Super Island Tycoon-Chapter 587 - 586: The Most Difficult Problem

Searching and filtering research papers is very simple for Lucy; it doesn't require any advanced algorithms, and it was estimated how long it would take to complete all the calculations.

Master, the results have been filtered out. There are over a hundred papers that meet your requirements, all of which have been classified and organized. You can view them at any time.

As expected, Lucy quickly completed the task assigned to her by Jiang Cheng. It seems this task was rather simple for her and didn't require much of her computational power.

Very good, project the results in front of me, so I can see how far previous mathematicians have researched.

Jiang Cheng quickly gave Lucy further instructions to project all the papers into the air for easy viewing.

Following Jiang Cheng's command, a translucent light screen suddenly appeared in mid-air in front of him.

The screen displayed an interface listing many categories, each with numerous papers beneath.

These papers are related to the Riemann Hypothesis, and they are all valuable ones that will greatly aid Jiang Cheng's research.

Jiang Cheng nodded in satisfaction as the light screen appeared before him, then raised his hand to swipe across the screen.

The content on the screen changed quickly with his swipe.

Jiang Cheng's hand didn't stop; he continually swiped across the screen.

As his hand operated continuously on the screen, the content kept evolving.

Sometimes it displayed the paper's directory, and sometimes Jiang Cheng tapped to view the detailed content of a paper.

The lab scene was quite dazzling. Jiang Cheng was sitting and leaning back in a chair, continuously swiping in the air with his raised hand.

In front of him, a light screen was displayed in midair, with its content changing constantly with his gestures.

The scene looked very sci-fi, like something out of a movie.

If anyone else saw this, they would likely be amazed.

However, this scene is not unusual; it's merely a combination of holographic projection and advanced gesture control.

When the lab was built last time, Jiang Cheng added this gesture control function.

The lab can scan and lock onto Jiang Cheng's movements, then change the holographic content based on his actions.

This enables Jiang Cheng to control those virtual images in the air with his hands.

However, this technology only sounds simple; in reality, it requires complex calculations.

Without Lucy's control, achieving the current effect wouldn't be possible.

Jiang Cheng sat back in his chair, continually flipping through those papers on the Riemann Hypothesis.

Whenever he encountered a paper of high value, Jiang Cheng would click in to examine the details.

In this way, Jiang Cheng began his days of pouring over papers, planning to go through all of them.

It took Jiang Cheng half a month to finally finish reading all the papers.

Don't think it took him that long; in fact, his pace was very fast.

If it were another mathematician, it might take years to read through all those papers.

It's important to know that reading research papers is not a simple task, unlike reading novels, where you just need to skim through all the words without understanding each sentence's meaning.

Reading papers is very brain-intensive, requiring full concentration on the content.

It might be more appropriate to describe it as researching papers rather than simply reading them, especially with mathematics papers, which are even harder.

Some complex math papers take even professional mathematicians a long time to fully understand.

Jiang Cheng needed to comprehend the meaning of every 20 words and formulas and perform analysis and calculations in his mind.

Sometimes mental calculations weren't enough, and Jiang Cheng had to manually verify all calculation processes.

Moreover, these papers had extensive content, often running into hundreds of pages, with countless formulas and computations.

If an ordinary person attempted to read these papers, they might feel dizzy after a short while.

Thankfully, Jiang Cheng is very intelligent, so he found it relatively easy.

For an average mathematician trying to study these papers, it would be challenging to understand, let alone match Jiang Cheng's speed.

So, it took Jiang Cheng half a month to complete this task, finishing reading the other researchers' results on the Riemann Hypothesis.

This was possible due to his cognitive speed exceeding the average person's, allowing him to finish reading the papers so quickly.

After reading the papers, Jiang Cheng felt he gained a lot, even though all these papers represented failed attempts.

Each paper contained errors; otherwise, Jiang Cheng wouldn't be researching the Riemann Hypothesis.

However, Jiang Cheng could absorb many useful insights from these papers.

Failed research isn't necessarily worthless; there are many thought processes in those papers that Jiang Cheng can learn from.

Although reading these papers didn't immediately provide Jiang Cheng with a solution to the problem.

They still inspired him significantly. At least now Jiang Cheng was not at a loss like before.

Now, Jiang Cheng has come up with several ideas, each potentially proving the Riemann Hypothesis.

These ideas Jiang Cheng came up with were all inspired by those papers.

Now Jiang Cheng had a path to solving the problem, so he plunged into the ocean of mathematics.

But Jiang Cheng isn't claiming certain success; ideas are just ideas after all.

These ideas may not successfully prove the Riemann Hypothesis; many could be wrong, leading Jiang Cheng into dead ends.

Perhaps among these ideas, there's one correct, helping Jiang Cheng reach the final destination.

Or all these ideas might be wrong, and Jiang Cheng still can't prove the hypothesis.

However, Jiang Cheng doesn't fear failure; without trying, success is forever unreachable.

Even if all these ideas are proven wrong, Jiang Cheng will simply start over.

He will continue to find new ideas for research, confident that this persistence will eventually lead to success.

Despite the Riemann Hypothesis being called the world's most difficult math problem, Jiang Cheng remains confident in himself.

This strong confidence stems from Jiang Cheng's own capabilities and numerous successful past research projects.

Thus, Jiang Cheng immersed himself in mathematical research; his mind is now full of various formulas and theorems, seeing everything in terms of numbers.