7. Seventeen
As soon as my mother opened the door, the reporter Han Se-gi said that he was a reporter, took off his shoes and entered the house without hesitation.
His mother was momentarily perplexed by his actions, but soon regained a calm expression.
One century reporter found me in the living room and ran towards me.
“Five! Are you Jungho?”
Before I could even open my mouth, I could hear my mother’s sharp voice.
“Chae Jung-ho! Go to your room right now!”
The reporter of the century Han looked at my mother with a surprised expression, and she continued to speak to me in a still cold voice.
“What if I come home from school without telling the teacher? I go into my room and reflect on how worried the teacher must have been!”
And my mother gave me a slight wink.
ah! I knew my mother’s intentions.
I made a grim expression on my face and lowered my head.
“Yes, Mom.”
The bewildered voice of a century-old reporter was heard.
“haha. Home education is very strict.”
I entered the room and left the door slightly open.
I don’t know if this was on purpose, but my mother served me a drink and induced a century-old reporter to sit at the table with my back to my room.
Thanks to this, I was able to directly listen to the conversation between my mother and reporter Han Century through the gap in the door.
Short greetings were exchanged, and a reporter Han Century said.
“I have to finish the article soon, so I’ll start the interview right away. Have you ever thought that your son had any special talents or abilities?”
My mother said with a relaxed expression.
“I do not know… By the way, did you say that your last name is a reporter of the century?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“A journalist… Are you married?”
“I am still single.”
“That’s right. then… You haven’t raised a child yet, have you?”
“Yes, it is.”
“Hmm… Most parents say that when raising a child, they think that their child is a genius. So, of course, there were many times when I thought that Jung-ho was a genius.”
“haha… yes… .”
With a slightly bewildered smile, he opened his mouth again.
“The contents of Jungho’s notebook were sent to the professor of mathematics at Hankuk University… .”
My mother cut off the words of a century-old reporter.
“ah! right! Because it was two years ago… Jeongho was six years old.”
“Yes Yes.”
“At that time, I went on a live broadcast called ‘Challenge IQ 250’ at KBC. At that time, the father of the child was very polar.”
“ah! Really? After all, you have had a genius temperament from a young age!”
The mother opened her mouth with a relaxed expression.
“Well… But then it was decided that I wasn’t a genius.”
“yes?”
Mother let out a short sigh with a sad expression on her face.
“He said he wasn’t a genius.”
“ah… .”
There was a moment of silence with the reporter’s disappointing exclamation, and the mother, who was thirsty with a drink, asked the reporter.
“By the way, didn’t you try to talk to a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Hankuk University a while ago?”
“Yes, yes, that is right.”
Even at first glance, the mother firmly held the initiative in the conversation.
A century reporter took a piece of paper out of his bag and showed it to his mother.
“Are you familiar with this writing?”
“Yeah, that’s a familiar handwriting.”
In response to her mother’s answer, a reporter from Han Century continued to speak triumphantly.
“I showed this to two professors of mathematics at Hankuk University today.”
The mother nodded silently, and he continued.
“The two of you say that this is the process of solving the most difficult problem in the history of mathematics.”
Mother said with a calm expression.
“He said yes.”
The voice of a century journalist rose to her mother’s answer.
“Five! Then you knew!”
“sure. I know. It was written by my husband.”
“yes?! I beg your pardon?”
Irrespective of the startled voice of a century-old reporter, the mother still spoke in a calm voice.
“It was written by my husband. this… What hypothesis are you talking about? Anyway, my husband is a math major, so it’s a hobby I do. I think I lost my notebook to take notes, so I wrote it down in Jeongho’s notebook for a while.”
“really… Are you?”
Mother said with a smirk.
“no way… You didn’t think our Jeong-ho wrote this, did you?”
“… .”
The reporter of the century was sitting with his back to my room, so I couldn’t see his face, but it seemed that his disappointing face was drawn before my eyes.
The mother drank the juice with a relaxed expression and set the empty juice glass down on the table.
“Did you come to my house because of this?”
“yes… .”
With the answer, reporter Han Se-gi packed his belongings and opened her mouth with a smile on her face.
“And this is what I always say to Jung-ho.”
“… ?”
“When you go to a friend’s house, say hello to the adults first, and when the owner of the house tells you to come in, then go inside.”
“that is… What are you talking about… ?”
Instead of answering, my mother glanced at the front door of our house, and then stared at the face of a reporter of the century.
After a moment of silence, reporter Han Century let out a low sigh, as if he remembered when he entered our house.
“… ah!”
