I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 470 Marching into the Hail Conjecture
In this year's Qiu competition, although Yanda still ranks first in the total number of medals, Qingmu University's results are undoubtedly the most dazzling.

Qin Ke won seven gold medals, Ning Qingyun won four gold medals, Jiang Zhenjie and Ximen Hui each won one silver and one bronze, Gan Zhihang won one silver and four bronzes, and of course, Qin Ke's team also won a team championship gold cup.

Just these five people can overshadow Yan University's Qiu competition results, not to mention the other [-] Qingmu students are not bad in the exam, most of them can get silver or bronze medals, which is enough to make Wei Yuanfu laugh. Not close.

Only then did Wei Yuanfu feel elated, straightened his waist, and no one dared to secretly laugh at Qingmu University for "making wedding clothes for others", and was taken away by Yan University in the mathematics competition held by him. The most dazzling the honor.

So at the dinner party, Director Wei, who had a lot of friends, personally took Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun to toast the various bigwigs in the mathematics world (Ning Qingyun drank drinks), which can be regarded as adding some connections to the two young people.

In fact, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun knew each other among the guests, not to mention academician Wang Xiaoyun, and there were several other academicians and experts in the industry. He had paid a visit in the name of him, and he belonged to a big shot who had a good relationship with the Ning family.

In addition to some professors I met at the Shiingshen Mathematics Awards Gala, as well as mathematics professors I met when I went to Yanda to take classes, there were more than 50 distinguished guests present, and Qin Ke actually knew nearly half of them.

The remaining half were also introduced by Director Wei who is good at dancing.

On such an occasion, it was natural for everyone to be friendly. Among them, Professor Nie Yongwen of the Xia Ke Academy was the most interested in the two, and invited them to visit or intern at the Institute of Mathematics of the Xia Science Academy.

However, Lan Weifeng, another professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Xia Ke Academy next to him, looked a little complicated when he saw the two of them.

A research group under him was in charge of the mathematical modeling of Professor Duan Yonggong's breakwater project. As a result, the mathematical modeling was found out by Qin Ke and the others with eleven small mistakes, but these mistakes were caused by a series of accidents in the experiment. , almost became the most direct factor of the experimental accident, which made the always strong Professor Lan Weifeng feel ashamed.

Annoyed, he returned all the previously received rewards to Professor Duan Yonggong's laboratory, and then personally led the research team to optimize and correct the mathematical model day and night. It was not until yesterday that the eleven points pointed out by Qin Ke were completely repaired. Small mistake, sent to Professor Duan's laboratory for free.

It is equivalent to this huge mathematical modeling work. After working hard for two years, he didn't earn a penny, and he also paid for the team's salary and benefits...

Today, Lan Weifeng took out the invitation letter from his busy schedule and came here, just to see how talented Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, these two rising stars, are.

But when he really saw the two of them, Lan Weifeng's anger suddenly dissipated.

Because he noticed that the eyes of these two young students are so clear and pure, they are really not the kind of vanity people who specialize in criticizing and making a sense of presence.Thinking about it, the two kids spent a lot of energy to find the problem from the mathematical model, it was purely just discussing the matter, and they didn't mean anything against him, Lan Weifeng.

When Lan Weifeng was introducing himself, he paid special attention to the expressions of the two of them. As expected, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun didn't know that they had "confronted" with him at all, and they didn't even know that his research team was in charge of Professor Duan's wave defense. Project Mathematical Modeling.

In the end, Lan Weifeng just sighed, "Young people are awesome", and shook hands with Qin Ke politely, and also invited him to sit in his office when he is free...

For Qin Ke, this year's Qiu competition has won some gold medals and certificates, and the system's "achievement makes me improve" function has also given academic points rewards.

"Ding! Congratulations, you performed well in the Qiu competition, and created a new record in the Qiu competition with seven full-score gold medals. The system assessed the 'score' as 'S+', and the 'scores make me improve' function is in effect. Yours Academic points (mathematics) +70!"

Probably because the system thinks that with his quasi-master level strength at this time, it is natural for him to participate in such a difficult level of postgraduate Qiu competition and get a full score, so although he is rated as "S+ level", the actual mathematics academic points awarded are only 70 points, compared with The award he received as the best speaker at the Pudong University Academic Conference was still small. At any rate, he earned 100 academic points that time.

Although mosquito legs are still meat no matter how small they are, considering the wasted time and energy and lack of a sense of accomplishment, Qin Ke still made a decision. He and Ning Qingyun will not participate in the mathematics competition for college students in the future.

Including the most famous mathematical modeling competition.

