A Complete Victory! Mastering the Power of the Gods

Pavilion Master Zuo Ci asked Zhu Ning and Princess Ning Han, "Can you understand the question Emperor Shen Lang has posed? Can you make sense of it?"

To make it familiar to the public, the Goldbach Conjecture had spread among the masses as 1+1.

In truth, it was this: every even number greater than 2 could be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers.

Even on Earth, this problem remained unsolved. Many called it the jewel in the crown of mathematics, one of the three greatest mathematical problems of the modern world.

Two whole centuries had passed. Only a tiny part had been proven, while the conjecture itself remained unconquered.

After Chinese mathematician Hua Luogeng returned home, he began leading research into this conjecture. Later, considerable achievements were made. Wang Yuan, Pan Chengdong, and Chen Jingrun successively made some progress, proving 3+4, 2+5, 1+5, 1+2, and so on.

That was right. So far, that was all the progress made on the Goldbach Conjecture. And over the known decades, there seemed to be no hope at all of solving it completely.

Of course, in 2013, Harald Helfgott, a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, published two papers and announced that he had completely proven the weak Goldbach Conjecture.

The so-called weak Goldbach Conjecture was this: every odd number greater than 7 could be expressed as the sum of three odd prime numbers. It was merely a derivative problem of the Goldbach Conjecture, so it was still very far from proving the entire conjecture.

For two whole centuries, countless mathematicians had charged forward one after another, yet the results could only be described as negligible. It truly was a world-class ultimate mathematical problem.

Before Shen Lang departed on the Northern Expedition against Yan Capital, he had held an extremely