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

Chapter 63: Newton’s coffin can no longer hold it down!

Looking at the Mersenne prime numbers sent up by Zhang Wei, this time they were M30, 402, and 457, replaced by ones starting with "3".

Looking at this Mersenne prime number, Professor Zhuge asked: "Zhang Wei, what do your parents do?"

"They are just ordinary working-class people." Zhang Wei looked at Zhuge Xuegeng with some vigilance.

Asking about my family situation, do you really want to introduce me to my 170-year-old long-legged and fair-skinned aerobics girl?
Professor Zhuge said, "I thought your family sold Mersenne prime numbers! Do you come here to deliver goods once a week?"

"This is the third time, you have to develop a habit!" Zhang Wei replied with a smile.

Habit? This is a Mersenne prime number. Do you think it’s a 9 yuan 9 coffee coupon? You can get it every week!
"I said Zhang Wei, have you figured out the formula for calculating Mersenne prime numbers? Did you come to me to verify it?" Professor Zhuge asked curiously.

"If I had the ability, I could send papers directly to the three major journals, and there would be no need to bother you!"

"That's right!" Professor Zhuge nodded.

If it were someone else who said he would send papers directly to the three major journals, Zhuge Xuegeng might not believe it.

But the person in front of me has a criminal record. He would definitely go behind the school's back and publish papers in three major journals.

After taking another look at the numbers on the note, Professor Zhuge said, "If you are fine, go to the reception room and sit for a while, and I will help you contact the supercomputer."

"Can't we get the results tomorrow?" Zhang Wei asked.

"There is no need to wait now. We have released two Mersenne primes in succession, which has attracted the attention of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The leaders above have instructed the supercomputer that if we want to verify the new Mersenne primes, we can jump in the queue!"

The 43rd Mersenne prime number just exceeds nine million digits. For supercomputers, it does not take much time to verify a nine million-digit number.

After Zhang Wei read a few newspapers, Professor Zhuge came over and replied that the 43rd Mersenne prime number was successfully verified!
Another $50,000 was received.

……

The 43rd Mersenne primes M30, 402, 457.

The 44rd Mersenne primes M32, 582, 657.

The 45rd Mersenne primes M37, 156, 667.

The next week, Zhang Wei directly came up with three new Mersenne primes.

If it weren't for the indigestion after eating too many raw eggs, Zhang Wei would definitely be able to come up with a few more Mersenne primes.

Professor Zhuge was completely numb.

It takes more than a year for others to discover Mersenne prime numbers. It's not enough for you to find one Mersenne prime number a week. Now you have to change it to three a week?

I said your family sells Mersenne prime numbers, but I still look down on you. You are a wholesaler!

By the way, the young man is getting better. Have you taken Huiren Shenbao recently? From once a week to three times a week, the frequency of handing in public food has increased!
For mathematics researchers around the world, this is a week dominated by the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University.

When I wake up every morning, I first check whether the mathematics department of the university has announced a new Mersenne prime number.

The Mathematics Department of Tsinghua University finally felt proud.

The name Zhang Wei has also entered the field of vision of mathematicians. Many people even began to wonder whether Professor Zhang Wei from Tsinghua University had mastered some advanced formula or algorithm that could accurately calculate Mersenne prime numbers.

……

In the Department of Mathematics of Cambridge University, a teaching assistant walked into John Coates' office and said, "Professor, this is the 45th Mersenne prime number."

"Did Zhang Wei from the Qing Dynasty find it?" John Coates asked.

"Yes. He has found the third Mersenne prime number this week. I don't know if there is a fourth one." The assistant was already surprised.

"Today is Friday, there shouldn't be a fourth one, right? Chinese people also have to rest on weekends."

John Coates' expression looked a little tired. He didn't know whether it was because of a hard week's work, or because of the fatigue bombardment of three Mersenne primes a week.

Taking the detailed information from his assistant, John Coates took a look: "The 45th Mersenne prime number has digits. It has exceeded million? Computer calculations Is it possible to achieve it?"

