I Am the President of the University

Facing Professor Stephen's invitation, Lu Zhou's first reaction was not excitement, but depression.

"Professor, I didn't solve this question."

[x3+y3+z3=33] seems simple, but in fact it requires a lot of calculations. If a human brain were used, Lu Zhou would not be able to calculate it even if he gave him a month.

But why is Professor Stephen so excited?

Naturally, this is because Lu Zhou has already sorted out some ideas. As long as he completes the solution to this problem and the corresponding algorithm, he can finally calculate the solution of [x, y, z] by relying on a computer.

It is worth noting that the computer here is not an ordinary home computer. If you just rely on a home computer to run the problem-solving algorithm, it will take at least hundreds of years to find the answer.

Generally, this work needs to be divided into hundreds of thousands of smaller tasks to run on a personal computer. Only in this way can the search speed be accelerated.

Of course, it would be more convenient if you could use a supercomputer.

"No, you've already made it."

Professor Stephen looked at Lu Zhou like a treasure, just like when he first met Chen Hao.

Although this problem has troubled the mathematics community for decades, it is far behind the world's seven major mathematical problems such as Hodge's conjecture and Poincaré's conjecture.

But how old is Lu Zhou?

He is only 21 years old and an undergraduate!

The most outrageous thing is that Lu Zhou is not a mathematics student, but majoring in electrical engineering...

"You just need a little time to perfect your ideas and algorithms." Professor Stephen continued enthusiastically, "Lu, come to MIT. Even if you want to return to your home country in the future, it will not affect your coming to study at MIT."

Lu Zhou took a deep breath, his expression unchanged.

"Professor Stephen, although I also yearn for MIT, I'm sorry, I have my own life plan."

The smile on Professor Stephen's face suddenly froze. This answer was something he never expected.

After a moment, he sighed and asked, "Harvard or Princeton?"

Lu Zhou was silent for a moment and said, "Princeton University."

Among the top ten universities in the world for mathematics, except for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the British University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, the other seven are all in the United States.

In the past few decades, Princeton University has been the emperor of mathematics in the university world, with as many as 15 Fields Medal winners.

It’s just that the mathematics discipline of MIT has developed rapidly in recent years, knocking Princeton University out of the first place.

Even so, no one dares to underestimate Princeton University.

This time it was Professor Stephen's turn to remain silent.

Geniuses like Lu Zhou and Tao Zhexuan all have their own ideas, and it is usually difficult to persuade them when they make decisions.

After a long while, he said helplessly: "Princeton is not bad either."

Professor Stephen looked at Lu Zhou again and said seriously: "Lu, if you can, please let me write a letter of recommendation."

"Dear professor, thank you." Lu Zhou did not refuse, his eyes rarely wavered, and he thanked sincerely.

The systems at home and abroad are different. Expert recommendation letters are a very important part of applying to schools. The more influential the professor's recommendation letter, the higher its gold content.

Even though Lu Zhou was very confident in himself, this was Princeton University after all, so there was nothing wrong with having an extra layer of protection.

"Cao, I'll leave this to you."

Professor Stephen warned Cao Lihao, who came in earlier, and then left the classroom.

Zheng Tianyu and Zhang Lei were still stunned.

"Rejected MIT???" Zhang Lei's mouth opened wide, looking like he was in disbelief.

Faced with an invitation from MIT, normally he would not believe that anyone would refuse.

After all, this is MIT, the number one university in the world!

As long as you can enter MIT normally and successfully graduate, it can completely change a person's luck and allow ordinary people to cross a class.

If it were him, he would definitely not refuse.

Zheng Tianyu also gave a wry smile. Although he had known that Lu Zhou planned to go to Princeton University, he was still unmoved by the invitation from MIT. It was really amazing.

If it were him, he would never be able to do it.

At this time, a voice sounded in the classroom, breaking the silence.

"Classmates, I think it's getting late. I'll invite you all to have lunch."

Everyone looked towards the source of the sound, and it was Cao Lihao who spoke.

"My name is Cao Lihao. I am a friend and fellow countryman of your principal. I am also a doctoral student at MIT. If you encounter any trouble at school in the past six weeks, you can come to me."

Cao Lihao paused, looked at Lu Zhou, and said with a smile: "Classmate Lu Zhou, Chen Hao must have told you, right?"

