Omnipotent Data

Chapter 339

The American College Student Mathematical Contest in Modeling, in terms of specifications, is naturally higher than the Huaguo College Student Modeling Contest.

After all, what Mei Sai is facing is college students from all over the world.

According to a statistical data, the 21st American College Student Modeling Contest held at the University of Chicago last year had 10,254 teams and 30,762 college students from more than 30 countries and regions around the world sign up for the competition.

Presumably, the number of participants this year and this number cannot be checked, and these more than 10,000 teams are all elites selected through modeling competitions in their respective countries.

However, the number of awards in the US competition is not as good as that in the national competition, where almost 20% of the contestants can win the prize.

While the number of entries has increased each year, the number of awards has remained the same for more than two decades.

There are 200 merit awards, 80 special award nominations, and 20 special awards. There are a total of 300 award-winning places, and they go to more than 10,000 teams on average, which means that only 3% of the teams can get the award.

Of course, there is another award called "Successful Participation Award", which is awarded according to 80% of the participating teams that year.

This ratio... is about the same as the probability of twisting the cap and saying "thank you for participating".

No school will write this into the student's file as an award.

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The time of the 22nd US competition has been confirmed, from February 14th to February 18th in the Gregorian calendar.

According to the lunar calendar, this time period happens to be from the fourteenth to the eighteenth day of the first lunar month.

Fortunately, I just missed the Lantern Festival. Cheng Nuo once heard from her seniors that a beauty contest a few years ago coincided with the Spring Festival.

Anyway, there is no custom of Spring Festival in the United States, and the competition will be held as usual.

On the night of New Year's Eve, all parts of the country stay up late on New Year's Eve.

But other people stay up late because the family gathers happily to watch the Spring Festival Gala. They stay up late because they are forced to stay in the computer room to do modeling and type codes.

The north wind blows,

That snowflake is floating!

It is simply a "bitter" word!

Of course, except for the different scale of the competition, the general competition system of the US competition and the national competition is similar, but the national competition usually gives players 72 hours of competition, while the US competition lasts four days, which is 96. Hour.

The types of topics cover a wider range than the content of the national competition, including economics, management, environment, resources, ecology, medicine, safety, future technology and many other fields.

Since the number of games has increased from time to time, the difficulty will naturally increase accordingly.

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Now that the time has just entered 2022, Cheng Nuo still has more than two months to prepare for the war.

Hey, in fact, I can't even say that I'm preparing for the battle!

Anyway, strength lies there. If it weren't for the request of the leaders of the academy, and the coincidence of the World Abacus and Mental Arithmetic Competition, Professor Fang didn't plan to let Cheng Nuo make this trip.

You must know that we have entered the most critical stage of the weak BSD conjecture proof work. As long as we get through this difficult area, the road ahead will be smooth!

"Cheng Nuo, this time you went to participate in the competition, but you went with a mission, twenty special prizes, you have to get one back no matter what!" These were the exact words Professor Fang gave Cheng Nuo.

But in the final analysis, it is still the request of the college leadership.

The leaders of Tsinghua School of Mathematics have their own considerations.

Now Cheng Nuo is quite well-known in their circle of mathematics, and the title of "Professor Fang's disciple" has attracted a lot of attention for him. In addition, he has recently heard that he is working as Professor Fang's assistant to overcome the BSD conjecture. Let everyone pay more attention to Cheng Nuo.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, they were unwilling to force Professor Fang's beloved disciple.

But the current situation has indeed reached a very serious level.

As we all know, Huaguo has always been one of the more active countries participating in the competition. In the first few years when the US competition was held, when there were still very few participating countries, Huaguo often occupied about ten of the twenty grand prizes, and their Tsinghua University often had one or two models The team won the first prize, which symbolizes honor.

However, in recent years, as more and more countries and regions have participated in the competition, and the scale and gold content have become higher and higher, the Hua Guo team has won fewer and fewer teams. It looks like a group of four or five.

Especially Tsinghua University, except for one group that won the special prize in the session four years ago, it has not won even one special prize for three consecutive sessions.

This made the leaders of the School of Mathematics very embarrassed!

As a last resort, they could only trouble Professor Fang to let his proud student Cheng Nuo come out again!

In order to ensure that Cheng Nuo has enough qualifications to compete for the grand prize of this year's competition, the academy has prepared very well, and even selected his teammates for Cheng Nuo.

Originally, Cheng Nuo also said that it would be fine to just take the two teammates who participated in the national competition with him, but he was decisively rejected by the instructor sent by the academy.

The instructor, Associate Professor Sun, had a certain understanding of Cheng Nuo's other two teammates, Liu Qing and Gu Feifei.

At first, I thought that the two of them were paddling or doing some work, but I didn't expect Professor Sun to overestimate them.

Therefore, Professor Sun will never allow the existence of these two unstable factors.

It took a day for Professor Sun to recruit a teammate for Cheng Nuo from the School of Economics and the School of Foreign Languages.

The three met in a small conference room.

Both of them have the experience of participating in the American competition, and they are all big-bodied existences in their respective colleges. Now they are told to join the team of the young man in front of them and obey his command. To be honest, they are a little unconvinced of.

However, for this unconvinced, Cheng Nuo simply said six words, "Follow me, there is a prize!"

Although the two students from the School of Engineering and Foreign Languages ​​had participated in the US competition, the 3% winning rate made them naturally fall into the sand.

Regarding Cheng Nuo's arrogant words, the two of them naturally maintained a dubious attitude.

Anyway, Mae Sai is still more than a month away, when the time comes, it will be a mule or a horse, just pull it out and you will know!

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Review, exam, vacation!

After completing the last course of the "Real Variable Function and Functional Analysis" exam, Cheng Nuo ended his life in the first semester of his sophomore year!

No, we can't talk about the first semester of the sophomore year, because Cheng Nuo's current courses already include the courses of the senior year.

It should be more accurate to say that it was the first semester of senior year.

Because in the second half of this year, he will complete all four years of undergraduate courses in mathematics, which means graduation.

At that time, Cheng Nuo was still considering whether Baoyan would stay at Peking University or go abroad for further study.

However, there was still a very real problem that Cheng Nuo had to face.

Up to now, his graduation thesis and graduation defense have not been prepared yet.

It's not that he wasn't worried at all, but...he was really busy and forgot!

It seems that after the BSD conjecture is settled, it is time to hurry up and do the graduation defense.