From a university student to a chief academician

Chapter 163 Ye Fei's Idea to Zhang Yitang: Don't Look for Needles

EDGE party!

According to the usual practice, there will be a party after every awards ceremony.

At this moment, Ye Fei was holding red wine and chatting with a group of scholars.

Most of the people present are in the blockchain field, and Ye Fei is also researching blockchain.

So, they have a lot in common.

There are many small circles present, Mochizuki Shinichi is the founder of the blockchain, his circle has the largest number of people, and Ye Fei is among them.

Followed by V God, he is a genius in the blockchain field and the founder of Ethereum.

Around Mochizuki's circle, there are more than 30 people, each of whom is a big cow in the blockchain field, and everyone who is not a big cow is embarrassed to join in.

Someone asked: "Mr. Mochizuki, when do you think we can completely decentralize the blockchain in terms of current technology?"

Mochizuki said: "Unless the nodes of the blockchain can reach tens of millions, it will be difficult to completely decentralize the blockchain."

So far, among the products of all blockchain research in the world, the only one with tens of millions of nodes is Bitcoin.

Moreover, only a very small number of Bitcoin nodes have reached the tens of millions level, and the rest of the nodes have reached the million level.

The rest of the blockchain products, not to mention reaching tens of millions, all of their nodes hover between millions, and none of their nodes enters tens of millions.

Of course, if the blockchain is completely decentralized, then we can enter the era of Web3.0.

Someone said: "Mr. Mochizuki, it is very difficult to get all the nodes to reach tens of millions. So far, it seems that only a small number of nodes have reached the level of Bitcoin you created."

"Yes!" Mochizuki shook his head, his face full of helplessness: "It's too difficult. I created Bitcoin back then, and I wanted all the nodes to reach tens of millions, but Bitcoin has been running for so many years, and only a few of them have reached tens of millions level, and the rest hover between the million level."

"Mr. Mochizuki, do you know the reason?"

"I know!" Mochizuki nodded: "The algorithm is too bad. If there is a powerful algorithm, it can push all the nodes to tens of millions."

"But such an algorithm, I have been studying it, and I haven't created it yet."

"Hey……"

"Didn't Professor Ye develop a new asymmetric encryption algorithm?" Someone said: "I wonder if your algorithm can push the blockchain nodes to tens of millions."

Everyone looked at Ye Fei.

Ye Fei smiled wryly: "I just came up with the theory, and the application part hasn't come out yet."

"And even if it comes out, I can't guarantee that it will definitely push the blockchain nodes to tens of millions."

Everyone nodded, if it is so easy to push the blockchain nodes to tens of millions, it will not bother all the blockchain researchers in the world.

Ye Fei said: "Mochizuki Shinichi, it seems that only the algorithm can't make the blockchain nodes reach tens of millions!"

"Yes!" Mochizuki nodded: "To make the nodes reach tens of millions, the four core technologies of the blockchain are indispensable."

"Distributed ledgers, asymmetric encryption algorithms, consensus mechanisms and smart contracts."

"Asymmetric encryption algorithms should be the core, and distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, and smart contracts should be assisted."

"With a reasonable combination of the four, it is possible to make the nodes reach tens of millions."

"Therefore, the asymmetric encryption algorithm technology needs to be very strong, and the technical level of the other three cannot be poor."

"As far as the current technology is concerned, only the distributed ledger technology of Xia Guoshu Tu Blockchain Research Institute, the consensus mechanism of Bitcoin and the smart contract of Vitalik's Ethereum, these three technologies meet the standards."

"Now there is a lack of an asymmetric encryption algorithm technology."

"If there is a powerful asymmetric encryption algorithm technology, combined with the technology of tree graph, Bitcoin and Ethereum, then the number of nodes can reach tens of millions."

"That is to say, the blockchain is completely decentralized, and the era of Web 3.0 will come."

It was really hard for everyone to hear it.

In particular, the asymmetric encryption algorithm is the core technology and the most difficult technology.

Of course, they thought of the asymmetric encryption algorithm developed by Ye Fei.

But because Ye Fei's asymmetric encryption algorithm has not been fully developed, no one knows how effective it is.

Besides, what a coincidence, the asymmetric encryption algorithm developed by Ye Fei just meets the requirements and can push the nodes to tens of millions.

If it were so easy, such an asymmetric encryption algorithm would have been developed long ago.

Afterwards they chatted a lot about other blockchain information.

After a long time, Mochizuki looked at Zhang Yitang not far away, and saw Zhang Yitang chatting with a group of mathematicians.

Mochizuki said, "Everyone, I'll look elsewhere."

Everyone nodded and said, "You can do whatever you want!"

Mochizuki Shinichi signaled Ye Fei with his eyes.

He had to pull Ye Fei because Mochizuki Shinichi had no contact with Zhang Yitang in the past.

Moreover, Zhang Yitang is much higher than him in terms of his status in the mathematics world.