For the mathematics competition experience of college students, Qiu Sai is enough.

He frankly expressed his thoughts in the interview with reporters after the dinner, which relieved many students who are interested in participating in the mathematical modeling competition, and gave a little more real admiration to the eyes of Qin and Ke.

Know how to advance and retreat without knowing, and give some honor and opportunities to those who need it more. This kind of generosity is undoubtedly easier to convince and favor people.

……

Qiu Sai came to an end like this. Qingmu University had a wave of publicity, and the media made a lot of fuss about Qin Ke's record-breaking results. It's the playful attitude of "Don't 6".

[Hey, when will Qin Shen and Ning students win the international awards, or overcome some world-class problems and then @我好, just a mathematics competition for college students, you media are too embarrassed to grab it to promote it, this is not a disguised reduction Are Qin Shen and Ning's godheads? (dog head)]

[Please respect the opinions of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun from the media, and stop paying too much attention to reporting them and disturbing their normal study and life! 】

These two comments have received more than 10 likes.

Thanks to the "calmness" of netizens, the media quickly died down.The attention from the outside world began to drop, and the lives of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were able to return to the normal track.

Going to class, self-study, participating in class activities, playing basketball, dating on weekends, living in a new home, living a sweet two-person world, peaceful and warm, but singing the beauty of youth all the time.

Of course, Qiu Sai had a follow-up event, that is, the school awarded them an additional scholarship of 20 yuan each.Half of the 20 was awarded by the school and half by the mathematics department.

In addition, Wei Yuanfu also specially reminded Qin Ke that since Polignac's conjecture has been proved, he should submit his thesis through the school as soon as possible, as the conclusion of this year's "Youth Selection" project, and reimburse the expenses.

Qin Ke's "Qingba" project cost 100 million yuan, but in fact Qin Ke didn't spend a penny.

He doesn't have meetings and seminars, he doesn't go on business, and he doesn't need to pay himself and Ning Qingyun for the third time. Even small expenses such as printing and copying stationery for water and electricity sites are handled directly by the school in the name of "Lime Mathematics Research Laboratory". up.

The scientific research funds were not used or reimbursed. According to regulations, the school should take them back and use them as a whole. However, there is no way that Qingmu University will take back Qin Ke's funds. People are rewarded.

So with a wave of Qingmu University's hand, the 100 million has become the research funding of the "Lime Mathematics Research Laboratory".

After the completion of the project, it has to be reported layer by layer, and finally it will be considered as the real completion of the project after the approval from the superior, and a new project can be applied for. At that time, a new 100 million fund will be allocated.

A mere one million or hundreds of thousands is no longer in Qin Ke's eyes. He entrusted all these procedural matters to Director Wei Yuanfu to handle on his behalf.

Wei Yuanfu was not familiar with these procedures for a long time, so he specially appointed an administrative teacher from the mathematics department to help Qin Ke run these procedures and submit materials.

If the administrative teacher can help with affairs, Qin Ke is the only one in Qingmu University who has this kind of treatment.

Wei Yuanfu arranged everything and asked curiously: "Qin Ke, do you plan to start a new project recently? Or should you rest for a while to relax?"

Qin Ke asked strangely: "Relax? Isn't it just relaxing when I participate in the Qiu competition?"

Wei Yuanfu: "..."

Well, I have to keep up with the times and get used to talking to such a super genius in a new way of thinking.

"Then you plan to start a new project?"

Qin Ke nodded.

Wei Yuanfu's mood suddenly became excited: "Is it still about mathematics?"

"Yes. I won't interrupt the subject of mathematics. As long as I have time, I will keep a subject in hand. This time I plan to study the hail conjecture first."

"Hail conjecture? 3n+1?" Wei Yuanfu was invigorated. This is a world-class mathematical problem that is even more famous and difficult than the Polignac conjecture. Have results? Can it take half a year?"

This time it was Qin Ke's turn to be speechless.

Director Wei, do you think highly of the two of us? If the hail conjecture can be solved in half a year, will it still dominate the mathematics world for nearly 50 years but no one can solve it?
Seeing Qin Ke's expression, Wei Yuanfu rubbed his hands in embarrassment: "Isn't it... are you and Ning Qingyun used to the progress of making a guess every six months? Okay, you can decide the specific time yourself, and the department will not rush you You guys. In short, our Department of Mathematics will definitely support you in this project. When the time comes when your outstanding project is completed, we will help you submit the hailstone conjecture. This project is more difficult, and we will find ways to help you fight for it. 150 million scientific research funds. You don’t have to worry, you don’t necessarily need to prove it within two years, as long as you have the research results you can produce.”

