45. Hanon Ninety Seven
30 minutes later.
Detective Park returned to the office and held a red plastic basket in his hand.
He handed the basket to Team Leader Kim Jung-soo and said.
“It is the belongings of So Su-jeong. I brought it in for a while before sending it to the detective department.”
Team leader Kim Jung-soo said with a broad smile.
“ha ha ha—! what? Detective Park, do you use mind-reading?”
“When you told me to confiscate your belongings earlier, you gave me a signal. I have that kind of insight.”
“haha–! Yes, thank you.”
“Please check quickly. He will be waiting for you in the criminal department.”
Team leader Kim Jeong-soo picked up a notebook in the basket, and Detective Park hesitated for a moment before opening his mouth.
“Team leader, no matter what, I’m a reporter… Is this okay?”
“No.”
“By the way… Why?”
Team leader Kim Jung-soo said with a smirk.
“I don’t know either. Why? Is it because I’ve been thinking a lot these days?”
“… .”
“Anyway, you shouldn’t imitate me just because you’re angry. There’s nothing good about pretending to be with reporters. As long as the reporter’s pen is properly inserted into the back of the head, it’s not a problem for the hair to fly away.”
“Still, to be honest, I felt really refreshed. ha ha ha—!”
Team leader Kim Jung-soo smiled and unfolded reporter So-jeong’s notebook.
Team leader Kim Jeong-soo’s expression hardened as he turned the notebook one by one.
– High school student living in Namseo Apartment Building 105
– Jeon Jeong-wook, Choi Su-jin, Choi I-soo, Park Eun-seok, Choi In-cheol, Lee Geun-su
Among these six names, Jeon Jeong-wook, Choi Su-jin, and Lee Geun-su were marked with an X.
At that moment, the phone on Detective Park’s desk rang, and Detective Park got up and said after finishing the phone call.
“Team leader, the items confiscated by So-Jeong reporter, I think we should take it now.”
That evening.
Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Evidence Storage.
When team leader Kim Jeong-soo entered the storage, the employee who was sitting at the entrance of the storage got up and saluted.
“Loyalty!”
Team leader Kim Jeong-soo said with a salute.
“It’s been a while, cop, hasn’t it?”
“Yes, I was on vacation last week.”
“Looking at your face, did you have a good vacation?”
“haha–! It was just that. I, but… Team leader Kim Jung-soo?”
“yes?”
“I’m sorry… You must leave your bag here.”
Team leader Kim Jeong-soo looked at the policeman without saying a word.
After a moment of silence, the police officer opened the iron window and said,
“Then go in.”
Team leader Kim Jeong-su took his bag and went into the storage room.
Shortly thereafter, team leader Kim Jeong-soo came out of the archives, and policeman Lee said.
“then… Today, I will not record the arrival of the chief.”
Team leader Kim Jeong-soo said with a smirk.
“No, write it down. Didn’t you say that police officer Lee is giving birth to his wife next month? Now that I am a father, I have to learn to take care of myself.”
“… .”
“And the case number is 97-West-139-3877.”
“then… In this case, what kind of evidence are you taking?”
“All.”
* * *
It is now the end of April.
It has already been more than a fortnight since I met Team Leader Kim Jung-soo, but there has been no case so far that the police have contacted In-cheol.
It seems that In-cheol was very surprised by this.
He vowed never to make a virus again, and even declared that he would stop learning antivirus algorithms to detect viruses.
By the way, the reason Incheol gave up studying vaccine algorithms… .
read at noblemtl.com
No matter how I think about it, it seems like an excuse made to spend more time with the author instead of me.
under—-! Choi In-cheol, this traitor’s child.
Anyway, since nothing had happened to In-cheol so far, I thought that the investigation into the hacking case of the education office had been quietly closed… Actually, it seems that wasn’t the case.
It was after returning home from school.
I sat in front of the phone and hesitated for a while.
It was because of the article ‘The Importance of the Press’ that appeared in today’s own newspaper.
It wasn’t news of an important event, it was a short article in the lower corner of the social page.
It was news that Inspector Kim Mo of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency was fired.
Inspector Kim said that he destroyed the evidence of the hacking case he was in charge of, and that he was immediately fired from the National Police Agency.
However, it is said that the person who uncovered the truth of this deliberate destruction of evidence is a reporter from the National Police Agency, not the prosecution or the police.
The article ends with the conclusion that the media plays an important role in monitoring state institutions, taking these examples.
The first thing that came to mind was Kim Jung-soo, the team leader, when he heard that he was a Inspector-level police officer in charge of the hacking case.
I finally picked up the handset and dialed the number given to me by team leader Kim Jeong-soo at the end of March.
-Yes, I am Sergeant Park Yeon-san of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Hacker Investigation Unit.
But this voice… .
Last time I met Team Leader Kim Jung-soo, it was the voice of a man in the passenger seat of the car.
“hello. Can I speak to Team Leader Kim Jung-soo?”
– Team leader Kim Jung-soo is not currently working in the hacker investigation team.
“then… Have you ever moved to another place?
-I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you that due to internal regulations.
“then… Can I leave a message for Team Leader Kim Jung-soo?”
– Team leader Kim isn’t here right now, so it’s going to be difficult.
“all right.”
As soon as I put the handset down, the phone rang.
Just in case, I got a call right away.
“hello?”
“uh? It’s Ho Jung! haha! I was startled to hear your voice before the phone rang.”
Yoon-seok was the older brother.
