Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 182

July 25th is June 22nd in the lunar calendar. The Great Heat just passed two days ago. Now this time is the hottest time of the year.

And this day is also the first day of reporting on the summer camp of the School of Mathematical Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology.

On this day, Li Mingzhi, the dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, had already returned to school. He came to Zhou Ming's office in the School of Mathematical Sciences early this morning.

Since today was the first day for the students from the summer camp of the School of Mathematics to report, Zhou Ming did not stay in his office in the School of Life Sciences today, but stayed in the office of the School of Mathematics.

After all, there were quite a few students who sent him emails before. If some of the students who came to report wanted to come to him after the report, but found that he was not in the office, they found out that he was in the office of the School of Life Sciences after asking. Not so good.

"You're a busy person now, there are two big subjects on the biology side alone."

In Zhou Ming's office, Li Mingzhi was joking to Zhou Ming at this moment.

"Wherever, most of the experiments are almost handed over to others, and I am responsible for some major ones." Zhou Mingdao.

"I heard from Academician Zhang that you have selected two graduate students for the summer camp of the School of Life Sciences. How many graduate students are you going to accept at the School of Life Sciences this time?"

Li Mingzhi asked Zhou Ming as he walked towards Zhou Ming's desk.

"It depends on the situation, why do you care about this? Don't you usually ask me when we meet each other if I have thought about which problem in mathematics to study next? Why don't you ask me today?" Zhou Ming also joked to Li Mingzhi.

"My question must be related to our School of Mathematics. Don't be biased. Don't admit more graduate students in the School of Biological Sciences than in the School of Mathematics." Speaking of this, Li Mingzhi Seeing the draft paper on Zhou Ming's desk, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"These formulas..." Li Mingzhi said in his mouth, turned the draft paper on Zhou Ming's desk in one direction, and began to read it.

After reading a few pages of draft paper, Li Mingzhi looked at Zhou Ming and asked him, "Are you studying the Collats conjecture? Didn't you say that you plan to hand over this project to graduate students?"

"It's just for fun." Zhou Ming said with a smile, without explaining too much.

After hearing what Zhou Ming said, Li Mingzhi looked at the other draft papers on Zhou Ming's desk, and said to Zhou Ming while arranging these draft papers: "Your drafts are a bit messy, how are you? Have you solved it?" ?”

"It's not that fast." Zhou Ming shook his head.

The last time he solved Goldbach's conjecture so quickly, it was because he already knew the complete proof process of Goldbach's conjecture at that time, so it was naturally fast.

But this time, Colraz guessed that Zhou Ming didn't have the proof process in his mind, so he could only solve it by himself.

However, Li Zhizhi didn't know these things, so it's not surprising that he asked.

"That's right. If you really can solve every mathematical problem at the same speed as solving Goldbach's conjecture, then there will probably be no mathematical problems in this world soon."

Hearing Zhou Ming's negative answer, Li Mingzhi also smiled and said that he could understand if it was not resolved.

After all, mathematics is something that sometimes really depends on inspiration and brains. When you have inspiration, you will naturally write like a god, but without inspiration, the solution speed will be very slow.

Sometimes even one point is not figured out, and it takes a lifetime to solve this problem.

"Where is the solution? Can you tell me?" Li Mingzhi asked again.

"It has been proved that the Collats conjecture is true under certain conditions, but if this specific condition is removed, it cannot be 100% sure." Zhou Ming explained.

"Hmm..." Li Mingzhi nodded and said, just as he was about to continue talking, there was a knock on the door of Zhou Ming's office.

"Please come in." Since it was midsummer and the weather was very hot, Zhou Ming turned on the air conditioner in the office, so the door was also closed.

However, the knock on the door made both Zhou Ming and Li Mingzhi feel a little curious. After all, Zhou Ming usually doesn’t interact with other teachers very much. Apart from Li Zhizhi, other teachers rarely come to Zhou Ming when they come to Zhou Ming. .

When the door was pushed open, a girl who appeared to be in her 20s walked in. There were two small balls tied on her head, and her curly straight hair fell from her shoulders and hung down on her chest.

She was wearing a white short sleeve on her upper body, a pair of knee-length black shorts on her lower body, and a pair of sneakers on her feet.

Neither Zhou Ming nor Li Zhizhi knew this girl, so they were all surprised when they saw the girl who opened the door.

"Looking for you. Your student?" This is Zhou Ming's office. Since he found this place, he must be looking for Zhou Ming. Therefore, Li Mingzhi looked back at Zhou Ming and asked him.

Zhou Ming shook his head, and after saying no, he was about to ask who this girl was and what he was doing, but this girl had already spoken.

