Chapter 109: Elegant Intent

Her foundation is already solid. The path to climbing higher can only be explored and crossed by herself, with no shortcuts.

"Yes, that's it!" Pan Wenhua immediately burst into laughter, his eyes filled with bright and benevolent smiles. What the older generation here loves most to hear is a child expressing trust in their country.

Chinese children should have such a sense of national greatness. "With your current scholarly depth, studying abroad for advanced studies is indeed icing on the cake."

Good child, if students have such trust in their school and country, the nation and school will naturally not fail them!

"Wu Tong, the one million yuan entrance scholarship promised by the university, including the twenty thousand yuan reward for your one-hour report at the International Congress of Mathematicians, and the twenty thousand yuan rewards for two top journal publications, has already been transferred. It will be deposited into your card this month; remember to check it. The monthly stipend will be transferred to your account at the beginning of each month; it should already be there..."

After Pan Wenhua finished describing the school's training plan, Sun Rong, on behalf of the school, detailed the scholarship arrangements for Wu Tong. Then, he took some documents from his briefcase and handed them to Wu Tong.

"This is the property certificate for the apartment in Yan Garden. I've been carrying it for two days. Today, it's finally in your hands! These past two days, I've been worried about encountering robbers on the road who would rob my bag—there wasn't much valuable in it, but if they took your property certificate, I'd be in trouble!"

Sun Rong chuckled and teased, lightening the atmosphere in the office.

"Thank you so much!" Wu Tong accepted it with both hands and expressed her gratitude. The school truly anticipated what she wanted and also what she couldn't think of.

"Haha... This is my honor!" Sun Rong waved his hand with a smile.

Wu Tong's treatment made even him envious. The school has plenty of envious eyes that don't understand, but ask them—who among them can achieve what Wu Tong has? So, as the person who personally handled all of Wu Tong's rewards, he can only feel envious!

Envious that Wu Tong's parents have such a child to be proud of, and also proud for the country and Peking University. Such a radiant child belongs to China, to Peking University, and the world's astonishing achievements bear Chinese names!

We always think things are one-sided. Wu Tong, what else do you need us to do? What they can do is only this—trivial matters anyone can handle. What Wu Tong has achieved is shocking research results. Peking University is happy to help Wu Tong with all these trivial tasks, so she doesn't have to worry and can focus on her studies and research. Who knows, there might be even greater achievements!

For learning and life, the arrangements the school has made are already very comprehensive! Wu Tong gently shook her head at Sun Rong. She had no opinions on these two aspects; it was already sufficient!

She then looked at Pan Wenhua and Zhou Wenping and inquired, "If possible, could I borrow the laboratory in the Materials College to conduct some simple material verification? I can bear the experimental costs myself or arrange for someone to supervise; I definitely won't damage the experimental equipment!"

"Materials laboratory? Material verification?" Pan Wenhua and Zhou Wenping exchanged a glance; their hearts skipped a beat. Could this child have reached the pinnacle of mathematics and found it uninteresting, wanting to switch to studying materials science?

A top mathematics talent running off to play with materials—just thinking about the possibility gives them a heart attack! Previously, they heard this child was auditing courses in the Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Engineering departments, so they raised their vigilance! A genius's interests are unpredictable, just like Comrade Lu back then, who caused them regret and lost a talent—that is a painful lesson from the past.

"Wu Tong, there are still many unsolved mysteries in mathematics. Not to mention others; the eighth question in Hilbert's Twenty-Three Problems—you've already proven the twin prime conjecture and the Polignac conjecture. The Goldbach conjecture can also be tried! If successful, it would also fulfill Mr. Jing Run's unfinished wish, truly putting a period at the end of the Goldbach conjecture!

And the Riemann hypothesis... We have many scholars at our school, as well as manuscripts left by Mr. Jing Run and Mr. Hua. I'm planning to organize them and will give you the copies after some time!" The actual manuscripts are already artifacts. There's no problem if Wu Tong wants to view them, but flipping through them repeatedly in hand isn't very convenient. Time has weathered them, making them somewhat fragile, with special preservation treatments applied.

Mathematics is profound; in their lifetimes, they haven't fully unraveled it yet. Wu Tong must not lose interest.

Originally, they hadn't planned to assign the Goldbach and Riemann hypotheses to Wu Tong at this time.

However, at this moment, these are the best tools to paint big pictures. No number theorist can resist the temptation of the Goldbach and Riemann hypotheses. Given Wu Tong's foundation in number theory, handing these manuscripts to her is truly priceless!

"Of course, Dean. I will continue to work hard in mathematics. The next topic will be the Goldbach conjecture. If successful, I want to use the results as my graduation thesis!" Wu Tong's nerves aren't overly sensitive; she can sense the subtext now and sees through the professors' concerns.

All of them are devoted to her, professors worried she might stray from the right path. Wu Tong smiled wryly. She simply took out her notebook from her bag, flipped to her derivations from that day, and handed it over.

"Dean, Professor Zhou, Teacher Li, these are some insights and derivations I had at the International Congress of Mathematicians, with a mathematical model. Please review them and see if there's value in continuing!"

"Mathematical models?" The two deans relaxed and smiled. "This is simply perfect! Although I don't understand why it involves the Materials College, but as long as Wu Tong is researching mathematics, the rest is trivial. It's just the materials lab, right?"

Whichever lab Wu Tong picks, he would put aside his pride and personally go to Old Cheng, the head of the Mathematics Department. As for the costs, no need to mention it. There's no need for Wu Tong; Old Cheng would be embarrassed to ask him, so the Mathematics Department would cover it, no big deal!

Making the partial results of the Goldbach conjecture into a graduation project? Wow, this should be the most heavyweight undergraduate graduation project! Enough to serve as a doctoral thesis!

At this moment, Pan Wenhua and Zhou Wenping and others still haven't realized that Wu Tong's so-called achievements were never partial; they were all final proofs achieved in one go!

Or, fundamentally, no one dares to think of them.

The Goldbach conjecture, the pearl of number theory, has attracted countless mathematicians to pursue it. Only back then, the exceptionally talented Mr. Jing Run made her weak conjecture, and decades later, no one has advanced further based on that!

They only thought that Wu Tong wanted to do partial research on the Goldbach conjecture; any achievements would be good!

(End of Chapter)