Chapter 516 - Fermats Last Theorem! (1/2)

Chapter 516: Fermat's Last Theorem!

It was really too familiar!

And it became more and more familiar!

Disregarding the noisy crowd and discussions, Zhang Ye moved further away to a place where there was no one. He sat down and quietly opened up the game interface. Then, in the game's merchant shop, he bought a Memory Search Capsule and swallowed it on the spot. His vision blurred and he landed in his sea of memories.

Back in his previous world.

He was back in his high school days.

Back then, every Friday afternoon was an allocated school break, but if there was a need, the Education Bureau would set this school break to become an interest-based cla.s.s in the latter half of the year. Every student would have to register their interests for different topics and Zhang Ye had at that time tried to register himself for art cla.s.ses since it took the least effort on the student’s part, but as every student thought the same way, the cla.s.s was already fully registered, so he had no choice but to choose another. The cla.s.ses conducted were not covered in the basic lesson plans, but was instead used to expand their knowledge.

”This was Fermat's conjecture, one of top three Mathematical Conjectures of the world. Its history dates back several hundred years and was finally proven in 1995, meaning to say that it is no longer known as a conjecture now, but as Fermat's Last Theorem.”

”Teacher, can you explain it to us in detail?”

”Hur hur, I do have some detailed information here. Let me put it up on the projector for everyone to take a look.  Even if I were to explain it, none of you would be able to understand it. Yes, even I do not have the knowledge to understand it. The proof to this theorem is an extremely complicated process and my capabilities are limited.”

”Wah.”

”It's even in Chinese and English?”

”How deep, this is too amazing!”

”Eh? You understood it?”

”Uh, no. I totally didn't get it!”

He was back to the current world, slowly opening his eyes again.

Zhang Ye was still puzzled before searching his memory, but now everything was as clear as could be. He had wondered why it was so familiar at first, this Dale's Conjecture, IBM conjecture, or whatever conjecture it was called! It was simply just a change of names! Because the first  person to have proposed this conjecture was named Dale, that was the reason for it being called Dale's Conjecture, but it was obvious now that the name of the conjecture had nothing to do with the contents of it, as this Dale's Conjecture was essentially the same as his previous world's Fermat's conjecture!

This was it!

The conjecture's contents were still the same!

The only difference was that this conjecture had not yet been solved by the mathematicians of this world. It had only been proposed several decades earlier, while in Zhang Ye's world, this Math Problem had already been solved. Fermat's conjecture together with the four color conjecture and Goldbach's conjecture were known as the Mathematics world's Three Great Conjectures!

Zhang Ye glanced over to where the American mathematicians were.

One of the mathematicians, named Louis, was getting some shut-eye.

Another young mathematician named David had gone over to the French booth and was chatting with a female French mathematician. He looked like he was trying to pick up girls.

As for the United State's youth partic.i.p.ants, who had been ranked first in the compet.i.tion earlier, their faces were full of pride and they were smiling brightly.

Zhang Ye smiled coldly.

Dale's Conjecture? It's no big deal!

He picked up his cellphone and found Old Wu's contact. He sent a message to her: ”Old Wu.”

Old Wu, who was standing very far and had her back facing him, looked like she was still looking at the jade thumb ring. She had not reacted to his message probably because of the crowd and noise around her.

Zhang Ye called her and hung up after a few rings.

He could see that Wu Zeqing finally noticed her cell phone ringing and picked it up.

After a short moment, a reply from her came: ”Yes?”

Zhang Ye replied: ”You like that jade thumb ring?”

Wu Zeqing: ”Hur hur. It's not bad I guess?”

Zhang Ye: ”Then that means you really like it, right?”

Wu Zeqing: ”They wouldn't possibly sell it. And even if they did, Big Sis wouldn't afford it either. That's probably an antique from the Palace, so it's definitely a very valuable item.

Zhang Ye looked up at the prize, then replied: ”Alright!”

Wu Zeqing: ”?”

Old Wu clearly did not understand what he meant.

Zhang Ye stopped replying, kept his cellphone, and headed towards the crowd.

In the event area.

As the leader, w.a.n.g Yiming had gone over the the American's booth with Xin Ya and Han Henian following behind. They lodged a stern protest against the American mathematicians in English.

w.a.n.g Yiming said, ”Why did you use a treasure from our nation as the prize for this event?”

The leader of their team, Louis looked at him. They seemed to know each other and were definitely no strangers. ”w.a.n.g, this belongs to us.”

w.a.n.g Yiming said, ”Can I a.s.sume that this is provocation on your part?”

”No, no, no,” Louis said. ”This item was given to us in a will by one of our Mathematics a.s.sociation's teachers. When he pa.s.sed away last year, he had some of his personal items donated to the a.s.sociation and dictated that it be used for the promotion and research of mathematics. I don't know the history and origins of this item, but right now, it does not belong to you. It's owners.h.i.+p belongs to us and we have the right to use it as we please. There is no other meaning to it, so please don't misunderstand.”

Xin Ya said, ”But you've already caused the misunderstanding!”

David, who was flirting earlier, had come back. ”What's the matter?”

w.a.n.g Yiming pointed at the topic board. ”Change your topic and let us have a fair fight.”

”No.” Louis wagged his finger. ”This will be our topic, w.a.n.g. We've been studying and researching Dale's Conjecture and want to use this Math Problem to foster further learning between other countries. Is that a problem?  There's nothing unfair about it. Besides, the compet.i.tion has already ended and our team won the champions.h.i.+p. That is the results of the compet.i.tion and there's nothing else to have a fair fight about.”