"Another new... mathematical instrument?" That was Airuoche's first reaction upon seeing Wang Qi's paper.
A new "instrument" was really no big deal. It was merely a convenient representational tool, or a method—nothing more.
Though saying so was somewhat arrogant, at least in this age, it was not anything terribly frightening.
Compared to what Wang Qi's previous work on incompleteness and undecidability had revealed, a new "instrument" was nothing at all.
—Airuoche herself had not realized that she was now instinctively treating Wang Qi as an equal Free and Unfettered Cultivator.
To create a mathematical tool from scratch was already a level at which a third-tier Grandmaster could found a school. Yet among Free and Unfettered Stage cultivators, it did not seem particularly rare.
Developing a new mathematical tool on one's own always became harder the later one came along, because existing avenues were gradually claimed by one's predecessors, leaving less and less room for those who followed. Yet even so, on twenty-first-century Earth, there had still been eccentrics like Mochizuki Shinichi, who developed entirely new mathematical tools just to prove a single problem—though the consequence was that not a single person in the world could understand his proof of the "ABC Conjecture."
Other mathematicians had needed to learn Mochizuki Shinichi's methods themselves before they could review that paper.
And in this era, where mathematics was more primitive and far earlier in its development, this was even less difficult.
But Airuoche was soon drawn in.
"What kind of line of thought is this... What kind of instrument is this..."
Her heart jolted violently, as though struck by a straight punch.
Airuoche was familiar with this process. It was a beautiful process. In her eyes, it was like a troop of armored soldiers with cultivation, shields raised as they formed a battle