From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Doctoral thesis, after that, he will be a real doctor!

This feeling is more refreshing than double-yolk eggs in a card game.

His two roommates also said with half envy and half congratulations: "I'm afraid you have to treat this wave."

"It's awesome, my Kai, "Annual Journal of Mathematics"! What the hell, seeing you pass is more uncomfortable than my Yanbi?"

"Please, please, please!" Chen Mingkai said with a smile, and made an OK gesture at the same time.

But at this time, his cell phone rang again, and it was from Lin Xiao.

"The level of this thesis is high enough, and it can be ranked among the top among all doctoral theses. After the defense, you can send it to any journal you want, and your overall performance in the thesis writing process also Yes, there is basically no problem with this aspect, so you can prepare for your defense in a week.

In addition, after the defense, you can come to me to talk about your affairs after graduation. As I said before, as long as you can complete this thesis, you can join the Dingguang Research Institute, as long as you want, then, I won’t say anything else, the future Dr. Chen Mingkai』

Seeing these comments from his instructor, Chen Mingkai's face became even happier.

"I, Cao, read what my mentor said!"

When the two roommates saw it, they immediately became even more envious. This kind of praise, this feeling is too refreshing, right?

For students like them, there is nothing better than being praised by their mentor, especially when the mentor is Lin Shen.

And Lin Xiao later promised Chen Mingkai that he could join the Dingguang Research Institute, which made them even more sour.

The Dingguang Research Institute is famous among these doctoral students. Who doesn't know that joining the Dingguang Research Institute will save 40 years of detours in the future?

Isn't this more exciting than being a security guard?

"Damn, this kid is so arrogant, beat him up!"

Seeing Chen Mingkai's overjoyed look, a roommate immediately said to the other roommate, and then the two nodded and went up to beat Chen Mingkai.

Of course, they were just joking, until finally, they stopped, and Chen Mingkai opened his thesis and began to appreciate his masterpiece.

What he likes most is doing this kind of thing, remembering his achievements.

Looking at the smooth proof process in the paper, this is mathematics!

Of course, in the process of watching, he once again felt admiration for his mentor.

Recalling that at the beginning, under Lin Xiao's suggestion, he started to promote his thesis on the Huoqilin...Hodge-Lin theorem, and if it was just a simple promotion, it was not worth mentioning, but in Under the guidance of Lin Xiao, this promotion has brought extremely important results for the connection between the Hodge-Lin theorem and another Poincaré-Perelman theorem.

It is such an achievement that has raised the actual value of this paper by many levels. After all, the Hodge-Lin theorem is the original Hodge conjecture, and the Poincaré-Perelman theorem is the original Poincaré conjecture. Lai guessed.

Finding the important connection between two world-class conjectures and their theorems, such an achievement, is of course of great value.

And such value was discovered by Lin Xiao before his thesis was completed.

"Fortunately, he is my mentor."

Chen Mingkai showed an extremely lucky expression.

Chapter 4 Chen Mingkai's Defense

A week passed quickly.

Chen Mingkai's graduation defense has begun.

The doctoral defense at Peking University is naturally high in standard, let alone the doctoral defense at the School of Mathematics.

As the first department of Peking University and the head of the four major madhouses, the first thing the graduation defense here has to face is the defense committee with a very high standard.

Since he is the chief student of the famous Academician Lin Xiaolin, and he is the first student to be a teacher, there are many professors who come to participate in this defense. As for the defense committee, they are all academicians of mathematics. Those from other schools, even academician Yuan Ya, the president of the Huaguo Mathematics Association, joined the defense team and became one of them.

And the reason why so many of them came was to see to a large extent the level of the disciple Lin Xiao trained, and how the level of Lin Xiao's training students compared to his own level.

For a scholar with a high level of academic ability, his educational ability is often not as good, or even worse.

Just like pianists and piano educators, excellent pianists are often cultivated by excellent piano educators.

Therefore, many people want to see Lin Xiao from this aspect, whether there is an imperfection anyway.

However, there are also some people who want to criticize. After all, there are many people who admire Lin Xiao, and there are also many people who are jealous of Lin Xiao.