So, pull Ye Feihao to talk to Zhang Yitang.

After all, both of them are Xia Guo people.

In foreign countries, when a fellow countryman sees a fellow countryman, there are tears in his eyes and a natural sense of intimacy.

Ye Fei nodded, and the two walked towards Zhang Yitang together.

After walking to Zhang Yitang, Ye Fei greeted him with a smile and said, "Mr. Zhang, hello, I am Ye Fei from Xia Kingdom."

With that said, he stretched out his hand.

Zhang Yitang turned his head to look at Ye Fei, shook hands with him with a smile, and said, "I've heard about you a long time ago. Last time I went to Kyoto University, the mathematics professor at Kyoto University even mentioned you!"

Ye Fei smiled and said, "That's really my honor."

"Mr. Zhang, this is Mochizuki Shinichi."

"Hello, Mr. Mochizuki." Zhang Yitang smiled and stretched out his hand.

Mochizuki quickly shook hands and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, hello, you are well-known in the mathematics world!"

"No way!" Zhang Yitang smiled and waved his hands and said: "It's all a false name, it's just that others praise me, you can't believe their words, their evaluation of me is exaggerated."

Ye Fei and Mochizuki smiled together.

They couldn't be more clear about Zhang Yitang's achievements.

Zhang Yitang mainly studies number theory. He once proved that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers whose gaps are less than 7000 million.

As a result, an important breakthrough has been made in the twin prime number conjecture, a major problem in number theory.

This is much harder than the ABC guess.

The difficulty of the twin prime conjecture is generally not compared with that of the ABC conjecture.

Because in front of the twin prime number conjecture, the ABC conjecture is a younger brother.

It is only compared with Goldbach's conjecture.

Of course, the difficulty of the twin prime number conjecture is definitely not as difficult as that of Goldbach's conjecture.

What Zhang Yitang really stood on the top of the mathematics world was his research on the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture.

The difficulty of Landau-Siegel's zero-point conjecture is comparable to that of Riemann's conjecture, and its difficulty is not inferior to the seven major problems of mathematics.

Zhang Yitang has always had a title in the mathematics circle, the sweeping monk in the mathematics circle.

He is very low-key, but very powerful.

Ye Fei smiled and said: "Mr. Zhang, I have read your paper on the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture. I have always wondered whether the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture exists."

Zhang Yitang shook his head and said, "You shouldn't ask me this question."

Ye Fei was surprised, why shouldn't I ask you?
Zhang Yitang said: "If you ask me, I will definitely say that the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture exists."

"Because I was studying the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture, if it didn't exist, then my years of research would be in vain."

Ye Fei laughed when he heard this, it was true.

If even the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture researchers say it does not exist, then the researchers will not study it.

Zhang Yitang continued: "As for the existence of the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture, only time will tell."

"Maybe, one day I prove the existence of the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture, and then you will have the answer in your heart."

Ye Fei nodded inwardly, indeed, only time will prove this question.

If Zhang Yitang can prove the existence of the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture, it will trigger a major earthquake in the global mathematics community.

The Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture is opposite to one of the seven major problems of mathematics, the Riemann conjecture.

If the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture is proven to exist, then the Riemann conjecture is absolutely impossible to prove successful.

If the Riemann Hypothesis proves to be successful, then the Landau-Siegel Zero-Point Hypothesis is absolutely non-existent.

This is because the Landau-Siegel zero conjecture is a special and possibly much weaker form of the generalized Riemann hypothesis.

The existence of the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture will overturn the proof of the generalized Riemann conjecture.

The generalized Riemann conjecture was overthrown, and naturally the Riemann conjecture could not prove successful.

Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture and Riemann conjecture, only one of the two can exist, either you die or I die.

Mochizuki said: "Mr. Zhang, how far has your Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture research gone?"

"Three years ago, you should have read the paper on the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture that I hung on Arxiv!"

"En!" Ye Fei and Mochizuki nodded.

Zhang Yitang said: "The Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture is to prove that L(1, x) ≥ (logD)^-1."

"And my thesis three years ago was about L(1, x)≥c1(logD)^2022."

"I am now gradually reducing the power."

"It has been researched to 2000."

Ye Feidao: "Mr. Zhang, do you still use proof by contradiction to prove the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture?"

The method of proof by contradiction, also known as the method of contradiction proof, is a very classic proof method in mathematics.

Zhang Yitang looked at Ye Fei in surprise, and said with a smile, "It seems that you have read my thesis carefully."

"Yes!" Ye Fei nodded: "When you published the paper back then, I read it immediately."

"But I didn't understand it at the time. A year later, I started to study number theory. I read your paper no less than twenty times, and I didn't fully understand it until last year."

"In your paper, you first assume that the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture exists in a weak form, and you deduce that this leads to..."

