From small town academic to chief scientist

After eating, Zhou Yi and Xia Xue continued to the library.

Zhou Yi looked at the computer and thought about the real test questions of mathematical analysis and advanced algebra.

The unified examination must take two basic courses. There is no doubt about this.

In terms of the importance of basics and the subjects of the national unified examination, these two courses are the basic courses.

Zhou Yi thought for a long time before he started to come up with questions.

According to statistics from Backstage Peony, at least 10,000 people have signed up for Zhouyi’s master’s degree program.

The students here come from all over the world and are diverse.

From junior college to 985 undergraduate students from prestigious universities.

These people have just experienced the postgraduate entrance examination and are already familiar with the basics.

Regarding junior college students, Zhou Yi was also very confused. Are they here to sign up for fun? No junior college students in the country offer two courses: advanced algebra and mathematical analysis.

Zhou Yi guessed that most of them came to sign up for fun.

Not long after, the Book of Changes published the real test questions for the unified examination of mathematical analysis and advanced algebra.

Its difficulty is even more difficult than the previous unified examination questions from Beijing University and Shuimu University.

The difficulty level is similar to that of the finals of the lower grade group of mathematics majors in the National College Students Mathematics Competition.

If there is no difficulty, Zhou Yi is afraid that these people will get full marks in the exam.

You must know that among this group of people, there are many students who have given up pursuing postgraduate studies, and there are even students who have participated in mathematics competitions and won awards.

If someone accidentally gets a perfect score in the exam, wouldn't it appear that Zhouyi's level is very low?

The key is that Zhou Yi only accepts two people, and their determination to burn everything must not be underestimated.

After finishing the questions for the preliminary examination, Zhou Yi immediately came up with the questions for the re-examination.

Questions are asked from six aspects: functional analysis, real variable functions, complex variable functions, abstract algebra, ordinary differential equations, probability theory and mathematical statistics.

The document Qiu Chengtong gave to Zhou Yi was to ask Zhou Yi to strictly follow the postgraduate entrance examination procedures.

Not only that, students who enter the re-examination will also take an English test.

Until the library closed in the evening, Zhou Yi could not finish the questions required for the re-examination.

After sending Xia Xue back to the dormitory, Zhou Yi went back to the dormitory to wash up, and then started to eat again.

It was more than two o'clock until Zhou Yi finally gave out all the re-examination questions.

After looking at LaTeX, Zhou Yi planned to check everything several times tomorrow before sending it to Qiu Chengtong.

The next day, Zhou Yi ate with Xia Xue in the cafeteria like an undergraduate, and then continued to read the real questions he had given.

After confirming that it was correct many times, Zhou Yi sent it to Qiu Chengtong.

According to some procedures, level-by-level reporting is required.

After doing this, Zhou Yi said softly to Xia Xue:

"I'll go find Dean Miao. You can study here by yourself."

Xia Xue nodded obediently and said:

"Um."

Not long after, Zhou Yi came to Miao Yuan's office.

When Miao Lai saw Zhou Yi, he was a little confused and asked:

"Huh? Why don't you accompany your girlfriend and come to my place today when you have time?"

Zhouyi said:

"The main thing is to ask Dean for help if I have something to do."

Miu Lai thought for a while and said:

"Is there a problem with the unified examination room?"

Zhou Yi nodded and said:

"Yes, that's the problem."

Miu Lai said:

"Generally speaking, candidates for postgraduate entrance examinations find their own test centers to register for the exam. Your situation is very rare and has basically never happened."

Zhou Yi also agreed:

"That's why we gathered together to take the exam. I didn't expect so many people to sign up, as many as 10,000 people."

Miu Lai smiled and said:

"Those who study mathematics may have low emotional intelligence, but they are not stupid. If I study for graduate school with you, I will probably continue to study for a Ph.D. with you. Moreover, you are one of the scheduled candidates for the Philippine Prize in the future. No one will refuse to be with a Philippine Prize winner. Knowledge, and may be the youngest Philippine Prize winner in history.”

Zhou Yi looked embarrassed and said:

"So I would like to discuss with Principal Zhang whether Chongqing University can free up some classrooms as examination rooms."

Miu Lai said:

"Maybe the classrooms of Chongqing University are not enough, and we have to cooperate with universities near SPB to organize it. I will help you contact Principal Zhang and the leaders of Yuzhou Education about this matter. Now that we are in the honeymoon period, they will not refuse such a small thing. ,

Moreover, when tens of thousands of people come to Yuzhou, they will definitely stay, eat and travel in Yuzhou, which can indirectly drive the economic development of Yuzhou.

