Chapter 438 I saw its existence!
After determining this new research topic, Ning Chen, Tao Zhexuan, and Song Xiyun couldn't wait to start this topic from the next day.
In fact, the three of them are very busy with their daily work. Tao Zhexuan is still adapting to the brain biocomputer technology, and Ning Chen and Song Xiyun still have to deal with work on the science fiction island, but this will not affect To work on the proof of Goldbach's conjecture.
Because when a piece of work is important enough, they can change their plans and focus more energy on more valuable research topics.
After arriving at Ning Chen's office, Ning Chen, Tao Zhexuan, and Song Xiyun prepared for today's research.
"Professor Tao, next we all need to enter the brain biocomputer state and connect each other's brain biocomputers. At the beginning, you only need to cooperate with me. After you adapt to this state, You will gradually be able to act freely..."
Listening to Ning Chen's introduction, Tao Zhexuan nodded from time to time, realizing what an incredible way of working this was.
“I can’t believe that brain biocomputer technology can be used in such efficient ways. Academician Ning, I will definitely adapt to this new way of working as soon as possible to help us complete these tasks quickly.”
After describing the subsequent working methods and various precautions, the three of them started working immediately.
The three of them turned on their own brain biocomputers respectively, and Ning Chen skillfully connected the three brain biocomputers together and began to deal with various problems.
Connecting the brain's biological computer seems simple, but for a problem of this level, the work is far more complex than imagined.
If you simply connect multiple central processors together like a supercomputer, although it can solve problems with a very large amount of calculation, it will not be able to solve extremely difficult problems.
Because of many complex problems, the "single-core" processing performance of biological computers is very tested. In the actual calculation, it is the brain performance of each biological computer.
Therefore, only a biological computer host like Ning Chen, who has outstanding individual brain power, can possibly handle such a very complex problem.
Such a biological computer host is very difficult to find. Looking around the world, there are probably only a handful of people who can reach this level.
Fortunately, both Tao Zhexuan and Song Xiyun have such powerful abilities, which makes it very possible for them to solve Goldbach's conjecture together.
When this work just started, Tao Zhexuan seemed a little cautious. After all, he had just tried this way of working, and he was not very proficient in many aspects. Tao Zhexuan was afraid that if he appeared a little bit... Mistakes will affect the progress of the entire work.
But as the work gradually progressed, Tao Zhexuan gradually adapted to this feeling, and worked with Ning Chen and Song Xiyun in a tacit understanding on various calculations of the brain's biological computer.
Facts have proved that Tao Zhexuan's ideas were completely over-the-top. With Tao Zhexuan's ability and stability, there will be no problems in these tasks, and the work efficiency is also surprisingly high.
Even Ning Chen couldn't believe it. This was only Tao Zhexuan's first day doing such work. The speed of adaptation was not even slower than that of himself and Song Xiyun.
After ten hours of work a day, Ning Chen quickly became concerned about Tao Zhexuan's physical condition.
“How about it, Professor Tao, how do you feel about this new way of working?”
“I felt a little uncomfortable at first, but after two or three hours , this kind of intensity is gradually getting used to and accepted by my body. I think starting from tomorrow, we can continue to increase the intensity of our work, which will allow us to complete all the proofs of Goldbach's conjecture more quickly..."
What surprised Ning Chen was that Tao Zhexuan did not feel that this day's work was very hard, and they continued to increase their work intensity.
With some suspicion, Ning Chen used Xiaozhi's information perception function to conduct a more detailed examination of Tao Zhexuan's physical condition.
After careful inspection, the results obtained by Ning Chen did not contradict Tao Zhexuan's words.
Although Tao Zhexuan's current physical condition is already very stressful, it has indeed not reached his limit and he still has the potential to continue to increase his work intensity.
You know, when Ning Chen and Song Xiyun used the connection of the brain's biological computer to work together, the working time every day often reached sixteen hours or even longer.
"Okay, Professor Tao, then starting from tomorrow, we will continue to increase our daily working hours, but the increase will be slower. Teacher Song and I once had almost no work for a month. During the break, this kind of work intensity is definitely something that no one else has ever experienced.”
“Haha, this kind of work intensity really shocked me, but since both Academician Ning and Teacher Song can do it. Even if I can’t do it, I can’t give it a try. I hope my body won’t let me down and I can withstand the higher intensity of work.”
After finishing the day's work, Ning Chen used Xiaozhi's task progress estimation function to evaluate the work progress of the three of them for the day.
Ning Chen still feels very good about himself. Although this is only the first day of work, and everyone has not yet put in the best work, the overall work effect is still very good.
The evaluation of the task progress given by Xiaozhi also made Ning Chen very satisfied.
“I didn’t expect that in just the first day of work, we had completed 2% of the total workload. According to this work progress, it is entirely possible for us to complete it within one to two months. , completely solving Goldbach's conjecture..."
Thinking of this possibility, Ning Chen couldn't help but feel excited from the bottom of his heart, although Xiaozhi's work progress evaluation function only serves as a reference. It's just a function, but after so many verifications, Xiaozhi's prediction has been proved to be very accurate.
Of course, Ning Chen will not take this lightly. After all, they may encounter many unexpected difficulties in their future work, and many problems are difficult to foresee at the beginning.
Sure enough, a few days later, something that worried Ning Chen suddenly appeared.
