calculations are done on the spur of the moment.

What is tested is a person's logical thinking ability and calculation ability.

Su Yi's mental arithmetic ability has always been her strong point, especially since she improved her hacking skills, her brain is now comparable to a calculator.

Therefore, they have a great advantage in this impromptu competition.

In addition to her, Hanyu Nohara's mental arithmetic ability is also not bad. Although his speed is not as good as Su Yi, his accuracy rate is very high.

Originally, there was a young mathematician from country H who could catch up with them at the beginning, but gradually, as the difficulty of the questions continued to increase, he finally gave up the competition on his own initiative and became very interested in the man and woman from China and country R.

I heard that they are both geniuses who have proved difficult mathematical conjectures, so who is better?

Although the mathematicians from China and R countries all had smiles on their faces, they were secretly cheering for each other's geniuses, and no one was even willing to give in to the other.

However, the difficult problems selected by the International Mathematical Association seem to be only slightly worse than those of the IMO. As two contestants who also won gold medals in the IMO competition, especially after several years of experience and study, these difficult problems are nothing to them.

Both of them answered almost all the questions perfectly, with a 100% accuracy rate.

It’s just that Su Yihui has a slight advantage in terms of time.

Although Country R, as the host, seemed dissatisfied with the result, the host's smooth attitude did not cause dissatisfaction from the two countries.

However, not only the audience, but also Su Yi and Hanyu Nohara, the parties involved, were not very satisfied with the result.

The difficulty of the challenge questions was much lower than they had expected, and both of them were clearly not satisfied with the answers.

"Gu, you proved the new Mersenne conjecture before, which shows that you have a certain understanding of prime numbers. How about we discuss the 'Goldbach conjecture'?" Regardless of the inappropriate occasion, Hanyu Zhiyuan looked straight at Su Yi, and his resounding words echoed in the lecture hall.

"Zhiyuan, don't be rude!" Professor Odagiri, president of the R Country Mathematical Association, shouted.

This is already a naked declaration of war.

However, Hanyu Nohara looked at her with burning eyes.

It's clearly a desire to compete!

On the Chinese side, the expressions of Old Yang and others darkened.

The Goldbach conjecture is also about prime numbers, but Su Yi has not been exposed to prime numbers for a long time. Even her new topic at the research institute is the Kakutani conjecture, which is related to algebraic topology.

On the other hand, it has not been long since Country R proved Zhou's conjecture, and the data and ideas needed to prove the conjecture are all imprinted in their minds. This is undoubtedly an attempt to use their current strengths to challenge their current weaknesses.

So shameless!

"Su Yi, there's no need to agree. You haven't done any systematic research on the Goldbach conjecture, and they've only just proved the Zhou conjecture. It's obvious that they want to take advantage of the situation to dampen your enthusiasm for mathematics." Old Yang whispered.

If Su Yi had not had a good impression of Hanyu Nohara, at this moment, she would even suspect that the other party was deliberately trying to embarrass her and slap the face of Chinese mathematics.

It is a fact recognized by the whole world that China is very good at mathematics. However, this time it was country R that proved the Zhou conjecture proposed by Chinese mathematicians, but no one in China itself has proved this conjecture. Therefore, the mathematical community has begun to have some unfriendly discussions about China.

When a country lies dormant for a few years, other countries will mistakenly believe that it has declined.

Similarly, most of them even think that the reason why China is so good at mathematics is mainly due to its strong test-oriented education. However, this kind of education method usually has no successors, which is also their guess.

The whispers in the field began to increase.

In fact, for a period of time after proving the Poincare conjecture, Su Yi was very passionate about mathematical conjectures, so she was very interested in those mathematical conjectures that exist today but have not been proved, including the Goldbach conjecture.

She even consulted Professor Zhang Yuan for some information and literature about the Goldbach conjecture, but later she temporarily gave up her research on this mathematical conjecture in order to participate in Olympiad competitions in other subjects.

Until now, the ideas for proving the Goldbach conjecture are still stored in the 222 database.

If she was asked to prove the Goldbach conjecture on the spot, she would definitely not be able to do it. After all, even if she wanted to get away with it, it would be impossible without proving it. But if she just wanted to "talk" about her ideas, she would still have some confidence.