Back to the π(x) function itself...
After the video call ended, Qin Yue sat in his Princeton office, staring up at the ceiling as he repeatedly mulled over the meaning of those words.
After a long silence, the pensive look on Qin Yue's face suddenly relaxed, and he shook his head with a headache.
"If that's really the case... wouldn't Molina and the others be wasting their time?"
And not just Molina...
If this view really spread, the entire Mathematics world would probably be hit by a fairly major earthquake.
Especially the field of Analytic Number Theory at the very center of it all. Any research related to the Riemann Hypothesis could very well be overturned...
After all, the person saying this was none other than Professor Lu, who had already taken down two Millennium Problems. If even Professor Lu thought it was unreliable, then this line of proof was basically being handed a death sentence.
After hesitating for a moment, Qin Yue decided to keep those words to himself. After all, he wasn't sure whether Lu Zhou had merely said it casually. If that was the case, then the joke would be a little too big.
What he didn't know was that shortly after he hung up, Lu Zhou uploaded his completed paper to arXiv as a preprint.
It was foreseeable that in just a few days, the Mathematics world, which had been quiet for so long, would be stirred up again...
"Ahhh... at this rate, I feel like all my hair is going to fall out."
Sitting at her desk and staring at the problem on the draft paper, Han Mengqi bit down on her pen cap and tugged at her hair in frustration. No matter how hard she thought, she couldn't come up with a method