Technology invades the modern world

Chapter 33 The Gate to the New World Collapses
Chen Jingrun always felt that his time in Hong Kong was very happy as he was able to access the most cutting-edge mathematical knowledge.

I used to work on number theory, and I always thought that number theory was just number theory. The different sub-fields of mathematics were like different paths found when walking in the mountains.

Although these branches all extend from the big tree of mathematics, the different branches are no longer closely related after extension.

After reading Lin Ran's proof of Fermat's conjecture, I realized that there is a deep connection between mathematics and analysis. Then, from the Randolph Program, I realized that there are similar deep connections between other sub-fields?

Will the branches extending from the big tree of mathematics merge again in the future?

It is not a big tree, but a big river. Different tributaries converge to form a confluence and flow into the sea.

While studying in Lin Ran's cram school, although the other party was teaching harmonic analysis instead of number theory, which he was good at, the content contained in it and the organic combination of analysis and number theory that it vaguely pointed to were like a glance from a goddess that made those who could understand it fall in love with it.

For Chen Jingrun, who had been receiving mathematical learning and training in mainland China and had been unable to receive the most cutting-edge mathematical content in real time, this was like a long-awaited rain. He felt that his soul had been re-fulfilled during this period and he had never been so motivated.

Therefore, he couldn't understand why his classmates stopped attending class one after another. They couldn't even attend such a rare opportunity to be taught by one of the world's top mathematical masters.

It was a blessing to be able to access cutting-edge mathematical knowledge, but there was also a frustrating aspect, which was that he could not find a suitable opportunity to ask Professor Lin the questions given to him before he came out.

Before coming here, he knew how famous Professor Lin was. Even the people who trained him had repeatedly told him that when Professor Lin came to Hong Kong, there would be countless eyes watching him, and he needed to know how to find opportunities.

After arriving, he realized that he had underestimated how popular Professor Lin was. Not only were Hong Kong newspapers competing to report on him, but even his students were being interviewed and photographed, saying that they were the future stars in the field of mathematics.

In fact, because fewer and fewer people persevere, those who remain are particularly eye-catching.

Even though Chen Jingrun was careful not to be photographed, he was still photographed by the tabloids, which also said that he was one of the most talented students in Professor Lin's mathematics seminar.

Under such circumstances, it would be even more difficult for him to find an opportunity to ask Professor Lin the questions he wanted to ask.

As he recorded today's lecture content and Professor Lin's delivery in his notebook, he felt that everything the other party had said in the past appeared in his mind one by one, forming a line, and the door to the new world collapsed at this moment.

At this moment, he was still sitting in the lecture hall of Xiangjiang University. On the oak desk in front of him appeared an unusually white index finger. Chen Jingrun stared at Professor Lin's index finger:

"These are actually all related to the optimization of intercontinental missiles."

This sentence kept echoing in my mind, and I felt like I was struck by lightning. The content of the lectures during this period had never been so clear to me.

Just five minutes seemed as long as five centuries.

"In fact, what I just talked about can be connected to the Randolph Program, because it contains the connection between symmetry and functionals, which is consistent with the abstractness of the Randolph Program."

At this time, Chen Jingrun only knew to mechanically record what Lin Ran said in his notebook, and his mind was full of thoughts of going back quickly to organize what Lin Ran had said in the past.

His beloved number theory, cutting-edge mathematical directions, and new approaches to proving the Goldbach conjecture have all become less important in the face of China's missile trajectory optimization.

"Okay, today's class ends here. We will continue here tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Twenty-four people are here, which is good. There are more people than I expected." Lin Ran said with a smile while drinking water while standing on the podium.

He even thought that considering the content and difficulty of the lectures, the number of students should be in the single digits now. In order to get as many students as possible out, Lin Ran didn't even leave time for questions after class.

His explanation for this was that after the basic content was finished, he would reserve time to answer questions.

But the problem is that without answering questions, most people can’t even understand the basic content, and the class is like studying a mystery.

It is precisely because of this that the students leave one after another. Sitting here is like listening to a foreign language if they don’t understand what is being said.

Chen Jingrun, who had originally planned to wait until Lin Ran left the classroom, rushed out as soon as he heard that Lin Ran was leaving the get out of class.

He needed to verify what Lin Ran said as quickly as possible, and then find a way to pass the message to a truly reliable person.

When he was receiving training before coming here, Section Chief Zhang had repeatedly emphasized to him that there are three channels in Hong Kong.

Routine information is transmitted back through channel 1, urgent information is transmitted through channel 2, and only information that requires high confidentiality is transmitted through channel 3.

In his opinion, if what Lin Ran taught him was really related to missile trajectory optimization, then it would undoubtedly be something that needed to be kept highly confidential.

Compared with urgency, confidentiality is much more important.

But it was also urgent. Professor Lin only had two months to stay in Hong Kong, and if he was one day late, he might miss a lot of valuable content.

The reason why he was in such a hurry was that he had to catch the 5:30 tram to the Toad Palace Building in Causeway Bay to agree with the other party on the location for handing over the information tomorrow.

That’s right, Channel 3 is divided into two steps. The first step is to go to Toad Palace Building, which is not in Yuen Long or Sheung Shui in the New Territories, nor in Yau Ma Tei or Sham Shui Po in Kowloon, but in the bustling Causeway Bay.

Toad Palace Building is also the first residential building in Hong Kong to be sold on a stratified basis, and is one of the landmark projects of Fok Hing Yip Tong Properties Limited after it entered the real estate sector.

On the way to catch the tram, Chen Jingrun bought a copy of the "Tiantian Daily" and a bowl of cake in a blue and white chicken cup.

This Doucai Blue and White Chicken Cup is of course a replica

Sitting in the lobby of Chan Palace Building, he pretended to read a newspaper, ate the bowl cake, and placed the Doucai blue and white chicken cup on the coffee table.

He glanced at his watch. Half an hour later, the cleaning man finally came over to him and asked, "Is there a North Point ferry leaving at 7: tonight?"

"Change the route to Shau Kei Wan and leave one extra seat on the last train."

The whole process was extremely natural. If someone knew Chen Jingrun in the past, they would never have imagined that the man they thought was a nerd could play a Hong Kong native so naturally and fluently.

After saying this, Chen Jingrun sat for a while, his heart beating very fast.

Finally, pretending to be careless, he returned to his residence. However, he had no intention of resting at all. He quickly dug out all of Lin Ran's lectures during this period. After searching carefully, he finally found the key information he wanted to verify:
"Sure enough, the constant here is not a meaningless constant, but refers to the Earth's gravity."

(End of this chapter)