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Chapter 328 - 284: There Has Only Ever Been One Math · Nov 03, 2026

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301 Chapter 301 - 273: The Fish Took the Bait 2026-11-03
302 Chapter 302 - 274: Mr. Yang 2026-11-03
303 Chapter 303 - 274: Mr. Yang 2026-11-03
304 Chapter 304 - 274: Mr. Yang 2026-11-03
305 Chapter 305 - 274: Mr. Yang 2026-11-03
306 Chapter 306 - 275: I Call the Shots in This Group 2026-11-03
307 Chapter 307 - 276: Human Dominoes 2026-11-03
308 Chapter 308 - 277: In Need of an Anchor 2026-11-03
309 Chapter 309 - 277: Needing an Anchor 2026-11-03
310 Chapter 310 - 278: I’ll Explain More Problems to You Tonight 2026-11-03
311 Chapter 311 - 279: Hello, Master 2026-11-03
312 Chapter 312 - 279: Hello, Master (2) 2026-11-03
313 Chapter 313 - 279: Hello, Master (3) 2026-11-03
314 Chapter 314 - 279: Hello, Master (4) 2026-11-03
315 Chapter 315 - 280: Wow—So Much Food 2026-11-03
316 Chapter 316 - 280: Wow—So Much Food 2026-11-03
317 Chapter 317 - 280: Wow—So Much to Eat 2026-11-03
318 Chapter 318 - 280: Wow—So Much Food 2026-11-03
319 Chapter 319 - 281: We Can Make This Needle 2026-11-03
320 Chapter 320 - 281: We Can Make This Needle 2026-11-03
321 Chapter 321 - 281: We Can Make This Needle 2026-11-03
322 Chapter 322 - 281: We Can Make This Needle 2026-11-03
323 Chapter 323 - 283: Fudan University Open Class 2026-11-03
324 Chapter 324 - 283: Fudan University Public Lecture 2 2026-11-03
325 Chapter 325 - 283: Public Lecture at Fudan University (3) 2026-11-03
326 Chapter 326 - 284: Mathematics, There Is Only One Mathematics 2026-11-03
327 Chapter 327 - 284: Mathematics, There Has Always Been Only One Mathematics (2) 2026-11-03
328 Chapter 328 - 284: There Has Only Ever Been One Math 2026-11-03
329 Chapter 329 - 285: Someone Got Ahead of Us 2026-11-03
330 Chapter 330 - 285: Someone Has Gone Ahead of Us 2026-11-03
331 Chapter 331 - 285: Someone Has Gotten Ahead of Us 2026-11-03
332 Chapter 332 - 286: They Are Gambling 2026-11-03
333 Chapter 333 - 286: They Are Gambling 2026-11-03
334 Chapter 334 - 286: They Are Gambling 2026-11-03
335 Chapter 335 - 287: Never Use Petty Cleverness as a Means to Advance Scientific Research 2026-11-03
336 Chapter 336 - 287: Never Use Petty Tricks as a Means to Advance Research 2026-11-03
337 Chapter 337 - 287: Do Not Use ’Petty Cleverness’ as a Means for Scientific Advancement 2026-11-03
338 Chapter 338 - 288: Got You 2026-11-03
339 Chapter 339 - 288: Got You 2026-11-03
340 Chapter 340 - 288: Caught You 2026-11-03
341 Chapter 341: Li Criterion 2026-11-03
342 Chapter 342 - 289: Li Criterion 2026-11-03
343 Chapter 343 - 289: Li Criterion 2026-11-03
344 Chapter 344 - 290: Joint Training 2026-11-03
345 Chapter 345 - 290: Joint Training 2026-11-03
346 Chapter 346 - 290: Joint Training 2026-11-03
347 Chapter 347 - 291: An Open Invitation 2026-11-03
348 Chapter 348 - 291: Open Call for Papers 2026-11-03
349 Chapter 349 - 291: Public Call for Submissions 2026-11-03
350 Chapter 350 - 292: Your Journal’s Review Process Lacks Rigor, I Decline to Submit 2026-11-03

Chapter 328: Chapter 284: There Has Only Ever Been One Math

It dawned on them.

This little game, which looked like an elementary school math problem,

was a 19th-century mathematician using the simplest of methods to touch the foot of the 20th century’s most colossal mountain.

And a new peak on this very mountain had just been named by the young man standing before them.

Li Dong drew a simple arrow between the two formulas on the blackboard.

Then he looked out at the audience.

