Just when Liu Meng had been seeking to solve Goldbach's conjecture, Jobs was indeed looking for him everywhere.

Jobs made a desperate bet and used Apple's remaining large amount of money to develop a smartphone iphone1, the reason was that his daughter felt very unfun holding his mobile phone, and after the basic development was completed, he began to find an agency to check the patent situation, so as to avoid these patented technologies when designing products, and as a result, there was a Chinese man named LiuMeng who applied for more than 1000 patented technologies, mainly for the shape of the mobile phone, home button, multi-touch technology, The definition of the entire system and even the description of the online APPStore, this is simply blocking the research and development direction of iphone1, and it is more comprehensive than Jobs, who insisted on cross-era innovation.

When Cooper, the assistant in charge of researching the current existing technology of smart phones, reported to Jobs, no wonder Jobs was so annoyed, and the frightened Cooper didn't dare to come out, Jobs, who has always been very passionate and not afraid of any difficulties, also got angry and scolded: "Shit, this is stealing while the fire is on, this is a technical rogue." ”

After scolding, Jobs, who calmed down, immediately asked: "Let Bob, the manager of the technology department, also come to see me, we must find a way to avoid these hidden dangers, if we are entangled in these patent technology disputes, our Apple will really lose the last chance to become bigger and stronger." ”

Cooper didn't move, and said helplessly: "I have consulted Bob, if we avoid these patents, our smartphones will not be competitive, and they will not be able to be called epoch-making products." And this guy named Liu Meng is still applying for division. That is to say, even if we improve, he can continue to divide the case and directly say that we infringe. There is no way around these mines. ”

Cooper's work has always satisfied Jobs, because he will predict Jobs's reaction before reporting to work, and do his homework in advance, which will save Jobs a lot of time. After re-entering Apple, he seems to have rediscovered the dream and passion of entrepreneurship at that time, and must make Apple once again attract the attention of the world. To achieve this, he invested the last of Apple's capital to develop smartphones, a battle that could not be lost, and Jobs quickly calmed down. asked, "I need all the details of this Liu Meng." The more detailed, the better. ”

Cooper was obviously prepared, and put a lot of effort into it, took out a thick stack of materials and began to introduce: "Liu Meng, a native of Huaxia, was born in a poor village, and only showed excellent academics in middle school, and after entering the university, he began to be different. Having made a startup journey, this is not the most special. Apparently he is blessed with unique abilities in science and technology, and in the first semester of his freshman year, he solved the difficult problem in number theory, Sitapan conjecture, and was hired as a professor-level researcher by Bingcheng University of Technology, this person seems to have long judged the future development direction of smartphones, has applied for a large number of patents, and seems to know that our company is working hard to develop smartphone products, he has been to the United States, visited our company, Mr. Jobs, you have even met him more than once. ”

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Cooper continued: "Yes, it was in 2005, you met him once after we held the developer conference, and then you met him again at our company's headquarters, this person is extraordinary, after leaving our company, he participated in the "Guinness Intelligence Challenge" program that year, and there was a particularly bright appearance, but after participating in three episodes, he suddenly withdrew and returned to Huaxia, and it is very strange that he disappeared since then, and no one knows where he is. ”

"Gone, no longer in school, isn't there still a start-up company?" Jobs was very interested after hearing the introduction, but for a while he still couldn't remember seeing such a young man, after all, he saw a lot of talented young people a year.

"Yes, I can't find anyone at all, but I just can't find anyone, and after my investigation, I found that he should have been hiding for the past two years to concentrate on solving mathematical problems, and it is very likely that it is the Goldbach conjecture of the century. Cooper said slowly.

Jobs was very surprised, and wondered: "If you can't find him, you still know what he's doing? Cooper, can you pinch it? You're not a gypsy." Jobs was completely relaxed and couldn't help but talk about his dark humor.

Cooper smiled embarrassedly, handed over a copy of the "Nature" magazine and said: "Mr. Jobs said that I naturally don't know divination, and when I was looking for news, I found that just two months ago, Liu Meng published an article in "Nature" entitled "The First Infinite Group of Prime Numbers Appears in Pairs", which caused a sensation among mathematicians and scholars in the world. ”

Jobs opened the journal "Nature" to read the article published by Liu Meng, and wondered: "How do you say that he is studying the Goldbach conjecture? Isn't it an infinite group of primes?" Of course, Jobs did not know much about such esoteric mathematics, although he also knew what the Goldbach conjecture was.

Cooper, apparently anticipating Jobs' question, replied: " The publication of this article has basically been able to establish Liu Meng's status as a world-renowned mathematician, and has successfully attracted the attention of the mathematical community, but this Mr. Liu Meng has never appeared, which shows that his ultimate goal is not this research at all, but only the intermediate results obtained in the research process are published. Goldbach conjecture is the same, twin prime conjecture is also a famous mathematical conjecture, many mathematicians hope to solve the twin prime problem through guò, and then overcome Goldbach conjecture, this Liu Meng has such a big result has not appeared, I guess his goal is Goldbach conjecture, if it can be solved, he is the world's most famous mathematician, even greater than Wiles, who solved Fermat's theorem. ”

This was clearly beyond Jobs's expectations. No matter what field, it will not be an ordinary person to be the best in the world, this Liu Meng is indeed a powerful character. Jobs looked at the paper and frowned, didn't raise his head and said, "Didn't you ask a mathematician friend for advice, explain to me what this twin prime conjecture is all about, and I will also understand." ”

