A First Glimpse

Bo Xiaofeng readily acknowledged Wang Qi's mathematical prowess. Wang Qi had published no shortage of papers over the years, averaging three to five each month. Most of those papers could only be called "steady and proper." They were unlike <On Formally Undecidable Statements in the Arithmetic Section of Volume One of the Myriad Dharma Calculation Collection and Related Systems> or <On Computable Numbers and Their Application to the Decision Problem>; there was nothing especially earth-shattering about them. They were not outstanding, but they were certainly not poor.

Over seven or eight years, more than three hundred papers amounted to substantial accumulation for an ordinary person.

And in the eyes of those who cared to look, those papers allowed them to glimpse, little by little, Wang Qi's train of thought—or the tracks left by his mind. At the very least, they could see his ideas.

People believed Wang Qi ought to be classified under the School of Separation because the papers he had accumulated over the past few years largely reflected the School of Separation's approach. For instance, the fuzzy algorithm he had initially constructed with Bo Xiaoya rested on multivalent judgment and fuzzy sets—starting from set theory and building an axiomatic system. That was also a typical line of thought for the School of Separation.

To them, such "axioms" were the "skeleton." A few axioms could hold up an entire system. To the mathematicians of the School of Separation, nothing was more wonderful than that.

Wang Qi had extensively employed the School of Separation's methods in his papers, so naturally others regarded him as one of them.

That was also why Bo Xiaofeng had been so shocked upon seeing Wang Qi's notes.

Wang Qi's ideas ran contrary to the Master of Calculation; in truth, they were closer to the Lord