darknovel Chapter 107 Global Search for People
Chapter 107 Global Search for People
The highest-level review meeting room within the Xia Kingdom Mathematical Society.
Amidst the swirling smoke, several leading professors from the domestic academic community, responsible for the initial review, were furrowing their brows as they sorted through a thick stack of meeting minutes in front of them, the edges of which were already slightly curled from being flipped through so many times.
"This is...this is really unexpected."
The logical chain of the entire proof system is much more rigorous than expected!
No, it's not just tight, it's absolutely watertight!
An elderly professor with gray hair took off his reading glasses and said with undisguised shock and admiration.
Another bigwig, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, replied with lingering fear:
"Who says otherwise! I heard the author is only a thirteen-year-old student in a special program for gifted children!"
To be honest, when I first received the commission, I was cursing under my breath!
I'm torn about whether or not to waste my precious time on this outrageous "amateur science" censorship!
Looking back now, I'm so glad I didn't refuse, otherwise I'd be slapping my thighs raw every day for the rest of my life!
No one laughed at him.
Just a few days ago, everyone in this room was extremely skeptical, even mocking, when they received the commission.
A thirteen-year-old boy claims to have completely abandoned computer computing power and used a completely new path that breaks away from the framework of predecessors to purely analytically prove the four-color theorem that has puzzled mankind for a century.
To them, this was even more absurd than Qin Shi Huang being resurrected to send a text message asking for money!
They assumed that once they opened the manuscript, they would find it riddled with ridiculous calculation errors and logical inconsistencies that couldn't withstand scrutiny, and that they could reject it in just five minutes.
However, the truth was like a resounding slap in the face to everyone present.
Once the peer review process officially began, they realized they were wrong, terribly wrong!
The entire chain of mathematical reasoning is astonishingly rigorous and smooth!
Like the precisely meshed gears of a Swiss watch, it exudes a breathtaking industrial aesthetic.
What made them even more uneasy was:
In order to solve some extremely tricky local problems, the author casually introduced a completely new set of custom operators and function mappings that completely overturned common sense!
This entirely new thing is like an ancient relic that has been immersed in and refined within the traditional mathematical system for hundreds of years.
It is perfectly integrated into the existing logical framework without the slightest rejection!
The theoretical flaws or leaps in derivation that professional mathematicians could spot at a glance are almost nowhere to be found in this manuscript!
While being utterly awestruck by this classically beautiful mathematical logic, a sense of despairing powerlessness quietly swept over every academic giant present.
They were horrified to discover that this complex web of logic, wrapped in the four-color theorem, actually encompassed combinatorics, graph theory, and the theory of computational complexity...
Its depth and breadth have far exceeded the limits that any expert in the field present could independently understand and judge!
As the review process came to a close, the entire conference room fell into a deathly silence.
These professors, who wield considerable influence in the country, could only look at each other in bewilderment.
They saw the same shock and horror in each other's eyes, and could only shake their heads with a helpless bitter smile.
"It seems that this matter can't be covered up today."
"We old folks are not qualified to make a final decision based on our limited academic expertise alone."
Finally, a highly respected figure broke the deathly silence.
No one spoke up in rebuttal.
Even though anyone sitting in this room could be a leading figure in the domestic mathematics community, with countless students and followers, they would all be influential figures in the field.
But at this moment, faced with a manuscript from a thirteen-year-old boy...
Not a single person dared to confidently claim that they had thoroughly grasped the entire deduction process of this manuscript!
Thus, in that historically significant review document, they dared to give a clear final conclusion of "falsification" or "confirmation".
This is simply because the mathematical ideas presented in this draft are far too grand.
Its dimensions are so high that they have completely deviated from the mainstream paradigms known in the academic community today. It is as if it is a mathematical code left by high-dimensional aliens!
Finally, after a difficult vote, the first-stage review committee produced an extremely rare conclusion report:
[Initial review complete. No fatal logical flaws or mathematical errors were found.]
We strongly recommend that a second review be conducted, in conjunction with a top-level international panel of peer experts!
"Agreed. Draft an email and distribute it globally immediately!"
We must apply for technical assistance from authoritative international societies.
This assessment covers a very wide range of topics, requiring consultation from top experts in each of the world's sub-fields!
Click.
In the conference room, the mouse clicked crisply.
[Summary Announcement: A student from my country's gifted youth program has submitted a new preprint of a purely analytic proof of the Four Color Theorem.]
The preliminary review by the Chinese Society of Mathematical Sciences found no substantial mathematical errors.
We are now formally applying to initiate an international joint blind review mechanism.
This email, which included a summary of the core derivation, was instantly transmitted via radio waves to the email addresses of major mathematical institutions around the world.
A storm powerful enough to shake up the entire mathematics community was brewing.
......
It's 2 a.m. Eastern Time.
In a dimly lit office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Ilya Cronin, known as "the most powerful brain in human history," lit up his laptop screen in silence.
"The Four Color Theorem?"
He frowned slightly as he looked at the specially marked email that popped up in his inbox.
For someone of his caliber, this was already a neglected and forgotten area, swept into the dustbin of history.
Since this conjecture was already proven wrong by brute-force computer searches decades ago.
Therefore, in theory, it has no further academic value to explore.
However, the email from the East contained the following:
"A completely new derivation paradigm? A purely analytical method that's entirely independent of computer-aided methods?!"
Upon seeing the title, Cronin's expression changed.
To be honest, the proof that he painstakingly pieced together using computer exhaustive search back then has always been a thorn in his side for this madman who pursues the ultimate mathematical beauty, as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly.
If given the chance, he would have liked to pick up a heavy hammer and smash that ugly proof to pieces, and then rebuild a monument with the most beautiful formula!
Unfortunately, as the leader standing at the very pinnacle of the current mathematical community...
He has too many top-level issues concerning the future of humanity that he has accumulated, and he simply doesn't have the time or energy to deal with these "already solved" problems.
but now……
Click the mouse lightly.
With a hint of scrutiny and nonchalance, he casually clicked on the email attachment.
His gaze casually swept over the concise and to-the-point deduction outline.
"Using automata theory for local rule reduction... and then adding boundary encoding? Wait, this idea..."
suddenly!
Cronin's brow bone twitched violently without warning!
He suddenly sat up straight, his body which had been leaning back in the chair!