God sits across from the chessboard. It's not the god of Go, it's the "dichotomy" itself - winning or losing, right or wrong, life or death, presence or absence. The same thing is behind all the two-choice systems invented by humans. It is parasitic in Go, in mathematical axioms, in legal provisions, and in encryption algorithms. The nineteen-way chessboard is just its smallest manifestation.
Chi Yan is twenty-seven years old and an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at MIT. She graduated with a bachelor's degree at the age of sixteen, solved a problem in topology that had been stuck for twelve years at the age of nineteen, and then disappeared for four years.
During those four years, she followed a ninety-year-old mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Before he died, the old man showed her a stack of manuscripts, which contained a conjecture: all symbol systems created by humans share the same skeleton at the bottom, and there is a gap in the middle of the skeleton. The old man calls it "Gödel's gap" - where all true knowledge grows.
Chi Yan couldn't remember most of what happened in those four years when he woke up. Not remembering the purely logical space you enter every night after falling asleep. Can't remember the conversation with "something".
Until she was in her Boston apartment at four o'clock in the morning, spreading more than a hundred pages with the same arc across the table. There are countless points on the arc, and the order and depth of the points hide the same set of numbers. The set of numbers were superimposed on the bifurcation of the lifeline in her palm - the angle was accurate to four decimal places. It completely coincides with the computer-generated three-dimensional surface diagram from a variation of her doctoral thesis.
She solved the same equation every night for four years. And the solution of the equation points to a coordinate.
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