Originally, according to their normal work plan, the daily work progress would move forward normally, because their total workload is a limited value, and it is impossible for the workload to increase.
But when the progress of the work reached a certain point, Ning Chen, Tao Zhexuan, and Song Xiyun all realized a terrible thing. "Academician Ning... If we continue at this pace of work, our remaining workload will lead to more and more terrible situations."
When Tao Zhexuan came to this incredible conclusion, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun also understood what was going on.
Because the number of prime numbers is infinite, if you want to prove that every prime number conforms to this situation, the number of pairs that need to be proved theoretically is infinite.
It was not that Tao Zhexuan had not considered this issue before, but the effect that Tao Zhexuan hoped to achieve at the beginning was to summarize a proof method applicable to all conditions, so as to The infinite proof process is transformed into a finite proof process.
But it turns out that Tao Zhexuan's idea still does not exhaust all situations. There are some very large numbers of prime numbers that have some special characteristics that no one expected.
Under such setbacks, Ning Chen, Tao Zhexuan, and Song Xiyun had to temporarily stop the work at hand.
"I'm sorry, Academician Ning, I still haven't found a general way to solve Goldbach's conjecture. Maybe my ability has not met this requirement, and I have disappointed Academician Ning..."
Tao Zhexuan's emotions He looked very frustrated, and it was obvious that Tao Zhexuan really didn't want this to happen.
In fact, Tao Zhexuan was a very calm person before. He would not get frustrated easily because of a slight setback during the research process, but could deal with these problems very patiently. .
It’s just that this research is completely different from all Tao Zhexuan’s previous research. In this work, Tao Zhexuan had particularly huge expectations and endured extraordinary hardships. pressure.
In addition, Tao Zhexuan also understands that the problems that arise now are probably beyond his ability to solve, which is why Tao Zhexuan feels so desperate.
Compared to Tao Zhexuan, Ning Chen seemed much calmer, knowing that things were far from as desperate as Tao Zhexuan felt.
Because according to Xiaozhi's progress evaluation, their current work progress is only temporarily stagnant, and there has been no regression or even zero progress.
This is enough to prove that their previous work is very meaningful, and it is not just useless work. As long as the current bottleneck is solved, the project can continue.
Thinking of this, Ning Chen patiently persuaded Tao Zhexuan.
“Professor Tao, don’t blame yourself too much for this. This is a very normal thing. When I conduct various research, I almost never encounter smooth sailing. We just need to be patient. Just analyze these problems and find corresponding solutions..."
Under Ning Chen's patient persuasion, Tao Zhexuan's mood gradually relaxed, knowing that there was indeed no need to appear so depressed.
When a problem arises, all negative emotions will not help solve the problem. Instead, it will increase the difficulty in vain. Tao Zhexuan, who understands this feeling, naturally has no need to continue to fall into this kind of problem. in state.
However, after discussing for a while, Ning Chen, Tao Zhexuan, and Song Xiyun did not find any good method, so they could only stop their research temporarily and wait until they thought of a better method. conducted their research.
After returning to his room, Ning Chen gradually felt a little frustrated, because the current problems they encountered were indeed not easy to solve.
Even if Ning Chen can persuade Tao Zhexuan with some words, if these problems cannot be solved, no matter how beautiful the words are, they will be meaningless.
"Hey... I can't redeem another subject level improvement experience card from the system. I don't want to do this way of solving problems again."
The high subject level improvement card The exchange price is only secondary. More importantly, Ning Chen doesn't want to use this kind of prop that is very dependent on the system again. This will greatly weaken Ning Chen's sense of accomplishment in solving these problems.
Now that such a decision has been made, Ning Chen will still rely on his own strength to try to solve this problem no matter what.
“It is definitely unrealistic to complete the improvement of mathematics subject level in a short time. However, with my current mathematics subject ability, it is not necessarily impossible to achieve these breakthroughs.”
Currently, Ning Chen still has tens of thousands of points of subject experience before he can raise his mathematics subject level to level five. For normal improvement, a few months will definitely not be enough.
However, Ning Chen also knew in his heart that Goldbach's conjecture was not as difficult as Riemann's conjecture. Perhaps level 4 mathematics would be enough to solve Goldbach's conjecture.
Supported by this belief, Ning Chen turned his brain power to the maximum and began to summarize their work these days.
“In fact, the center of solving this problem is to describe the prime numbers more accurately and find the rules that can uniformly summarize these prime numbers. We can try to construct a new mathematical model and modify the original mathematical tools ..."
Unknowingly, Ning Chen has entered a very selfless state. This state is very special. It is different from the previous "flow state", "focus mode" and "depth". "Learning state" and so on are not exactly the same, but a new state that integrates these states.
Even among them, there is a magical state similar to brain simulation. Even Ning Chen himself can't explain how he entered this state.
Not caring about thinking about this problem, Ning Chen quickly took advantage of this situation to re-construct the mathematical model about prime numbers, but unexpectedly discovered a new phenomenon.
“I...seem to see the existence of prime numbers!”
This kind of “seeing” does not mean seeing with the eyes in the conventional sense, but Ning Chen feels the existence of prime numbers in his mind. Objective existence, like seeing the existence of a type of matter, made Ning Chen feel very incredible.
This was the first time that Ning Chen directly felt the objective existence of this abstract concept in such a vivid way. This made Ning Chen realize that using a model to describe prime numbers is probably a model. A completely realistic thing.
(End of this chapter)