However, we have to find a way to pay for the cost of invigilating teachers and printing papers, and we and the Education J cannot pay for it. "

Zhouyi said:

"The registration fee is similar to the registration fee for graduate students. The money collected is used to provide subsidies to the invigilators. It is impossible for them to provide free services. This does not make sense."

Miu Lai said:

"Okay, this matter has been settled. I will contact Education J."

Zhouyi said:

"Okay, that's it. I'll take my leave now, Dean."

"Well, go and do your work."

Miu Lai said.

Zhou Yi secretly said that fortunately, there were many trivial matters with official help. Peony helped with statistics of various news, materials, information, seat arrangement, and examination room arrangement.

Otherwise, Zhou Yi would feel that it would be too tiring to organize things by himself, and he could basically be busy with this matter in the past two months.

After handling these matters, Zhou Yi opened a separate mailbox, which was responsible for reviewing manuscripts.

At the beginning, there were two magazines in the SCI2 area in Yingguo that asked Zhou Yi to review papers related to Zhou's geometry. Zhou Yi was busy and delayed.

Now that you are free, you can start reviewing the manuscript.

Looking at other people's papers, Zhou Yi thought about his own paper and didn't know which step the review had reached.

Nearly ten days have passed since Christmas, and it would have been impossible to complete the review so quickly.

After all, it is a 3n+1 conjecture, and the big guys who review it must be careful and find faults in every possible way.

Otherwise, it is not rigorous, and it is irresponsible for the field that one has specialized in for a long time and for mathematics.

The big boss who has not reviewed it so far comes to Zhou Yi, which means that everything is going smoothly.

Zhou Yi looked at his mailbox. He didn't know it, but he was shocked when he saw it.

There are more than thirty papers, plus fifteen papers from the lottery, which add up to fifty papers that Zhou Yi needs to read.

Zhou Yi watched and complained:

"In more than half a year, I have accumulated so many manuscripts. It seems that we cannot underestimate this group of master's and doctoral students who want to graduate."

Zhou Yi is also very particular about the order in which he reads the manuscripts. He reads the paper in the first email first. After all, it has to be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Most of these people are about to graduate, and they have not reviewed it themselves. They are probably so anxious that they blew the wind on the rooftop N times.

After Zhou Yi opened it, he began to read it carefully.

Being able to submit to this kind of journal and having an academic editor send it to you means that you at least have something to say, otherwise the manuscript will be rejected immediately, let alone sent to Zhouyi for review.

The first paper was quite satisfactory. It made some improvements to Zhou's geometry proposed by Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi read it and incorporated the points he found useful into the textbook he was about to write.

Since the first paper was quite satisfactory, Zhou Yi read it quickly, even if it was more than a hundred pages, he finished it in one morning.

After picking out a few logical problems and minor flaws, Zhou Yi said to Xia Xue:

"Xue'er, want to eat?"

Xia Xue touched her belly and said:

"Um."

Zhou Yi asked as he walked:

"What's the progress of your Hundred Schools Alliance project now? It's been more than two months."

Xia Xue said:

"It's not very fast. There are more than a hundred schools, and it took a lot of time to divide the tasks. It was only finalized around Christmas, and we have just started researching it."

Zhouyi:...

Xia Xue said:

"There are too many things involved here, including whose names are arranged in order, the concepts of various schools of thought involved, and the interweaving of various concepts. We have been arguing for a long time."

Zhouyi said:

"How did you solve it later?"

Xia Xue said:

“The official came forward and gave reservations to many ideas, but left one more reasonable one as the mainstream.

On the contrary, the culture of other ethnic groups is easier to work on. They started working on it a month earlier than us.

A lot of work is in full swing. "

Zhouyi said:

"Then the overseas cultural compilation has basically not started in the past two months?"

At this time, Zhou Yi and Xia Xue had already arrived at the canteen. They ordered two portions of fried shredded pork with green pepper. Xia Xue said while eating:

"Except for Nanyang, there has been basically no progress. Moreover, Japan and the island countries refuse to cooperate. Their attitude is very arrogant and they regard our culture as theirs, and even openly say that it is the origin of their culture."

Zhou Yi said while eating:

"This is not something that happens in a day or two. Take your time. What about voice translation? If they steal iFlytek's huge business, they may be going against us."