When Zhang Wei first announced the Mersenne prime number two weeks ago, it was still a number of 7.2 million digits, and now it has become 11 million digits. You know, every time you add one digit, the number will be ten times larger, and the calculation difficulty will increase exponentially.

For example, when you calculate addition and subtraction within ten, you basically just spit it out without thinking;
Addition and subtraction within a hundred can also be done verbally, but it requires a little reaction time.

But for addition and subtraction within a thousand, if you do it verbally, you have to use your brain.

And for addition and subtraction within ten thousand, do you rely on verbal calculations? Then forget it. It is definitely faster to open the calculator on your mobile phone.

From ten to ten thousand, just a three-digit increase, our little minds can't wrap our heads around it.

When calculating an increase of four million digits, many people cannot tell how many times it has increased!
When Zhang Wei announced the 41st Mersenne prime number, John Coates also believed that it was just the Chinese who were lucky and happened to use GIMPS to calculate this number.

When Zhang Wei announced the 42nd Mersenne prime number, John Coates was still convincing himself that it was the American GIMPS system that was powerful and had nothing to do with the Chinese.

Later, when the 43rd Mersenne prime number was announced, it was difficult for John Coates to convince himself with the same reason.

GIMPS is used all over the world. Why can you find three Mersenne primes in a row and no one else can?
Computers all over the world use Intel and AMD processors, is yours just faster?
The Mersenne prime number that could only be found one year before can be found in a week. From a probability perspective, it can be said that the probability is zero.

Although John Coates has his own subjective assumptions, he is a mathematician after all and still believes in probability.

Something that is impossible in probability actually happened. Either the probability calculation was wrong, or the calculation model was used wrongly.

While John Coates was still wondering what went wrong, the 44th and 45th Mersenne primes were found one after another.

It was still discovered by Zhang Wei from the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University!
One Mersenne prime number per week is already beyond the capacity of John Coates' brain. Three Mersenne prime numbers were discovered in one week. John Coates felt that the mathematics he had studied for decades no longer existed?
"Fuck the Yankees, fuck the GIMPS!" John Coates swore directly.

No matter how stupid John Coates is, he realizes that this has nothing to do with the American GIMPS system.

The teaching assistant asked cautiously: "Professor, will the Chinese use supercomputers to find Mersenne prime numbers?"

"No one would use a supercomputer to do such boring things!" John Coates said.

Scientists can use supercomputers to verify whether a number is a Mersenne prime, but they will never use supercomputers to find Mersenne primes.

Verification and search are two completely different concepts. For verification, you only need to target a number. Even if the number is tens of millions of digits, it will not consume too much computing power.

But searching is different. You must know that for every additional digit, the number will be increased tenfold, and the search range will be increased tenfold!
How many numbers are there in ten million digits? This has exceeded the limit of normal people's expression of numbers. To find Mersenne prime numbers from so many numbers, even a supercomputer cannot afford this kind of computing power.

To put it another way, if you have this kind of computing power, it will definitely be more valuable to calculate something else than to find Mersenne primes.

"Could it be said that the Chinese must have mastered a new algorithm!"

John Coates frowned and thought for a while, it was not very likely.

The main reason is that the number is too big.

The larger the number, the more complex the calculation becomes.

For example, calculating pi to 3.14 is very simple and even middle school students can do it.

To calculate to 3.1415926, you need some mathematical skills.

If you want to calculate to hundreds of decimal places, you have to be a mathematician to do it.

For the same algorithm, the difficulty increases exponentially the further you calculate it.

Therefore, for mathematical calculations, even if you master a new algorithm, it is impossible to break through the objective laws of extremely complex operations.

"If it's not a new algorithm, it must be a kind of mysterious witchcraft!" John Coates said to himself.

The assistant coach looked at John Coates with a shocked expression.

witchcraft? This word comes from one of the world's top mathematicians?
Could it be that the end of science is really metaphysics?
But this is Cambridge! It is the University of Cambridge that gave birth to Newton, Darwin, Turing, and Hawking!
Is it appropriate for you, a mathematician, to teach metaphysics in the Cambridge Department of Mathematics?

Newton's coffin board is about to collapse!
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