“Even if no one taught me when I was young, I’m telling you because I think you should know that level of courtesy.”
“… … .”
The reporter of the century had his face turned red and ran away from our house.
So, a century ago, the reporter left, and my mother called me to the table.
My mother asked, pointing to the paper left by a reporter of the century.
“Jungho, is this what you did?”
It was a copy of my notebook.
“… … .”
“You know you shouldn’t lie to your mother, right?”
After a while, I opened my mouth.
“yes… Right.”
“Can you tell Mom what this did?”
After my long explanation, my mother thought for a moment before opening her mouth.
“Mom was right.”
“yes?”
“Mom had been feeling it before. Our Jung-ho is hiding his talent on purpose.”
“I’m sorry, Mom.”
“Are you sorry? Mom likes our Jung-ho to be an extraordinary person, but… On the other hand, I used to think that I would like to grow up normally like other children.”
“Mom. then… .”
“why?”
“then… For Dad, this is… Can you keep it a secret?”
I waited for my mother’s answer with a nervous expression.
past life.
My father strongly opposed my entering a public school, and I had to complete elementary, middle and high school education through the GED according to my father’s opinion.
Of course it would be for me, but… My father emphasized that I, with the highest intelligence, should produce the best results compared to others.
In my father’s education, the most important thing was the proof of my superiority.
For example, in the GED exam, grades do not appear on the transcript, and my father was very sorry for this fact.
So, what my father wanted was the youngest pass in the GED.
Because I can prove my superiority through the youngest pass.
This life, if my father found out about my genius, I felt like I would have to walk the path of my previous life again.
My mother looked at my face and nodded.
“By the way, Jung-ho must be very bored at school… Is that okay?”
“It can’t be helped, huh?”
After thinking for a moment, my mother pointed to my notebook and said.
“Jeong-ho, is this Riemann hypothesis interesting?”
The problem I’ve been clinging to in my past life is Poincaré’s conjecture.
The Poincaré conjecture, a topological problem, will be solved 14 years later, in 2002.
The Poincare conjecture is proven by a Russian mathematician named Grigory Perelman, who, like Perelman, thought that the Poincare conjecture should be solved analytically rather than geometrically.
So I remember Perelman’s proof better than anyone else.
But I will not intercept his achievements.
The Poincaré conjecture will be left for Perelman to prove himself in 2002.
After the Poincaré conjecture, the next most attractive question to me is the Riemann hypothesis.
The Riemann Hypothesis containing the secret of prime numbers.
The Riemann hypothesis explains not only the regularity of prime numbers, but also the regularity of nuclear energy levels in quantum mechanics.
Therefore, the Riemann hypothesis is nicknamed the Creator’s Code.
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Not only this.
If the Riemann hypothesis is proved and the regularity of prime numbers is found, the probability that modern cryptosystems built on the basis of huge primes will collapse is very high.
In the near future, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin will lose their value, and not only the personal information of the people managed by the state, but also the encrypted communication information from the military information of each country will be unraveled without difficulty.
That is why the CIA daily monitors all mathematical papers related to the Riemann hypothesis.
Because of this enormous influence, there have even been rumors that mathematicians who have come close to the truth of the Riemann hypothesis will die or become mentally ill for unknown reasons.
Even if you are not a math major, the Riemann hypothesis was a very attractive problem.
When my mother asked if the Riemann hypothesis was interesting, I said:
“yes. it’s fun.”
“Then do you want to continue studying it?”
I hesitated at my mother’s question.
Despite such an attractive problem, few mathematicians study the Riemann hypothesis.
One reason is that the problem is too difficult, but in order to approach the Riemann hypothesis, it is necessary to have comprehensive knowledge covering almost all fields of mathematics.
In addition, there are papers that need to be checked to properly start the Riemann hypothesis, and there are more than a dozen papers that come to mind right now.
Where did I get these papers?
Again, the Riemann hypothesis is not the kind of problem that can be easily started if you want to.
Past Life My PhD advisor, Dr. There is a saying that Hamilton often used to say.
Go farther and fare worse.
It means that the more you greedy, the more you will lose.
Yeah, I’m sorry, but… I decided not to be too greedy.
I said to my mother’s question.
“I want to… I think it will be difficult now. When I grow up and go to university, I want to study properly.”
Perhaps she noticed my regretful expression, my mother just nodded her head silently without saying a word.
two days later.
When I returned home from school, there was a guest in my living room.
It had been over two years since I saw him, but I could recognize him at a glance.
He was Professor of Mathematics, Korea University, Park Soo-Soo.