“brother! hello.”
“How have you been?”
“sure. But hyung, you called because you needed the zero value of the Riemann zeta function, right?”
“haha! Did you notice?”
“Anyway, the calculation was completed a few days ago, so I tried to contact hyung.”
“ah… ! okay? So how many did you find this time?”
“I found 500,000.”
Last summer, I gave 1 million zeros to my brother, and since then I’ve sent him five more times, so if you add up these values, you have a total of 4 million zeros.
“Wow! Is your computer okay?”
“The power was broken, so I recently switched to a new one. Fortunately, the motherboard and CPU are still in good shape.”
“If your computer breaks down later, I guess I’ll have to buy one?”
“really? Buy a CPU, not a computer! Recently, the Pentium 2 CPU is new.”
“OK! I can buy that much.”
“I am not going to give up. haha!”
“Yes, yes. So, shall we meet tomorrow?”
“Good tomorrow.”
The next day, Pizza Hot near Northwest High School.
After ordering pizza and salad, I took out five boxes of 3.5-inch diskettes from my bag and handed them to my brother.
“Thank you so much!”
“Thank you. I am looking for it because I need it.”
Yoon Seok-yi hyung nodded and said.
“therefore… How is the proof of the Riemann hypothesis going?”
“Is it possible? Nothing else, it’s a Riemann hypothesis!”
“Well, it is not.”
“By the way, I found another interesting thing these days.”
“Five… ! okay? What?”
“You know what I said last time. Pythagorean theorem.”
Yoon Seok-yi hyung nodded and said.
“Are you referring to the rule found in the Riemann zeta function distance values between self-explanatory and non-obvious zeros?”
“yes. But the rules are being repeated.”
“… ?”
“There are a total of 500,000 zeros on that diskette.”
“Then, if you add up all the zero values found so far, there are 4 million in total, right?”
“yes that’s right. And I think the rule I mentioned repeats after 3.6 million. To be precise, after 3,628,800.”
“3628,800? What does this number mean?”
“I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but 10 factorial is exactly 3,628,000.”
Factorial or factorial uses the exclamation mark operator (!), and factorial of 10 is calculated as follows.
10! = 10 x 9 x 8 x … x 3 x 2 x 1 = 3628800
“It repeats every 10 factorials. What does this mean? Is it something to do with the gamma function?”
Instead of answering, I smiled slightly, and my brother continued.
“Still, it’s been great so far. With this level of regularity, shouldn’t we have to prepare a thesis first?”
“I’m going to wait a little longer.”
“why?”
“If I publish a thesis in the current state, I think it will end like a watermelon. If I study more and can mathematically explain the meaning of the ten factorial, then I want to write a thesis with a proper explanation.”
“really? But if you write a thesis like that, won’t you get the Fields Medal right away?”
Fields Medal or Fields Medal.
It is called the Nobel Prize in mathematics and is the highest award a mathematician can receive.
The winners are announced at the World Mathematical Competition held every four years, and the Fields Medal is also famous for being awarded only to mathematicians under the age of 40.
So… Mathematicians over the age of forty cannot receive the Fields Medal, even if they prove the Riemann hypothesis.
I laughed at Yoon Seok-yi hyung’s story of the Fields Medal.
“Hehehe, the Fields Medal isn’t a school award, can anyone get it?”
At my joke, Yoon Seok-yi hyung said with a slightly serious expression.
“Even if you think about the thesis… Do you think there is something you are thinking about?”
The method I’m thinking of is none other than string theory.
In the past, string theory assumed that our universe was a 9-dimensional world, not a 3-dimensional world.
There are finally 5 superstring theories that assume 9 dimensions… .
These five theories did not agree with each other, revealing contradictions, and string theory was regarded as a failed theory.
The physicist who made use of this failed theory was Edward Witton.
Recently, he combined five contradictory string theories into one and derived the M-theory.
In other words, by assuming that outer space is 10 dimensional instead of 9 dimensional, the contradiction arising from the existing superstring theory was overcome.
10-dimensional space, and the 10-factor rule.
As a simple example, the factorial of 10 is equal to the number of all cases where 10 different balls fit into 10 different pockets.
In other words, all cases of assigning 10 different coordinate values to 10 different dimensions are 10 factorials.
That is, the repeating regularity at the non-obvious zeros of the 3628800 Riemann zeta function is… It means that perhaps the universe is connected with the M-theory, which assumes that it is a 10-dimensional world.
Of course, it could just be a coincidence.
But if it’s not a coincidence… .
And if you can find a link between the two… .
Could that link be the key to prove the Riemann hypothesis?
When I finished my explanation, Yoon Seok-yi hyung nodded and said.
“So you’ve been studying string theory for a long time, haven’t you?”
“There is a reason for that, and string theory is actually interesting.”
“Anyway, I think I’m doing well, to the point where I’m a little jealous. That’s great.”
I said scratching my head.
“It’s just the beginning.”
“Have you even talked to Professor Park Soo-soo?”
“Yes, I met the professor last week and showed the results of regularity.”
“okay? What does the professor say?”
“I just said thank you.”
“really? thank you? Jung-ho, to you?”
I nodded, and my brother asked me with a curious expression.
“What the hell is it, the Komau era?”
While I was trying to answer, the bulgogi pizza I just ordered came out.
Yoon Seok-yi hyung said.
“Five… ! looks delicious! I’ve been very hungry since before, but let’s fill our stomachs first and talk more.”