I Will Not Live as a Genius

39. Hanon Sixty Seven

After that day, Dr. Kim visited our house two more times, and the terms of the contract were added one by one at the request of her mother.

Specific provisions were added to the contract, such as the contract period and contract extension method, down payment and copyright royalties payment method, copyright registration and exclusive use scope of copyright, copyright holder confidentiality, termination and penalty fee, etc.

As a result, the one-page Korean contract grew to a whopping seven pages, and the algorithm I created was named ‘CJH Algorithm’.

The most important thing is not to hand over the entire copyright of CJH algorithm to Wolfram.

Instead, Wolfram exercised the exclusive right to the CJH algorithm, paid me twice a year, and renewed the exclusive right every three years.

At first glance… The royalty method seems to pay a lot less compared to handing over the copyright in its entirety.

That’s because Wolfram’s current total license income isn’t that great.

However, Wolfram will soon become a company that divides the global market in the field of mathematical tools for research, and Wolfram’s Mathematica program will be installed on the computers of many universities not only in the United States but also around the world.

In other words, huge license revenue is generated.

Also at my request… .

An exception has been added for countries in which Wolfram has monopoly rights.

For non-commercial use only, I have decided to have the right to use the CJH algorithm in Korea.

It was because of the requests of researchers pouring in after Professor Park Soo-soo’s speech.

This would be enough to save Professor Park’s face.

The day the contract is signed.

Dr. Kim asked me.

“By the way… Is there any reason to include North Korea?”

I said with a smirk.

“If you leave out North Korea and add South Korea… It can become ambiguous later when unification is achieved.”

* * *

Two years later, in the summer of 1996.

Yoon Seok-yi hyung handed me the bound master’s thesis and said,

“Check the first page first.”

Out of curiosity, I opened the cover of the thesis.

＜Inspired by CJH.>

I said with a bright smile.

“thanks. By the way, isn’t this plagiarism?”

“uh… ! I heard it and it is Do I have to get permission from Professor Yoon for this? ha ha ha—.”

“Major, how are you doing?”

The major’s older sister is now a professor.

My sister, who completed her doctoral defense last year, was officially appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Texas State University.

Major older sister wrote ＜Inspired by CJH.> on the first page of her doctoral thesis, and Yoon Seok-yi also put my initials on the first page of his thesis in the same way.

In response to my question about the safety of the major older sister, Yoon Seok-yi hyung said.

“I hear from time to time through Professor Park, but he seems to be very busy.”

From research proposals to thesis writing, lecture preparation, and graduate student guidance… .

Your first year as an assistant professor is probably crazy.

While I nodded, Yoon Seok-hyung asked with a slightly mischievous expression.

“By the way, is schooling fun these days?”

“sure! Last week we learned the Pythagorean theorem.”

My brother laughed and said.

“Five… ! The Pythagorean theorem, you learn something important.”

I handed the piece of paper I brought to my brother and said,

“Right. It’s really important.”

Saying that the Pythagorean theorem is really important… .

This was no joke.

While Yoon Seok-yi hyung was checking the paper I gave him… .

I skimmed through my brother’s master’s thesis.

It looked pretty thick… Again, the total number of pages is 239 pages.

However, the actual content of the paper was only 83 pages, and after page 84, it is an appendix.

The appendix was full of numbers.

These numbers are none other than the non-name zero values of the Riemann zeta function obtained to 10 decimal places… In this way, a total of 400,000 non-name zero values filled the remaining 150 pages of the dissertation.

While Seok-Yi Yoon was writing his master’s thesis using these 400,000 zero values, I also used these zero values to analyze various things, and recently I found an interesting pattern.

The distance between two points in two-dimensional coordinates is found using the Pythagorean theorem.

For example, the distance between two points whose respective coordinates are (a1, b1), (a2, b2) is the square root of the value (a1-a2)^2 + (b1-b2)^2.

There are two kinds of zero points of the Riemann zeta function.

One type is non-obvious zeros, and the other type is self-evident zeros.

The double non-obvious zeros are located on the critical line with the real part of 1/2, and the self-evident zeros lie on the negative x-axis with the imaginary part of 0 at intervals of two.

That is, -2, -4, -6, -8, … Negative even numbers that follow are the parameter self-explanatory zeros.

Some time ago I tried to find the distance between self-evident and non-obvious zeros using the Pythagorean theorem… An interesting rule was discovered from the distance value obtained in this way.

Yoon Seok-yi hyung looked at the paper I gave him and said.

“Oh oh… ! This is really amazing.”

“Is that right?”

“But it seems that the calculated distance value is slightly off?”

“Right. However, it seems that there is a certain rule hidden in the discrepancy error. So I am looking for it these days.”

“Oh oh! Aren’t you really going to solve the Riemann hypothesis by doing this?”

“ha ha ha—! I’m not at that level yet. It’s like discovering a new pattern.”

