Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 278 A Strange State
“Let’s call it distributed deconstruction.”
Chen Zhou looked at Yang Yiyi with some surprise: "You have been looking at me?"
Yang Yiyi smiled and nodded slightly.
"Hmm..." Chen Zhou hesitated for a moment, then said with a strange look on his face, "Do we really want to call it the D-D method?"
Yang Yiyi didn't react for a moment, but she soon understood what Chen Zhou meant.
"Hey, don't call it D-D method. How can distributed deconstruction sound better than distributed construction method?"
Seeing Yang Yiyi's look of disgust, Chen Zhou smiled happily instead.
Because Yang Yiyi didn't fully get his point.
But I think that in the future, if someone uses his method to study number theory, it would be quite fun to do it every day, with you doing it and him doing it.
"Then let's do as you say. It's called distributed deconstruction."
Chen Zhou picked up the pen and wrote down the name given by Yang Yiyi under the line of text.
There was a moment when Chen Zhou felt very happy that his girlfriend could understand his feelings.
"Hehe, that's great, you do the research and I'll name it." Yang Yiyi looked at Chen Zhou and said playfully.
Chen Zhou looked at Yang Yiyi lovingly and couldn't help but reached out and rubbed the girl's head.
After a pause, Chen Zhou asked softly, "Yiyi, since you have been watching it for so long, what do you think?"
Yang Yiyi tilted her head and thought for a while, then said softly, "From the perspective of multiplication, prime numbers are equivalent to the 'atoms' that make up integers. There have always been two major methods for studying these 'atoms', namely the sieve method and the circle method that you studied at the beginning."
"Yeah." Chen Zhou nodded slightly to show his agreement.
Yang Yiyi glanced at Chen Zhou and continued, "But prime numbers themselves are 'random'. When studying, it is difficult to go straight to the end using these two methods."
"Hmm..." Having said that, Yang Yiyi pondered for a while, thinking about how to express her meaning.
Chen Zhou didn't rush her and waited patiently for Yang Yiyi's next words.
"In fact, whether it is the sieve method or the circle method, their common point is to first convert the prime number equation into an integer equation, and then study the entire prime number problem."
"However, your current distribution deconstruction method is like adding a new transfer station in the middle, building a formula for consistent distribution or random distribution."
"Uniform distribution can be regarded as 0-order randomness. By the same token, we can further study and define 1-order, 2-order, and k-order randomness."
“It should be the beginning of a new field of research.”
After Yang Yiyi finished speaking, she looked at Chen Zhou, but Chen Zhou was lost in thought.
Yang Yiyi's words were very simple and clear, and they were indeed the result of Chen Zhou's actions.
However, Chen Zhou felt as if he had missed something.
As Yang Yiyi said, the classic idea of prime number research is to first convert the prime number equation into an integer equation.
Then solve the integer equation.
That is, the solution is found on the set of positive integers.
The idea is very simple, almost equivalent to the entry-level questions in high school mathematics Olympiad.
However, considering the difficulty of studying prime numbers themselves, it is not entry-level.
But this is also the brilliance of the method.
Make the difficult easy and solve the unknown.
This is the basic idea of mathematical research.
The distributed deconstruction method that Chen Zhou was thinking about added a step.
There are more steps, but the overall difficulty remains the same.
Naturally, the difficulty of each step changes.
But is it really like that?
Seeing that Chen Zhou remained silent, Yang Yiyi was afraid that he would go astray because of her words, so she whispered, "Happy, I don't understand a lot of your research methods, like uniform distribution and random distribution. I only understood them a little bit while reading and looking up information. Don't take it too seriously."
Chen Zhou still didn't react, he fell into a circle of self-thinking.
"What exactly is that point?"
Chen Zhou kept asking himself this question in his mind.
Yang Yiyi was really worried at this moment. Could it be possible that someone was said to be crazy by saying this?
She thought carefully about what she had just said, and didn't think there was anything wrong.
"Did I say something wrong just now? That transfer station is actually just my feeling. Don't..." Yang Yiyi said cautiously.
Chen Zhou suddenly raised his head, looked at Yang Yiyi, and asked anxiously: "What did you say just now?"
Yang Yiyi was stunned and said hesitantly: " Transfer station?"
"Yes, the transfer station..." Chen Zhou kept repeating.
Immediately, Chen Zhou's eyes brightened: "I understand, the difficulty is not evenly distributed on each level..."
"What do you mean?" Yang Yiyi was a little confused.
Chen Zhou smiled gently at Yang Yiyi and reached out to rub Yang Yiyi's head vigorously: "Yiyi, thank you, you are really great!"
After saying this, Chen Zhou's eyes became clear, and the thoughts in his mind were opened.
Take out paper and pen and write quickly.
Yang Yiyi felt puzzled.
But seeing Chen Zhou like this now, she felt relieved.
"It seems that Kai Xin was indeed in a state of madness just now, but it will be broken now, hum!"
Thinking of this, Yang Yiyi pouted unconsciously.
Her attention couldn't help but turn to the draft paper in front of Chen Zhou.
On the draft paper, Chen Zhou wrote:
[…When converting a prime number equation to an integer equation, the solution set of the integer equation is not converted to the set of all positive integers, but to a subset of positive integers with positive density…]
At this moment, Chen Zhou's thoughts were clear and his hand holding the pen was extremely stable.
At this moment, he entered a wonderful state.
After these days of hard work, he finally got what he wanted.
Originally, he thought he had fully figured out the distributed deconstruction method.
But after Yang Yiyi's unintentional words, he suddenly understood the real core idea of distributed deconstruction.
Breakthrough in thinking and improvement in technology.
This is Chen Zhou’s chance now.
Of course, he is still in the stage of ideological breakthrough.
Yang Yiyi looked at it for a while and then stopped.
She is not a mathematics major, nor does she specialize in number theory, so now she ca n't understand it.
However, Chen Zhou's focused profile still made her take a look at him from time to time.
After all, there's no better moment than admiring your boyfriend while he's concentrating on his work.
Time just passes by at the tip of the pen.
Chen Zhou has been in this wonderful state.
It was gradually getting dark outside the library.
Chen Zhou put down the pen in his hand.
This time, my thoughts flowed so smoothly.
It was so smooth that he never had to stop to touch the draft paper with a pen.
"Yes, that's the point..."
"Compared to the classic approach, which puts all the difficulty on the first step, the distributed deconstruction method cleverly shares the difficulty of the first step..."
“Although the difficulty of the second step has increased, the overall sharing has reduced the difficulty of the problem itself…”
Seeing the smile on Chen Zhou's face, Yang Yiyi knew that he had got his answer.