……

The defense classroom is in a small lecture hall of the School of Mathematics. Considering that there will be many people watching, there are also many seats in the back row.

Although the defense has not yet started, the seats in the back row are basically full.

Among them were teachers and professors, as well as other postgraduates and undergraduates who came after hearing the news. There were probably close to [-] people in total. For the students who were about to defend, it was obviously a pressure.

On the podium, Chen Mingkai was working on PPT, beside his two juniors, namely Lin Xiao's two master students, Zhao Guodong and Li Min.

Looking at the people in the audience, Chen Mingkai was numb.

"It's amazing. When I was defending my master's degree, it was a conference room, and then there were only a few professors. Why did my doctoral degree defense double?"

He couldn't help but vomit bitterness to his two younger brothers.

Although Zhao Guodong and Li Min were not the ones to defend, they were also a little numb at this moment.

"Don't talk about it, brother, you still participated in the graduation defense of graduate students, but the two of us only participated in the graduation defense of undergraduates. How did we go through such a battle?"

As master students, Zhao Guodong and Li Min will only defend their defense next year when they are in their third year of graduate school, but seeing the scene in front of them, they can't help but feel a burst of pressure for their own defense next year.

Good guy, this is simply embarrassing people like them who specialize in mathematics and lack social skills.

And at this moment, a figure that made them feel a little at ease walked in the door.

Their mentor Lin Xiao is here!

Lin Xiao walked in from the door, which naturally attracted the attention of everyone in the conference room.

Whether they admired him or were jealous of him, they all smiled at him and greeted him.

After Lin Xiao responded to these greetings, he walked in front of his three students with a smile.

"What's the matter? Look at the expressions of the three of you?"

Seeing the serious faces of the three people, Lin Xiao said with a smile.

"Professor, this person... isn't there a lot?" Chen Mingkai said helplessly. He had come early, but he just watched more and more people in the lecture hall. Then in the end it was full, and even now some people wanted to come in at the door, but they probably had to leave because they saw that the seats were full.

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Oh, what is this? Your teacher, I gave an academic report for the first time at the International Congress of Mathematicians. I still spoke English, and it was even equivalent to a one-hour plenary report. Thousands of people are watching."

"This is just a defense, take it easy."

Listening to Lin Xiao's words, Chen Mingkai, Zhao Guodong, and Li Min all had expressions that could hardly hold back.

Well, you're a professor, and you're the best.

Lin Xiao smiled, and finally patted Chen Mingkai on the shoulder, and said, "Okay, you wrote your thesis yourself, and the content is very good, so don't worry about it. Do you think there is anything else you can do for your Ph.D. graduation defense?" How about a paper that can be published in the top four journals in mathematics?"

Chen Mingkai showed helplessness on his face. He understood the truth, but he just couldn't stand the crowd.

"Okay, let's not talk about anything else, and Guodong, Li Min, you two have only been together for a year, and maybe you will also be in this kind of defense by then, but you have to work hard."

"Yes, Professor."

The two nodded repeatedly, but they thought that the brother's thesis was planned to be published in the "Annual Journal of Mathematics", which gave them the idea that they didn't know what to do with their thesis.

That is the "Annual of Mathematics". In their mathematics circle, it is completely equivalent to hearing one's seniors submit an article in "Nature" and "Science" in other disciplines. Generally, this is to be treated as a super boss.

Thinking of this, they seem to have a kind of determination for their next master's thesis. The pressure will not easily crush them, but it is more likely to develop into their motivation.

But Lin Xiao didn't understand these situations.

He stepped off the podium and walked towards the defense committee. Naturally, as a tutor, he couldn't enter the defense committee.

"Academician Lin, hehe, you're not here to intercede with us, are you?"

In the defense committee, Academician Yuan Ya said with a smile.

Lin Xiao waved his hands again and again, "Of course not, I just came to say hello to everyone. By the way, I hope that you will not be merciful later. I still have confidence in my student, so you can try to ask difficult questions. .”

"Haha, since Academician Lin has said so, I won't be polite later."

Yuan Ya said with a smile.

