Chapter 9

The other contestants were all doing much the same things as Jin Zheyong.

But soon, everyone cried out in surprise again.

They had seen Jiang Ye pick up a math book and start reading it in the library.

"Holy shit, Jiang Ye is actually studying math?"

"My god, we guessed all sorts of possibilities, but nobody thought Jiang Ye would actually study math!"

"I give up. Why study math at a time like this? Can it keep him alive?"

Netizens from Dragon Country were shocked, and one after another, they expressed how speechless he had left them.

Korean viewers: "Hahaha, what a fucking idiot. He's actually studying. I'm dying of laughter."

Nihon viewers: "I really thought he'd look for survival books to study. I never expected him to study math. The way you Shina people's brains work really is unusual!"

Sam viewers: "Compared to what our Charles is doing, Jiang Ye's behavior is really far too fanciful. No wonder people always say students from the eastern Dragon Country are bookworms who only know how to study by rote."

"Maybe we overestimated his mental fortitude. He might have already collapsed inside and gone mad, then started becoming obsessive."

More and more people believed Jiang Ye had gone mad.

Because everyone could see it.

Studying math was one thing, but the crucial point was that Jiang Ye was reading at an extraordinarily fast speed.

It could be said that he was doing more than reading ten lines at a glance.

This was math, after all. Reading that fast, did he understand it? Did he digest it? Did he actually learn it?

And so, just as viewers from various countries were laughing and making fun of him,

The viewers from Dragon Country couldn't even argue back, and had even begun debating their own opinions of Jiang Ye.

In just ten minutes,

Jiang Ye had quickly flipped through the entire stack of math books on his right, then stacked them on his left.

"Maybe he's using this method to ease the loneliness or pressure he feels inside!"

But the Dragon Country viewers who said this lacked confidence in their own words.

[I changed the earlier setting a little. Everyone can take a look; I've already corrected the previous errors. And who said I update slowly? Here it is, served up for the family.]

Chapter 9: Genius? Madman? Mathematicians Worldwide Are Shocked (Begging for Flowers, Evaluation Votes, and Monthly Tickets)

Immersed in studying, Jiang Ye completely lost track of time.

Only after he finished reading the stack of books he had brought over and checked the time was he slightly surprised to see that only ten minutes had passed.

Though it had been just ten short minutes,

Under the [Super Learning State], he had already learned knowledge from numerous fields, including linear algebra, calculus, probability theory, advanced mathematics, number theory, complex functions, and functional analysis...

Not only had he completely mastered university-level mathematics,

He had also mastered knowledge in mathematical fields that only graduate and doctoral students would go on to study.

His brainpower had increased to ten times that of an ordinary person.

This wasn't a simple matter of calculating 1 × 10.

The next step was to consolidate the knowledge he had learned at this stage and gauge his grasp of it.

Then he would continue delving into knowledge in the field of mathematics.

Wait.

A thought suddenly occurred to Jiang Ye.

I can't just keep studying and researching math forever!

He didn't currently know whether mathematics had an end.

But if it didn't,

How much do I need to learn before it's enough!?

Enough to study other disciplines and use them to build a spaceship?

[System, what's your plan for studying the field of mathematics?]

[I can't just keep studying forever, can I? There's only one month.]

The system replied instantly: [The host only needs to solve the following conjectures before he can turn his attention to other disciplines.]

[1. Poincaré Conjecture, 2. Hodge Conjecture, 3. Riemann Hypothesis, 4. Yang-Mills existence and mass gap, 5. Existence and smoothness of the Navier-Stokes equations, 6. P (polynomial algorithm) problem versus NP (non-polynomial algorithm) problem, 7. Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, 8. Goldbach's Conjecture, 9. Beal Conjecture, 10. Zhou's Conjecture]

After reading the series of conjectures the system had listed, Jiang Ye breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.

Having a goal was enough.

In his view, solving these conjectures was only a matter of time.

Then let's start with the last one, [Zhou's Conjecture].

He fetched a stack of A4 paper and returned to the study desk.

Jiang Ye quickly put pen to paper and scribbled down an opening.

"Among the prime numbers ≤257, when p = 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 31, 67, 127, 257, 2p-1 is prime; all the others are composite."

"Regarding the theory of Mersenne primes, the discussion of their distribution patterns, and the proof of Zhou's Conjecture, I have successfully settled on the correct answer."

"The mysteries of prime numbers, proven according to countless scientific theories: this paper conducts a detailed study of the distribution patterns of Mersenne primes, ... the inference concerning prime numbers holds true."

The world of mathematics

Was so profound and mysterious, full of mystery and things beyond understanding.

Jiang Ye was completely immersed in line after line of calculations, writing furiously, his thoughts flowing smoothly and his pen flying across the page.

Prime numbers vast as the sea intertwined beneath Jiang Ye's swiftly racing pen, forming an utterly captivating language of numbers, as though they were dancing.

Interwoven numbers and profound symbols came together to form scientific incantations, weaving a theology that described the truths of the universe.

And directly above where Jiang Ye was writing, a miniature camera was livestreaming everything he wrote in its entirety for all humanity to see.