A widower's entertainment

Chapter 57 [The Arsonist Appears]

Bao city.

"Mr. Lu, how is this possible-"

Even though Teacher Lin had already calculated the correct answer, he was still in disbelief. He couldn't believe that he would see a literary character proving the equation of Euler's conjecture of a mathematical problem in a novel.

how could it be possible!
  This is really incredible.

Seeing Teacher Lin's unbelievable expression, Mr. Lu couldn't help but smile and said, "Didn't you already check the answer yourself?"

Teacher Lin nodded. He had indeed checked the calculation several times, but every time the result was the same as the mathematical answer in the novel. But just because it was the same, he found it even more incredible and unbelievable.

"But how could he choose it? This is the equation of Euler's conjecture!"

Teacher Lin really can’t understand why a writer knows the answer to Euler’s conjecture equation. Although this world mathematics problem is not as famous as Fermat’s last theorem, Goldbach’s conjecture, and Poincaré’s conjecture, it is not originally complete. Euler's conjecture.

But there is no doubt that for the unsolvable equation X^n+ Y^n+ Z^n=W^n, no one has given a solution to this equation for a hundred years. Therefore, it has always been believed that the equation conjectured by Euler is No solution.

After all, that was proposed by Euler's conjecture.

But now, an equation that has been considered unsolvable for hundreds of years has actually been written down by a writer with a counterexample, and it is also in a novel.

It's really incredible.

Mr. Lu didn't have such complicated ideas. He just knew that the equation of Euler's conjecture was given a counterexample, which was directly proved. This is the most important thing. He smiled and said: "You can ask him."

Teacher Lin saw the smile on Mr. Lu's face, and then looked at the answer in his hand. He still felt in a trance, as if he was in a dream.

At this moment, Teacher Lin felt confused.

……

South City University.

"I don't know what's going on with Senior Brother Lin. He actually tried to get me through it. I don't know what it is."

After answering the phone, a young mathematics professor smiled and shook his head. He turned to his colleagues in the office and asked, "Have you ever read the novel "The Devotion of Suspect X"."

Several teachers in the mathematics department shook their heads. They had not read this novel and did not know why the young professor suddenly asked this question.

"Teacher, I've seen it!"

A student in the office who happened to turn in his homework said excitedly: "This novel is very exciting and beautiful."

When the young professor heard this, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you have this novel? Can you let me have a look?"

"I do, I do. I bought that issue of "Novel Monthly". Teacher, please wait a moment and I will bring it over to you."

The student thought that the professor was also interested in the novel "The Devotion of Suspect Bring over the issue of "Novel Monthly" that you bought.

"Teacher, let me tell you, this story is really wonderful."

The young professor took the "Novel Monthly" handed over by the student, opened the article "The Devotion of Suspect X", and asked: "Where is the equation of Euler's conjecture?"

The student was stunned, not understanding the question the professor asked.

When the professor saw that the student was confused, he asked more specifically, "Where is the equation in the novel that states Euler's conjecture when n ≥ 4?"

Euler's conjecture for equations when n≥4?
  When the student heard this, he felt a little familiar. It seemed to be a mathematical problem that Shi Hong tried to prove in the novel. However, he did not particularly care about the answer because he cared about the story.

The student turns to that page of the journal from memory.

Before the students could ask anything, the professor had already focused on the equation.

…    Beijing, Editorial Department of Journal of Chinese Journal of Mathematics.

"what happened?"

An editor wearing glasses hung up the phone and said with a confused look on his face: "Lao Lu just called me and asked me to read a novel "The Devotion of Suspect X"."

"'The Devotion of Suspect X'? I think I heard my daughter mention this novel. It's a wonderful love mystery novel."

Another older scholar asked in confusion: "Why did Mr. Lu want you to read this novel?"

"He asked me to calculate the equation in the novel where n ≥ 4 was conjectured by Euler. He said that there would be a surprising discovery."

"Surprise discovery, what surprise discovery?"

"Isn't that the equation that was proved by someone?"

The editor wearing glasses frowned slightly and said in confusion: "Even if it is proven, what novel should I read?"

"It's impossible to prove it in the novel."

……

Sichuan City, No. 1 Middle School.

"Strange, why did you suddenly ask me to find some novel to read?"

"I don't have time to read novels, and they said there is a surprise on page nine. What a surprise."

"I didn't expect that Mr. Lu would read novels sometimes. I thought he was always focused on mathematics."

A mathematics teacher received a call from Mr. Lu and felt strange.

Although it was strange, the math teacher still found that issue of "Novel Monthly" out of some doubts and curiosity about his old friend, and turned to page nine of what Mr. Lu said.

On the ninth page, the mathematical answer that was written in one stroke was not hidden deeply, but it was not conspicuous either. It just lay quietly in the middle of the text, inconspicuously.

But at this time, no matter how inconspicuous it was, this mathematical answer was still discovered.

……

No one thought, no one would know, that there was an incredible truth hidden in Lin Youcheng's novel "The Devotion of Suspect X" in which the final truth of the mystery had been revealed.

Then--

On this day, mathematicians, mathematics scholars, and mathematics teachers began to discover the truth, the riddle, and the mathematical answer one by one.

No one thought that the equation of Euler's conjecture, which had been recognized for more than two hundred years, collapsed in such an instant.

Or was it ruined by a writer borrowing the hand of a math genius character named Shi Hong?

That simple and imperceptible mathematical counterexample was like a fire that suddenly appeared in the wilderness. The moment it was discovered, the equation conjectured by Euler was completely burned away.

The fire burned fiercely, the flames soared into the sky, and the hot and rolling flames jumped across the endless dark wilderness, as if showing the amazing and wild vitality to the world.

In the incredible and unbelievable eyes of those mathematicians, this hot novel is not "The Devotion of Suspect X", but the appearance of the arsonist!

The name of the arsonist is not Shi Hong, but——

Lin Youcheng!
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