I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

In the end, Shen Qi picked Wu Shangfeng, who recruited the first doctoral student in mathematics after returning to China.

Wu Shangfeng became Shen Qi's disciple. He said that he didn't care whether he was studying for a Ph. D. for three, five, or seven or eight years. Anyway, the longer he could stay in school, the better.

"Your indifferent attitude is very similar to a foreign friend of mine." Shen Qi thought of his Swedish friend Jonas in Princeton back then. Some people are like this. They just want to stay in school for as long as they can.

Shen Qi told Wu Shangfeng that the direction of the national plan to boost the quality of undergraduate education is correct, but it must not stop at the level of shouting slogans.

Isn't it the same as before when professors teach undergraduates and then don't ask questions?

However, we cannot expect every professor to carefully guide undergraduates and answer all their questions after class.

After all, they are university professors, not middle school cram school teachers.

Therefore, it is necessary to set up a professional post that connects professors and students. In Princeton, this post is called a tutor.

Shen Qi worked as a part-time tutor in Princeton, and this position is more of a full-time tutor.

Due to the different national conditions in China, it is not an easy task to set up a tutoring system.

Shen Qi wants to set up a pilot project at Yanda University, and Wu Shangfeng will become a full-time tutor in the first two years of his PhD.

The school supported Shen Qi, and the principal suggested setting up a pilot project in the School of Numerology.

Some people say that Shen Qi is not very interested in academics now, and is thinking about reform and other things all day long.

Who has the guts to say that about Professor Shen?

It was anonymous, said on the Internet.

"These people don't even have the courage to report with their real names." Shen Qi smiled and said to Wu Shangfeng: "I don't care what others think of me, I just want to do what I think is meaningful."

"Scientists like you have the right to be willful." Wu Shangfeng said.

"Tutoring undergraduates is actually not that easy. You have to understand what undergraduates understand, and you have to understand what undergraduates don't understand, and answer their doubts in a way they can understand, so that they have the joy of upgrading every day Inspiration.” Shen Qi imparted valuable experience, saying: “The joy of learning lies in the fact that today I am stronger than yesterday, and I am getting stronger every day, so students can’t stop learning.”

"That is to say, studying is addictive."

"So Xiao Wu, you have a great responsibility on your shoulders. The reason why I chose you as my student is that you believe in Buddhism and have a heart to save all sentient beings. Second, you performed very comprehensively in both undergraduate and postgraduate stages. You You can get excellent grades in all courses, and when others talk about one girlfriend, you talk about seven, which is an excellent quality for balanced development and consideration of the overall situation."

"Chatting with Professor Shen, I'm so happy." Wu Shangfeng laughed, he never thought that Shen Qi was such a humorous person.

"Xiao Wu, to become a qualified tutor, you still need to become stronger. I mean, I will train you to become a comprehensive doctor of mathematics. Not only mathematics, if you are good enough, you can also Develop in other fields." Shen Qi sent an email to Wu Shangfeng, saying: "The attached PDF is a manuscript of a mathematics paper, the author is from Oxford, and it is about algebraic geometry. Papers are under preliminary review.”

"Huh? I'll review?" Wu Shangfeng was very surprised. He knew that Shen Qi was a reviewer for various famous journals, but he didn't expect that Shen Qi would let him conduct a preliminary review of the submission.

In the first two years of his Ph.D. study, Shen Qi would not arrange for Wu Shangfeng to do any research projects, but he could not completely disconnect Wu Shangfeng from academic research.

So Shen Qi asked Wu Shangfeng to review the manuscript, just to practice.

Reviewing manuscripts for doctoral students is also a learning process. If Wu Shangfeng can review manuscripts, he will review them, and if he can't, he will check the materials.

Of course, Shen Qi is the final judge.

This kind of situation is very common in academia. The author submits a manuscript to a famous journal, thinking that the reviewer is a well-known expert in the industry. In fact, the initial reviewer is an unknown student or subordinate of a well-known expert.

"Then let me try?" Wu Shangfeng tried the preliminary review. He published three articles when he was in graduate school, and one of them was SCI, and his English level was OK.

The current graduate students are half-study and half-research, and the first stage of research is the enhanced version of undergraduates. They still focus on learning and study postgraduate courses to learn more in-depth and specialized.

At the beginning of the second year of graduate school, graduate students got involved in scientific research projects, worked part-time with their bosses, and aimed to publish two or three papers, including one SCI.

