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Just when Ning Wei was explaining March's design concept and capabilities to Jiang Chenshuang, Emily Ram had already seen Ning Wei's reply.

As the deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal of Mathematics under the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, she naturally knew very well about the conflict between Ning Wei and Lucassen Friend. During her undergraduate studies at Princeton University, Lucason Friend also taught her about partial differential equations, but there was no deep teacher-student relationship.

After all, she chose to study group theory during her master's degree, and she chose another tutor. So when this matter was revealed, she was on Ning Wei's side.

But as one of the few female editors in the industry, the messy things that followed made her less interested in Ning Wei.

Especially after being able to say those words at the STOC conference, it added a lot of meaningless content to her daily work. For example, reply to emails to enthusiastic students and tell them to feel free to swim in the ocean of mathematics. There is a high probability that the old guys in academia will not take a fancy to your results, and then think about how to take them as their own every day, Lukassen F. The Rand incident was just an example...

Oh my God, she's not a teacher? ! He even had to provide psychological counseling to a group of children.

But what cannot be unconvinced is Ning Wei's attainments in mathematics.

In fact, after learning the name Ning Wei, Emily Lam carefully studied all of Ning Wei's papers, including his pioneering insights into the NS equation and the proof process of the KLS conjecture.

The mathematical ability shown in it is very strong. Even if she is not convinced, she still believes that the 22-year-old Ning Wei must be a strong contender for the Fields Medal. This is why she chose to send relevant papers to Ning Wei for review.

When she read the email about Ning Wei's rejection and response as a reviewer, she felt very emotional.

In particular, the sentence "We are all still elementary school students in the ocean of mathematics" made Emily Lamb feel offended. If this is modesty, then this kind of modesty will come across as rude. It even made her want to send a special email to ask Ning Wei if he was mocking her again for not even reaching the level of a primary school student?

Then she saw Ning Wei's praise for a mathematician named March. A mathematician can make Ning Wei admire him in multiple fields. How high can this level be?

The first time she saw this sentence, Emily Lam began to use the paper index to search for academic papers published by this great mathematician whom she was extremely unfamiliar with, and then found that there was nothing.

She even specifically logged into the arXiv website, hoping to find any clues about this March, but the result disappointed her again, and she still couldn't find this person. Okay, so here’s the question. It’s obviously incredible that the great mathematician who was so touted by Ning Wei left no clues at all on the Internet.

But then again, there is no shortage of weirdos and talented people in mathematics who are isolated from the world or whose talents have been lost to the times.

The former is like Perelman, who ignored the one million dollar prize and didn't even bother to accept it; the latter is like Ramanujan, if he hadn't met Hardy, the noble man in his life, his mathematical talent may have been lost in that era. Buried forever for various reasons. After all, when he was reincarnated, the mainstream mathematics community did not recognize many of his advanced mathematical ideas.

So Emily Ram became very curious about this strange name. Is this March also a Ramanujan who is still unknown?

Yes, if Ning Wei recommends a mathematician she knows, she may reject it without even thinking about it, or continue to send an email hoping that Ning Wei can accept the review of this paper, or directly refer Ning Wei to Put the email behind you and find another reviewer. As an associate editor of a top journal, you still need to have a good schedule. How can you follow the suggestions of any reviewer?

But she became curious about a name that she highly admired but was completely unfamiliar to. How good is this March? Is he really a mathematical hermit? Does he really have higher mathematical attainments than Ning Wei?

When these questions arose in her mind, she involuntarily chose to send a review invitation for the same paper to her mailbox in March.

Not to mention, after doing all this, Emily Lam even began to look forward to getting a reply in March. In fact, the level of the reviewer's feedback can often be seen from the reviewer's feedback. Discovering an anonymous mathematics master is also an achievement.

Unfortunately, Emily Lamm didn't know at this time that the same email was sent to her by more than one reply. In fact, there were at least two editors-in-chief of top mathematics journals, and six top or at least top ones in the area. The deputy editor also received an email with the same wording. She just saw this email first because of the time difference.

The name March has also given a vague but profound impression to the editors of these academic circles of mathematics. Being praised so much by a young scholar who has achieved many important results, the academic level of March should not be bad. Too outrageous?

…

If anyone has the most intuitive understanding of March’s level, it’s probably Senior Brother Zhang and his project team members. Unfortunately, they don’t know the existence of March or what March has done on this project. Contribution, in Ning Wei's words, is probably the luck of giving in March.

The two batches of samples prepared by the new method completed the most time-consuming annealing process at 2:50 p.m., followed by some technical processing of the materials themselves. At four o'clock, the two batches of samples entered the laboratory Three hours later, a group of people looked at the experimental report in a daze at the testing center.

"Is this a success? Is it really a success?" Xiao Pan looked at the data in a daze, even though some of the tests were done by himself.

"Is success as simple as that? Although it has not reached the performance expressed by the optimal model given by Mr. Ning, it has exceeded our set goals. Especially in this regard, did you see that the fixed bending radius in the laboratory is 0.8mm? After repeated bending 200 times, the conductivity change was only 1.9%. This can make an extremely excellent flexible material! It is extremely scalable!" Lao Xu touched his bald head and said excitedly, after all, this is what he is responsible for part.

Yes, everyone was very excited, only Zhang Yancheng was in a daze.

Before the test was successful, everyone was just considering various possibilities, but now according to Ning Wei, this project is really successful, so the question must be raised, how should the results be calculated? If the final ranking of the project team's papers was determined based on the contribution to the entire project team, in this case he felt that Ning Wei could be placed as the first author, but their original intention was clearly to hope that the other party would do auxiliary work. …

Seemingly seeing Zhang Yancheng's tangled state of mind at this time, someone whispered: "Well, this lab can't be said to be completely successful, right? For example, we haven't been able to reach the optimal performance of the theoretical model, maybe because we didn't do a good job in adjusting EF. .”