"Excuse me, is this the office of Professor Zhou Ming?"

The girl asked, but when she finished speaking, she had already seen Zhou Ming's face, and there was indeed an expression on her face.

"I am, you are..." When Zhou Mingzhun asked who this girl was, he suddenly thought of something and asked, "Are you the student who came to report at the summer camp of the School of Mathematical Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology today? "

"Yes. Hello, Teacher Zhou, Hello, Teacher. My name is Jian Chunyu. I just finished the report, and then I asked the teacher in charge of the report over there for the specific address of your office, and I came to see you."

The student who claimed to be Jian Chunyu made a simple self-introduction after seeing Zhou Ming.

Because she didn't know Li Zhizhi's name yet, she directly said hello teacher to Li Zhizhi.

"Oh...you are the Jian Chunyu who emailed me a few days ago and said that he would come to me on the day of the report and ask if I have time?" After Zhou Ming heard Jian Chunyu's simple self-introduction, he also Said as if suddenly enlightened.

However, in fact, there were not many students who sent Zhou Ming an email, saying that they would come to him on the day of the report and asked if he had time, but there were quite a few. Zhou Ming didn't remember Jian Chunyu's name at all.

However, Zhou Ming didn't wait for Jian Chunyu's answer, and introduced Li Zhizhi to her next to him.

"This is the dean of our University of Science and Technology School of Mathematics. Just call him Dean Li." Zhou Ming said to Jian Chunyu again.

Li Mingzhi looked at the little girl and said to her, "Young lady came very early. You are the first one to visit Professor Zhou today. Do you live in Luzhou City?"

There were still students in the office at this time, and Li Mingzhi did not call Zhou Ming Xiao Zhou.

When Jian Chunyu heard that Zhou Ming said that the old man was not a teacher, but the dean of the School of Mathematics, she was also taken aback. She did not expect to meet the dean of the Mathematics Institute on the first day she came to the University of Science and Technology of China.

Since Jian Chunyu wanted to apply for the postgraduate entrance examination of the School of Mathematics of the University of Science and Technology of China, he naturally did a little research on the University of Science and Technology of China and the School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Science and Technology, and knew that Dean Li was still an academician.

After all, when she was in undergraduate school, Jian Chunyu had met the dean of their school less than one hand in total in the past three years.

Now, on the first day I came to Huaguo University of Science and Technology, I saw the dean, and it was normal to be a little surprised.

"Hello, Dean Li." Although Jian Chunyu was taken aback by the identity of Dean Li, her psychological quality was quite good, she quickly calmed down, and shouted to Li Mingzhi again, this time she did not call the teacher alright.

"My family is not from Luzhou City. I was afraid of being delayed, so I bought the train ticket last night and slept on the train at night. I arrived in Luzhou City this morning. After I arrived in Luzhou City, I finished the report and said Leave the suitcase at the hotel and come over.”

Jian Chunyu explained to Li Zhiming.

"What do you want to know about you coming to me?
It just so happens that Dean Li is also here. Actually, I don’t know much about the affairs of our Mathematics Institute. If you want to know something about our Mathematics Institute, Dean Li can just ask you to clarify your doubts. "Zhou Ming asked Jian Chunyu.

Most of the students who had contacted Zhou Ming via e-mail attached their resumes and transcripts, and some of them would also attach relevant information if they participated in some scientific research or competitions.

However, no matter how good these things are, Zhou Ming's replies were relatively the same before they met or had a detailed chat.

After all, what happened to the girl surnamed Wu from the School of Life Sciences last time is not uncommon. Only after face-to-face and detailed understanding can Zhou Ming make further plans.

After Zhou Ming asked Jian Chunyu this question, Jian Chunyu also revealed her purpose for coming to Zhou Ming.

The purpose of these students coming to find a tutor in advance is nothing more than to get to know the situation of the teacher. After all, the postgraduate entrance examination is not a unilateral choice of students by the teacher.

It is also students who choose teachers. If ordinary students meet an irresponsible or even cheating tutor, life will be difficult after they go to graduate school.

That would be like a year, and the average graduate student would have two or three years, so how many years would it take to live like a year.

In addition, they also have another purpose to see what the mentor they have chosen thinks of them.

If the tutor doesn't want to accept him, then the student must change tutors quickly.

However, Jian Chunyu's first question was to ask Zhou Ming if he had any recommended book list.

"The book list I recommend, in addition to some basic books that graduate students should read, are all very targeted books, which are closely related to the topics I gave them.

