Great Country Academician

After complaining to his mentor and getting an opportunity to participate in high-energy physics experiments at CERN, Xu Chuan made a phone call at home to report his safety and information, and then embarked on a new journey.

As for the others, there is no need to say goodbye again.

The few good friends had already had dinner together and said goodbye in the middle of the month, so there was no need to come again.

As for the luggage and so on, he had already packed it and could take it away directly.

Depart from Jinling, take the high-speed rail to Shanghai, and then take an international flight to Philadelphia. After more than ten hours of flying, a Boeing passenger plane landed at Philadelphia Airport.

After the plane landed, Xu Chuan dragged his black suitcase out of the airport, hailed a taxi and went straight to Princeton.

Although he knew many people in the United States, that was all in his previous life.

In this life, he has known the mathematics professors at Princeton, oh, and Lin Feng, the mentor's disciple.

But this is not the first time I have come to the United States, and it is not good to bother people to let them come and pick them up. Just take a taxi and go there.

What surprised Xu Chuan was that the taxi driver he stopped was Chinese.

"Which province is the young man from?"

Seeing Xu Chuan, the uncle driver asked in fluent Chinese.

Xu Chuan asked curiously, "How do you know I'm from Hua, maybe I'm from Korea or a small island?"

The uncle driver laughed and said, "Hey, if I can't tell the difference, I will be in vain. Although Gao Li and the little devil are separated from our country, after all, they have been separated for so long, and there must be some differences in appearance."

"In the eyes of white people, there may not be much difference, but the three East Asian countries recognize it casually, so how could they be mistaken?"

Regarding what the driver said, Xu Chuan smiled noncommittally.

As the saying goes, one side of water and soil nurtures one side of people, and different geographical environments nurture people with different temperaments. Even in China, there are obvious differences between northerners and southerners.

A person's temperament hides his life, education, and the environment in which he lives. These things subtly affect the way a person expresses himself.

So when the three Chinese, small islanders, and Koreans stand together, they can almost recognize which country they are from at a glance.

However, it is said that it is difficult for Westerners to distinguish people from the three East Asian countries with only their eyes. In their eyes, the Chinese, Koreans, and islanders look almost exactly the same.

Xu Chuan didn't know why they couldn't tell the difference, maybe a certain cell was missing in the pupil of the eye? Causing them to be unable to discern details?

Perhaps it is rare to meet compatriots in a foreign country. On the way to Princeton, the driver uncle was very excited. He was quite talkative along the way, from how to live safely in the United States where everyone is armed with guns, to the international situation, to the two countries of Huami comparison of life

From the words of the uncle driver, Xu Chuan could tell that he still missed his hometown, so he couldn't help asking.

"Why don't you choose to go back to your country?"

Hearing this question, the middle-aged driver was silent for a moment, shook his head with a sigh, and said, "I can't go back."

Xu Chuan: "?"

"It's hard to go back..." The driver uncle shook his head, and continued: "On the one hand, my child grew up here and went to school here. He is used to life here, and he can't even speak Chinese. You are so good at talking, after returning to China, your academic performance will definitely not keep up."

"On the other hand, I have also applied to return to China in recent years, but the applications have all fallen into the sea, and I have never received a reply."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan was silent for a while.

After leaving the country, emigrating, and then wanting to go back, it is not so easy.

More than an hour's drive passed quickly, and the uncle driver took Xu Chuan all the way to the gate of Princeton University, and handed Xu Chuan a business card before getting off the car.

"This is my contact number, you can call me anytime you need a car."

Xu Chuan took the business card and put it in his pocket, smiled and nodded.

The driver reminded him that he might live in Princeton for at least two or three years in the future. There must be many places where he needs to use a car. He has to find a time to get a driver's license and buy a car.

Anyway, taking the driver's license test was easier for him, and the driver's license test in the United States was much easier than in China.

For example, there are more than 40 questions about the traffic rules in New Jersey, and you can basically pass the wrong questions with less than 6 questions. In China, there are 100 questions, and the wrong questions cannot exceed 10.

Dragging his luggage, Xu Chuan walked on the campus of Princeton.

This is not the first time he has come to this campus, he is very familiar with it.

There is a saying: No school with a train is easy, there is Hogwarts before it, and Princeton after it.

Princeton is the real Hogwarts.

When it was founded, the United States was still under the colonial rule of the country on which the sun never sets.

Therefore, various architectural styles have a strong British style, and the ancient Gothic architectural design is very exquisite, so that the students inside have the illusion of entering the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Coupled with the pure academic atmosphere here, it is very similar to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

If there is something missing, it is probably the owl with the admission invitation letter in its mouth.

Dragging his suitcase, Xu Chuan came to the administrative building of Princeton University, ready to go through the admission procedures and enter this world's top college.

