233: Chapter 233 Collaboration with Terence Tao

As Shing-Tung Yau spoke, he wrote down the famous Ricci tensor equation.

Zhao Yang and Terence Tao stopped writing at the same time and looked at Shing-Tung Yau's derivation.

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After only five seconds of thought.

"Professor Yau is right. By adding geometric metrics, this boundary can be completely locked down."

Zhao Yang nodded and quickly corrected the parameters on his own blackboard.

The three of them began an unreserved, top-level mathematical discussion on the stage.

The atmosphere inside the entire lecture hall reached its peak.

Three generations of top mathematical minds—old, middle-aged, and young—representing the highest levels of Analytic Number Theory, Harmonic Analysis, and Differential Geometry, were engaged in a pure mathematical dialogue on this stage!

The public lecture lasted three hours, and the three of them only stopped once both sides of the three large blackboards were completely filled.

Thunderous applause erupted from the audience and lasted for ten minutes.

After the public lecture ended.

The recording of the event was briefly edited and began to spread across major video websites like Youku and Tudou, as well as academic forums.

This craze quickly swept the entire internet, sparking heated discussions among many netizens.

"I watched the whole thing without fast-forwarding for even a minute. Even though I couldn't understand a single symbol on the blackboard, I feel like my IQ has been baptized."

"So shocking! In front of big shots like Shing-Tung Yau and Terence Tao, Zhao Yang's presence didn't pale in comparison at all. In fact, at many calculation nodes, his reaction speed was even faster than theirs!"

"God Zhao and God Tao are both amazing! And with Professor Yau joining in, it's just peak greatness!"

"Is this the 'Mount Hua Sword Debate' of the mathematics world? I acknowledge it!"

"This was a pure collision of top-tier intelligence; it made my scalp tingle!"

Some people felt that this was definitely the most valuable mathematics public lecture in the entire history of the Dragon Kingdom since its founding.

Even more rational scholars left comments on forums stating that this lecture's value would rank highly in the history of mathematics worldwide. A simultaneous dialogue between three top figures at the pinnacle of mathematics was a historic moment that one could only hope to encounter.

Time moved into July.

During the subsequent summer break, the students of Peking University basically left campus to go home. The entire campus became extremely empty and quiet.

Zhao Yang did not go home.

He stayed in the office reserved for him by the School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, continuing his research on Goldbachs Conjecture.

During his three months at Peking University, besides occasionally holding seminars for graduate students, Terence Tao spent the rest of his time temporarily joining Zhao Yang's research group to study this century-old problem with him.

Two brains with the highest level of computing power currently on Earth officially began to merge.

Inside Zhao Yang's office.

The two decided to divide their tasks. Within the overall framework of the 'Topological Weighted Sieve Method' built by Zhao Yang, they each worked on the research they were best at.

Terence Tao was responsible for handling the complex analytical parts of the framework involving traditional Harmonic Analysis and Fourier expansion. His experience was very seasoned, and his scaling techniques for various error terms were masterful.

Meanwhile, Zhao Yang utilized his ultra-high IQ of 185 to tackle the most core high-dimensional manifold mappings and algebraic geometry transformations.

To ensure efficiency, the two did not stay together every day to discuss. Instead, they agreed to divide the work and perform their independent derivations in their respective offices.

Then, every Friday afternoon, they would conduct a deep comparison and project discussion in front of the blackboard, splicing their respective progress onto the main framework.

This highly efficient cooperation model allowed the proof of Goldbachs Conjecture to progress very well.

During the period when Zhao Yang was putting most of his energy into pure mathematics.

In the Nasdaq trading market, the trend of us stocks was also very good.

As the global economy began to rebound from the bottom of the financial tsunami in the second half of 2009, the us tech stocks that Zhao Yang had precisely positioned earlier saw explosive growth.

Core technology assets, including Apple and Amazon, surged nearly fifty percent in just a few months, stimulated by expectations for smartphone sales and cloud service concepts.