I don't know your specific situation now, and I'm not sure whether you will become my student in the future, so I can only recommend some basic books to you.Like Courant's "Introduction to Calculus and Mathematical Analysis", Chern Shiing-shen and Chen Weihuan's "Lectures on Differential Geometry", Turing's statistics series "Basic Topology", van der Walden's "Algebra"..."

Zhou Ming began to recommend mathematics books to Jian Chunyu one by one. The books he recommended included various fields of mathematics, including mathematical analysis, linear algebra, single-variable calculus, multi-variable calculus, number theory, geometry, probability theory wait.

"Well, are these books enough?"

After recommending almost eleven or twelve books, Zhou Ming asked Jian Chunyu again.

"Enough, enough." Jian Chunyu nodded quickly, she was a little confused by Zhou Ming's sudden throwing out of a dozen books.

Teacher, I'm still just an undergraduate about to enter my senior year, so there's no need to recommend so many books all at once, right?And it is still involved in almost every field, and it is still a basic book. If I become your student in the end, what are the non-basic books?

Jian Chunyu complained silently in her heart, but this was just an appetizer. When she heard Zhou Ming continue to talk later, she would know what it meant to "stab the ass with a knife—open your eyes".

Li Mingzhi on the side said to Zhou Ming in a bad mood at this time: "Do you want her to learn most of the knowledge that graduate students need to learn by herself in advance before going to graduate school?"

"Is there anything else you want to know?" Zhou Ming ignored Li Mingzhi, but asked Jian Chunyu again.

Later, Jian Chunyu learned from Zhou Ming and Li Mingzhi some of Zhou Ming's thoughts on recruiting graduate students, as well as some information about the School of Mathematics of the University of Science and Technology of China.

Jian Chunyu was also terrified when she heard Zhou Ming's talk about some topics that he would give to his graduate students in the future.

Although I also choose the topic myself, but taking world-class mathematical problems such as the Collats conjecture, ABC conjecture, and Mersenne prime number conjecture as the topic, is there any difference between this and not choosing it by myself?

Is it possible that the tutor directly arranges topics for you, and what is the difference between choosing one of these topics yourself?Or do you choose from here and you can solve these problems?

In the end, seeing Jian Chunyu leaving Zhou Ming's office in a panic, Li Mingzhi said to him, "Don't scare the little girl, the Department of Mathematics of our University of Science and Technology has finally gained momentum, you are scared , when the news spreads, I estimate that fewer people will report to our School of Mathematics of the University of Science and Technology of China than before."

"Isn't that what you said to clarify things with them?"

Faced with what Li Zhizhi said, Zhou Ming didn't know what to say. At the beginning, Li Zhizhi said that before accepting graduate students, he should explain clearly to them the topics he was going to let them study in advance, and he couldn't wait for them to choose him as a tutor. Tell them after you enter HKUST.

"This girl has a good foundation. You don't know which school she is an undergraduate from, Fudan University. If she performs well in the summer camp in the next two days, she can be accepted." Zhou Ming explained to Li Mingzhi again.

"I'm afraid you scare people so much that they won't dare to report you." Li Mingzhi said.

"Learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. Isn't it for them?

Moreover, if you want to make achievements in mathematics and solve problems that have plagued people for decades or even hundreds of years, it must take a lot of effort. Training a master can't be me directly feeding him food, right?What kind of master is this? "Zhou Ming said.

"Do you really want to train a master?" Hearing Zhou Ming's last words, Li Mingzhi became energetic again.

"Since the topics I choose for them are these difficult problems, they must be cultivated according to the master's goal. Moreover, I already have some ideas. As long as they do what I say, they will most likely be It can be done." Zhou Ming said.

Hearing Zhou Ming say that cultivating a mathematics master is like planting Chinese cabbage, you can reap it if you plant it, Li Mingzhi is ready to refute.

However, when the last rebuttal came to his lips, it turned into another sentence.

"Well, I'd like to see how you cultivated one, or even several masters of mathematics.

However, you just said that this girl is from Fudan University?If it weren't for you, Fudan's mathematics department would be better than our USTC's. It seems that this girl is here for you. If she thinks she can't choose you, she probably won't choose other teachers in our school.

By the way, since she is from Fudan, I remember that there seems to be no evening train from Shanghai to Luzhou?And the train time is not that long, where is her hometown? "

Li Mingzhi said again.

"I don't know about that. Maybe it's from the capital? But it shouldn't be. According to normal logic, if she was from the capital, she must have gone to Peking University instead of Fudan..."

Zhou Ming said.

Zhou Ming didn't do anything else today, just chatted with Li Mingzhi, and after a while, another student who participated in the summer camp of HKUST School of Mathematics came to Zhou Ming's office to look for him.

(End of this chapter)