Chapter 60: Proof

He was not unfamiliar with Wu Tongxian's current state. As a researcher, he would be fully committed only when inspiration came to him.

Li Yishen took out a piece of draft paper, which should be the first one with the beginning of the initial deduction process, from the pile of calculation and inference draft papers and reviewed it carefully.

After seeing this, Li Yishen could not take his eyes away. His attitude changed from being careless at first to being serious. He then took out a pen and paper and half leaned over the desk on the other side to check and verify.

The early spring sunshine, shining through the window lattice, gradually slanted, shrank, and finally disappeared. When it was almost dark, Wu Tong finally ended his brainstorming and wrote down the last line of the formula.

When 2^(2^n)

After completing the verification, Wu Tong came out of her immersed state and breathed a long sigh of relief. Hunger and fatigue were secondary. She was happy and felt relieved.

Zhou's conjecture was proved by her!

When she raised her head, she met Li Yishen's gaze.

"Hey, Teacher Li? Why are you here?" She looked outside the door again. Hey, it seemed like some time had passed and dusk had already begun.

She seemed to have missed lunch and was about to miss dinner. She just felt a little hungry.

Zhou guessed that this question was indeed difficult. It was probably the problem that took her the longest time to solve until now!

However, the rewards were also huge, not just the joy of successfully solving the difficult problem. The moment she solved it, she had a deeper, integrated new understanding of number theory and prime numbers, and felt like she had advanced to a new level.

The Enlightenment Stele also celebrated for her. Deep in the sea of ​​consciousness, the warm light that was spreading became brighter and thicker. This was because Wu Tong's knowledge level had been improved, which had given it considerable nourishment. The power that came from the comprehension of knowledge had brought it many benefits in return.

The Enlightenment Stele has restored some of its original functions this time, and has gained a new ability: absolute deduction and judgment of right and wrong directions.

This ability is very useful to Wu Tong. Whether she is doing research in the future or especially if she is exposed to experiments in the future, she can avoid many detours with this ability to judge the absolute direction.

"How do you feel? Mathematical conjectures are not as simple as you imagined!" Li Yisheng laughed. He just realized it after spending the entire afternoon?

This child's concentration is really terrifying. Only this kind of concentration can make this child's learning speed so shocking! No one can succeed easily without paying and working hard.

He moved his numb feet. He had been standing for too long and his heels hurt like needles. With great difficulty, he suppressed a grimacing that would affect his image. Li Yishen sighed that he was old after all. However, he could not stand standing to calculate Wu Tong's deduction process. He forgot to sit down and it became unbearable.

"It's difficult, too difficult. I worked on it from noon until almost dark before I finally figured it out!" Wu Tong flexed and extended his fingers back and forth, moved his shoulders, and loosened his muscles and bones that had become stiff after sitting for most of the afternoon.

Fortunately, she has a good physique, otherwise she would have been exhausted if she maintained this writing posture for an entire afternoon.

"What..." Li Yisheng was startled. He felt like there was something wrong with his ears and he heard something extraordinary. He looked into Wu Tong's eyes in disbelief: "You said you deduced it..."

Wu Tong nodded affirmatively. Wasn't it necessary to spend so much time to deduce it?

"I also want to thank Mr. Li for giving me inspiration today." Wu Tong smiled and thanked him, "I have been curious about the twin prime conjecture recently, so I studied a lot of information on prime numbers. After listening to your lecture today, I suddenly had some ideas about Zhou's conjecture, so I tried to deduce it!"

Then···

"The proof is out!" Li Yishen took a breath and finished the last sentence for Wu Tong.

"I'm sorry to have kept me waiting, Teacher Li. It took six or seven hours!" Seeing Li Yishen's expression as if he almost fainted, Wu Tong pinched his nose and said embarrassedly.

She is working too slowly. Does this make Teacher Li think that her abilities have declined?

Li Yishen covered his chest, feeling that he needed a quick-acting heart-saving pill.

Seven hours?

Seven hours is nothing. Do you know how much time people have put into studying this problem of number theory? It is more than ten or a hundred times of seven hours!

He himself spent at least seventy hours researching this issue!

He spent only seven hours to say that he had proved it, and it was an accidental result. How embarrassed must he be as a teacher?

Li Yishen is not sure whether Wu Tong has really proved it yet, but the deduction process on the draft papers he deduced and verified in the afternoon is correct.

Thinking of this, Li Yisheng's heart couldn't help but beat wildly. No, no, he was really going to witness a miracle. This difficult problem that had troubled the mathematical community for nearly twenty years was proved by a girl who was only sixteen years old?

Li Yisheng did not deny it at the first time, nor did he confirm it at the first time. He knew Wu Tong's level and character, and he would not speak nonsense. The deductions on these 10 or 20 pages of draft paper were not written casually, and the part he verified was correct.

But for such a world problem, no one can easily confirm that it has been proven!

Every year, there are countless amateur scientists who claim that they have proved the Goldbach conjecture or the Riemann hypothesis!

Whether it has been proven or not still requires detailed demonstration.

"I'll verify the rest!"

Wu Tong didn't think twice and handed all the draft papers to Li Yisheng. This was the normal procedure. If she wanted to publish a paper, she wanted Li Yisheng to be her corresponding author or supervisor.

"But before that!" Li Yisheng did not take it directly, but asked solemnly: "Wu Tong, I also want to confirm with you, are you sure you want to teach me these proof processes for verification?"

There is no shortage of people with ulterior motives, corrupt morals, and those who steal the results of others. Wu Tong handed her research results to him directly. If he did not resist the temptation, he would directly take them as his own and publish them.

Then all the honors for proving Zhou's conjecture belong to him, and have nothing to do with Wu Tong. Academics are pure, but there is no shortage of scum in the academic world!

Wu Tong, you still need to be cautious.

After all, he is a university professor, and Wu Tong is just a sixteen-year-old high school student who has not yet entered university. Public opinion will not be biased towards her.

"You have to know that the honor of proving a world-class conjecture is not something that you simple gold medalists can compare to. If I had proved such a difficult problem, not to mention the honor of international fame, at home, the Young Elite Scholars and Yangtze River Scholars would be beckoning to me!"

Wu Tong smiled calmly, "Why not? Teacher Li, I know what you are worried about. However, first of all, I trust your character. Secondly, if I can prove Zhou's conjecture, I can also prove other conjectures. This is just a problem that I have solved. No one can steal my knowledge."

She has the confidence and courage! It's hers, no one can steal it!