“So, are you still calculating the non-salt zero point these days?”

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Now we have 3 computers in our house.

My mother is using the 486 computer I bought two years ago for translation work, and I am using two of the latest Pentium computers.

One of these is for computation, the computer used to find the non-name zero of the Riemann zeta function.

“It’s too hot these days, so I’m taking a break. When the weather gets cooler, I’ll try to start again.”

Yoon-seok asked hyung with a puzzled expression.

“that is… What does the weather have to do with it?”

“I didn’t know it in the winter, but in the summer the computer gets so hot that I can’t keep it running.”

“Oh, right? Is that enough? So, how many zeros have you found so far?”

“I just found up to a million recently.”

“OMG… You tortured me a lot.”

“yes? Torture?”

“Computer advisor! If you listen closely next to your computer, you will hear something like this?”

“what… sound?”

“Oh, kill me… .”

Seeing you make such a sloppy joke often… It seems that Yoon Seok-yi’s older brother is also a graduate student in mathematics.

I turned the topic around and asked Yoon-seok-hyung.

“Hyung, what are you going to do after graduation?”

There is a story I heard from Professor Park Soo-soo a while ago.

Professor Park suggested that Yoon Seok-yi go to a doctorate, but Yoon Seok-yi turned down the offer.

Yoon Seok-yi hyung answered my question.

“There is a small company started by a senior hyung I know, and I want to go into it.”

“A small company? Isn’t it a big company?”

Yoon-seok-hyung nodded his head at my question.

“why? Did you get paid a lot there?”

“no… The salary is, well, almost pocket money.”

Huh, this can be… !

I know that mathematics is not an advantageous major for employment.

Still, Seok-Yi Yoon majored in applied mathematics, so I thought it wouldn’t be difficult to get into a financial company… It seems that getting a job is not easy.

Perhaps he noticed my worried expression, Yoon Seok-hyung said with a smirk.

“I’m going in on purpose. I want to learn how to run a company.”

“If it’s a company run, maybe… ?”

“Yeah, right. I want to start a venture later. I am preparing for computer security.”

“When it comes to computer security… Hacking or antivirus or something?”

“right. And I also decided on the first business item.”

“Oh oh! business item! As I say this, there seems to be something. By the way, what is that business item? ah… ! Is it a secret?”

Yoon Seok-yi hyung said with a smile.

“haha–. It’s not a secret, actually, this is… Jung-ho, you told me.”

Did I tell Yunseok hyung about business items?

It’s true that I came up with my brother’s thesis idea, but… I never talked about business with my brother.

I shook my head left and right, and Yunseok-hyung opened his mouth.

“In the winter two years ago… Do you remember the academic conference hosted by the Association of Mathematicians?”

“yes.”

“Then after my presentation, you taught me how to trace back the random number generator.”

“ah… ! i get it.”

“After listening to your words, I studied random number generation algorithms, and this field was also very interesting. In particular, it is widely used in uncertainty analysis, and it seems that the analysis results often change depending on the selection of the random number generator.”

I looked at Yoon Seok-hyung, who was talking excitedly.

In such a case, Yoon Seok-yi’s hyung is also a celestial mathematician.

Yoon-seok-hyung continued speaking in a slightly excited voice.

“I selected 13 random number generation algorithms and made a random number matrix just like that time. Instead, this time the number of non-zero zero points has been greatly increased… So each algorithm came up with a different pattern.”

“Really?”

Yoon Seok-yi hyung nodded and said.

“Even with the same algorithm, if random numbers are generated under different conditions, even minute patterns are vaguely captured. If the… .”

Yoon Seok-yi hyung looked around and continued speaking in a low voice.

“If the… If we increase the number of non-name zeros by one million, I think we can capture all these subtle patterns.”

This means that in fact, it becomes possible to trace back the random number generation algorithm.

Of course, this is not to say that cryptographic systems can be hacked.

However, since most cryptographic systems are created based on random numbers, if you know what random number generation algorithm is used, it becomes possible to predict key features of the cryptographic system based on it.

You don’t even need to go to the millennium.

Even in the late 90s, this world will become an information society.

I nodded and said.

“Brother, this… Do you think it will be a huge undertaking?”

“So, I need your help.”

“My help?”

My brother nodded and said.

“There are 1 million zero values for the visa name that you said. I was wondering if you could share it with me… .”

“Absolutely! And I plan to find up to 3 million pieces within this year, and I’ll send it to you as soon as the calculated value comes out. instead… !”

Let me stop talking… The older brother raised his eyebrows and said.

“instead… What?”

I said, pointing to the bulgogi pizza placed in front of the table.

“For every 100,000 zeros, one pizza!”

When I got out of Pizza Hot, I told Yoon Seok-hyung that I would take him to the apartment complex.

“Brother, I’m now in third grade. I’m 16.”

But Yoon Seok-yi hyung shook his head with a determined expression.