Lin Xiao nodded and said with a smile: "That's good. Speaking of which, Academician Yuan was my defense judge when I was defending my undergraduate course."

Yuan Ya laughed even more when he heard this, "Academician Lin still remembers it."

"Of course I remember it." Lin Xiao nodded.

However, at this moment, someone beside him suddenly said: "Hey, if Professor Lin is so confident in his students, why not allow us as observers to ask some questions."

Several people were taken aback for a moment, turned their heads to look, and it was a person sitting behind who asked.

This person is Zhao Xin, who is also a professor of mathematics at a well-known university in China.

He had a smile on his face, and it looked like the proposal was just a casual one.

The chairman of the defense committee, that is, Xu Ji, only thought that Zhao Xin proposed it casually, and said: "Professor Zhao, your proposal is of course good, but according to our school's final defense procedure, the main question is The defense committee, I think, when the time comes, the five members of our committee will definitely ask enough questions, and they will be competent enough, and to avoid time problems, let’s forget it.”

Although others can raise doubts during the defense, but the final decision is still on the defense committee, but the next defense is after all the students of his own students, so Xu Ji chose to refuse for the sake of stability.

But Zhao Xin waved his hand and said, "Academician Xu, anyway, the defense today is only one of Academician Lin's students. It won't take much time. Even if the time is delayed, you can stop it."

Seeing that Zhao Xin seemed to be interested in this matter, he refused once and insisted on continuing, which made Xu Ji and the others suspicious. What does this Zhao Xin mean?

At this moment, Lin Xiao said, "It's okay, our defense is also an opportunity for academic exchanges. I also welcome listening and asking questions. I also believe that my students can satisfy everyone."

Hearing what Lin Xiao said, Xu Ji stopped being entangled. If he continued to refuse, some bad words might be spread instead.

"Okay, Lin Xiao has already said so, so be it."

"Professor Lin deserves to be Professor Lin." Zhao Xin laughed and gave Lin Xiao a thumbs up.

Lin Xiao smiled, and didn't pay much attention to it. It's still the same sentence, as long as the thesis is strong enough, there is no need to worry about what will happen in the defense.

No more talk after that, the time came to nine o'clock, and this time Dr. Chen Mingkai's graduation defense began.

Chen Mingkai was quite nervous before, but after starting his defense, he became more at ease and explained the content of the thesis very clearly.

In addition, his PPT is also very good, which also satisfied several academicians of the defense committee.

However, these advantages are superficial. When several academicians and professors present saw the inherent advantages of this paper, they all showed serious expressions.

This paper is very interesting.

Or rather, very valuable.

As for that Zhao Xin, listening to Chen Mingkai's narration, his eyes gradually became a little unbelievable.

This paper, unexpectedly has such a high level?

Could it be that Lin Xiao can teach such outstanding students even in education?

Zhao Xin couldn't believe it.

He was one of the people present who were dissatisfied with Lin Xiao.

And this kind of dissatisfaction comes from not worrying about the few but the unevenness. He has always felt very jealous of Lin Xiao being able to sit in the Dingguang Research Institute and enjoy almost the best treatment in the world, especially when Lin Xiao still so young.

On the other hand, he himself can apply for so little funding.

It was because of this dissatisfaction that he came here, wanting to find fault with Lin Xiao's students.

However, he didn't know where to criticize this mathematical paper that could be published in top journals.

However, his eyes soon brightened.

"Can this student write this kind of paper at this level?"

"I'm afraid it wasn't all under Lin Xiao's guidance. This is obviously a mistake! Hmph, maybe it will be revealed when I ask questions later."

In his opinion, Chen Mingkai must have been able to write this kind of thesis because Lin Xiao taught him how to write it. Otherwise, if he relied on his own ability alone, how could he write such a good thesis?

Can a doctoral dissertation be published in the four top journals?

He hasn't posted one himself, so why can this doctoral student post it?

So he must point it out later.

……

Chapter 4 and Seven are the best rewards for teachers

As time passes quickly.

Chen Mingkai's narration has also gradually progressed to the final part, and the final part is the part that combines Hodge's conjecture and Poincaré's conjecture.