"The principal said it." Lu Zhou nodded.

Zhang Lei, Zheng Tianyu and others relaxed their guard after hearing this. After all, people are in a foreign country and safety issues cannot be underestimated.

And it's almost 1 o'clock now, and everyone is really hungry, not to mention that there is an analytic geometry course at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Cao Lihao waved and said with a smile: "Just call me Brother Cao. Let's go and eat!"

In this way, the eight people followed Cao Lihao's steps and walked out.

After walking out of the teaching building, I walked around and finally came to the eating place.

Zhang Lei stood at the entrance of the restaurant, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly.

He complained softly to Lu Zhou beside him: "I originally thought I could have a big meal, but in the end, this is it?"

The scene in front of me was like a domestic cafeteria, with rows of glass cabinets containing food and fruits.

It was early noon, and there were not many people dining. There were only a few students carrying bags choosing their meals.

After all, isn’t this just a school cafeteria?

"Ahem, mainly because you have classes later, so let's have a simple meal at school first, and I'll treat you to a big dinner in the city center in the evening!" Cao Lihao explained with a red face and a heartbeat.

"Thank you, Brother Cao~"

Several weak voices responded.

Coming to this evil capitalist empire, I didn’t expect that the food I would eat would still be in the canteen. This was so disappointing.

The group of people walked around the restaurant, looking for meals that interested them.

Finally, it was Cao Lihao who swiped the card.

When he sat down, Zheng Tianyu nudged Zhang Lei and whispered: "Old Zhang, do you know how much this buffet meal costs?"

"How much?" Zhang Lei took a bite of the macaroni and cheese, which was so sweet that he almost vomited it out.

Zheng Tianyu gestured with a number, "15 knives!"

"15 dollars?!" Zhang Lei's eyes widened, and he looked at the food on the plate again, completely in disbelief.

This would cost almost 100 oceans in RMB!

Just eat some of this stuff for 100 yuan?

Zheng Tianyu probably knew what Zhang Lei was thinking, so he smiled and continued to eat.

The United States makes money and spends it, but if it is converted into RMB at every turn, it will definitely be unbalanced.

While Zheng Tianyu, Lu Zhou and others were dining, Professor Stephen was waiting for the return of Professor Thomas in his office.

Not long after, the office door was pushed open violently.

Professor Thomas rushed in hurriedly, and the sparkle in his eyes skyrocketed when he saw Professor Stephen.

"Professor Stephen, are you telling the truth?"

"Thomas, you should know who I am." Professor Stephen said solemnly, sitting on his office chair.

After hearing the confirmation, Professor Thomas became restless.

"This land is indeed not simple. It can actually solve the difficult problem [x3+y3+z3=33]..."

"Professor Stephen, this kind of talent is what MIT needs!" Professor Thomas looked directly at Stephen.

"But Lu refused."

"He turned down MIT?"

"How is that possible!" Professor Thomas stood up in shock. He didn't believe this was true.

Who would turn down an invitation from MIT?

You must know that the number of students at MIT is not large. The total number of undergraduates is more than 4,000, and the total number of graduate students is more than 7,000. Each year, less than 10 undergraduates are enrolled in mainland China.

He didn't believe it.

But these words came from Professor Stephen's mouth, and he had to believe it.

"God, someone would really reject MIT's invitation!" Thomas sat down on the chair and muttered.

"He's a kid with ideas, and Princeton might be a good choice."

Compared with Professor Stephen's calmness, Professor Thomas couldn't sit still.

Professor Stephen is from the Computer Science Department, and the loss was caused by their Mathematics Department.

"No, I have to find Principal Leonard!"

With that said, Professor Thomas left the office directly.

Ten minutes later.

In the principal's office. \b

After hearing the description from Thomas, the chairman of the mathematics department, Professor Maurice Leonard's eyelids jumped.

"This Lu Zhou is Chen's student?"

Faced with Chen Hao's departure last year, he and Stephen worked hard to retain him, but failed in the end.

Now that Lu Zhou was Chen Hao's student, he felt an inexplicable strangeness in his heart.

You can’t fail again, right?

Does MIT still have a platform? \b

"Then let's try..."

ps: Are there any living people? If so, just scream. It feels like you are playing a stand-alone game...