Chapter 354 Challenge
As the project continued to run non-stop and he was away for three months, his family members were worried about him. After Wu Tong came back, they did not arrange any immediate projects for him.
I spend half a day at school to check on the progress of the institute's team members' project development and results absorption, or to give guidance to new students.
Wu Tong spends the rest of her time trying to make more time to spend with her family. Her family is her warmest harbor, and they are always on her mind wherever she goes. Sometimes, Wu Tong feels that her family can't bear to leave her, but in fact, it's actually she who can't leave her family.
If the research project was not complicated and the two projects were not coexisting, Wu Tong would have occasionally thought about returning home. However, at that time, she was deep in the research institute and the key project at hand did not allow her to think too much. Going back would cause too much trouble, so Wu Tong chose to finish the project as soon as possible and return, rather than going back and forth frequently and causing more trouble for the security department.
Her family didn't need her to stay by their side all the time. When she was with her family, she would spend her free time studying and researching the ABC conjecture in number theory and the long-pending new energy problem. During this process, Wu Tong did not regard it as a task that had to be solved, but rather as a way of adding to her life, which could be started and ended anytime, anywhere.
For any constant ε greater than 1, there exists a constant C(ε) such that for most positive integer triplets (a, b, c) that satisfy the condition a + b = c, c <(rad(a * b * c))^ε. Here, rad(n) represents the product of all prime factors of n. The ABC conjecture was first proposed by Joseph Oesterlé and David Masser in 1985.
To put it in a more understandable way, let's assume that we choose a=2, b=3, c=5, and they obviously satisfy a + b = c. We calculate their product a * b * c = 2 * 3 * 5 = 30, and the product of their prime factors is rad(a * b * c) = rad(30) = 2 * 3 * 5 = 30. According to the ABC conjecture, we have c <(rad(a * b * c))^ε, that is, 5 < 30^ε.
For any chosen constant ε, there exists a sufficiently large C(ε) such that the inequality holds.
Wu Tong has always felt that mathematics is a very interesting field, especially the field of pure numbers. In this world of numbers and symbols, people who do not understand mathematics may think that they are freaks, boring, and incomprehensible.
However, Wu Tong has truly found the fun in this world. Perhaps, when she first came into contact with mathematics, she did not have the intention of studying in graduate school, but just wanted to improve her grades.
When she wanted to take the college entrance examination in advance and prepare for the recommendation as an alternative, she came into contact with mathematics competitions, which became the starting point for her to set foot in mathematics. Focusing on mathematics competitions, she learned university mathematics in advance, delved into the field of mathematics, and became interested in the magic of mathematics. From interest to liking, and then from liking to love.
Wu Tong felt that she was quite serious in practicing this sentence, starting with interest, originating from passion, becoming good at concentration, and finally persisting. Now, mathematics has become an inseparable part of her, her most interesting lifelong career, and her most handy tool. What she has learned is her own, which cannot be taken away or replaced.
The sun is pouring down, find a place where light and darkness meet, bring a book, move to a recliner or a single sofa, find a comfortable position, lean back, and look out. You will see the bright sunshine, all things are full of vitality, and the vivid scene of tall buildings standing tall.
The room is equipped with central thermostat control, and the suitable temperature takes away the early summer heat. In her hands are the materials for her study and research. She studies in laziness and enjoys learning in comfort. Beside her are her two loving elders, who are busy with their own things. She can't distract herself from chatting with them. The weekends are filled with all the family members, and the happy and relaxing study life is really nostalgic.
What really made Wu Tong give up this comfort was that she suddenly remembered a rumor. The ace mathematician Mochizuki Ichizu from Japan seemed to have claimed in August this year that he had proved the ABC conjecture, claiming that this theory could be used to prove several famous conjectures including the ABC conjecture. His paper was published in a mathematics journal for reference, and many people began to learn his theory.
Because the proof was obscure and difficult to understand, many mathematicians were skeptical about his article. Therefore, until the end of her memory, she had never heard of the news that the ABC conjecture had been verified and truly proved.
This piece of news had been piled up in an unimportant corner of her memory and classified as a piece of news that was of little use. If she had not studied the ABC conjecture more and more deeply, she would not have remembered it. In the information age, many people open the browser and pick out messages. They don't pay much attention to them, but basically just glance over them and throw them into the corner of their minds as rumors.
However, regardless of whether this rumor is true or false, and whether Mochizuki really proved this conjecture, Wu Tong thought that as a half-angry young man, she would rather fight for her reputation than for money, so she had to be one step ahead and publish this proof before August, so that the honor of this proof would continue to belong to China.
August 1st is also August, and the end of August is also August. To ensure everything is appropriate, Wu Tong decided to use her birthday as the target date. It would be a perfect gift for her to give to the world this year and share the beautiful moment of her birth.
Thinking about it this way, it’s quite refreshing.
As for whether Japan would be angry because of her, Wu Tong said that she would not worry about the debts. If the confidential research was leaked, she would have been wanted by the international community many times! Anyway, she never planned to step out of the beautiful domestic door in her life, and it didn't matter to her if they refused to let her go.
Therefore, Wu Tong immediately decided to do it. Instead of letting the world argue endlessly over a negative proof and letting the other side indulge in a dream of sensationalism, she might as well give the world a more affirmative answer and try to end this problem.
Spending a month and a half to study a problem that is only slightly less serious than the Millennium Problem might be seen by others as a sign of Wu Tong's arrogance and ignorance, or as being overconfident.
Even Wu Tong himself felt that it was a big challenge. However, it was just a difficult challenge, not an impossible feat.
In just one and a half months, he wanted to solve a problem that others might not be able to figure out in ten years or even their entire lives. It was not because Wu Tong was arrogant or ignorant, but because he made this rash decision just because of a momentary impulse. Instead, Wu Tong himself had been consciously collecting, studying and researching knowledge in this area since last year!
Opportunities always come to those who are prepared.
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