Exploring Immortality Cultivation
Chapter 465 - 218: The Skeleton of Probability Theory [Monthly Ticket Request at Month End, Monday Recommendation Request]

Wang Qi returned to Chen Feng's side with his mana restrained, which surprised them to some extent. As an explanation, Wang Qi said he had borrowed money from a senior and was then severely reprimanded for it.

Chen Feng was undoubtedly the happiest to hear about the incoming merit. He had invested all his assets to cover the deficit, pawning everything except for a few main battle magic artifacts and commonly used tools. Chen Youjia, as a cooperator, also contributed a lot. Even so, the Empirical Department couldn't sustain its operations for a month.

On Earth, it was normal for researchers who made a few hundred dollars per hour to expense thousands on experimental materials. The same was true in Shenzhou; spiritual energy was everywhere, making it difficult to find experimental materials with a stable Spiritual Energy Value of one.

Chen Feng was even mentally prepared to become a working warrior.

Much of the financial crisis was alleviated, and the Empirical Department continued its orderly operations.

The past month had been quite challenging for Wang Qi.

Due to the presence of spiritual energy and constant fluctuations in the energy index, any precision instruments not driven by spiritual power would self-destruct because of energy fluctuations. As a result, all products of the Immortal Dao Civilization in the Immortal Alliance were magic artifacts. Without mana, they were quite useless.

Wang Qi's standard of living plummeted from the Information Age to before the Industrial Revolution.

Without a calculator, he couldn't access the internet; flight and even Qinggong were prohibited; if he wanted to go somewhere, he'd have to either run or walk; night vision and luminescent magic no longer worked, and he had to light the lamps at night honestly; Fasting was out of the question, as he had to eat three square meals a day honestly. Without the support of mana, wearing a vestment robe was like carrying the equipment of a special forces soldier, and to even lift the Kun Mountain Sword, which weighed in tons, was deadly, let alone to wield it.

Extremely inconvenient.

However, Feng Luoyi's earnest efforts were not in vain. Wang Qi still knew what he should do.

While his brain was in its second developmental phase, he read more books to construct several neural pathways suitable for scientific research; this was the important thing. As for adjusting his Magic Foundation—hadn't he felt a bit itchy in his body these days? That was the Carefree Practitioner lending a hand to fix it for him!

But, staying surrounded by sophisticated magic artifacts without any mana was self-inflicted discomfort, only making life inconvenient. Additionally, Wang Qi had some ideas of his own, which he couldn't and didn't want to show to those in the know. He thought for a moment and remembered he still had the title of Spirit Awakening Master, and it had indeed been quite some time since he visited those Little Demons. So, he decided to stay with them for a while, to sort out his thoughts away from others and to take on his teaching responsibilities.

But right after he moved in, Wang Qi regretted it.

That evening, as he was organizing his thoughts and writing his plan, a little yellow cat perched atop his head, a cat on one shoulder and a bird on the other, while a dog coiled on his lap, and a sheep rubbed against his back. Wang Qi's hands trembled slightly from anger.

Because these students were essentially Demon Beasts that had just undergone Spirit Awakening, with a psychological age no greater than five. But they were Demon Beasts, and Wang Qi was a mortal.

When these mischievous brats realized that "Mr. Wang" had become particularly easy to bully, Wang Qi was overwhelmed by a "Beast Tide." When Hu Buxue pulled him out from the pile of Demon Beasts, he looked especialy pitiful, which was a sorry sight indeed.

On any other day, Wang Qi would have flung the small animals off him. But now...

"I have to admit you guys are stronger... but I will take back control sooner or later..." Wang Qi could only console himself like this, "Anyway, I came here just to avoid Teacher Feng and that guy Youjia..."

Hu Buxue sat across from Wang Qi and pushed a cup of tea toward him, "Mr. Wang is really a good person. Look how much these Demon Creatures love you."

"These annoying brats are driving me crazy... and they really smell," Wang Qi complained angrily. "I think we need to teach these brats the importance of bathing on time!"

"Cats are naturally afraid of water," Hu Buxue consoled him.

At least he should be glad that the half-demon of the Cat Clan's fur was close to that of humans, so they didn't have a natural fear of water…

"These little brats are really annoying to death!"

Hu Buxue covered her mouth and laughed, "These demon creatures still don't quite understand complex human speech, but they can sense malice or goodwill, they just can't control themselves—that being said, Mr. Wang, what are you writing? You seem very busy."

"About some things in mathematics, it's my future research plan—but there are some secrets in it that I can't show you."

Hu Buxue rested her chin on her hands, "I see. I've also heard other lecturers say that Mr. Wang, you are a first-rate arithmetician in Shenzhou—however, aren't your friends also excellent arithmeticians? Why not discuss with them?"

"My level is different from theirs," Wang Qi said arrogantly, and thought to himself, that he had come here just to avoid those two and the group from the outer disciples of Wanfa Sect. Oh right, and also because there were few and rudimentary calculators here, so Teacher Feng couldn't come out.

Wang Qi was now working on a short-term plan for a month and a medium-term plan for the coming year. Moreover, he was drawing on the history of mathematics on Earth.

Next month, they planned to process the pseudo-artificial intelligence inside the ring. Similar work had been carried out many times in Shenzhou, and Feng Luoyi had even given Wang Qi a lesson on this.

Most of this process was still a black box operation because the binary transformation of consciousness was uncontrollable. Everyone knew that doing so would yield a Pseudo Postnatal Will, but no one knew why. Moreover, the algorithm for consciousness was completely incompatible with the existing algorithms.

Consciousness is chaotic; it is vague. Many concepts originating from the human brain are not binary judgments. To analyze with mechanical logic, it's not to say it's wrong, but at the very least, there are shortcuts not being taken.

And to tackle chaos, to handle vagueness, a low level of proficiency in probability theory just won't do.

It's not just this time or this matter, but in the realm of physics as well, chaos mathematics will play a powerful role.

First of all, there is probability theory.

The probability theory of Shenzhou was too backward. Abnormally so.

And to develop probability theory, the simplest method is to grasp the fundamental problems in classical probability theory, that is, the laws of events that are "almost certain to happen."

That is, the Big Number Law.

In Earth's history, Laplace caught this thread, which was then taken over by the Bernoulli Family, expanded by Poisson, creating the splendor of classical probability theory. Chebyshev also caught this thread, and after several generations of hard work, modern probability theory was developed, making it one of the signature disciplines of the Petersburg School.

Both the Poisson's Big Number Law made with Bao Xiaoya, and the Chebyshev's Big Number Law that Chen Youjia was researching, are among the most critical points in probability theory.

Although a skeleton alone does not make a complete field of probability theory, once you have the skeleton, it's much more convenient to add flesh and muscle.

Wang Qi scribbled down on paper several of the most important Big Number Laws—the Sinclair's Law of Large Numbers, Markov's Law of Large Numbers…

Hu Buxue watched Wang Qi buried in his writing, unaware that any formula or concept on that paper, if proven, would add a group of grandmasters to Wanfa Sect. And if someone knowledgeable saw it and understood it all, Wanfa Sect would gain another scholarly sect that was only slightly inferior to the Geting and Li Sect.

Wang Qi knew this too. He was about to start calculating how many of these things that needed confirmation could pile up to elevate his academic status. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)

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