"A prime number is a natural number with only two factors. Whereas, twin primes refer to two primes that differ by 2, such as 3 and 5, 17 and 19, etc. The twin prime conjecture is to say that there is an infinite pair of twin primes. The problem of twin primes is about 200 years old. At the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900. Hilbert included the twin prime conjecture in his famous 23 mathematical problems. To understand the wonder of this problem, you need to have a general understanding of the distribution of prime numbers. ”

"More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid was the first to prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers in natural numbers. This proof is familiar to math enthusiasts. The British mathematician Hardy also talked about this proof in his "The Confession of a Mathematician". With the gradual development of mathematics, people gradually realized that the distribution of prime numbers in natural numbers has certain laws. As the order of magnitude increases, the density of prime numbers becomes smaller and smaller. For example, there are 25 prime numbers within 100. 25 per cent. The prime number within 1 million is only 7.85%. Although the distribution of prime numbers is becoming more and more sparse, its sparseness dù is measurable. ”

"The law of distribution of prime numbers shows that prime numbers are becoming more and more sparse in natural numbers, and that the distance between primes is, on average, getting farther and farther away. Therefore, the twin prime conjecture is all the more fantastic. If the distances between primes are really getting farther and farther apart, then it is not so obvious that there will be infinite pairs of primes with a distance of 2. This seems to indicate that the distribution of prime numbers is rather random rather than an approximately uniform diffusion. This conclusion is consistent with the probability theory that the position of the one-dimensional Standard Brownian motion is on average farther away from point 0 over time. But with a probability of 1 infinite times to turn back to 0 points, it has the same effect. The distribution law of prime numbers is very similar to that of stochastic processes. However, what is even more amazing is this. The position of the prime number is completely deterministic and inherently non-random. ”

Jobs listened very carefully and asked: "The position of prime numbers is completely determined, and there is no randomness, so why did you just say that the distribution of prime numbers is quite immediate?" Jobs was originally the ultimate paranoid, and when he heard Cooper's introduction, he suddenly became interested, and after thinking about it, he suddenly became suspicious.

This is also the problem encountered in Goldbach's conjecture, which is why Kong Jidao understood the certainty of Liu Meng's discrete theory in number theory at that time, and decided that this was the key to solving the problem.

Cooper shook his head embarrassedly, "I don't know about this, I just wrote down what I knew, and I didn't fully understand it, sorry, Mr. Jobs." ”

Jobs didn't blame him either, "Oh, it's okay, you go ahead." ”

And this miraculous Mr. Liu Meng is to prove that there are infinitely many pairs of primes, and the difference is less than 70 million. Although 70 million is a large number, if true, it will be the first time that it has been officially proved that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers with a spacing less than a fixed value. Since the average distance between prime numbers is getting farther and farther away, it is as magical to conclude that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers with a spacing of less than a fixed value than those of infinite groups with a spacing of 2 (the twin prime conjecture). It is worth mentioning that if the spacing between infinitely many groups of zài is less than the primes of a fixed value, then, by taking the subsequence of guò, we can know that at least one number C (less than 70 million) is stored in zài, so that the spacing between infinitely many groups of primes happens to be C. The distance from 70 million to 2 is insignificant compared to the distance from infinity to 70 million. ”

"My mathematician friend said that if Liu Meng's results are correct, it will undoubtedly be a great progress in the world of mathematics, and the impact of the results may even exceed the work done by Chen Jingrun on the Goldbach conjecture. And it means that it is very likely that Liu Meng will solve the Goldbach conjecture. ”

"Now that it's been published, it's proven to be correct, what a headache. Jobs said with a smile.

"The validation of new results in modern mathematics often takes a long time. Because of the new techniques used, the expertise involved is often so advanced that only one or two experts in the world can understand it. Proofs can be long, sometimes thousands of pages long, and many mathematicians have to take the time to look at other people's proofs. Even results published in top math journals may be found to be wrong at some point. As a result, many people, including my mathematician friend, are also skeptical that Liu Meng's results are correct. Cooper explained.

After Jobs listened, one hand kept tapping on the table and thinking, Cooper knew that this was Mr. Jobs's habit of thinking, standing aside and waiting, and after a quarter of an hour, Jobs couldn't help but ask: " Since we can't get around the patent barriers set up by Liu Meng, then we can only get his authorization, so it is not unfavorable for us, using these patents we can block other manufacturers from entering the field of smart phones, hehe, many times unfavorable conditions can be transformed into favorable conditions, just like there is a saying in Huaxia, Saiong is not a blessing. ”

Cooper knew that no matter what the difficulties were difficult for the great Mr. Jobs, he smiled and nodded, in fact, he had already thought in his heart that Mr. Jobs would definitely have a way, he just had to investigate all kinds of information clearly.

However, he immediately thought of another unfavorable condition, and couldn't help but remind: "However, Mr. Jobs, now that Liu Meng is isolated from the world, no one knows where he is, how can we get his authorization, we can't wait forever, so we will lose the opportunity." ”

This question gave Jobs a headache, and suddenly he jumped up from the table and rummaged over and over to find something, Cooper was watching on the side, with a puzzled face, Jobs couldn't find it after rummaging for a while, and he was anxious to rummage through the cabinet in the back, and while looking for it, he muttered: " I know who this Liu Meng is, I remember, he did look for me, and he left me his contact information, this young man was very confident, and told me at the time that I would definitely use it in the future, I just thought he was grandstanding, I didn't expect it to be like this, damn it, where did I put it?"

Cooper was dumbfounded when he heard this, he didn't expect such a thing.

Jobs suddenly rummaged through a small box with miscellaneous items on the table, finally found a note, and exclaimed with joy: "Hell, I finally found it, but fortunately I didn't throw it away here at the time." (To be continued......)

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