Every day during his breakfast break, Zhao Yang would spend ten minutes opening his trading terminal.

He performed several extremely precise swaps and 'buy low, sell high' operations at various oscillation points.

Looking at the account statistics on the screen.

The total net asset value of his us stocks had steadily reached the astronomical figure of nearly eighty million US dollars.

This was the result of him making almost no high-frequency changes in the past two months, allowing it to grow long-term with the market.

Based on the current holding structure and the historical development trajectory of tech stocks, Zhao Yang calculated a very clear account in his mind. Even if he uninstalled the trading software now and did nothing, by 2012 when smartphones completely exploded, it would be easy for this capital to quadruple or quintuple, reaching a scale of three to four hundred million US dollars.

Zhao Yang was very satisfied with this. With this capital, it would be enough for him to purchase any level of cutting-edge Physics and materials experimental equipment globally in the future.

As for the other digital asset, bitcoin.

Zhao Yang had been continuously acquiring them at extremely low prices of a few cents on various scattered early geek forums and primitive trading websites around the world.

After the total number of bitcoins in his hands reached about two hundred thousand, Zhao Yang stopped his acquisitions.

He was well aware of the objective laws of the financial market. Buying things isn't necessarily a case of 'the more, the better'.

The essence of bitcoin is a social psychology experiment and a capital game regarding decentralization. The total supply is only twenty-one million. If he alone monopolized more than five or even ten percent of the chips in the early stages, it would seriously damage the decentralized narrative of this cryptocurrency.

Once chips are excessively concentrated in a single address, international hot money and Wall Street market makers would discover the existence of an absolute main force when performing on-chain data analysis. Out of risk control considerations, those large international capitals might not come in to speculate on this coin, and might even abandon it directly to start a new one.

Maintaining a reasonable share of chips so that other players can also profit is the only way to make the market grow. Two hundred thousand coins was a value with a great margin of safety; it could guarantee a huge absolute profit in the future without making the market afraid to speculate.

Moreover, according to his memories from his previous life, the time when this thing would truly begin to rise in scale and enter the public eye would be after the production halving in 2012.

The stage of truly entering global carnival and price takeoff would be after 2015.

So, during these long years of silence.

Zhao Yang ignored the data in those cold wallets and focused all his attention on the progress of his real-world scientific research.

Late September.

Terence Tao's three-month term as a visiting scholar at Peking University came to an end.

During these three months, in that office of less than thirty square meters, the two had shared what they knew and divided their work clearly. They had made very good progress on the century-old problem of Goldbachs Conjecture.

The theoretical framework of the Topological Weighted Sieve Method had been completed, leaving only a few 'hard bones' regarding error limit convergence to be gnawed on.

On the afternoon before his departure, the two were doing the final handover in the office.

"Zhao, this period has been the most exciting time I've had doing mathematics in the last ten years."

Terence Tao handed the final part of his organized Harmonic Analysis manuscript to Zhao Yang.

"I'm flying back to Los Angeles tomorrow morning. The fall courses at UCLA are about to start, so I must go back."

"Thank you for your hard work, Professor Tao. I will continue to push forward with the subsequent convergence proofs."

Zhao Yang took the manuscript.

The two agreed that although their physical distance would increase, they would continue to communicate subsequent progress via email until the proof of Goldbachs Conjecture was completely finished.

The next day, Terence Tao left Peking University.

Zhao Yang sat alone in the office, looking at the mountain of draft paper on the desk.

When facing a problem that challenges the limits of human intelligence, having someone nearby to share the discussion was naturally a great thing. If he could complete this proposition with Terence Tao's help, Zhao Yang felt it was an extremely worthwhile deal.

In any case, as long as the proof was completed, the 100,000 points of Mathematics experience he was supposed to get and the system task rewards would not be diminished at all.

Having a super-intelligent brain actively run over to act as a free tool for him made Zhao Yang very satisfied.