stjorthotic Chapter 49 Where did this peerless genius come from?
Chapter 49 Where did this peerless genius come from?
Marcelo suddenly stopped, and then, as if out of control, walked to Su Hao's desk.
To maintain the professor's dignity, and also to avoid disturbing the boy who might be struggling with death...
He deliberately stopped half a meter away from the desk, looking down at the densely filled answer sheet.
At first, he had a mocking smile on his lips.
however.
The instant I saw the derivation process in the first line.
Marcelo's haughty expression suddenly froze!
Two seconds later, his face turned as if struck by a heavy blow, transforming from initial solemnity to uncontrollable shock at a visible speed!
Five seconds later, it felt as if his brain had been struck by a sledgehammer; his eyes widened in shock, almost pressing their pupils directly against Su Hao's exam paper...
His entire face was completely transformed into an unbelievable, distorted, and shocking sight, like a ghost had been seen!
Holy crap?!
What the hell is this thing?!
This kid... he... he actually wants to prove this problem completely and thoroughly?!
What kind of international joke is this?!
Marcelo roared inwardly in terror.
No one knew better than him, the one who set the question, that the sixth question was not designed for individual mathematicians at all!
The amount of computation hidden in the underlying logical chain that must be laid out to prove it is already enormous to an inhuman level!
This is a project for the world's top and most advanced mathematical research teams!
In his mind, even if a candidate only possessed extraordinary talent and wrote down the most basic introductory lemma...
He would give them extremely high marks without hesitation and regard them as future academic stars.
But what is the scene that appears before his eyes at this moment?
This student not only didn't get stuck, but actually wrote five whole pages in a smooth and flowing style!
Moreover, he did not use the kind of cumbersome formulas that require rote memorization.
Instead, it uses an extremely shocking, breathtakingly creative, and completely new derivation method that brings the beauty of mathematical structure to its extreme!
Marcelo felt as if his heart was being gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand, each beat pounding wildly in his chest, as if it would explode at any moment!
His fingers, hanging at his sides, were trembling slightly uncontrollably.
He was completely unaware that the cold sweat seeping from his forehead slid into his eyes, causing a stinging sensation.
Because he was horrified to discover that the core ideas he had painstakingly conceived late into the night, which he thought were ingenious, were now being dissected and reconstructed without reservation by the boy's pen, just like dissected specimens!
Not only that!
At the turning point on the fourth page, an extremely rigorous high-dimensional logical deduction path suddenly appeared, one that even he, the one who set the question and an authority standing at the pinnacle of the world's mathematical community, had never imagined!
This kid bypassed the maze he set up and drove his bulldozer through the wall, creating a road to heaven!
"God..." Marcelo screamed inwardly.
"Is a mathematician of unparalleled genius about to be born before my very eyes?!"
So... God wasn't blind after all!
He didn't abandon mathematics!
For the past two long and suffocating decades, the field of fundamental mathematics has been stagnant, with no groundbreaking advancements that could overturn conventional understanding.
Once upon a time, it was that group of proud theoretical mathematicians who stood on the clouds, throwing out equations that led to leaps in engineering technology;
However, the gravity of reality has been reversed, with application engineers now even taking the lead over theory.
The entire world's mathematical landscape is mired in a severe stagnation, like a quagmire.
But this kid in front of me... where did this peerless genius come from?!
Marcelo stared intently at the boy's pen tip, subconsciously swallowing a mouthful of extremely difficult saliva.
He had a fleeting feeling that if the legendary Euler or Gauss were to rise from their coffins and personally appear in this examination room…
That's about it at most!
Swish swish.
At this moment, Su Hao was completely unaware of the Cambridge professor behind him who had almost suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
He was immersed in his whirlwind of thoughts when he finally wrote down the last line of the equation in a smooth and flowing manner.
【QED】
The Latin abbreviation for "proof complete" landed steadily at the very end of the answer sheet.
that moment.
Marcelo, standing to the side, briefly lost his sense of the physical world around him.
His brain completely shut down, plunging into a blank state, and even his breathing stopped completely!
Several seconds passed before his brain, shattered by shock, barely regained a semblance of its ability to think.
As a tenured professor who taught at Cambridge University for thirty years, he has witnessed the rise and fall of countless so-called "geniuses".
At this moment, he was absolutely certain:
He personally witnessed a terrifying talent that surpassed everyone he had ever met in his life, a talent that could crush all previous gold medalists!
At this moment, Su Hao gently exhaled a breath of stale air.
He put down his pen and calmly scanned the answer sheet, which could be described as a work of art, once again.
The logic is perfectly aligned, without a single flaw.
Finally, we managed to drag this monster hiding in the abyss of mathematics out and kill it!
Wow, that feels so good!
His tense nerves relaxed instantly.
Taking down this big boss gave me a strange sense of satisfaction and exhilaration.
He casually raised his head, his gaze unconsciously sweeping over the clock on the wall.
Then, the confident and carefree smile on Su Hao's face froze instantly.
His pupils suddenly contracted, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.
The exam... there are only ten minutes left?!
A chill ran straight to my head!
What the hell!
We're doomed!!!
Su Hao felt a sudden rush of cold sweat soak through his shirt.
He was completely absorbed in the extremely profound thinking he had about question 6, striving to ensure the absolute rigor and flawlessness of the logical derivation...
His solution process was written in too much detail and was too tedious, wasting far too much time!
The result was...
Questions 4 and 5, which were neglected in the first half of the exam paper...
Everything was white.
He hasn't uttered a single word yet!
Just a moment ago, Su Hao was like a god, dominating the mathematical universe. But now, his face has lost all color and turned as pale as paper.
"Holy crap!"
His mind was instantly filled with the image of countless alpacas trampling wildly!
Now, the first thought that comes to mind is not Shen Yuxuan's death order that "we must achieve an overwhelming result at the IMO".
They didn't even think about grand narratives like "winning glory for the country."
At this moment, across the dark night on the other side of the ocean, only Su Hui's words struck his heart heavily.
"Brother, you must bring back the gold medal that was given to me!"
The clear, childlike voice pierced through the oppressive silence of the examination room.
He knew his younger sister's personality all too well.
Right now, that girl is probably hunched over her desk, yawning and excitedly sketching herself in her sketchbook, looking vain with her gold medal on her arm.
A gentleman keeps his promises, even to a child.
If the promise falls through, the dimming light in those clear eyes will be a sorrow that Su Hao absolutely cannot bear!
No! Absolutely not!
A drop of extremely cold sweat slowly slid down his slightly thin back, seeping into his clothes, conveying a sense of stagnation that was almost desperate.
He glanced quickly at questions 4 and 5, his brows furrowing in worry.
Deconstruction will take ten minutes;
I need another ten minutes to put pen to paper.
It takes at least twenty minutes to finish one question.
There is simply not enough time left to fill the gaps between these two major questions.
Under the rules of the IMO, the rigor of the solution steps is also included in the total score, so there is no way to cut corners.
Have we really reached a dead end?
Damn it! Could it be...?
Now that things have come to this, is that last resort all we have?!