Wu Shangfeng's academic performance is still very good. After three years of graduate school, he published three papers, including one SCI.

Shen Qi inspected Wu Shangfeng's grades in professional courses on the one hand, and of course he would also pay attention to the thesis written by Wu Shangfeng.

Speaking of papers, Shen Qi published a paper on the proof of the Riemann conjecture seven years ago, and the cumulative number of citations exceeded the 5,000 mark.

That paper was published in the "Annual Journal of Mathematics". At that time, the IF value was a few o'clock, and it is still a few o'clock now. What changes is the number after the decimal point.

The impact factor algorithm of SCI journals is the total number of citations of articles in the previous two years divided by the total number of articles in the previous two years. In other words, the IF value is the average number of citations of articles.

A journal with an IF value of 1.0 means that papers published in this journal have received an average of 1 citations in the past two years.

1 is not the bottom line of the impact factor. There are a lot of journals with an IF value of a few tenths, especially in the field of mathematics.

The IF value of "Annual Journal of Mathematics" is the highest among all mathematics journals, and it hovers between 3 and 5 all year round.

Take the maximum value of 5, that is, the average number of citations for mathematical papers published in the "Annual Journal of Mathematics" is 5 every two years, and the average number of citations per year is 2.5 times.

Shen Qi's Riemann Hypothesis proof paper has been cited 5,000 times in seven years, that is, more than 700 times a year.

What is this concept?

This is a very scary concept.

It is normal for articles published in "Nature" and "Science" to have an average of 30 to 40 citations, because their IF value is so high.

Articles in "Nature" and "Science" that have been cited more than 300 times are regarded as excellent articles.

Articles with more than 500 citations are very rare, which is super awesome.

"Annual of Mathematics" is a journal with an IF value less than 5. An article by Shen Qi is cited more than 700 times a year on average. It can be understood that more than 700 mathematicians or teams cite this paper by Shen Qi every year. . Of course, there are cases where an author is repeatedly cited.

The Riemann Hypothesis belongs to the field of analytic number theory, which is a very niche and high-end field of superhard analysis.

In the top 100 universities in the world, it is already remarkable that ten people in each university can study this field in depth and produce valuable results.

That is to say, almost all scholars engaged in the research of analytic number theory in the world have cited Shen Qi's Riemann conjecture proof paper.

Shen Qi's overcoming of the Riemann Hypothesis was divided into two stages, and the paper published in the "Annals of Mathematics" is the research result of the first stage.

Shen Qi wrote the complete version of the Riemann Hypothesis proof scheme in his monograph "History of Number Theory".

"History of Number Theory" has been on the market for 6 years, and many academic events have occurred during these 6 years. Shen Qi has started to revise the second edition of "History of Number Theory" a few months ago.

An American publishing house has contacted Shen Qi, hoping to obtain the right to publish and distribute the second edition of "History of Number Theory" in the United States.

The price of the first edition of "History of Number Theory" in the United States was more than eighty dollars.

The valuation of the second edition of "History of Number Theory" was estimated by the American Publishing House to go up to $150.

Why is the price so expensive?

Because in the United States, academic monographs and textbooks are so expensive.

"Miss Dominguez, what do you mean, the second edition of "History of Number Theory" will become the textbook of some colleges and universities in the United States?" Shen Qi asked a mixed-race woman.

The mixed-race woman who came to visit Shen Qi had complicated bloodlines. She had Asian blood, Latin blood, and Slavic blood. The fusion of multiple genes created a charming and gorgeous exotic beauty with classic beauty.

The mixed-race woman is the business manager of the American branch of the Springer Publishing Group. She can speak Chinese and was sent by the company to China to contact Shen Qi.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't speak Chinese, Shen Qi's English is good enough to communicate with Americans.

Mixed-race Americans who can speak Chinese may feel more close to the Chinese.

The mixed-race female manager said: "Call me Jennifer, Professor Shen, for the first edition of "History of Number Theory", you cooperated with us at Springer, and everyone has cooperated very happily. The achievements in the past six years are obvious to all. The second edition of "Number Theory" "History of Number Theory", we hope to continue to cooperate with you. Yes, because of your academic influence, a number theory paper with as many as 5,000 citations is undoubtedly a bible in the number theory field, so "History of Number Theory" has become The textbooks in American universities are a matter of letting nature take its course.”