Chapter 18: Five divisions? No, five hundred divisions!

"Sure enough, it's 1000 dollars. 4v is still a big spender, having taken a large amount of gold and cultural relics from the mainland. Their efforts to win over talented Chinese people in America are truly tireless."

After Zhou Shukai left, Lin Ran took the dollars out of the envelope and thought.

1000 dollars in 1960 had a real purchasing power equivalent to at least about 12,000 dollars in 2020.

Besides the dollars, there was also a letter of appointment in the envelope, inviting him to serve as a distinguished professor at 4v's Tsinghua University.

It was truly a case of being handed a pillow just as one was getting sleepy.

If he didn't go to the island, Lin Ran really couldn't think of how to establish contact with Huaguo in this era.

At the time point of 1960, Huaguo and America had not established formal diplomatic relations; there wasn't even an office here.

If one wanted to establish contact with Huaguo, there was only one way, and that was to find a chamber of commerce close to Huaguo.

There were all kinds of chambers of commerce for Chinese people in America, and there were certainly some close to Huaguo among them.

But the problem was, if he took the initiative to contact such a chamber of commerce, while the chamber might be friendly with Huaguo, there was no guarantee that all the staff of such a chamber could keep a secret.

Even if Lin Ran just solved an equation for Huaguo, he might be investigated.

In the current climate, wanting to establish contact with Huaguo was harder than ascending to heaven.

But with 4v as a springboard, the situation was completely different.

Huaguo's personnel in 4v were certainly far more numerous than in America.

More importantly, Lin Ran was going to 4v to be a distinguished professor, to give lectures there.

Giving lectures there, having students ask questions, and answering them as a professor was very normal, right?

The equation the other party asked about was related to ballistic calculations; how would I know?

What, you say that when I was teaching at 4v's Tsinghua University, the students who came to ask me for advice passed what I taught back to the Huaguo mainland and used it in intercontinental missile design?

This is perturbation theory related to intercontinental missile launches; this is a simplified Navier-Stokes equation model used for aerodynamic heating; if this finite difference method optimization were used for ballistic simulation, it could save eighty percent of the time.

The problem is, I thought it was just a simple partial differential equation at the time.

When the investigators asked, was it simple? As the prover of the Fermat Conjecture and the youngest Fields Medal winner, Lin Ran would of course say it was as simple as could be.

As for how to precisely pick out the students who would pass the news back to the Huaguo mainland from among the many students in 4v, this would naturally rely on the declassification of information in later generations.

Lin Ran also very much hoped to give a "little" help to the Huaguo of this era while ensuring his own safety.

"An intercontinental missile that can directly threaten the American mainland would be good.

The range of the Dongfeng-1 is only a mere few hundred kilometers, and waiting for the Dongfeng-5 with a range of over ten thousand kilometers to be successfully developed will take until the 80s.

With my help, it's estimated it could be done in the sixties.

As for being investigated, as long as one fully proves one's value, plus a strong binding with the Jewish community, it shouldn't be a big problem.

One could even drag the Jewish community into the water.

If the situation really becomes unfavorable, with the 'door', one wouldn't be unable to escape."

After Columbia University provided a professorship and he took 1000 dollars in startup capital from Zhou Shukai, Lin Ran rented a house next to Horkheimer's and moved in.

After having a place of his own, Lin Ran finally had a bit of a sense of security and a sense of belonging to this era.

"The next thing to do is to first make a name for myself in the mathematics community through Fermat's Last Theorem and the extended Langlands Program, and then wait for Kennedy to be elected at the end of this year, and after Soviet Russia realizes manned spaceflight next year, find an opportunity to mix into NASA," Lin Ran thought.

After carefully studying the ability of the "door", Lin Ran deeply realized that his greatest asset in jumping through the timeline was technical data.

An 18-gram USB drive could carry over a hundred GB of technical data, the value of which could not be measured in money; it was simply not comparable to 18 grams of gold.

And what he could bring back from 1960 to 2020, the most valuable thing was only technical data.

Who said that technical routes that were abandoned and ignored in the past must be wrong? That they couldn't develop valuable technology?

The range-extending engine popular in new energy vehicles can be traced back to 1900, and it had been left in a pile of discarded old papers, waiting for Huaguo car companies to restart it and give it new life.

The evolution of technology is never a one-way "elimination-progress" process, but a spiral upward process. Many technical routes that were once abandoned have been reborn due to new materials, new needs, or interdisciplinary integration.

The reason for choosing to start at NASA, Lin Ran's own interest in aerospace is one aspect, and another very important aspect is that NASA holds the most scientific research resources at present, with scientific research funding equivalent to about 2% of America's GDP being burned through NASA every year. He controls such a behemoth to serve his own purposes.

And these new technical routes that he has reignited in 1960, who says they can't be reborn in 2020?

The technical route Lin Ran most wants to reactivate should be the ternary computer.

Although ternary was eliminated in history, in today's era where artificial intelligence is in full swing, who dares to guarantee that this technical route won't be pulled out again? To be reborn in the era of artificial intelligence?

The so-called advantages of ternary, like how ternary representation of numbers is more efficient than binary in terms of logarithms; for example, representing the decimal number 10 only requires 3 digits (101), while binary requires 4 digits (1010), and information redundancy can be reduced by about 25%.

When the advanced process of chips becomes increasingly difficult, ternary might be a good technical route.

In addition, more crucially, in the process of simulating neuromorphic computing, three-state logic can naturally simulate the activation, inhibition, and resting states of biological neurons, making the synaptic model of brain-like chips more accurate.

Similar technical routes are everywhere. Starting from using NASA's resources, and then using the resources of the whole world, to leverage capital, organizations, talent, and business to operate according to his own will, and the technology produced will then feed back into 2020. Just thinking about it is enough to make Lin Ran excited.

As for such a technological empire, it naturally cannot be placed in America.

Choosing a middle ground would be a good choice.

Lin Ran has already thought through the whole plan during this time. By leveraging the power of the Jews and rescuing Kennedy when he is assassinated, the Jewish community, the debt of saving his life, plus his own ability, will make the White House willing to hand over the highest authority of the rocket control console to him.

After eight years, that is, after the Donkey Party steps down and the Elephant Party takes power, he will then use the door to open his own technological empire in Xiangjiang.

It is precisely because of this that by that time, Lin Ran's value will not be five divisions, but fifty divisions. If Huaguo doesn't have some real stuff in hand, it really won't be able to protect him.

So, just as he was getting sleepy, Zhou Shukai handed over a pillow in time. He was just worrying about how to establish contact with the Huaguo side. ===== CHAPTER 19 =====