Chapter 441: Turning a Lecture into an Academic Symposium

"Hoo~"

Xu Qingzhou stood by the window holding a cup of hot water, no longer thinking about the news online.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of April, yet he still had no leads. The research on the Riemann Hypothesis would have to be paused. Although it was a bit regrettable, he wasn't the type to dwell on things, and he was already considering what project to take on next.

Mathematics.

He had been researching mathematics for over a year and was getting a bit tired of it; it was time to change direction and continue.

Or perhaps return to his roots and take on a physics project?

The European Organization for Nuclear Research was still using the LHC to search for the partner particle of the Higgs boson, but Xu Qingzhou wasn't in a rush; it was common for such things to continue for a year or two.

Song Yao was off today. Having just finished her afternoon nap, she came out of the bedroom yawning, noticing her boyfriend standing by the window in deep thought.

She walked over, hugged him from behind, pressed her face against his back, and encouraged him: "Teacher Xu, don't be discouraged. You're the best."

Xu Qingzhou was stunned for a moment. Reflecting on Song Yao's words, he couldn't help but say: "If you said that in a different environment, I would definitely be more motivated."

"Pfft, pervert."

Song Yao spat.

"Clearly, you were the one who started the 'car' first." Xu Qingzhou thought to himself that School Beauty Song was no longer the blank slate she once was; she could now shift into high gear in seconds.

"Hmph~"

Song Yao put on her slippers to get some water, lay down on the sofa, rested her head on Xu Qingzhou's lap, and tapped on her phone. "If you have nothing to do, let's play a game."

Having been tired for several days in a row, she didn't even want to go out now that she had a break.

Xu Qingzhou nodded. This girl just enjoyed the joy of him carrying her to victory.

Looking from here, one could just see Xu Qingzhou's jawline. Song Yao couldn't help but swallow, feeling a bit greedy.

"Are you peeking at me?"

"No." Song Yao denied it decisively. She wouldn't admit she was greedy for this guy, so she stiffly changed the subject: "Hurry up, hurry up, you play support for me."

"Fine."

The two played games for a while.

Seeing that the time was about right, Song Yao got up to cook, planning to eat early, rest for two hours, and then drag Xu Qingzhou out for some exercise.

The evening at the end of April was the most comfortable; the breeze wasn't harsh, and the sunlight falling on people felt warm. The two of them, having finished their run, strolled around outside and returned home treading on the last remnants of the sunset.

Professor Roberts called to ask how Xu Qingzhou's progress on the Riemann Hypothesis was coming along.

Both he and Horn knew that Xu Qingzhou was making attempts in physics.

"It seems God doesn't intend to hand this honor to me either."

Xu Qingzhou joked. After sighing, he continued: "If nothing goes wrong, I'll need to consider a new topic next month."

"Hmm, Xu, I believe that one day you will definitely solve this century-old problem. However... if you have time after class on Monday, come over. If I have your help, I think we can quickly solve the problem of parallel computing repulsion."

"Alright."

Xu Qingzhou agreed with a smile.

April 30th, the last day of April. At 8:00 AM, Xu Qingzhou first drove Song Yao to the Business School before heading toward MIT.

He had a class at 9:00.

"Senior."

Sun Simin was gnawing on a sandwich at the door. Seeing Xu Qingzhou, she finished it in a few bites and greeted him.

Xu Qingzhou saw that the other party's face was flushed from choking. "Slow down... Hmm, looking at you like this, did you stay up late last night?"

"I stayed up for a while and solved the problem you left last week." Sun Simin's tone was full of excitement.

"Not bad, but you must also take care of your health."

"Mm-hmm, thank you for your concern, Senior."

As the two spoke, they walked into the classroom one after the other. Xu Qingzhou walked up to the podium, while Sun Simin went over to Ma Ersi and the others who had chosen Xu Qingzhou's class last semester.

"Let me first talk about the problem left from the last class: For any (\sigma > \frac{1}{2}), prove (n(\sigma, t) \ll t^{c(1-\sigma)})."

Xu Qingzhou didn't waste time and went straight to the point.