As of 2016, Princeton has ranked first in the U.S. News rankings in the United States for seven consecutive years. There are 69 alumni and faculty members who have won the Nobel Prize and rank tenth in the world.

There are also 15 Fields Medal winners (third in the world) and 14 Turing Award winners (fourth in the world) who have worked or studied at Princeton University.

Among the previous Nobel Prize winners in physics, more than 20 are professors in this school.

More importantly, there is also the academic sanctuary of mathematics and physics - the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

This is the real goal of Xu Chuan's trip.

In Princeton, in addition to Princeton University, there is also the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

The two are next to each other.

In ordinary people's cognition, these two are the same university, but in fact they are not.

Although the two have deep roots, they are not actually the same institution, and the Princeton Research Institute is not part of Princeton University.

The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton is a world-renowned theoretical research institution, which gathers top scholars in various fields of mathematics, physics, history, and social sciences to conduct the purest cutting-edge research.

But it is a research institution free from any teaching mandate, research funding, or sponsor pressure.

Here is the purest academic environment. Scholars such as Einstein, von Neumann, Kurt Gödel, Robert Oppenheimer, and Yang Zhenning have all worked in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and even retired.

It is the best people in the world who systematically sort out the divergent knowledge and continuously improve the unproven theories. They even take small steps and return to the campus of Princeton University to teach and solve puzzles for the students. Here is the name of the sacred place of mathematics and physics.

Xu Chuan hopes to use the ability of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton to break through and achieve his own mathematics, so as to complete a breakthrough in physics.

Along the corridor full of history, Xu Chuan found the office where he remembered the school registration.

After passing some materials prepared in advance and the special invitation letter mailed to him by Professor Deligne to the staff, his admission procedures were completed in less than two minutes.

"Is the admission procedure for Princeton so simple?"

The extremely simple procedures made Xu Chuan a little curious. In his memory, although the admission procedures are not complicated, they are not so simple that they can be completed by simply sketching two names.

Hearing this, the staff sitting in front of the job smiled and said: "Your admission procedures and student status have already been registered by Professor Deligne, and now all you need to do is to sign yourself on the admission materials. name only."

Xu Chuan suddenly realized that Professor Deligne had greeted him in advance. Even if it is not the time for admission, his admission procedures are not a problem.

After completing the admission procedures, the staff handed Xu Chuan a document containing the freshman handbook and admission handbook, along with his student ID card and dormitory key.

"Here is the admission handbook, your student ID card, and your dormitory key. The room in the dormitory is Room 306 on the third floor of the Rockefeller Residential College. The exact location is marked in the freshman handbook, and you can find it along the map."

"In addition, Professor Deligne asked me to tell you that he invites you to visit his office after completing the admission procedures. The professor's office is in Room 401 of the McCoys Teaching Building."

"I wish you a happy study life."

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Thank you for telling me."

After coming out of the administrative building, Xu Chuan stuffed his luggage into his dormitory and found Professor Deligne's office.

"Boom~"

After knocking on the door, voices came from inside soon after.

"Please come in."

Xu Chuan pushed open the door and walked in. In the office, an old man with thinning gray hair was sitting at the desk studying and calculating something.

"Professor Deligne." Xu Chuan respectfully greeted the old man in the office.

Hearing the sound, the old man stopped the pen in his hand, turned around and looked over. When he saw Xu Chuan, a smile appeared on his face.

"You are here, Xu, have you completed the admission procedures?"

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "It's been dealt with."

"Then welcome you to join Princeton, I hope you can spend a pleasant few years here and learn more knowledge." Deligne smiled, and continued: "After entering Princeton, you need to choose a professor as a tutor , do you have a favorite candidate?"

"Or, can you tell me your next study and research direction? Maybe I can give you a recommendation."

Xu Chuan asked: "Of course, but before that, I would like to ask, besides mathematics, can I also design an interdisciplinary major to major in?"

Although many institutions of higher learning across the country, such as Harvard and Yale, support double majors, it is regrettable that Princeton does not.

Princeton does not support double majors, and the bachelor's degree is limited to one department.

That is to say, you can only get a diploma from the Department of Mathematics, or a diploma from the Department of Physics, but you cannot get a diploma from both disciplines at the same time.

In fact, when he was in China, Nantah University did not support double majors, but at that time, in order to grab his college entrance examination champion + double gold medal, Nantah University made an exception and gave him the achievement of double majors.

But in Princeton, Xu Chuan didn't know, but there was a high probability that he would not make an exception for him, even if he had already proved a world-class mathematical conjecture before enrolling.

Of course, what he was thinking of was not Princeton’s double major. He just wanted to win the right to double major in matter and mathematics, or courses, so that he could make subsequent achievements in physics and apply for resources and contacts from Princeton. to more physics professors.