They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 61 Do you understand the rules?

The Mathematics Department of Yuanmingyuan Vocational and Technical College, one of the four major lunatic asylums.

A short old man with gray hair and glasses walked through the corridor.

"Hello, Academician Zhou!" Several students passing by immediately greeted him.

However, Academician Zhou, who was usually very amiable, did not respond this time. He just walked over with a drooped face, as if he was paying no attention to anyone.

"What's wrong with Academician Zhou? He seems to be in a bad mood!"

"It's not just bad, it's very bad! Don't you know it? Today, the Mathematics Department of Pudaokou Vocational and Technical College next door to us released a new result!
"What achievement? Make Academician Zhou look so ugly? Could it be that he has also solved Goldbach's conjecture?"

"It's not that exaggerated. They found the 41st Mersenne prime!"

"Messenne prime number? The mathematics department next door discovered the Mersenne prime number? Is this the first Mersenne prime number discovered by our Chinese scholars? No wonder Academician Zhou's face is so gloomy!"

"Yes, the Mersenne prime numbers are small, and they fill a gap in China! For so many years, our mathematics department has always been the best in China. This time, it was overpowered by the next door. It's hard to lose face! Academician Zhou's heart I must be very panicked!"

……

UK, University of Cambridge. Great mathematicians such as Newton and Turing were born here, and it is a well-deserved ace institution in the field of mathematics.

Looking at the whole of Europe, probably only Oxford and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich are on the same level as Cambridge.

In the world, the only ones that can reach this level in mathematics research are Princeton, MIT and Stanford.

In the parking lot of the University of Cambridge, Professor John Coates of the Department of Mathematics parked his car, but he did not get out of the car immediately. Instead, he held his mobile phone and looked excited.

"What are you talking about? The Chinese discovered the 41st Mersenne prime number? How is this possible! With China's scientific research level, how could they discover the Mersenne prime number! It must be fake news!

"M24, 036, 583? It has been verified. It is indeed a Mersenne prime number? Who verified it? Is it reliable? Oh, it was verified by the London Mathematical Society!"

The London Mathematical Society was founded in 1865 and is the oldest mathematical society in the world. Professor John Coates is also a member and intends to run for chairman. So of course he would not question the verification results of the London Mathematical Society.

"China has always been relatively backward in basic research. I heard that scholars there have not thoroughly studied things from more than ten years ago. How can they find new Mersenne primes!"

"Found it through GIMPS? That's it! I thought it was China's mathematical research that made a breakthrough, but it turns out that it still relies on the American system! It seems that the Chinese are just lucky!"

After putting down the phone, John Coates looked relaxed and said to himself sourly:
"GIMPS can be used all over the world. Using GIMPS to find new Mersenne prime numbers is like winning a lottery ticket. It depends solely on luck and is not really a skill!"

……

The Electronic Frontier Foundation in the United States is a supporter of the GIMPS project.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed by a group of hackers. The original intention of its establishment was that this group of hackers was always under investigation by the FBI, so they set up a foundation and hired lawyers to protect personal freedom on the Internet. in the name of defending hacking.

Later, as the foundation grew bigger and bigger, the dragon-slaying warriors also turned into evil dragons. The Electronic Frontier Foundation not only became an intellectual property protection organization, but also began to crack down on hackers.

Even Facebook's Zuckerberg was sued by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In the end, Zuckerberg donated money to the foundation and the matter was settled.

To put it simply, the union that originally stood up for hackers has become one that charges protection fees from hackers.

The news of the discovery of the 41st Mersenne prime number was naturally learned by the Electronic Frontier Foundation immediately.

In the conference room, President Barlow of the Foundation looked at everyone with a gloomy face:

"Gentlemen, just this morning, I just got the news that the 41st Mersenne prime number was finally discovered. The discoverer was a scholar named Zhang Wei from the Department of Mathematics of Tsing University in China. According to the information released by Tsing University, they used I checked our GIMPS system and found this Mersenne prime number, but I just checked the server and there is no such number in our server! I want to know if there is something wrong with our system!"

Someone immediately explained: "President, I must explain here that if someone participating in GIMPS discovers a suspected new Mersenne prime number, but it is not uploaded to our server, we will not be able to see it."

"Why isn't it uploaded?"

"President, under normal circumstances, the discoverers will upload it because they do not have the ability to verify the numbers. But some scientific research institutes have access to supercomputers and they have the ability to verify the numbers themselves.

As far as I know, Tsinghua University is the best university in China, and the Chinese have also developed supercomputers. They are capable of verifying the Mersenne prime numbers by themselves. So please rest assured that it is not a problem with our system. "

Another person next to him said: "China's network speed is relatively slow, and China's control over the network is relatively strong. I think it may be because of this that they did not transmit the data to the server, but chose to verify it themselves."

After hearing these explanations, President Barlow's expression finally relaxed a lot. As long as there was no problem with his own system, there would be no problem.

At this moment, the secretary knocked on the door and walked in.

"President, we just received an email. The sender of the email is a Chinese. He calls himself Zhang Wei. He is from the Department of Mathematics at Tsingta University in China. He is the person who just discovered the 41st Mersenne prime number."

"Oh? The discoverer of the new Mersenne prime numbers has contacted us! What did he say?"

"Mr. Zhang Wei did not make any remarks, but he asked us how we would pay the $50,000? When can we give it to him?"

"Uh..." President Barlow was immediately speechless.

What a great achievement it is to discover new Mersenne primes! Shouldn't I make a speech?
For example, I have loved mathematics since I was a child and determined to become a mathematician. Alan Turing is my idol. I hope to contribute to the development of human mathematics and so on.

How can anyone directly ask when the money will be distributed?

Before taking money, why don't you thank the leader? Can't you thank the organization?
Do you understand the rules?

……

Zhang Wei did not have an overseas account, so he finally asked Professor Zhuge for help.

Professor Zhuge used Tsinghua University's overseas account to collect the money for Zhang Wei, and then transferred it to Zhang Wei's account.

According to the exchange rate at that time, fifty thousand US dollars was about four hundred thousand yuan, which was enough for a down payment in the Fourth Ring Road of Beijing.

However, in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty, this mere 400,000 yuan is not a big sum of money, so naturally it will not be left with Zhang Wei.

Compared with 400,000 yuan, Tsinghua University values ​​academic achievements more. I found that the name Mersenne Prime is much more fragrant than 400,000.

So after only three days, 50,000 US dollars arrived in Zhang Wei's Bank of China account.

"I remember that in the past two years, the RMB has been appreciating. You will lose money if you hold the U.S. dollar. When you find an opportunity with a suitable exchange rate, you can exchange it for RMB!"

Zhang Wei happily walked into the rental house, placed the ten raw eggs he just bought on the table, and then poured a large glass of water.

"Brother Devil, give me another Mersenne prime number!"

　Thank you all for your monthly votes! John Coates is a real person, and he will appear again in the future. Finally, I wish everyone a happy weekend.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)