Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 174 - 99 Departure, Heading to Yanbei University! (10,000-word - )_3

As for those comments like "Wow! Such a pro!", "The tears of those who flunked the math exam are flowing." and so on, after Qiao Yu glanced over them, he just felt a sense of joy and contentment; this part belonged to immediate positive feedback.

Feeling happy in his heart, Qiao Yu suddenly felt that there was a reason he didn’t get full marks in moral and legal studies, as he really didn’t seem to have much noble virtue...

Finally, when he saw the followers reached fifty thousand, Qiao Yu cheerfully closed his Weibo, knowing exactly what he should be doing now.

Although he firmly believed that there were a lot of wealth codes hidden in mathematics, they were, after all, codes, and he first needed to have the means to decipher them before he could get any payout.

Obviously, he still didn’t have the qualifications to cash in huge amounts directly from mathematics.

After receiving those hundreds of thousands in bonuses from the school, Qiao Yu felt it was just a small horn-tooting affair. Honestly, even if he started now and swept through all the competitions in the world, that bit of bonus couldn’t support his grand ambition.

The Railway New Village had thirty-seven five-story buildings, each with three units, and each unit had ten households, making a total of over a thousand households.

Including the internal roads of the community and the old-fashioned green spaces, the total area covered was over sixty thousand square meters.

If he wanted to build a high-end community right there, he first had to buy the land, compensate for the houses, not to mention that Qiao Yu also planned to construct the world’s highest-quality residential buildings here, leaving no room for any issues.

After all, his grandfather’s statue stood at the entrance of the community. If there were too many dissatisfactions with the quality, it wouldn’t lead to respect but rather to blame...

The cost for the front part could still be roughly estimated, but if the quality demanded was the best, flawless, then the price was really hard to gauge. After all, Qiao Yu didn’t understand construction.

In short, compared to Qiao Yu’s seemingly unrealistic wish now, he was simply as poor as a church mouse.

So, feeling fairly rested, Qiao Yu sat again in front of the computer, chewing on those interesting number patterns.

At least in Qiao Yu’s understanding, the essence of so-called number theory is the study of numerical patterns. Whether it’s prime numbers, factorization, or congruences, sequences, it’s all about breaking integers into different structures and then finding the hidden rules within.

Of course, to really delve into number theory, one also needs to study algebra, which mainly researches symbols and combination operation rules. Whether group theory, ring theory, field theory, or modular forms, elliptic curves, all provide basic tools and mathematical structures for studying number theory.

Moreover, Qiao Yu thought that since algebra needed to be studied, geometry was inevitably unavoidable.

Although algebra and geometry can be said to be two relatively independent important branches of mathematics, algebraic structures and geometry are closely related; some abstract concepts in algebra are simply too hard to grasp without combining them with geometry.

For example, group elements in group theory can represent geometric transformations, and geometric symmetry requires groups and matrices to describe.

In short, when Qiao Yu decided to rely on mathematical research to achieve wealth withdrawal, he felt like entering a bizarre cycle—along with the deepening of systematic mathematics learning, the more he learned, the less he felt he understood...

This was evidently a frustrating experience, and it often really hit one’s confidence. At such times, showcasing some superiority to the outside world could effectively neutralize the subconscious feeling of depression.

See...

Even though I, Qiao Yu, seem a bit lacking and low-end in front of the unattainable Math Goddess, at least I’m stronger than ninety-nine point nine-nine of others, right? Especially stronger than a certain rich second-generation, right?

With such a realization, doesn’t the confidence come back?

In fact, learning, like working, is hard to become a thing that feels enjoyable. If one cannot receive enough positive feedback from such activities, it’s hard to keep going.

Just like if the salary is three thousand a month, no one is willing to work overtime; but if it’s thirty thousand a month, limited overtime can also be accepted. Salary is the most obvious and directly quantifiable channel of positive and negative feedback for work.

The thing about salary is that at least there’s a chance for continuous improvement with more experience.

But with something like mathematics, it’s really hard to say. One can only say that interest is often momentary, but the setbacks are eternal, even running throughout a mathematician’s life. Even someone as brilliant as Fermat had to resort to humor to relieve the awkwardness of proposing a problem he couldn’t solve himself.

That is probably one of the reasons why various awards are set up in academia, to ensure recognition when achievements are made, encouraging mathematicians to grit their teeth and persevere, hoping that maybe there’s light ahead?

Qiao Yu felt the same way, gaining enough energy from the envy and admiration on Weibo that when he looked at those obscure and difficult zeta function videos, he found himself feeling much lighter, and his brain even had a tickling sensation...

It must be his brain growing smarter again!

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Studying until ten at night, he went to bed on time, and the next day was Sunday; he could take a day off at home, but Qiao Yu still maintained the rhythm of studying both in the morning and at night, with practice in the afternoon.

There was just a small episode in the afternoon.

The usually quiet friends group suddenly became lively again.