noveltune Chapter 117 The Data Age
Chapter 117 The Data Age
"Hey! You brat!"
As the meeting came to an end, Su Hao bowed slightly to Cronin, pushed back his chair, and prepared to leave.
Cronin, furious, tilted his beard and suddenly called out to stop him.
"Huh?" Su Hao turned around.
Listen to the old man's advice.
If you're truly determined to tackle a millennium-level research project, even if it takes longer, you must build your own core research team as early as possible!
Cronin sighed, his expression becoming more serious than ever before, and said earnestly,
"To conquer this epic level of challenge in the barren landscape of mathematical history..."
It's like sailing an exploration ship during the Age of Exploration to find a legendary, elusive island.
Have you ever seen a legendary captain who single-handedly handles raising the sails, steering the ship, reading charts, and rowing from the bottom deck all at once?!
Su Hao stopped and carefully considered Cronin's words in his mind.
Then, he nodded solemnly.
"I've learned a lot, Professor Cronin. Thank you very much for your guidance."
Su Hao bowed extremely respectfully, pushed open the door, and turned to walk out of the conference room.
Walking down the corridor, Su Hao muttered to himself:
"Team members..."
Including what Shen Yuxuan said last time, this is the second time he has heard similar advice in a short period of time.
If, years from now, we really want to set sail and build a fleet capable of withstanding the storms of the century, and we need to recruit people to join us, who should we look for?
This is a serious problem.
.......
Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research.
The atmosphere in the large conference room on the third floor, which symbolized the highest academic standards in the country, was extremely solemn.
"All data interfaces are ready, and we are prepared to project the data."
As the coordinator of the Xia Kingdom Mathematical Society made the activation gesture, the red indicator light of the high-precision video recorder in the corner of the venue dimly lit up.
The giant screen that took up an entire wall was instantly lit up.
The interplay of cold light and shadow, presented in a visually striking panoramic mode, perfectly recreates the seminar room at the University of Science and Technology of China.
The moment their gaze fell upon the screen, everyone present held their breath slightly.
What a scene that was!
On the blackboard, the densely packed automata state diagrams intertwined like a star map;
The surrounding walls were completely covered with A3 paper, creating an almost manic sense of oppression.
Even the slightest trace of chalk on the blackboard, erased by the eraser, is clearly visible in the lens, as if it still carries the warmth of the boy's handwriting.
Today, times have changed.
The classical romantic era, where a group of gray-haired professors squeezed into a dilapidated classroom and could verify a century-old theory with just a stack of draft paper and a few pens, ended eight hundred years ago!
Today's academia is a cold, hard data age.
Even the most profound and complex academic papers can be fully digitized.
If necessary, these bigwigs can even call upon supercomputers at any time...
With proof-aid tools like Lean or Coq, and in conjunction with cutting-edge mathematical software, the theoretical construction can be reproduced frame by frame in a virtual environment built with code.
International mathematical giant Cronin pressed the page-turner in his hand, cutting out the next slide densely covered with symbols, and coldly spoke:
"Have you all checked the information?"
Since there are no objections, let's proceed according to the old rules, leaving no loopholes, and initiate the highest level of review process.
The process proceeds sequentially, including low-level symbolic analysis, consistency and completeness verification of logical loops, and finally, exhaustive counterexample enumeration based on a brute-force algorithm.
Professor Walter Scott from MIT stepped forward, picked up a marker, and wrote the four core steps heavily in the center of the whiteboard.
Professor Chloe, sporting a neat short haircut, walked to the interactive whiteboard next to her and began to translate Su Hao's imaginative custom characters one by one into internationally recognized standard mathematical symbols.
"Look here, the twisted cross symbol he created in the sixth line can be completely transformed into the concept of a boundary ring in algebraic topology."
Ignore those messy subscripts; just use color coding and graph mapping theory from computer science to strip them away.
Furthermore, replace the set of formulas {1, 2, 3, 4} in his manuscript with the 2-bit alphabet (a, b) from information theory!
This is also what makes them most terrified.
Having never received any systematic university education, Su Hao was like a primitive man wielding a peerless divine weapon.
His unorthodox methods, from the way he uses symbols to the way he derives theorems, are so blatantly unorthodox that they are almost painful to look at, creating a stark contrast to traditional mathematicians.
When faced with this stark contrast, the entire verification team found the clumsy "homemade method" to be childlike in its cuteness.
I was so shocked by the terrifying intuition behind it, which was so overwhelming and went straight to the source, that I almost knelt down!
Because only those at the very top of the human intelligence pyramid can understand it:
In that messy manuscript, every seemingly clumsy detour actually conceals an extremely ingenious calculation.
It was so densely packed that even veteran researchers who had been working in this field for decades could hardly detect the groundbreaking innovative ideas!
Thus, this verification work, which can be described as the highest standard in the field of pure mathematics, was like a tug-of-war in hell, lasting for a whole month.
Dozens of top mathematicians, any one of whom could easily dominate the top journals...
Completely abandoning sleep, relying on can after can of black coffee to keep going, with red eyes, I slept on the table day and night.
They transformed into the most ruthless judges, conducting a ruthless and comprehensive dissection of Su Hao's theory from countless demanding professional perspectives, including algebra, geometry, topology, and graph theory.
Their worries far outweighed their excitement.
They were terrified that even the slightest logical flaw might be hidden within this stunning proof, causing this magnificent edifice to collapse in an instant.
Therefore, they conducted an extremely meticulous and obsessive investigation into every minute local state transition.
However, a miracle occurred.
There are no vulnerabilities.
not a single one!
On the huge list on the wall, the checklist items that indicated "passed" began to light up with dazzling green lights one after another, like wildfire.
The obscure and incomprehensible symbols created by Su Hao, which resembled celestial script, were all deciphered after expending countless brain cells and perfectly integrated into the standard substitution library of modern mathematics.
Faced with the two major hurdles that the academic community values most—logical compatibility and system completeness—it ultimately received a unanimous "absolutely error-free" judgment.
Now, only the final hurdle remains, the ultimate judgment that can decide life or death in one blow:
Use brute-force algorithms to find that theoretically possible counterexample!