Xia Xue said:

"All languages ​​in the world are being improved, because it is the will of the above. No matter how dissatisfied iFlytek is, there is nothing we can do. Moreover, this is also a convenient software. Except for our literature, everything else is proceeding in an orderly manner."

Zhouyi said:

"This is something that can't be helped. The advancement of science and technology will inevitably affect a large number of companies with backward technology, and iFlytek is just one of them. As long as the country and the world are weak in this field, they will be eliminated unless they If you impose a policy, there will be nothing you can do.”

Xia Xue looked at Zhou Yi with beautiful eyes and said:

"Senior, that's really possible."

Zhou Yi smiled and said:

"There will be more high technologies. If they don't use them, they will be like mites and fall far behind the world."

"Hehe, I want to be the first to use it."

Xia Xue smiled.

After lunch, Zhou Yi said to Xia Xue:

"I have to go back to Shuimu University. I've been in Yuzhou for a few days."

Xia Xue nestled in Zhou Yi's arms, and Zhou Yi also hugged her.

"Senior, go ahead. I should be able to graduate early next semester. Don't worry about me. Do you want to go back to see the peonies this year?"

Zhou Yi nodded and said:

"Yes. Of course I have to go back. I don't want to miss the peonies blooming every year with you."

After a moment of tenderness, Zhou Yi left Chongqing University with large and small bags under Xia Xue's reluctant eyes, and boarded a plane flying to Beijing.

As for the roommates, Zhou Yi has already notified them in the 404 dormitory group.

On the plane, Zhou Yi didn't listen and kept reviewing the manuscript. The more time is wasted, the less life will be.

By the time he got off the plane, Zhou Yi had only reviewed three papers, including the one in the morning.

Two of them have no major problems, and one needs major revision.

After returning to Shuimu University, Zhou Yi also learned about his new office, classroom 405, next to his previous graduate school office.

It is right next door to Xiao Wanyi, and not far from the offices where some of her former competitors in mathematics competitions and mathematical modeling competitions are located.

When he came to his office, Zhou Yi touched his head and made a small plan for the past two months.

Only by conducting scientific research and learning in a planned manner can we achieve maximum efficiency.

I spent the clearest time in the morning studying Goldbach's conjecture, reviewing manuscripts in the afternoon, and studying the application of Hilbert's 18th question in the evening.

Perfect.

Moreover, there is no time difference in Daxia, so you can still make a video call to Xia Xue while eating.

When reviewing manuscripts, I can also do some other trivial matters, but I don’t know if Shuimu University will assign Zhou Yi a teaching assignment. If so, the plan may have to be changed.

It's almost ten o'clock in the evening. Zhou Yi is going to ask tomorrow. It's best not to take up a teaching job. It's such a waste of time.

After finishing the planning, Zhou Yi went back to sleep.

The next day, Zhou Yi arrived at his office at around 6 o'clock. What Zhou Yi didn't expect was that Xiao Wanyi would also come so early. No wonder she was only 20 years old and had such heavy dark circles under her eyes.

"Qiao, junior brother."

Xiao Wanyi said hello with a smile on her lips.

She was very aware of Zhou Yi's return last night.

"Qiao, senior sister, I'm busy first."

Zhou Yi yawned and opened his door, then turned on the light and computer, and began to study Goldbach's conjecture.

Based on his own analytical method, Zhou Yi looked at the methods they had studied before. The most famous ones are the circle method and the sieve method.

Around 1920, Yingguo mathematicians Hardy and Littlewood published a series of articles to study Conjecture I. The tool used was the circle method jointly created by them and the Indian mathematician Ramanujan.

Through circumferential integration, it is conjectured that the number of representations of the odd number table in I as the sum of prime numbers can be written as an integral about a certain Fourier series, and the integral path is a circle with a radius close to 1. This is the origin of the name of the circle method.

They transformed discrete number theory problems into continuous mathematical problems, allowing the application of some profound mathematical tools. This undoubtedly opened up a correct path for further development, and the circle method has become one of the most basic methods in number theory.

As for the sieve method, it can be traced back to the sieve method of Eratosthenes in ancient Greece more than 2,000 years ago. It has a long history.

Even today, this method is still used when making prime number tables. The sieve method is an elementary combination method. To apply it to Conjecture II and obtain meaningful results, further modifications are required.

On the other hand, due to some limitations of the sieve method, it is impossible to reach conjecture II in one step, but a step-by-step approach is adopted.

