I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

Shen Qi left a message in the guest book: Tranquility and far-reaching.

Director Wu was deeply touched: "Peace leads to far-reaching. Only when a scholar can endure loneliness can he make a difference and realize his lofty aspirations."

"Good words, good meaning." Director Kuang praised.

People in business talk about etiquette, and Director Kuang took out a letter of appointment, intending to hire Shen Qi as a senior consultant for academic research at the Morningside Mathematics Center with an annual salary of 2 million soft sister coins. This annual salary is slightly higher than that of Shen Qi in Princeton Salary as a professor.

"If you don't get rewarded for meritorious service, you should be ashamed of it." Shen Qi thinks this is inappropriate and worthy of discussion.

"Professor Shen, I know that great mathematicians like you always regard money as dung, but I am really sincere. Our center is very eager to get your guidance." Kuang Dong grabbed Shen Qi's hand and expressed his heart. Speaking of it, there is no affectation at all.

"It's still not right, it's still not right." Shen Qi waved his hands repeatedly. He had just been hired as a visiting professor at Yanda University, and now the boss in Hong Kong hired him as a consultant with a high-tech position.

"Professor Shen, this remuneration is set according to international standards. Professor Qiu enjoys the same treatment in our center. If Professor Shen thinks it is inappropriate, then... hey." Director Kuang sighed, showing embarrassment, looking very aggrieved.

Mr. Qiu Chengtong has been a master of mathematics for decades, holding more than a dozen positions and titles, one of which is the director of the Academic Committee of the Morningside Mathematics Center.

Unfortunately, Shen Qi did not meet Mr. Qiu when he returned to the capital this time. Mr. Qiu was giving a lecture in Hong Kong.

"Oh, that's it." Shen Qi learned from Director Kuang that Mr. Qiu has already enjoyed the international standard treatment of the Morningside Math Center.

"Look, you and Mr. Qiu are both Fields Medal winners. I hope Professor Shen can give us a chance." Director Kuang saw that Shen Qi's attitude had softened, so he hurriedly struck while the iron was hot.

Mr. Kwong, who is not very old, is very good at being a man, and he speaks nicely. He can make the family business bigger and bigger, and he must have something special.

Shen Qi had no choice but to accept this consulting job with an annual salary of 2 million, but he made a condition that he would only serve as a consultant for the Morningside Math Center for two years at most.

For two years, Kuang Dong smiled and everyone was happy.

Next came Shen Qi's lecture time. There were more than 20 people sitting in the academic lecture hall. The oldest was Director Wu, who was in his fifties, and the rest were young mathematics researchers under forty years old.

Mr. Kwong is a businessman. He couldn't understand the real mathematics lectures. After arranging everything, Mr. Kwong left to talk about his big business.

The favorite thing for the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton is to poach people from all over the world, and it specializes in poaching famous old men. The Institute is more like the Veteran Cadre Research Institute, the Senate, and the Presbyterian Church.

Morningside Mathematics Center imitates the independent academic research model of Pugao Institute, but boldly recruits new talents in terms of employment. The center's school-running philosophy is: "I cultivate, I create, and I speak for myself."

Shen Qi very much agrees with Morningside Mathematics Center’s idea of ​​rooting itself in the local area and cultivating domestic young mathematicians. Introducing foreign aid is not a long-term solution after all, and international big-name foreign aid cannot be invited.

Shen Qi and Qiu Chengtong are nominal experts hired by the center, so they don't have to work from nine to five.

If they were to do research at the Morningside Mathematics Center full-time, the two Philippine Prize winners would definitely not do it.

Since the establishment of the center in 1996, the Morningside Mathematics Center has selected six to nine important research topics to tackle each year. These are generally the more popular and promising research directions in the international mathematics community.

To receive a salary, be a consultant, and help people solve technical problems, Shen Qi made a suggestion: "Director Wu, colleagues, this time I have limited time to return to China, so I think I can skip the routine lectures, which are for undergraduates. Listen to graduate students, how about we directly solve the practical problems faced by the center?"

This Professor Shen is really efficient... After discussing with the young researchers, Director Wu, okay, let's do this, and ask Professor Shen to help us solve the problem.

"Little Tao, tell me about your research topic first." Director Wu instructed a young man in his thirties.

"Okay." Xiao Tao was wearing a plaid shirt. He graduated from Fudan Mathematics Department with a Ph.D. in Mathematics.

Holding a page-turner, Xiaotao explained his PPT: "Professor Shen, your time is precious. Let me make a long story short. My project aims to obtain two basic hypergeometric levels by combining inversion techniques and series reorganization methods. This is a very valuable research, which can be traced back to the Gould-Xu inversion formula jointly published by Mr. Xu Lizhi and Mr. Gould, which is this formula..."

Although Xiao Tao's narration was a bit boring, Shen Qi still listened politely and carefully, examining Xiao Tao's PPT.

This is a subject of infinite series. Xiao Tao innovated on the classic theory of Xu Lizhi, a famous mathematician in my country, and made some research progress, but also encountered some difficult obstacles.

This topic spanned from last year to this year and has not yet ended. Xiao Tao was anxious, Director Wu was worried, and Mr. Qiu, director of the academic committee of the center, could not solve this problem.

Mr. Qiu's field of expertise is differential geometry and partial differential equations. His representative work is the paper "The Role of Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry" published at the age of 29.

Four years after this article was published, Mr. Qiu, then 33 years old, won the Fields Medal.

Even in mathematics, there is a saying that lines are separated like mountains. In the 21st century, it is difficult to emerge an all-round mathematician who is proficient in everything. Mr. Qiu can't handle Xiaotao's infinite series topic.

"...So, our difficulty is that we cannot prove the Rogers-Ramanujan identity of this limit case and special case."

Xiao Tao was a little anxious. Although the center did not issue rigid scientific research indicators to researchers like them, who would not want to make some gratifying results for those who study mathematics?

Shen Qi stood up and walked to the blackboard: "Potter, sit down first, don't be impatient, don't panic, although this subject is difficult, there is a special skill that can be used, that is, the second type of reciprocal sequence relationship."

Xiao Tao stared at each other, Director Wu fell into deep thought, and the others looked at each other in blank dismay.

The academic lecture hall was shrouded in an embarrassing atmosphere. Director Wu and his researchers hesitated to speak, and finally Xiao Tao bravely asked: "I am ignorant and can skillfully use the first type of reciprocal sequence relationship, but Professor Shen , the second type of reciprocal sequence relationship you mentioned, which document or paper is recorded in it? I never knew there was a second type of relationship.”

"Actually, I'm also taking advantage of the problem. Taking this opportunity today, I'm trying to prove the second kind of reciprocal sequence relationship. If there are any mistakes in my proof, please feel free to point them out." Shen Qi picked up the chalk and wrote on the blackboard. write up.

thump!

The researchers fainted.

Standing up tenaciously, Director Wu and the researchers quietly watched Shen Qi's proof.