The clash between the Gottingen Sect led by the Master of Calculation and the Li School led by Master of Calculation Pang Jialai centered on mathematical logic. This field was the most fundamental part of mathematics. A mathematician's understanding of it determined their overall grasp of mathematics.
Chen Feng's mathematical skills were rubbish compared to Wang Qi's, but he still knew that much.
Wang Qi smiled. "Senior Feng gave the same instructions. There's no harm in following them."
Feng Luoyi and Xiboche still believed that Wang Qi possessed extraordinary talent in mathematical logic. If he continued down the path of first-order logic, sooner or later he would reach the realm Xiboche envisioned.
But Wang Qi knew that this road was not impassable; it was just that the result of the next step would run completely counter to Xiboche's expectations.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems—the terrifying theorems that destroyed mathematics' lofty beauty and dragged mathematics down from its altar.
In Earth's history, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems proved that Hilbert's second question had no solution, bankrupting Hilbert's Program. If they were thrown into the Divine Land, they would probably shake the Gottingen Sect's prestige to its foundations.
No matter what he said, others had already branded him as "Gottingen Sect," so it was better to take that into account when working on theories.
And while he was at it, he had to guard against others following his train of thought and producing the Incompleteness Theorems.
For an unmatched genius like Gödel, only a year lay between the Completeness Theorem and the Incompleteness Theorems. But for ordinary mathematicians, the road Gödel crossed in a year was an absolute natural chasm.
Not to mention that even Gödel had arrived at the Completeness Theorem through a flash of inspiration and sudden enlightenment.
The Li School cultivators did not