The whole class went smoothly without any surprises. After answering the students' questions, the class was officially over.

As he was packing his things, a young man handed him a manuscript. "Mr. Xu, let me introduce myself. My name is Bakesi Kaisen, a third-year doctoral student."

"Hello, Mr. Kaisen."

"I have a question regarding the Riemann Hypothesis. I apologize for disturbing you, but in all of MIT, there is likely no one who understands the Riemann Hypothesis better than you."

Xu Qingzhou looked at the formula on the manuscript, slightly surprised, and said: "Are you working on the quantization of the classical Hamiltonian?"

"Yes, I am trying to use a physical approach to study the Riemann Hypothesis, hoping to establish a Riemann system, a mathematical system built using physics."

The young man said helplessly: "But facts have proven that my physics is no better than my mathematics."

"Actually, I am also doing research in this area."

Xu Qingzhou looked at the paper with interest.

The method this person was using was indeed a bit like his, it's just... the progress was hard to describe. If Xu Qingzhou was at the 99th floor, then the person in front of him was only at the 20th.

"You are also researching it? Then, what is the result?" Bakesi Kaisen looked at Xu Qingzhou expectantly.

"I can only say that if such a system truly exists, then it must be the most beautiful miracle in the world."

Xu Qingzhou shrugged and didn't waste any more time, pointing out the problems in Bakesi Kaisen's manuscript:

"Here, you can try introducing a regularization term (such as (h = xp + \lambda x^2)) to improve the operator properties. However, you might need to be careful not to destroy the scale invariance."

As he spoke, he wrote rows of formulas on the blackboard.

In the lecture hall, many people who were originally preparing to leave stopped in their tracks. They seemed to have just heard Xu Qingzhou mention the "Riemann Hypothesis."

This was currently one of the most closely watched pieces of news in the mathematical community.

Bakesi Kaisen looked at the equation on the screen, his expression astonished: "Mr. Xu, are you sharing your own unpublished research results..."

These were all new research results.

If published, it would definitely cause a small tremor, but he had just casually spoken about such important content?

"Valuable questions often stem from the inspiration sparked during academic exchanges." Xu Qingzhou smiled, not caring much.

"Valuable questions stem from the inspiration sparked during academic exchanges... Xu, I admire you more and more." Bakesi Kaisen showed an expression of admiration.

Xu Qingzhou shook his head and continued with the equation from before:

"By deriving the density of states through a semi-classical method, one can find that it will contain the following two parts: 【\rho(e) \sim \underbrace{\frac{1}{2\pi} \log \left(\frac{e}{... }】."

【Equation (4) can be simplified to: \sum n6xzw(n) = tbitf(s)xssds + o(\log x).】

In the classroom, the people who were just standing had already sat back down, especially the two professors in the corner, who had already taken out their manuscripts and lowered their heads to start calculating along with Xu Qingzhou's train of thought.

It was just like an academic symposium.

"This..."

Ma Ersi's expression was strange. He turned his head and asked Dino Connally: "Are we about to witness a miracle!"

"It's just a train of thought, but it's already quite remarkable. Ma Ersi, Sun, I am now starting to be glad for my wise choice in the past, that I still chose this class this semester."

Next to them was Sun Simin. Looking at the young man talking eloquently on the stage, her eyes flickered. Senior is so amazing.

"Here, the level repulsion effect will appear, so we need to substitute equation (12) back into equation (3)..."

"Now there are two questions: Is the quantized (h = xp) a self-adjoint operator? Is its spectrum a real number?"

Xu Qingzhou intended to say a bit more. Many mathematical achievements were obtained by standing on the shoulders of predecessors. He intended to take a break and hand the task over to this interested person, acting as a "predecessor" for once.

"It requires deepening the random matrix theory, analyzing the non-universality of zero distribution through higher-order correlation functions. Sorry, this is my own concept. Here, we can introduce an interaction term again... Hmm?"

Xu Qingzhou was writing the formula when the hand holding the water-based pen suddenly paused. He stared at the formula he had just written, lost in thought.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 442 =====