National Treasure Level Scholar

CHAPTER 69

Chapter 69

   What Ming Xia decides to try to prove is actually "1+1", which is listed as one of the world's three major mathematical conjectures, namely "Goldbach's Conjecture".

    It was Wen Yarou's unintentional words that reminded her that "Goldbach's conjecture" is as famous as "Riemann Hypothesis".

    Perhaps, in the eyes of today's people, "Goldbach's conjecture" is not as practical as the "Riemann Hypothesis". After being proved, many formulas and theories can be proved together, as if it is just a mathematician. A meaningless guess came out.

    But just as Copernicus proposed the theory of the center of the sun, the Italian thinker Bruno agreed with his theory and opposed the theory of the center of the earth. He was sentenced as "heretic" and burned to death in Rome's Campo de' Fiori, and was not rehabilitated until four hundred years later.

    Many truths, which may be doubted at the time, will be proved and applied later. Those who do not understand the true meaning of the "Goldbach Conjecture" will only use it as a prop for grandstanding, trying to prove it to bring themselves social fame and prestige.

    But in fact, as an important subject of the distribution of prime numbers, the importance and significance of "Goldbach's conjecture" are actually great.

    ………

    "Contestant No. 6, Ming Xia, get ready to go on stage and start waiting."

    Ming Xia was still recalling her memories of the "Goldbach Conjecture" when she suddenly heard a reminder from a staff member and responded. Quickly withdraw his thoughts and focus on this elite competition.

    As we all know, the National Top Ten Elite Competition of the "Light of Hope" English Talent Competition is actually a speech contest, or it can also be said to be a speech show, which is to satisfy the audience's desire to watch the official competition.

    This year's competition mainly revolves around the word "history". The content of the speech and the audience it attracts are mainly people who like English or history. Excited to listen to popular science.

    After all, this is a program hosted by China Central Television. People who can make it to today's arena are definitely not only good at English, but also have outstanding knowledge, insights, and opinions, which can be used as an example for the current nationals. The existence of benchmarking learning.

    And Ming Xia, as the exceptionally clean HMO number one in the national competition, naturally attracted everyone's attention long ago.

    Today, the topic of Ming Xia's speech is "Silk Road", which is a very famous and very proud historical experience in the history of China.

    The "Silk Road" is divided into two parts: the "Land Silk Road" and the "Maritime Silk Road".

    The "Silk Road on Land" originated in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions, starting from the then capital Chang'an, which is now Xi'an, passing through Gansu, Xinjiang, Central Asia and West Asia, and connecting Mediterranean countries. land passage.

    At the beginning, the "Silk Road on Land" was really just as the name suggests, it was used to transport the silk produced at that time. It was not until the 1870s that the German geological geographer Richthofen named this road the "Silk Road" in his book "China", which was quickly accepted by the academic circles and the public, officially use.

    The "Maritime Silk Road" is a sea channel opened by China in ancient times in order not to "build a car behind closed doors" with foreign countries for transportation, trade and cultural exchanges. It mainly centers on the South China Sea, so it is also called the "South China Sea Silk Road". It was formed in the Qin and Han Dynasties, developed from the Three Kingdoms to the Sui Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and transformed into the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the oldest sea route known today.