Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 177: Don't care

　　Hubery was right about one thing: HCS-1 did have room for improvement.

　　However, he was wrong about one thing.

　　The reason why Orion released the milestones was not because his research was stuck in a bottleneck and he didn't think that much about it, but because he didn't care at all.

　　Even though his theories played an important role in the field of application, his positioning for himself was still that of a theoretical scholar. And theory can only give its full value in dissemination and communication.

　　Although many people who get journals will think that the HCS-1 paper is the key point, and treat the theoretical calculation paper as a companion.

　　For Orion himself, the relationship is the other way round, and the latter is the focus of what he wants to say.

　　He would be honoured if someone could understand the mathematical theories he had developed for an emerging science such as computational materials, and even if they could innovate based on them.

　　This is exactly why he gave the Collatz conjecture to his own students, while he only provided guidance on the method, direction, and ideas.

　　It wouldn't be very difficult for him to tackle this subject on his own.

　　His current maths level was already LV6, and even though the groundwork done by the predecessors of the Collatz conjecture wasn't as abundant as the Goldbach conjecture, in terms of the difficulty of the proposition itself, the difficulty of this conjecture wouldn't be any harder than the Goldbach conjecture which had already been plaguing the maths world for two and a half centuries.

　　The longest is one year, the shortest is half a year, as long as he puts all his heart on it, he has at least 90% certainty that he will be able to solve it ......

　　......

　　Early one morning at the end of March, Orion appeared at the office of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on time, as usual.

　　However, unlike usual, this time he came to the office with two test papers in his hands.

　　Handing out the papers to Boris and Jericho, Orion instructed them succinctly.

　　"There are only ten questions on the papers, and they are due in two hours."

　　Like Franklin and the others, Orion had given Boris and Jericho a list of books to read at the beginning of the school year, and assigned them study tasks accordingly.

　　Now that more than a month had passed, he thought it was about time to see how they were doing.

　　Orion's examination papers weren't difficult, but they weren't so simple that they could be done casually either.

　　Boris frowned tightly and thought for a long time before writing out the first question.

　　He glanced at Jericho next to him and realised that his situation was the same as his own, so he breathed a little sigh of relief.

　　Time passed by, and at almost ten o'clock Orion announced the end of the exam, collecting the papers and giving a cursory glance at the answers.

　　The two men were surprisingly consistent in getting seven questions right, though the points they got wrong were not the same.

　　"Boris, your understanding of Hilbert space is very good, for your future direction, I suggest you consider the direction of mathematical physics."