Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 36: Utilitarianism

　　It was already dark, and the lab building was still lit up.

　　Professor Tang's office, Orion knocked on the door and walked in.

　　In fact, before coming here, he already had an idea in his mind about what Old Tang was looking for him for.

　　Just a moment ago, he checked his mailbox to find a letter of acceptance from the editorial office of 'Annals of Mathematics'. Judging from the date, the letter had been sent yesterday, only that he had missed it.

　　What Orion couldn't believe was that his paper had been published so quickly, as if 'Annals of Mathematics' was in more of a hurry than he was.

　　Entering the door and taking a seat on the sofa, Orion saw the printout beside the teacup, and Orion recognized at once that it was the paper he'd written -

　　"A Discussion on the Laws of the Distribution of Mersenne Prime Numbers and a Proof of Zhou's Conjecture."

　　"This paper, did you write it?" Sitting behind his desk, Professor Tang asked with a serious face.

　　"Yeah." Orion nodded and gave Old Tang a strange look.

　　Who else could it be if not me?

　　Is there anyone else at Gordon University named Orion?

　　The two graduate students in the office sucked in a breath of cool air: proving world-class mathematical puzzles, both so calm and relaxed.

　　If they were on their own, not to mention proving a world-class mathematical problem, or even publishing a manuscript in a core journal, they would have to celebrate happily, take the prize money from the university, and call a few friends to go out for a meal.

　　"......"

　　Orion's calmness, on the contrary, made Professor Tang does not know what to say.

　　To be honest, he was dumbfounded when he saw this paper.

　　The dumbfoundedness wasn't towards the paper itself, but towards this person who published it.

　　He had never thought that this kid could really research something in the area of Mersenne prime numbers, and even held the intention of letting him go for a nose dive and then leave in the dark. ......

　　The result ......

　　Who would have thought that this kid not only made achievements in this field. And dropped a deep bomb on the entire number theory research field ......

　　"...... Your achievements in the field of number theory are beyond my imagination, I originally thought that your talent was in the field of generalized functions, but now it seems that I was still wrong." Professor Tang shook his head, "I've brought up so many students in my life, and as far as talent is concerned, you are the highest."

　　It wasn't just the judgement that was wrong. He was even a bit unable to understand it.

　　It seems that there really exists that kind of genius in this world that can ignore common sense.

　　Orion was a little embarrassed by the compliment, "Professor Tang, you overpraise me, I just had a sudden inspiration at some point, it's not as exaggerated as what you said."

          "Heh."

　　Old Tang's unsuppressed lol instantly made Orion have no idea what to say next. This heh was clearly a snort at his hypocrisy.