”I said this lecture wouldn’t be about Langlands.”

”I didn’t lie to you.”

”I didn’t talk about it.”

He smiled.

”But every word you just heard was, in fact, about it.”

”The question hasn’t changed.”

”a² + b² = n. How many pairs of solutions are there?”

”The answers have.”

”The algebraic perspective tells you to change the number system.”

”The geometric perspective tells you the average order is π.”

”The analytic perspective tells you that π comes from an L-function.”

”They are all, in fact, the same thing.”

”The same thing, just said three times by different people in different languages.”

The hall was utterly silent.

At this, Li Dong’s tone softened, and he slowed his pace.

”I once had a high school teacher.”

”My math teacher.”

”He once said something to me.”

”Of course, I don’t remember his exact words, but I’ll give you the gist.”

”Whether it’s geometry, algebra, analysis, number theory, or combinatorics...”

”They all seem to be in different rooms.”

”But that’s only because the people who built the house put up walls.”

”The walls aren’t the knowledge.”

”The walls are there for the convenience of teaching.”

”When you need the knowledge from another room, you just tear down the wall.”

”Once it’s down, the house becomes one big, open space.”

”This lecture today was about how to tear down those walls.”

The classroom was so quiet you could hear someone in the back row swallow.

Li Dong looked up.

His gaze swept across the audience.

”Fifty years from now, when one of you is standing where I am now, explaining this problem to the next generation...”

”I hope you won’t just tell them how Jacobi wrote that formula,”

”or how Gauss counted those integer points.”

”Tell them one single sentence.”

He paused.

”Mathematics... there has only ever been one kind of mathematics.”

”It passes through different windows, casting different shadows.”

”Those of us who do math have only one task in our entire lives—”

He looked up.

”To pass through those shadows and find that single beam of light.”

For half a second, the classroom was dead silent.

Then, one person began to clap.

Immediately after, everyone else rose to their feet and joined in.

More than five hundred pairs of hands.

The resulting applause was so thunderous it felt like it would blow the roof right off the Guanghua Building.

Unceasing.

Li Dong stood at the lectern.

He didn’t move.

Below, the audience’s eyes were fixed on him.

They couldn’t put a name to the feeling.

They just felt that this young man at the front of the stage...

...had so much more behind him.

The place he wanted to lead them was a place they couldn’t see.

They didn’t know where it was.

Perhaps it was the very end of mathematics.

Perhaps it was a star that would only become visible a hundred years from now.

But they just felt...

...that they wanted to follow him.

...

「After the lecture ended, in a small reception room in the Guanghua Building East Main Building.」

The moment Li Dong walked in, Shen Wei stood up.

He didn’t say a word.

He simply extended a hand toward Li Dong.

Li Dong paused for a second, then quickly shook it.

”Academician Shen.”

”My lecture today was a bit subpar. I’m afraid I made a poor showing.”

Shen Wei shook his head.

”I was sitting in the front row.”

”Halfway through, I couldn’t help but start working through the derivations on my own scratch paper.”

He chuckled.

”If you call that a ’poor showing,’ then no one else can give a good lecture.”

Wu Jianguo, who was beside them, also chimed in.

”Li Dong.”

”I came to this lecture today mainly to show my support.”

”As someone in surface physics, there’s not much I can usually understand in a specialized math seminar.”

He paused.

”But after your lecture today, something suddenly occurred to me.”

”In my work on surface physics, there’s a long-standing issue with an energy-level splitting that I could never account for.”

”I had always been trying to solve it from the perspective of crystal symmetry.”

”But when I was sitting out there and heard you say ’change the number system,’ I had a sudden thought.”

”Maybe that problem isn’t meant to be solved from the angle of symmetry at all.”

”Maybe it needs to be viewed from within a ’number system’ I’ve never used before.”

He looked up at Li Dong.

”So, I have to thank you. Your lecture gave me this insight.”

Li Dong quickly waved his hands in dismissal.

”You’re too kind, Teacher Wu.”

”It was just a small lecture.”

Wu Jianguo smiled.

”For you, this may have been a ’small lecture.’”

”But for those of us sitting in the audience, it might have been something more.”

Shen Wei nodded.

”I suspect word of this will reach Shuimu in a few days.”

He gave Li Dong a peculiar look.

”Mr. Qiu over there is probably going to be calling you again.”

”I heard he asked you to lecture at Shuimu, but you haven’t gone yet. Instead, you came to our Fudan University first.”

Li Dong: ...

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