Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 157 - 94: Come to Yanbei after the New Year

The opening ceremony was lively.

Unlike the school’s welcome assembly, after the big shots finished their speeches, there was another hour-long cultural performance.

Unlike those dull meetings, the speeches or addresses by the big shots at the opening ceremony didn’t last long.

First, the host school’s principal spoke, then a prominent figure from Yujiang University’s School of Mathematics who specially came, then Academician Tian was the third speaker, and finally, a provincial leader from Yujiang Province announced the official opening of the winter camp after his speech.

The four speeches, along with the national anthem preceding the meeting, took less than half an hour in total.

Then followed an hour of cultural performance.

The opening ceremony started at nine o’clock sharp and ended precisely at ten-thirty, followed by half an hour spent taking commemorative photos at the school’s athletics field. Afterward, participants were led by the staff with the cooperation of the team leaders to tour the campus and familiarize themselves with the testing venues for the next day’s competition.

Once the schedule was completed, team leaders from each competition area did a final headcount and returned to the hotel. After lunch, the entire afternoon and evening were free time for the participants.

Although it’s called free exchange, it essentially means free activities.

As long as they didn’t miss the ten o’clock nightly headcount by the team leaders from each competition area, what the participants did wasn’t the concern of the organizers.

However, the team leaders had different personalities, and their requirements for the participants varied as well.

Cautious leaders would require all participants to stay at the hotel, and to avoid any unforeseen events due to too much freedom, they might even assign two worksheets for the afternoon, or simply let everyone stay in the hotel to make friends.

More relaxed leaders would allow participants to take a short leave and stroll around to see the local customs of Ningshui, provided they returned to the hotel before the nightly headcount.

Xingnan’s Captain Luo belonged to the latter category, but his requirements were slightly stricter. For example, during the winter camp, participants could only eat at the hotel designated by the organizers, and weren’t allowed to eat out or order delivery, mainly to prevent any stomach issues during exams that might affect performance.

Of course, Qiao Yu definitely couldn’t ask for leave today.

After lunch, Qiao Yu took a short nap for half an hour in his room. After getting up, he started looking for basic mathematics videos online, as usual.

For example, recently Qiao Yu most enjoyed videos analyzing the Riemann Zeta Function from various angles.

For Qiao Yu, the Zeta Function is indeed a fascinating point of study, closely linked with the distribution of prime numbers, allowing a glimpse into the beauty of infinite series, and its analytic continuation can extend the Zeta Function to nearly the entire complex plane.

Most importantly, Qiao Yu felt that the Zeta Function was somewhat helpful in solving the problem of large prime factorization, though the connection between the two isn’t quite apparent now.

For instance, by thoroughly analyzing the Zeta Function, one might find a specific way primes control the behavior of certain complex functions.

It’s well-known that the distribution of zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function is closely related to the distribution of prime numbers among natural numbers.

If there’s a hidden structure in the zero distribution of the Zeta Function that can directly connect the zeros on the line with a real part of 1/2 on the complex plane to the factorization properties of specific integers, it might make large prime factorization simple and efficient.

For instance, directly using the zeros of the Zeta Function to construct a formula for mapping composite numbers and their prime factors, form an algorithm, then input large integers into this formula to quickly find their prime factors.

This would make the most mainstream RSA encryption algorithm breakable. After all, the principle of RSA basically uses the product of two primes as a public key, these two primes being the private key.

If such a method could quickly find the private key using the public key, the mainstream internet encryption principle would become vulnerable.

See, the principles of number theory are so straightforward, even a grade schooler can understand it. But trying to accomplish it reveals the difficulty.

At least, a seemingly simple Riemann Conjecture only requires proving all the non-trivial zeros of the Zeta Function lie on the line with a real part of 1/2 on the complex plane.

It’s been exactly 165 years, equating to over sixty thousand days and nights since Riemann proposed this, yet no one has solved it. This is even when every mathematician knows solving this problem would lead to instant fame and fortune with awards and prizes overflowing.

However, on the flipside, this is also where the fun of mathematics lies. If every problem were easily solved, there would be no fun at all.

For Qiao Yu, such mathematical problems are just a game of finding patterns, linking related numbers through a pattern that no one else has discovered yet, and he would hit big.

It’s just that this pattern is deeply hidden, making it not so easy to find.

Just when Qiao Yu was on his third video, there was a knock on the door. Lan Jie, who had been sitting on the bed watching his phone, stood up but didn’t go to open the door; instead, he gestured to Qiao Yu. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

"Coming," Qiao Yu quickly got up to open the door.

Sure enough, the Academician Tian Yanzhen, whom he had just seen at the podium during the morning’s opening ceremony, was standing at the door, with Captain Luo accompanying Academician Tian.

He was still somewhat surprised internally, mainly because he didn’t expect Academician Tian to actively seek him out. He thought it might be Captain Luo temporarily notifying Lan Jie to bring him along to visit Academician Tian this afternoon.