"The difference in the data between these two sets of samples roughly expresses the possibility of maximizing PF by adjusting the samples for EF. It is shown here that increasing σ does not always lead to improvements in PF, so the relationship between the two may not be monotonic, if we You can also find the peak value of PF through multiple tests, this..."

I can’t go on at this point.

Even if they conduct more experiments and find the best option, they will still have to follow the experimental procedures designed by Ning Wei, and the reference will still be the material model given by Ning Wei...

"Okay, don't say it anymore. I'd better inform the boss about the good news first. After all, they came here because of the boss's face. It's up to the boss to decide how to thank people." Zhang Yancheng said.

He was too lazy to think about it anymore. He would rather guess that one thing was right. The success of this project was really related to whether Zhang Yancheng could graduate successfully. At present, the most basic condition for him to successfully graduate with a Ph.D. In the name of Peking University, the first author or the supervisor is the first author and he is the second author. He has published more than two papers in important international or domestic journals. The quantity is not strict, and the quality requirements can be published by the core of Peking University. That's about it.

But the problem is that if both articles are published only in Peking University Core, there will be certain standards for the number of citations. But if they can be published in important international journals, the standard for the number of citations will also be lowered.

According to the model given by the original partner laboratory, this project can be successfully completed, and the corresponding paper has the potential to be published in international journals. As for the results based on the new material model, it will basically be able to be published in international journals. Journal.

After all, this new material is much better than traditional materials, especially its scalability. It is of great use in many fields, such as aerospace, satellites, new energy vehicles, and even mobile phones and various Wearable electronics, and more. The only thing that restricts the success of this carbon nanomaterial is probably that laboratory preparation methods cannot be widely used in basic industrial fields.

So in the current situation, the final ownership of the paper is probably only decided by Director Tan.

…

"What? The project has been completed? The performance of the material prepared in the laboratory even exceeded the model given over there? Ningwei has already helped you find out where the problem lies? Or did you restart the experiment and solve the problem?" Continued Tan Dejie was also surprised when she got the call.

This efficiency was so high that he couldn't believe it.

Wanting to find relevant problems from massive data is a test of basic mathematics skills. Not to mention finding the problem in a day, people who are new to the industry are even still learning and understanding the meaning of each set of data.

But now Zhang Yancheng called and said that the experimental problem has been solved? But Zhang Yancheng's answer made him believe it.

"Well, Mr. Ning didn't say whether he helped us find the problem through mathematical analysis. He just came to give us some guidance today and asked us to modify the preliminary preparation plan. We prepared two sets of materials based on Mr. Ning's plan. The properties tested so far have exceeded the performance required by the first-generation material model, especially in terms of flexibility. I am already considering preparing some materials and preparing TE generators based on these materials to try to power LEDs."

"It is feasible from the laboratory results, and it has been initially proved that our material can further improve the power factor by increasing the electrical conductivity. If the power supply is successful, it is enough to prove its weavability and extreme stretchability under macroscopic conditions. If The subsequent experiments were successful, and I think we can prepare some materials to make concept samples for some electronic manufacturers. For example, we can use it to design flexible screens and greatly increase their active cooling and battery life. "

After Zhang Yancheng finished speaking, the other person remained silent for a long time, and then he said after a moment: "Are you all in the laboratory?"

"um, yes!"

"Okay, I'm outside now. I'll be back in about an hour. You wait for me in the laboratory first."

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At the same time, Ning Wei had already eaten the love dinner sent by his girlfriend, and continued to popularize important concepts about artificial intelligence with his girlfriend.

"There is a saying in philosophy that difficult problems are simple, and simple problems are difficult. It embodies a dialectical thought. When this sentence is put into the field of artificial intelligence, it is the famous Mokwela Paradox. This is also in the field of artificial intelligence. The most famous paradox in the field of artificial intelligence is that for artificial intelligence, tasks that humans can easily complete are often the most difficult for them. On the contrary, things that humans find difficult are very simple for them. "

"For example, logic and algebra are difficult for many people, but they are very simple for machines. But for humans, we can distinguish things at a glance, such as recognizing faces, recognizing emotions, and actively ignoring surrounding noise. , etc., these require extremely complex calculations for machines to achieve. To be more specific, it is extremely difficult for many people to learn and play Go well, but Google's AlphaGo can easily defeat humans. top chess players. But for the driving skills that most humans can master after repeated training, there are still too many difficulties for machines to overcome."

"So for March, where it really reflects its abilities lies in its basic abilities of judgment, identification, and understanding. In these aspects, it is still like a child. You can understand it as a kind of initiative to ask you questions. The stress response of the program. As you said, when chatting with March, I can still feel that it often responds in a very programmed language. This requires it to continue to learn and continue to optimize its main program. It’s solved. You can blame it on a programming problem, but at the end of the day it’s still a math problem.”

Jiang Chenshuang, who had been listening intently, kept nodding, and then asked: "So this is what you said about designing the most perfect mathematical theory for March to promote its growth?"

"Well, almost." Ning Wei answered, and then said: "By the way, last time I said I wanted to treat your classmates to dinner, and I have almost finished my work recently. You can go back and ask everyone when they have time. We have to fulfill this promise first.”

"This is not necessary. In fact, she was just joking..."

The two were chatting when the phone rang at an inappropriate time. Ning Wei glanced at it, smiled apologetically at Jiang, and answered the phone: "Hey, Ning Wei, you still know how we make materials. Method? How did you do it?"