Deep Space Wandering Fleet

Chapter 274 - 274 274 The 2nd Interstellar Voyage (25100

?Chapter 274: Chapter 274: The 2nd Interstellar Voyage (25,100 words!) Chapter 274: Chapter 274: The 2nd Interstellar Voyage (25,100 words!) In five years, as both parties gradually let down their guard, visits between high-level officials became more frequent, especially among scientists…

Scientists must always maintain a strong curiosity about the outside world. The scientists from Gor City eagerly wanted to experience life on a spaceship to prepare for a potential interstellar voyage.

Of course, the Glizerians would always bring some of their own civilization’s technology to exchange.

After necessary security checks and biochemical disinfection, soon, this group of Glizerians, dressed in space suits, re-boarded the “Earth Era” and settled into their own designated living area.

This time, the visitors who had come from afar included some politicians, but most were mathematicians, mainly discussing conjectures regarding “transcendental numbers.” They would reside on the spaceship for half a year.

A small-sized pangolin took the stage, introducing a new method to determine transcendental numbers.

Mathematics is always a universal language within the universe. The Four Ancient Civilizations of humanity each developed their own mathematical systems, entirely independent of each other. As a form of “elegant art,” any civilization that cannot enjoy the pleasure of mathematics is undoubtedly ignorant and uncivilized.

But compared to the endless mathematical problems, the mysteries that humanity has been able to solve are just too few.

Take a simple example, is ? a transcendental number?

It can be proven that it indeed is a transcendental number.

Is the Euler’s number e a transcendental number?

Certainly, it can also be proven!

Then what about e+??

The answer is: we don’t know.

A seemingly simple question, yet it is a world-class difficulty!

Even a math master like Zhang Yuan had no way to determine if e+? was actually transcendental. Human mathematics development up to now could only solve a very limited range of problems. Even if computers can calculate (e+?) to tens of billions of valid digits, compared to infinity, it is almost no different from zero.

However, the exchange between civilizations can indeed rapidly promote the development of these disciplines.

The way of thinking between different civilizations varies greatly, and there are opportunities to learn from each other’s strengths. Such communication is not as simple as 1+1.

Of course, these mathematical problems, at present, are unlikely to have a significant impact on the overall productivity of society; at best, they’re equivalent to top scientists entertaining themselves.

The most precision-demanding spacecraft’s trajectory only requires the value of pi to 15 or 16 decimal places; whether pi is a transcendental number has no great relevance.

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