In 1920, the Norwegian mathematician Brun made a major improvement to the sieve method, thus proving that a sufficiently large even number can be expressed as the sum of two positive integers, in which the number of prime factors of each positive integer does not exceed 9. This The result is usually called (9+9).

Brun has opened up a new way to study Conjecture II using the sieve method. With the development of sieve method technology, the number of prime factors mentioned above will continue to decrease.

Mr. Chen Jingrun’s job is to turn (9+9) into (1+2).

So far, Zhouyi's analytical method has emerged, allowing many people to see the opportunity to solve Goldbach's conjecture.

Especially when Harold Hoofgot proved Goldbach's weak conjecture in 2013, it was even more exciting.

For countless people who study Goldbach's conjecture, the advent of Zhou's analytical method has already made this pearl in number theory about to be picked off.

It’s just a matter of who comes first.

The original Poincaré conjecture, after Yau Cheng-tung proved the Calabiqiu manifold, meant that it would be solved within thirty years.

Sure enough, some subsequent results made some preparations to prove the Poincaré conjecture, which was then proved by Grigory Perelman.

Zhou Yi knew that this Poincaré conjecture also had some melons from his teacher Qiu Chengtong.

After the publication of the paper in 1994, everyone who studied the Poincaré conjecture saw the dawn of proof, and countless people began to study this conjecture.

During this period, Perelman also made many phone calls to inquire about Yau Shing Tong and several of his apprentices. After their exchanges, Perelman finally proved it one year ahead of him. This also resulted in Yau's apprentices not being recognized internationally. .

In the end, Qiu Chengtong came out to speak for his apprentice, but the international community basically did not recognize the work done by apprentice Qiu because the papers of several people were largely similar.

So Qiu became angry because of his disciple's shame and made a big fuss internationally.

This is also where Qiu has been criticized by some people in the industry.

The way some extreme slanderers use to smear someone is to suppress an unworldly genius.

But is this really the case?

Only a few of them knew what happened.

But in Zhou Yi's view, it is impossible for there to be no mathematicians who do not communicate with the outside world. Zhou Yi has a system that requires communication at LV5 mathematics level, let alone others.

What's more, before the proof of Poincaré's conjecture, the biggest contributor was the proof of the Calabiyu manifold.

Moreover, the Calabi-Yau manifold is also the fundamental theorem of string theory.

Perelman's spirit is certainly worthy of bragging, but if he really didn't care about his reputation, he wouldn't be interviewed by reporters.

From the political perspective of Tsarist Russia, they are very disdainful of the Philippine Prize. Some people who won the Philippine Prize in former Tsarist Russia were kicked out, such as the third prize winner Gregory Margulis.

Although others are so arrogant, Zhou Yi thinks he is a calf protector.

If you are plagiarized, wouldn't it mean that you have a protective teacher to help you?

Zhou Yi read Goldbach's documents all morning and was called over by Qiu.

"We have specially applied for 2-3 master's degrees, 2-3 doctoral degrees, and 2-3 postdoctoral places for you here. It seems that the arrangements for the unified examination in Yuzhou have also come out. Four universities will be arranged to become examination room."

Qiu said directly,

"How many will be accepted will depend on your needs. In addition, Yuzhou will spare no effort to help you apply for outstanding youth. We, Shuimu, are also helping you respond. I think it will take a while to know the result, but as you are an outstanding young man, it is almost the same." I can take care of so many students.”

Zhouyi said:

"Well, okay, thank you teacher."

At this time, Qiu said:

"Dongguan University is going to do a project with you on mathematical modeling and intelligent algorithm design of asphalt pavement. Do you want to do it? They were planning to contact you before, but you went abroad and it has been delayed."

Zhou Yi saw Qiu's serious look and said:

"Is this what the higher-ups are saying, let me try my hand at it?"

"Well, that's what it means. The main reason is that the road problem costs about 100 billion every year."

Qiu said,

"You should contact Academician Cao about this issue. He will know better."

Zhouyi said:

"Well, after reviewing the manuscript, I have nothing to do in the afternoon, so I can just follow up on their project. I will take the initiative to chat with Academician Cao in the afternoon."

Qiu said:

"That's good. I've informed you. You can go ahead."

Zhouyi said:

"good."

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Perelman called Yau to ask about the Poincaré conjecture. Mr. Yau himself spoke in many media, including Douyin. His apprentice, who teaches at Zhongnan University, also said so, but later changed his story. Only a few of them knew the truth. In those early years, many people studied the Poincaré conjecture, and it was up to them to see who could prove it quickly.

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