As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 104 Blackmail
After the establishment of the China Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, its main focus was also on finding a cosmic coordinate system that meets the requirements and studying the soul.

Because China and America only obtained one magic brain, they were unable to study the magic brain itself.

According to the most primitive magic brain mentioned by Zheng Li in his paper, it can't even be called a magic brain. It can only be said to be a consciousness enhancement device. It is impossible to research anything based on that thing.

The technical barriers are too high.

The Chinese nation also sent people everywhere to search for authentic copies of historical monastic texts, and then read them to try to find traces of magic in history.

Unfortunately, the efforts spent on this did not produce any results. The methods of cultivation in Chinese classics are nothing more than a summary of the ancients' fantasies.

On the contrary, there has been progress in the mining of magic coin.

Chinese mathematics has developed rapidly in recent years.

In just thirty years, it has developed from a third-rate country to a second-rate country. This is a huge progress.

It is equivalent to the Chinese national football team taking 30 years to improve from its current level to the World Cup quarterfinals, and even to the World Cup semi-finals in the future.

The return of the two masters, Shiing-Shen Chern and Shing-Tung Yau, helped the progress of Chinese mathematics to a great extent. Combined with the already existing Yenching University school, China's mathematics community made great progress.

Outsiders may think that mathematics is a research subject that relies entirely on oneself and talent, but in fact, mathematical research relies heavily on communication and inheritance.

To give a very simple example, when you are studying for your doctorate, your supervisor will help you choose the direction and topic. Top supervisors can give you several topics to choose from.

Some things are simple and you can get results as long as you work hard, while others are more difficult and may take seven years to accomplish even if you have talent. Some things are difficult and even the talented may not be able to accomplish them.

The tutor has a judgement on the difficulty of the topic and can give you suggestions for screening, allowing you to first choose a slightly simpler topic so that you can produce something to publish a paper.

For the long-term development of a PhD in mathematics, publishing papers is not the most important thing, but it helps you build up your confidence bit by bit, so that you have the courage to challenge top-level difficult problems in the long years to come.

No one would challenge the Riemann hypothesis right away. The problem is that if you choose a supervisor who doesn't know much, he may assign you a topic that is as difficult as the Riemann hypothesis, and he himself doesn't even know it. You will not be able to graduate and you will doubt your IQ.

As for where does the tutor get so many topics for students to choose from? It depends on his school of thought. Some of the problems accumulated are those that predecessors have thought about but not solved, and some are those that they thought were too simple and were not willing to solve.

Therefore, it is easy for a school to concentrate on a certain field. For example, half of the professors and researchers in the Department of Mathematics at Jiangcheng University are engaged in partial differential equations.

This is also the benefit of attending math conferences for exchanges. When you talk with your peers, maybe they can give you inspiration. Maybe they can tell you that a senior brother of mine worked on this problem for several years but gave up without success and maybe they know where the pitfalls are and help you avoid them.

A negative example is Zhang Yitang, who said, "Yu Xin was at his most desolate in life, and his poems in his old age moved people all over the world." He had a bad mentor and didn't prove the twin prime conjecture until he was in his sixties.

If he had met a good mentor in his early years, his achievements would definitely be more than this.

Of course, the story is no longer legendary, and even if he had achieved greater results, his fame might not have gone beyond the circle.

The Administration of Anomalous Matters directly selected top scholars from several universities including Yan University, Huaguo University of Science and Technology, and Aurora University to study the optimization of the Haiber algorithm.

You can suggest which university or person you want to recruit from, and the administration will do everything possible to meet your needs.

The leaders of this group of mathematicians knew the inside story, and after meeting Hua Shennong, who looked ten years younger, they all worked hard.

Since Qiu Chengtong is an American, it is impossible for him to participate in such projects in China, so the only person in charge of mathematics is Tian Gang.

There is no Qiu Chengtong who is against Tian Gang, and no one is more persuasive than Tian Gang. There are also school struggles in the mathematics community.

"Everyone, the Russian side has completed the optimization of the Heber algorithm and they said they can sell the optimization method to us. What do you think?"

Tian Gang was very capable when he was young, but now he is in his seventies and his mental agility is far inferior to that of young people.

His greatest strength lies in his many years of mathematical experience, which enables him to provide useful suggestions to his collaborators or students.

However, in this kind of truly high-intensity research, Tian Gang is actually not as good as the young people.

Of course, he was originally expected to play a leadership and coordinating role.

After Tian Gang finished speaking, the professors below started discussing. Tian Gang did not ask everyone to be quiet. He was willing to wait for those below to think of the results before speaking.

"Was it the St. Petersburg gang or the Moscow gang that did it?"

"What methods did Russia use?"

"I don't think we need to buy optimization methods. We can get information. Even knowing what methods they use will be very helpful to us."

Russia is very cunning. The deal they proposed is that they can sell you the entire method, but the price is that 30% of the minerals mined by the Chinese government in the future will belong to Russia, which is equivalent to a permanent tax.

Russia proposed to mine ten and then deliver three, instead of trading 0.3 magic coins for every one mined.

This is obviously unacceptable to China. Although no one can mine it now, everyone can see that the mining speed will be greatly improved after the optimization of the Haiber algorithm.

Thirty percent is permanent, which is equivalent to being able to suck blood from China all the time, and it is almost zero cost.

Russia also knew that the other party would not agree to this condition, so it proposed another trading method, which was that they broke down the optimization method into many parts, and traded each part at a different price.

However, the transaction cost can only be magic coins. For example, some steps require 0.5 magic coins, and some steps require magic coins.

China neither rejected nor agreed to this method, but said they needed time to decide.

As the person in charge, Tian Gang had a certain right to know about these things, and he was very angry after hearing them.

Because the deal proposed by Russia is a slap in the face, and it clearly shows that they look down on China and believe that they cannot solve this problem on their own.

After the mathematicians present finished their discussion, he was able to hear what everyone was discussing. "Yongbin, do you have any ideas?"

"I think we cannot accept the Russians' request. Our progress is already very fast. If everything goes well, it will take another month. Even if it doesn't go well, it will take at most half a year."

After the other party answered, Tian Gang asked again: "If we study it one day later, it means that there will be fewer galaxies to choose from, and planets that meet the requirements will be more difficult to find."

"As for Russia's request, we will verify it in the next two days and we can start it in a week at most."

I was away on holiday yesterday, so the update is a little late, sorry.

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