Ye Fei explained his understanding of Zhang Yitang's Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture paper.

Zhang Yitang nodded again and again, feeling in his heart: "It's not easy for such a young age to fully understand my thesis!"

"From this we can see Ye Fei's ability."

Zhang Yitang's Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture paper is a very difficult paper in the field of mathematics.

There are not many people who can understand it, and those who can understand it are famous professors from top universities in the world.

At the very least, it is the person who proves the world's mathematical problems.

The rest of the people stood aside and listened with gusto.

Of course, most people couldn't understand what Ye Fei said, and these people felt very uncomfortable listening to it.

After listening for a while, they found that they really didn't understand, so they could only leave with a depressed face.

Those who study mathematics are all perverts. At any rate, we study computers, but we can't understand what you are talking about.

"But..." Ye Fei said.

"Huh?" Everyone was surprised, but what?
Ye Fei said: "However, don't you think there is no need to look for this needle if you can't find it?"

In Zhang Yitang's thesis, the method of proof by contradiction was used to the extreme.

Although the method of proof by contradiction is a basic method that everyone can understand, Zhang Yitang simplifies it into a complicated method, making the process of proof by contradiction unimaginably difficult.

Zhang Yitang compared it to finding a needle in a haystack.

The needle here is to find a certain sequence.

"You can change your mind."

"I know that you have been looking for needles, and many sequences can achieve the same weak effect. You can use this fact to construct a contradiction, so that you don't need to look for needles."

As for why, only those who have studied the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture will know.

Hearing these words, Zhang Yitang felt as if a flash of light erupted in his mind, and all his thoughts were opened.

His gaze was thoughtful at first, and gradually the light in his eyes became more and more bright.

Finally, he said excitedly: "You are right, I don't necessarily need to look for needles!"

"Why didn't I think of it before, I just thought about looking for the needle, but I couldn't find it all the time."

"Since I can't find it, I can completely bypass the needle!"

Zhang Yitang held Ye Fei's hand and said excitedly, "Mr. Ye, thank you so much, thank you, thank you!"

At this moment, Zhang Yitang is like a child getting a new toy, he almost jumped up excitedly.

People around who didn't understand looked at Zhang Yitang in doubt, wondering why Zhang Yitang was like this.

Those who understood looked at Zhang Yitang with a smile on his face.

They understand Zhang Yitang, scholars are crazy about academics, this is a very common thing.

Everyone has different hobbies, some are crazy about money, some are crazy about the opposite sex, some are crazy about power, and some are crazy about academics.

After a long time, Zhang Yitang's mood calmed down.

At this moment, he can't wait to grow his wings and fly out, and immediately start academic research when he returns to his residence.

He believes that this time he can push the research on the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture to the thousandth power.

If there is no idea given by Ye Fei, it may take ten years before he can push the research of the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture to the thousandth power.

But now with the idea given by Ye Fei, he can complete the research ten years in advance and proceed to the next step.

Zhang Yitang smiled and said, "Mr. Ye, if you help me this time, I will repay you."

Ye Fei shook his head and smiled, "No, I'm just giving you an idea, the rest of the proof is up to you."

Zhang Yitang shook his head and said with a smile: "However, your thinking has brought great help to my research on the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture."

Ye Feidao: "If you really want to help me, I hope you can talk to Mr. Mochizuki Shinichi about the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture. He is currently studying the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture."

The reason why Ye Fei gave Mochizuki Shinichi this favor was naturally because of his intentions.

The academic world really needs contacts, and the cultivation of contacts is that you help me and I help you.

Whether it is Zhang Yitang or Mochizuki Shinichi, they are all very high-quality contacts.

In the future, they will definitely help Ye Fei.

And Ye Fei gave Zhang Yitang's favor to Mochizuki Shinichi, who is also the founder of the blockchain.

Ye Fei also studies the blockchain, so Ye Fei will definitely use Mochizuki Shinichi in the future.

At that time, Mochizuki Shinichi can return the favor that Ye Fei sent at that time.

Mochizuki glanced at Ye Fei in astonishment, but said nothing.

This is exactly what Mochizuki Shinichi needs. He brought Ye Fei here just to chat with Zhang Yitang about Lang Dao-Siegel's zero-point conjecture!
But now Ye Fei pushed him a step further, allowing Zhang Yitang to have a more in-depth chat with him about the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture.

As for the favor Ye Fei gave, he will return it in the future.

Zhang Yitang looked at Mochizuki Shinichi and said with a smile, "Mr. Mochizuki is also studying the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture?"

"Yes!" Mochizuki nodded.

"Then let's leave a contact information, and we will keep in touch in the future."

"can!"

After speaking, the two left contact information for each other.

After that, they continued to chat about the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture.

Ye Feiye, Zhang Yitang, and many others left contact information with each other.

It was not until a long time before the party ended that everyone dispersed and returned to their respective residences.

(End of this chapter)