Chapter 52: The Revelation
As I strolled into the room, a staff member handed me a microphone, and I nonchalantly pinned it to my blouse.
I glanced at the crowd, full of expectant faces, and cleared my throat. "I’m Maximillian Sullivan, as some of you may already know..." I said with a casual tone, which brought smiles to the audience.
"First, I would like to thank the staff of Harvard for this warm invitation," I continued, prompting the room to erupt in applause.
"Now, I would like to dive into something that has intrigued mathematicians... intrigued US for centuries. The pattern of prime numbers." The audience’s curiosity was picked up.
"Some of you might think that the famous Goldbach Conjecture was my goal from the very beginning, and that’s what I’m here to talk about. But you would be mistaken."
I approached the blackboard.The audience’s collective curiosity hung in the air.
I picked up a piece of white chalk, the dusty residue fell on the floor, and I began to write.
I wrote the formulas and functions of the Riemann Conjecture, which included the Riemann Zeta Function ζ(s)=1^(−s) + 2^(−s) + 3^(−s) + 4^(−s) + ...
As well as the Euler product formula ζ(s) = (1^(−s))(2^(−s))(3^(−s))(5^(−s))(7^(−s))(11^(−s))...
The expansion which connects it to the prime number pattern.
Then, I turned to the audience, "Most of you probably recognize this"