851 The Power of One Letter

Pure mathematics problems and the “legendary” mission card were much more interesting for him than money.

He stayed at the office until late.

After Lu Zhou got off work, he sat in his car and gave Wang Peng the letter.

Wang Peng took the letter and raised his eyebrows.

“What is this?”

Lu Zhou: “Send it to Chang’an Avenue, Beijing.”

Wang Peng: “Do I have to go myself?”

Lu Zhou shook his head and smiled.

“Not necessary, just find someone you can trust. Also, if you go, who’s going to drive me around?”

Wang Peng nodded and didn’t ask what was in the letter. He threw the letter into the passenger glove box.

After sending Lu Zhou back to Zhongshan International, he planned on going to the Ministry of State Security office, which was nearby, where he would find someone responsible for the delivery of this important document.

After Lu Zhou returned to his Zhongshan International mansion, he went to take a shower. He told Xiao Ai to make him a cup of warm milk, then went into the study room.

He had made some progress on the Riemann hypothesis. What he needed to do now was to continuously improve the mathematical tools he invented when he researched the Quasi Riemann hypothesis while also reading theses that might inspire him.

He browsed through the Mathoverflow forum, specifically Professor Tao’s page.

Unfortunately, Professor Tao had been rather quiet recently. He had not participated in any new discussions.

Professor Tao was probably still reading Lu Zhou’s latest thesis.

“Is my thesis that difficult to understand?

“I thought it would take him at most a day to finish reading it.”

Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head. He continued to read some of the posts related to the Riemann hypothesis.

After scrolling for a while, he didn’t find any valuable discussion posts. He yawned and closed the site.

[Master, your cup of warm milk is ready! ٩ (•̤̀ᴗ•̤́๑)]

“Thank you.”

The cup warmed up Lu Zhou’s hands as he slowly took a sip.

After migrating into a quantum computer, Xiao Ai’s intelligence level didn’t seem to change much. The milk still tasted the same to Lu Zhou.

Of course, he might not be able to see the changes just yet.

As Lu Zhou stared at the draft paper on the table, a light bulb went off in his mind. He looked at Xiao Ai’s drone and asked, “Xiao Ai, if I asked you to solve Riemann’s hypothesis, how long would it take?”

Xiao Ai hovered there for two seconds silently.

After two seconds, the speaker on the drone replied.

“Master, Xiao Ai can only tell you that the first hundred trillion zeros of the Riemann zeta function are on the critical line… Can Master set an upper boundary for this problem? (°ー°〃)”

Lu Zhou was shocked.

It already finished calculating the hundred trillion zeros?

The best result published in the mathematical world was that the first ten trillion zeros of the Riemann zeta function were on the critical line. This result was jointly published by Gourdon and Demichel, two experts in analytic number theory and computing.

Lu Zhou remembered hearing in Princeton on how long these two experts took to calculate this result, but he didn’t remember the exact time frame. After all, these experts didn’t publish all of the details in their thesis, since the mathematics world wasn’t interested in brute force calculations.

The only thing Lu Zhou was sure was that the number of calculations was way beyond what a normal computer could do, even using supercomputers would take a lot of time and money…

Lu Zhou was visibly astonished.

He didn’t expect the X-1 quantum computer to be able to increase the “best result” of Riemann’s hypothesis by ten times, in just two seconds…

What if I use this thing to crack Wechat pay passwords…

No, forget about Wechat pay.

This quantum computer would be able to solve any encryption built using a prime number architecture.

Xiao Ai: “Master? (°ー°〃)”

Lu Zhou heard Xiao Ai’s question and replied.

He said, “Nothing, I’m going to sleep… Clean up the room.”

Xiao Ai: “Okay! Xiao Ai’s got this! (๑•̀ᄇ•́) و✧”

Lu Zhou looked at how enthusiastic Xiao Ai was and smirked.

Maybe he shouldn’t worry.

But then again, this computer had the capability to destroy security, so he should try to be more careful…

…

It was late into the night.

While Lu Zhou was sleeping, that two-thousand-word letter was transported from Jinling to Beijing.

Two hours after the letter was delivered, the Communist Party of China immediately invited several senior officials into a conference room on Chang’an Avenue.

Many academicians in the field of electrical engineering were also invited.

Some people were already sleeping, but the phone call woke them up, and they headed back to work.

When they received the phone call, they already had a car waiting for them downstairs.

Similar situations had happened before.

The establishment of the controllable fusion project also disrupted Chang’an Avenue overnight.

After all, Lu Zhou had underestimated the influence of his letter.

Of course, it wasn’t just Lu Zhou, Chen Yushan, Yang Xu, and even Professor Wu didn’t expect such a huge response.

But then again, this response made sense.

Not only would the carbon-based chip technology have a huge impact on China, but it would impact the rest of the world in unpredictable ways.

China was relatively behind on the electronics process technology, and they tried to catch up to the likes of America, Japan, Europe, and South Korea.

But now, with the major breakthrough in the carbon-based chips, they could be at the forefront of the computer chip industry.

If they could utilize this advantage…

Then they would be the leader of the industry.