Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 32: Happier than you can ever imagine

          Although the system had imprinted the method of proof in his mind, it still took quite a bit of effort to put together the process of argumentation that was enough to fill three or four pages of A4 paper.

　　For someone else to be able to read and understand his proof process, it had to be digested at least by himself first.

　　What was finally written on paper might not just be as simple as the three or four pages given by the system, the length might be doubled.

　　Moreover, 'Number Theory' was not Old Tang's research direction, and there was no one to give him any help this time. If he wanted to pass the manuscript in once, he would have to show 120% concentration, restoring every vague detail of the proof process given by the system, so that the academic editors would not be able to find any flaw to criticize!

　　[Discussion on the law of distribution of Mersenne prime numbers and the proof of Zhou's conjecture]

　　[Abstract: In this paper, the law of distribution of Mersenne prime numbers is investigated, and it is proved that 2^(2^n) < P < 2^(2^(n+1)), there are 2^(n+1)-1 MPs which are prime numbers established. And with this argument, it is shown that the corollary is established that when P < 2^(2^(n+1)), there are 2^(n+2)-n-2 of Mp that are prime numbers.]

　　Starting with a space in the main text section, Orion jumped straight to the cited literature and quickly tapped down a line of text.

　　[Citation: The distribution law of Mersenne prime numbers[J] - Zhou Haizhong - Journal of Yixian University (Natural Science Edition) - 1992(04)]

　　The literature that needs to be cited is just this one.

　　Over the past twenty years, countless maths enthusiasts and researchers in number theory have repeatedly sought to prove this theorem, yet none of them have succeeded. Even Mr Zhou himself, who made this conjecture, after so many years of study, was unable to give a suitable proof of this conjecture.

　　And the charm of number theory is just like that, the apple is hanging over everyone's head, whether it is a mathematician or a maths enthusiast, all of them are able to see the tempting red colour. Just waiting for a tall man to come along, stand on his tiptoes and pick it.

　　Hands off the keyboard, Orion picks up pen and paper, completely forgetting the outside world, even his own self.

　　The only paper and pen in the world.

　　The infinite prime numbers were infinitely enlarged under the tip of his pen, and then infinitely closed in a line of expression. The interlaced numbers and symbols converged into an incantation, weaving the magic that described the truth of the universe.

　　Time passed minute by minute.

　　The sheets of draft paper that lay flat on the tabletop gradually covered the table in front of Orion.

　　The buddy next to him stretched his back and was about to go to lunch when he suddenly noticed the piece of draft paper that Orion had laid flat on the table, and the lines of arithmetic on the paper, and was instantly flabbergasted.

　　What kind of question is so awesome that he couldn't finish it even after counting so many sheets of draft paper?

　　He looked quite young, like an undergraduate, but is there such a difficult maths problem at undergraduate level?

　　Coming over to take a look, he could probably understand that it was a problem in number theory, however, if he looked further, he didn't quite understand it. On the one hand, Orion's handwriting for drafts was really scribbly, on the other hand, he was not in this field of study, and knew a little bit about this aspect of number theory, but only a little bit.