Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 188 Congratulations came one after another
In the following days, Chen Zhou's popularity increased.
Then, a photo of Chen Zhou wearing a circle of medals was posted online, and it was so sour...
Nowadays, when Chen Zhou walks on campus, he receives more and more attention.
The phone rings.
Chen Zhou looked at the familiar note and pressed the answer button: "Hello, Da Huang? Yes..."
As soon as the call was connected, before Chen Zhou finished speaking, Huang Jiayi exclaimed: "Awesome, Lao Chen! You crushed all the mathematics students in the country by yourself..."
Chen Zhou held the phone a little further away from his ear to avoid being disturbed by the high-decibel noise.
After the voice from the other side died down for a while, Chen Zhou said slowly: "Uh... it's okay..."
Before Chen Zhou finished speaking, Huang Jiayi's high-pitched and chatty mode started again: "Fuck, are you so modest? You call this okay ? Didn't you see the discussion online? Some participating students proved that the questions in this Qiu competition were not easy. You are the only one who got full marks. Moreover, you are the only one who said that the interview questions were like giving away points..."
I had to put the phone away again and wait silently for the other person to take a breath.
Finally, Huang Jiayi took a breath, and Chen Zhou said, "Well... maybe everyone's interview questions are different... and this gold medal is not worth anything at all..."
Huang Jiayi didn't understand what Chen Zhou meant: "Not worth much? If it was just a gold medal, it might not be worth much, but you are the first person to win all the gold medals, so the meaning is completely different!"
"Ahem..." Chen Zhou coughed lightly and explained, "That's not what I meant. I meant that this medal is worthless. It's not made of gold..."
Huang Jiayi: “…”
Without further lingering on this topic, Huang Jiayi asked, "I heard from the participating students that you rejected the invitation from Professor Zhang Shouwu of Princeton University?"
"You know all this? You guys are very fast at getting the news." Chen Zhou sighed.
What happened yesterday, even Huang Jiayi knows about it today. In this day and age, news spreads too fast...
Chen Zhou paused for a moment before continuing, "Well... the timing is not right yet, so I rejected it..."
Huang Jiayi yelled again, "Damn it! That's Princeton!!! How could you swallow that???"
Huang Jiayi immediately realized something and then said, "Is it because of Yiyi? Yiyi can't go to Princeton, so you won't go either?"
Chen Zhou was speechless. He was not so immature.
He and Yang Yiyi are still students. Now is the most important stage of their growth and a time when they need to cherish opportunities. Going abroad for further studies is inevitable.
The reason why he refused was because he had more considerations.
Seeing that Chen Zhou didn't say anything, Huang Jiayi thought he was right and couldn't help but be moved: "Old Chen, I didn't expect you to be such an infatuated person. It seems that I did the right thing to bring Yiyi and you together. I believe you will make Yiyi happy in the future!"
"..." Chen Zhou didn't know what to say, and then he thought about it and decided to just let it be a misunderstanding, so that he wouldn't have to explain it in a short time and this guy would keep asking questions.
Afterwards, Huang Jiayi expressed his feelings to Chen Zhou again, and felt that Chen Zhou was becoming more and more powerful, while he was just idling away in an ordinary first-class university.
Chen Zhou naturally enlightened Huang Jiayi and suggested that he pick up the courses again and try to take the postgraduate entrance examination.
If you don't want to take the postgraduate entrance examination, you can also plan your direction in advance.
But no matter what, it’s never wrong to pick up the “book”.
After Huang Jiayi's call, calls from Zhang Yifan, Li Xiang and Chen Haining also came.
Although the sound was not as loud as Huang Jiayi's and made his ears hurt, it was still a series of sighs and envy.
Chen Haining, in particular, asked Chen Zhou excitedly, now that they have won gold medals in physics and mathematics competitions, what about the follow-up?
Chen Zhou did not comment. To him, all the regrets in the competition had been made up.
There is not much point in participating in more competitions.
Besides, we have to give other students some opportunities. Otherwise, if he wins gold medals in all subjects, other students will have objections.
Chen Zhou feels that he still has a heart that is willing to share.
Just like netizens requested, he responded and took photos of all the gold awards and shared them.
What Chen Zhou didn't expect was that his teachers at Maochang High School also sent messages and called him to congratulate him in various ways.
It seemed as if in an instant, everyone in the world who knew him sent congratulatory messages.
Chen Zhou shook his head slightly. He actually had the illusion that he would become famous overnight.
But only he himself knows that in the world of mathematics, these five gold medals, this all-rounder, this team championship, this personal grand slam, what do they mean?
This is just a stage test, or perhaps not even a stage test.
Compared with the content on this piece of draft paper in front of me, winning a gold medal is just a drop in the bucket.
Chen Zhou is continuing his research on the hail hypothesis.
After reading a certain amount of literature, Chen Zhou decided to stand on the shoulders of the authors of these literature and try again.
【The possibility of the existence of the legal master's counterexample is eliminated. 】
Because after consulting the literature, Chen Zhou discovered that many of the extended questions of the hail conjecture have counterexamples.
This shows that the questions derived from the original hail conjecture are wrong.
Then think about it the other way around. If we regard the hailstone conjecture as the reverse extension of these extended problems, then will there also be counterexamples to the hailstone conjecture?
Simply put, as an extension of these erroneous questions, could the hailstone conjecture also be wrong?
There are three main counterexample laws that have been summarized so far: infinite resolution, circular resolution, and mutual resolution.
Infinite reduction, as the name suggests, means that because it is an infinite number, it cannot be reduced to 1.
Among these, the number must be infinite.
The second circular conclusion is also literal.
Because we are stuck in a cycle that goes on and on and cannot be reduced to 1.
This refers to the pathological cycle that occurs when there are 3 or more odd numbers.
As for mutual reduction, it has the same meaning as circular reduction, and it is also impossible to reduce to 1 because it is endless.
However, mutual resolution refers specifically to the pathological .
These three situations, which rely on pathological conclusions summarized by counterexamples, all have real examples in the in-depth extension questions of the hailstone conjecture.
At the same time, using the process of elimination, we can eliminate even numbers and odd numbers that are divisible by 3.
Thus, we can determine the main counterexample types of these three cases, which all appear in odd numbers that are not divisible by 3.
Then, we only need to prove the existence or non-existence of odd numbers of this main counterexample type to indirectly prove whether the hailstone conjecture is true or not.
