Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 191 - 102 Insightful as a Torch_2

First step: become a world-renowned mathematician; second step: come up with this conjecture, third step: prove it completely and flawlessly!

See, math is just that simple.

Thinking about the dumbfounded look on the faces of a bunch of mathematicians, Qiao Yu couldn’t help but smile knowingly, took another look at his masterpiece, stood up and had a good stretch, then casually picked up his phone.

Today’s study session stops here for now. Qiao Yu knew very well that the things he just came up with were impossible to prove with his current abilities. But that’s okay, he hasn’t finished reading Peter Schultz’s related papers.

Maybe after finishing them, he might be inspired and could accidentally solve this problem?

Earlier, Qiao Yu checked, this Professor Robert had a paper published in the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society", one of the top four math journals in the world that Old Xue once mentioned to him.

In other words, the old man hasn’t completely solved this problem yet, and his paper could still get into a top world journal. If he were to solve such problems, he’d surely have even more qualifications to get in.

Although this isn’t the kind of math problem that would shock the world once solved, the interest shown by so many mathematicians indicates that it has some influence.

At least it might even the score against the rival school’s prodigy named Zheng Zhiqiang?

Actually, it’s not all about competitiveness. Mainly, Qiao Yu has always believed that the bullshit he boasts about, he has to strive to achieve. If he slackens off just because of some difficulties, how can he fulfill his dreams?

If today he gives up competing because a genius achieved something too impressive, tomorrow would he give up the idea of acquiring the whole neighborhood just because making tens or hundreds of billions is too hard?

Then would he be any different from his grandpa’s drinking buddies who love to brag?

As a man, you must face challenges head-on, literally, not phonetically.

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He opened the phone, checked the time, it was only ten twenty-three.

So he opened WeChat, intending to send a message to Qiao Xi, to show off a bit.

However, as soon as the app opened, a pile of messages from the friend group popped up.

He opened it and took a look, sure enough, that kid Yu Yongjun had been @ing him almost all day, probably just couldn’t help but poke at him whenever he got free.

How to put it, Qiao Yu indeed hasn’t bubbled up in the group these past two days, partly because he felt time was tight and tasks heavy, and partly because he already felt that continually teasing the kid in the group seemed not too good...

Alright, though actually, they’re all the same age, but he’s now in university, and those two guys are still hustling in high school, haven’t the gaps started showing?

Qiao Yu now believes that those who say online that college students are clear yet stupid, and high school is the peak of life wisdom, are either being self-deprecating or went to a fake university.

Needless to say, which high school across the country can compare with this Yanbei University’s library document system?

This stuff really broadens your horizons.

For those two months he was in high school, he spent every day huddled in that Railway First Middle School study room. Trying to find something useful often required a ton of time going through search engines for resources, and most of the time, the resources found with great effort were not even high quality, a total waste of time.

After coming to Beijing, in this small room utilizing Yanbei University’s internal document search system, in a matter of minutes, a slew of high-quality resources appears!

Can’t finish reading them, absolutely can’t finish!

But since these two guys are so devoutly insisting he pick on them...

Qiao Yu decided to go in and take a look, he must respect his friends’ desire to be abused.

Oh, two days have passed, and they’re still discussing his paper.

Yu Wei is still as resourceful as ever, though just a half-title of the paper and his name as the first author were given, this guy actually found the entire paper.

Of course, this doesn’t mean the guy was intimidated; in the group chat, he was as stubborn as ever.

Summarizing his banter in the group chat with Yu Yongjun over dozens of messages, his point seems to be that Qiao Yu at most had an idea, and most of the paper was certainly completed, modified, polished by others...

And, that this paper had no new tools, just flexible application of many known mathematical tools, fundamentally similar to participating in the Olympic Competition, except they are flexible with high school knowledge, while the paper flexibly applies many mathematical tools encountered only in university.

Because of the above reasons, Yu Wei thinks the reason Qiao Yu hasn’t shown up is that he already understands it’s a run-of-the-mill paper, nothing to brag about.

As for Yu Yongjun’s expression, it’s simple.

Really, all his verbose and extremely critical statements boil down to one sentence: Your saying my big brother can’t do it is pure jealousy unless You Can You Up!

Seeing his little bro getting bullied, Qiao Yu felt he should occasionally pop up to educate Yu Wei, or else over time, this guy might again develop some unrealistic delusions.

"Ahem, you two can really chat, huh? I’ve been too busy these last two days to pay attention to the group, and you’ve talked a few hundred messages? Have you been studying properly at all? In this state, I’m very skeptical if you can make it to this year’s IMO!"