"Who else could it be? You asked us to guess. We don't really know anyone else from the Rocket Institute, so it can only be the institute's children." Song He smiled.
"There are thirty institute children learning and working under Professor Guo. I just spoke with Professor Guo, and he said he had never seen children this quick-witted and intelligent in his entire life," General Wang said seriously.
"Professor Guo's team likes to recruit master's and doctoral students from XiGong University and HaGong University. In theory, they're all top students, but compared to the institute's children, they've all become idiots. Things those master's and doctoral students take five or six years to understand, these children have nearly mastered in just two months."
"One month is equivalent to two and a half years." Xiang Xiaotong widened her eyes. "Thirty times the learning speed?"
"More or less." General Wang nodded. "Professor Guo said the institute's children learn so quickly mainly because they're strong in mathematics. Ordinary scholars usually only use mathematics when they encounter problems that must be solved with it. But the institute's children think completely differently. Whenever they encounter any problem, they instinctively try to understand it through mathematical thinking first."
"Professor Guo also gave an example: learning a foreign language." General Wang continued. "When poor students learn a foreign language, they first translate what they hear and see into Mandarin in their minds, then use the Mandarin meaning to think. Top students gradually omit the translation process and begin thinking directly in the foreign language."
"I understand." Song He nodded. "For the institute's children, mathematics is that foreign language. They naturally possess a whole system of mathematical thought, and even prioritize it."
"To use Professor Guo's words, those children even speak mathematics in their sleep." General Wang said, "Compared