Super God-Level Top Student-Chapter 754 - 288: Hm? Guess, bro!

"Changchengium, Xilinium, Qiaodouium..."

Dou Dou was quite forceful in the matter of naming.

Soon, according to the naming rules for new elements by IUPAC, he had named dozens of elements, even including his own name amongst them.

This indeed also conformed to IUPAC's naming rules.

In a sense, the new elements were largely led by the material model computations that Dou Dou directed.

Qiao Ze had no objections to this.

He just glanced over the range of names, saw nothing particularly outlandish, and let Dou Dou reply directly to an email from IUPAC.

In this respect, Dou Dou's wording was more ornate than his.

Qiao Ze knew his shortcomings: aside from mathematical papers, everything he wrote was very plain, seeking only accuracy, preferring one word when it sufficed, reluctant to use two.

Which made him seem rather powerless in communication.

After finishing this little sidetrack, Qiao Ze wanted to dive back into work, but suddenly felt a bit tired.

For some time, Qiao Ze had been completing the mathematical structures related to Quantum Containment Theory. This involved extending many concepts of superspiral algebra. In order to describe gravitons more accurately and integrate the four fundamental forces into the same framework, it was also necessary to expand new topological structures.

Many things sound simple, but the process of contemplating how to prove them inherently requires intense mental exertion.

Added to that, he had been taxing his mind for the sake of five students who obviously weren't very clever, and eventually, he felt a trace of fatigue.

So that when he turned his attention to the next subject he needed to work on, his thoughts felt a bit sluggish.

Just then, Su Mucheng walked into the office with lunch for two.

"Qiao, it's time to eat." freewёbnoνel.com

"Mmm."

Actually, there were plenty of hands to help the two order and deliver food; even Dou Dou could handle these life details quite well.

But Su Mucheng might be lazy about other things, she never delegated this particular task, always preferring to personally pick up Qiao Ze's meals when she was at the school.

In her words, arranging the menu for a great mathematician at home gave her a full sense of achievement.

The only pity was that now the pleasure of exploring new eateries was missing.

Lv Bei had suggested countless times that she should not bring meals for Qiao Ze from outside eateries.

But the advantage was, whenever they craved a particular dish, they only needed to tell Lv Bei in advance, or leave a message on a specially developed app, and the capable chefs in the canteen could almost always get the dish right.

Today was no different.

However, while they were eating, Su Mucheng still felt that Qiao Ze was a bit off from usual, as if he had something on his mind.

"Qiao, are you not happy today?"

"No, just felt a bit tired after looking at previous papers," Qiao Ze shook his head slightly.

"Tired, huh? Then why not rest your mind for a few days and switch to an interesting problem," Su Mucheng suggested as usual.

Those not familiar with Qiao Ze, upon hearing he felt a bit tired, would definitely suggest he take more rest, or go out and relax his brain.

But Su Mucheng knew Qiao Ze too well.

Her man's way of resting was to change his mindset and solve other problems.

Indeed, that was the case.

Qiao Ze had already nodded, saying, "I was thinking the same thing, but I haven't come across any interesting topics lately."

"If there's nothing recent, you could look into some older topics. For example, you could think about how to solve... hmm, 'Goldbach's Conjecture'?" Su Mucheng thought for a moment then looked at Qiao Ze expectantly, offering her suggestion.

"Proving the strong form of Goldbach's Conjecture?" Qiao Ze murmured to himself.

"Yeah, actually the weak form could also do. After all, the old professor said that even the weak form is only partially proven," Su Mucheng shrugged.

The strong form refers to the original statement of Goldbach's Conjecture, that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers. It's said that when Goldbach proposed this conjecture, he could not prove it himself and so passed the problem on to Euler.

Euler spent his entire life without solving this proposition, and later the mathematical community stopped using the convention that 1 is a prime number, which led to the weak form stating: every odd number greater than 5 can be expressed as the sum of three prime numbers.

For the strong form, although there is substantial computational evidence supporting the conjecture, especially in the era of supercomputing where many mathematicians have used computer programs to verify that all even numbers up to a very large threshold can be broken down into the sum of two prime numbers.

This indirectly suggests that the conjecture is highly probable to be correct, but there is still no mathematical proof that has been universally accepted by the academic community.

It's precisely because the proposition's statement is not as incomprehensible as contemporary mathematical problems, it's even something a primary school student could understand, that this world-class problem is one of the favorite topics of discussion among amateur mathematicians around the globe.

For example, to even grasp what the statement of the Riemann hypothesis means, one must have a foundation in number theory and complex function theory. Concepts like asymptotic analysis and the theory of functions series and products are necessary, but Goldbach's Conjecture requires none of that.

Qiao Ze even recalled the paper Chen Yiwen once saw online in their dormitory room, claiming to have proved Goldbach's Conjecture...

However, during the proof process, the author covertly used zero as a divisor to ensure the coherence of the logic, which was also highly deceptive.

Thinking about it now, using such numeric games to relax the brain indeed seemed to be a very interesting idea.

Thus, Qiao Ze sincerely admired, "Cheng, you're really smart. This is indeed the best proposition to relax the brain."