Wei Yuanfu's attitude was warm and friendly, and the administrative teacher next to him who was used to him scolding people with a straight face all day was about to drop his jaw.

Wei Yuanfu couldn't care less about the administrative teacher. After Qin Ke left, he repeatedly urged the administrative teacher to do a good job with Qin Ke's project, so he happily ran to the vice principal Gu Bojun to report... …

Qin Ke did what he said, and during the self-study time that night, he and Ning Qingyun entered the Jiaogu conjecture, that is, the hail conjecture.

There are several other names for the hail conjecture, such as the Kratz conjecture, and the simplest "3n+1" conjecture.

Why is it called the "3n+1" conjecture?Because the content of this conjecture is: for a positive integer x, if it is an odd number, multiply it by 3 and add 1, if it is an even number, divide it by 2, and repeat calculations like this, no matter how huge the mathematics of the process is, the final result will become 1 .

It is more intuitive to describe it in the form of a mathematical game:

"Take any positive integer N and transform it according to the following rules: if it is an odd number, then the next step becomes 3N+1; if it is an even number, the next step becomes N/2; if repeated transformations, eventually N cannot escape Fall into a 4-2-1 loop at the bottom.

This is a very interesting mathematical game, which was very popular in colleges and universities in the United States in the 70s. From students to faculty members, they are constantly trying to find exceptional positive integers, but even if the calculation is less than 7*10 Of all the natural numbers of ^11, no mathematician can find an exception.

Of course, the rules of this mathematical game can be changed freely, such as "if it is an odd number, the next step becomes 3N-1", the result will still be a cycle of fate, but it is no longer a 4-2-1 cycle.

This seemingly simple mathematical game has stumped countless mathematicians, and so far no one has been able to prove it mathematically.

Of course, it is impossible for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun to have a proof idea all at once. This hailstone conjecture topic can only be advanced slowly. Start to launch an offensive, at least until after August.

However, both Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun had a good mentality. It took them more than eight months to conjecture Polignac. This more difficult hailstone conjecture can be figured out within a year. The proof ideas are all progressing super fast.

Ning Qingyun is busier than Qin Ke. She not only has to write a thesis on tomato hybrid breeding, but also learns more advanced knowledge of number theory from Professor Tian Jianlan. The report paper and PPT of the Scientific Breakthrough Award of the month.

Qin Ke was much freer, Hail guessed that there was no progress on the project, and he was full of interest in another new desert sweet potato breeding project, but he was far from finding enough sweet potato seeds for Wei Xueming, so Qin Ke couldn't project it. Going to the virtual scientific research experiment center to conduct research can only be put on hold for the time being.

So besides his normal study and life, Qin Ke suddenly became a little "doing nothing". He simply spent more time remotely guiding Qin Xiaoke's homework and preparing for the senior high school entrance examination with her.

After about a week like this, Qin Ke unexpectedly received an email from the "Annual Journal of Mathematics", informing him that his two papers, including the one proving the Polignac conjecture and the one proposing a new type of conjecture, were simultaneously published. After passing the preliminary review and editor-in-chief's re-examination, it enters the expert review process. If the five experts do not propose any amendments, it will be published in the "Annual Journal of Mathematics" at the end of May.

The email also mentioned that the editor-in-chief Faltins will personally promote the progress of this expert review.

Qin Ke was surprised and delighted. Of course he knew the status of Professor Faltings in the international mathematics community. Since the old man was willing to help promote this matter, he naturally read his paper and approved it.

The probability of it being published at the end of May is undoubtedly much greater.

After Qin Ke sent an email to express his gratitude to Faltins, he decided to make second-hand preparations and prepare another version of the Science Breakthrough Award report paper and PPT. new mathematical conjecture.

Time passed in such a hurry, and it was the end of April in the blink of an eye, and the May Day holiday was about to usher in.

Qin Ke accidentally received a phone call from Jin Yunlin, the editor-in-chief of "Journal of Physics", telling him that all three papers on fluid mechanics had been preliminarily reviewed, but because they involved too much mathematics and advanced knowledge of fluid mechanics, ordinary physics professors reviewed them. It is a bit laborious, and it takes more time to find suitable reviewers, so the publication time will be longer.

"Okay, you can handle this matter yourself, Editor-in-Chief Jin."

After finishing the call, Qin Ke remembered that he was not familiar with Acta Physica, so he found the latest issue to read carefully.

Flipping through the pages, a title caught his attention.

(End of this chapter)