Chapter 30

"Was he looking for a gun to defend himself?"

Backstage at the livestream.

The chief director was also keeping an eye on Jiang Ye in real time.

But after Jiang Ye had caught him out once yesterday,

he wasn't letting his guard down in the slightest this time. Jiang Ye might just double back for another surprise attack.

Twenty minutes later, sure enough.

When he saw Jiang Ye take a gun from the police station and carry it with him, only to rush back into the university,

the chief director slammed his hand on the table, his eyes blazing. "Start executing plan A, and announce it to the public."

"Yes, chief director!"

In the international livestream.

When viewers around the world saw Jiang Ye run back into the university, they immediately unleashed a torrent of curses. Many turned to other livestream feeds.

Just then, host Chen Danni received her instructions and immediately spoke. "An emergency announcement from the production team."

"In light of contestant Jiang Ye's behavior running counter to the program's core purpose, and in accordance with the wishes of our viewers, the production team brought in a tiger from a zoo last night to roam near the university where Jiang Ye is staying."

"We sincerely hope that the tiger's roars will wake Jiang Ye up and prompt him to do things related to survival."

"Also, viewers from Dragon Country can rest assured that the production team will keep the tiger under control. We won't let it enter the university and cause Jiang Ye physical harm. The sole purpose of this action is to use the commotion caused by the tiger to guide Jiang Ye..."

Once the production team's announcement came out,

the comments in the international livestream erupted.

Everyone was praising the production team's move, except the viewers from Dragon Country.

"How fucking thoughtful of them. Isn't it obvious they want to let the tiger bite Jiang Ye? Good thing God Jiang thought ahead and got a gun to carry with him."

"It's just an ordinary police handgun, and God Jiang hasn't had any relevant training. You think he can take on a tiger with that?"

"Didn't the production team say they were only going to guide the tiger to roam around outside and wouldn't let it in?"

"You believe what foreigners say? Have you been living in a dog's belly, for fuck's sake!?"

"Fuck your mother! Didn't Jiang Ye bring this on himself? If he'd built a safe place instead of doing math, none of this would have happened!"

"Now look what's happened. If something really goes wrong, death means death."

In the international livestream, the production team thoughtfully split the first feed in two.

On the left was a formidable-looking tiger, lured by the production team's fresh meat, advancing step by step toward the university where Jiang Ye was staying.

On the right was Jiang Ye, who had just walked into a classroom.

Jiang Ye carried a stack of A4 paper he had found elsewhere. After entering the classroom where he had recorded the video yesterday, he looked around.

Seeing that it was still exactly the same as yesterday, he relaxed and sat down at a spacious study desk.

He set the thick stack of A4 paper in his hands to one side, then picked up the first sheet and readied his pen.

He silently recited, [System, activate Ultimate Learning State.]

[Ultimate Learning State activated!]

In an instant, Jiang Ye felt that everything he saw was clearer than ever before.

The next moment, he wrote a heading at the top of the A4 paper.

"A proof of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture"

He moved quickly, immediately writing a line of equations beneath it: "π(x)=∫dt/lnt+O(x^(1/2+ε))..."

When that heading appeared before viewers around the world,

before mathematicians around the world,

in an instant, mathematicians across the globe went wild.

He had actually begun to challenge one of the Seven Millennium Prize Problems!

Chapter 30: Get Him Off the Show, Surging onto the Trending Searches and Sweeping the Rankings (Begging for All Kinds of Support)

The Seven Millennium Prize Problems were also known as the World's Seven Great Mathematical Problems.

They were seven mathematical conjectures announced by the Clay Mathematics Institute in the United States on May 24, 2000.

Under the rules established by the Clay Mathematics Institute, anyone who solved one of the conjectures would be awarded a million dollars.

Since their announcement, the Seven Millennium Prize Problems had caused a powerful stir in the world of mathematics.

These problems all concerned fundamental mathematical theory, but solving them would give enormous impetus to the development of mathematical theory and the furtherance of its applications. It would also change the course of mathematics in the new century.

Understanding and researching the Seven Millennium Prize Problems had become a major focus in the world of mathematics.

Mathematicians around the world wanted to solve these seven problems, because whoever could take down one of these conjectures would undoubtedly become the most influential mathematician of the present day.

Mathematicians in quite a few countries were organizing joint efforts to tackle them.

Goldbach's Conjecture, which Jiang Ye had solved earlier, was only in the second tier.

The Seven Millennium Prize Problems, on the other hand, were all in the first tier: seven major problems mathematicians dreamed of and hoped to solve.

At that moment, the École Normale Supérieure of Paris, the International Mathematical Union, the Dragon Country Mathematics Institute, the Sam Mathematical Association, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Mathematics Research Center...

Whether or not they were watching the livestream, all the top figures in mathematics had been alerted.

If it had been a nobody, naturally they wouldn't have paid much attention, nor would it have had such an impact.

But now, the person tackling it was a young man who had already solved Zhou's Conjecture, the Beal Conjecture, and Goldbach's Conjecture, was only twenty years old, and had taken only one day.

At that moment, all the leading mathematicians and young scholars in academic circles held their breath, staring intently at the livestream. A closer look would have revealed a trace of anticipation deep in their eyes.

The mathematicians didn't know whether Jiang Ye could solve it, but with a miracle already behind them, they didn't dare rule it out now.

If he really did solve one, it would be an unprecedented event in mathematics, the likes of which had not occurred in nearly a century.

Inside a villa somewhere in Dragon Country.

A handsome young man was answering a phone call.