Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 275: Relax a little, maybe it will work wonders?
No longer concerned about Chen Zhou in front of him, his mood suddenly became much brighter.
Thinking about the report I will give at MIT this time, it will take several days and I will have to be separated from Yang Yiyi again.
Chen Zhou took the initiative to say to Yang Yiyi: "Yiyi, shall we go watch a movie?"
Yang Yiyi looked at Chen Zhou with some surprise, and then nodded.
However, when she saw the messy pile of draft papers on the table in front of Chen Zhou, she asked again: "What about these?"
Chen Zhou naturally knew what Yang Yiyi meant. He smiled softly and said, "Put it aside for now."
After walking out of the library with Yang Yiyi, Chen Zhou took a deep breath silently.
He tried to empty his mind as much as possible, no longer thinking about Cramer's conjecture or the problem of correcting it.
Yang Yiyi naturally noticed Chen Zhou's little movements, but she would definitely not point it out.
Study and relax, if you can find a balance.
Who knows, it might work wonders.
Especially in this situation, when you feel that the problem is about to be solved, but you fail to do so.
Go outside and relax.
It is possible that the inspiration that you fail to grasp will come back on its own?
"Come on, little brother. Sister will take you to eat popcorn and watch a movie~"
As Yang Yiyi spoke, she reached out and grabbed Chen Zhou's hand, pulling him towards the school gate.
Chen Zhou smiled slightly when he heard this, and took the initiative: " Little sister, just follow your brother."
A sweet atmosphere spread between the two of them.
Chen Zhou also pulled himself out of the world of mathematical conjectures.
At Yang Yiyi's repeated request, Chen Zhou bought her her favorite bowl of ice cream.
But thinking that it was already November, Chen Zhou silently made a decision.
Buy tickets, buy popcorn, buy water.
After preparing all the necessary snacks for watching a movie, Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi sat in the hall waiting for the movie to start.
Come to think of it, these two sophomores don’t look like students anymore.
Others are attending classes seriously in the classroom, enjoying the charm of professors teaching and answering questions.
Even those who skipped classes were still worried about not being called in during the class.
If I get called, I might fail the course at the end of the semester...
But Chen Zhou and the other two didn't feel any pressure in class at all.
There is no need to worry about being called out.
There are no homework assignments and no professor to look for help.
So far this semester, Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi have not attended a single class.
Therefore, the two people who appeared in the cinema now had no idea that, in a sense, they were also skipping class.
Maybe this is the price of excellence...
While waiting for the movie to start, Chen Zhou's attention was always on the bowl of ice cream in front of Yang Yiyi.
Whenever Yang Yiyi wanted to take a bite, Chen Zhou would timely stuff a piece of popcorn into her mouth, interrupting Yang Yiyi's attempt to eat ice cream.
Moreover, he ate a bite of ice cream himself.
Although it was a big bite, it froze him so much that he wanted to stick out his tongue.
But he still held back and concealed it well so that Yang Yiyi didn't find out.
But in the end, there was less ice cream, and Chen Zhou’s method would not last long.
So, when Chen Zhou stuffed popcorn into Yang Yiyi's mouth again, he also brought the bowl of ice cream to himself.
Then, under Yang Yiyi's angry eyes, he solved most of it in one bite.
Only a little more than a scoop of ice cream was left for Yang Yiyi.
"Chen Zhou, so you did it on purpose!" Only then did Yang Yiyi realize that she had been fooled.
Now Chen Zhou was finally able to spit out his tongue which was frozen to the point of being unbearable.
I only heard him mumble, "What do you mean intentionally or not? Isn't popcorn more delicious than ice cream?"
Just at this time, the movie was about to start and the staff began to check tickets.
Chen Zhou finished digesting the ice cream in his mouth, picked up the ice cream bowl, and said with a smile: "Will you still eat this last bit?"
Yang Yiyi grabbed the ice cream bowl and said, "Eat!"
After saying that, Yang Yiyi pouted and ate the ice cream with an unhappy look on her face.
But just three bites, and it was gone...
Without giving Yang Yiyi a chance to speak first and then take action, Chen Zhou urged her and ran over to check the tickets.
After checking the tickets, he stood inside, waiting for Yang Yiyi with a smile on his face.
Yang Yiyi reluctantly went over to check the ticket and walked into the screening room with Chen Zhou.
After they sat down, Chen Zhou quietly leaned over to Yang Yiyi's ear and said, "Yiyi, the weather is cold. It's not good to eat too much ice cream. Besides, you're a girl, so you shouldn't eat too much..."
Yang Yiyi didn't react for a moment, but when she understood what Chen Zhou meant, her face suddenly turned red.
She spat, "Who told you that?"
Chen Zhou whispered, "Just search it a hundred times and you'll know."
Yang Yiyi: “…”
It didn't take long before the movie started.
The movie was released abroad in 2014, which was last year.
The Imitation Game was released in the country in July this year.
Just by hearing the title of the movie, you might think it is a science fiction film related to virtual games.
But in fact, the movie is adapted from "The Biography of Alan Turing".
It tells the story of Turing, the father of modern computer science, who laid the foundation of computer theory.
In a sense, it is okay to understand this movie as a virtual game.
Turing can be called a genius.
He has a unique intuitive creative ability and a love for mathematics.
When he was 15, in order to help his mother understand Einstein's theory of relativity, he wrote a summary of one of Einstein's works.
This already demonstrated his extraordinary level of mathematical ability and scientific understanding.
The movie started soon.
This is indeed an excellent film, and it can be said that it recreates the real Alan Turing.
But as the movie played, Chen Zhou's thoughts gradually drifted away.
Yang Yiyi also noticed that Chen Zhou beside her suddenly stopped talking, and even stopped feeding her popcorn.
Turning her head to look at Chen Zhou, she found that Chen Zhou's eyes were a little dazed.
Yang Yiyi frowned slightly, just when she didn't know whether she should ask about Chen Zhou's situation.
Chen Zhou turned and smiled at her: "Do you want to feed me popcorn?"
After saying that, Chen Zhou opened his mouth and waited for Yang Yiyi to feed him.
Yang Yiyi was stunned. What's going on with this person?
After thinking about it, she took out two popcorns from the bucket and stuffed them into Chen Zhou's mouth.
Chen Zhou happily ate popcorn, held Yang Yiyi's hand, and watched the movie in front of him again.
The reason why Chen Zhou was distracted just now was because he thought of Turing’s paper [Equivalence of Left and Right Almost Periodicities] in 1935.
This was Turing's first mathematical paper, published in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society.
In the same year, Turing also wrote the paper "On the Gaussian Error Function".
The error function is a non-basic function that has wide applications in probability theory, statistics, partial differential equations, and semiconductor physics.
At that moment, the content of the Gaussian error function flashed through Chen Zhou's mind.
Strictly speaking, what Chen Zhou thought of was the normal distribution with Gaussian formula as the upper limit.
However, this involves statistics, probability theory, and the issue of random errors.
Chen Zhou was not sure whether this thing was really related to Cramer's conjecture.
Or is this the key to unlocking Cramer's conjecture?
Chen Zhou didn’t know, and he could only be sure after he conducted numerical observation, calculation, and research.
