Shen Qi's Class-Monitor Duties
The solutions to questions 7, 9, 20, 23, and 26 can be converted into papers. Shen Qi compared the copies in his hand and decided to start with the easiest topic to work on: question 9.
Shen Qi transformed the proof process and results of question 9 into a paper. The core content can be summarized in one sentence: an efficient solution to the inner product of three-dimensional hypercomplex numbers and the product of Hamilton quaternions.
Throughout history, mathematicians have only had two formal ways to express their ideas and showcase their achievements: either by writing papers or by publishing books. Written documents are protected by law.
Shen Qi completed question 9 in 2 hours, and he needs a week to convert it into a standard format paper.
Writing a thesis and solving problems are two different tasks. Writing a thesis is more meticulous and rigorous. The conception, argumentation, derivation, proof, calculation, and typesetting must all be done meticulously and flawlessly.
When solving problems, Shen Qi would casually come up with theorems, corollaries, assumptions, and useful arguments. He couldn't remember exactly where these arguments came from, but as long as they were useful for solving problems, that was enough.
When writing a paper, if it is not the author's original theory, but involves some key and core arguments, the source must be indicated, that is, "citation".
Good papers usually include good citations, which takes a lot of time. Authors need to consult a lot of materials to complete a paper that doesn't look cheap.
"Okay, I still need to go to the library."
Shen Qi had only been using LaTeX for less than half an hour, and hadn't even finished writing the abstract, when he took his laptop to the library.
Shen Qi recalled reading several papers in the * Journal of Mathematics * and the * Annals of Mathematics *, which he would cite.
As for which volume, issue, and page these papers were published in, who could remember that? So Shen Qi had to go to the library to find out.
The English title of the Journal of Mathematics here is ACTA-MATHEMATICA-SINICE-CHINESE-SERIES, and it is sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The English title of the Annals of Mathematics is Chinese Annals of Mathematics, and it is sponsored by Fudan University.
There are two international mathematics journals that have been translated into Chinese and are also called the "Journal of Mathematics" and the "Annals of Mathematics".
They are ACTA-MATHEMATICA and ANNALS-OF-MATHEMATICS.
The Chinese Journal of Mathematics * Annals of Mathematics Mathematica Sinica* and * Annals of Mathematics Journal of Mathematics are different from their international counterparts; they are entirely different publications.
The first two are core journals in China, while the latter two are the most prestigious, authoritative, and prestigious journals in the international Mathematics Community.
How awesome, powerful, and authoritative is he?
Taking ACTA-MATH as an example, from 1933 to the present, Chinese Mathematician have published only 8 papers in this mathematics journal.
The first Chinese person to publish a paper in ACTA-MATH was Li-Ta. His Chinese name is now lost to history. This was in 1933, a time of war and chaos, and the Republic of China government probably did not even record this outstanding mathematician.
The second Chinese person to publish a paper in ACTA-MATH was the renowned Mr. Su Buqing, one of the founders of modern mathematics in China. That was in 1951.
Based on this calculation, on average, only one Chinese Mathematician publishes a mathematical paper in ACTA-MATH every ten years.
Shen Qi had read ACTA-MATH, but this top international mathematics journal was too advanced for him at the moment; he didn't have the ability to publish papers in it.
Let alone international journals like the * Journal of Mathematics *, Shen Qi wasn't confident about publishing a paper in domestic journals like the * Journal of Mathematics * either. His small goal for himself was to publish in a general journal first, to warm up his academic achievements.
Of course, you need to finish writing the paper before submitting it for publication.
After obtaining the reference materials, Shen Qi immediately began writing his first paper, titled "A Solution for Three-Dimensional Hypercomplex Numbers".
The paper was originally expected to be completed in a week, but a week has passed and Shen Qi's progress is only 50%, meaning he has only finished half of it.
There are just too many routine business matters.
Shen Qi is in charge of personnel, public security and stability maintenance, and disaster prevention work in the department. His roommate Cai Qing broke up with his girlfriend and drank so much that he had a stomach hemorrhage. Shen Qi took him to the hospital and paid for his treatment. Cai Qing is still hospitalized, and Shen Qi visits him every few days.
The Communist Youth League organized a get-together for its members, and Shen Qi wanted to take charge. He recommended three male students from his department to perform their talents. These three guys teamed up to perform a skit, but none of the audience members were amused. However, the three skit actors from the Mathematics Department laughed so hard they were practically snorting like pigs.
Shen Qi was extremely embarrassed, so he had no choice but to go on stage and sing a song himself, the title of which was "Invincible Loneliness," which drew cheers from the audience.
Shen Qi was also involved in and organized the affairs of the Mathematics Department Student Union. He was worried because the Student Union required the first-year Mathematics Department to send six people to participate in the Autumn Long-Distance Running Festival, four men and two women.
Student council, are you kidding me? There's only one girl in our Mathematics Department this year.
You can't exactly have Zhou Yu'an wear women's clothing for a long-distance run, can you?
There was no other way; Shen Qi was a class monitor with an extremely strong sense of responsibility. He decided to put aside the unfinished paper, "A Solution for Three-Dimensional Hypercomplex Numbers," for a few days until he finished the long-distance running task assigned by the student council.
Shen Qi approached the student union leaders of the School of Mathematics and said, "Leaders, you may not understand the actual situation. We only have one female student in the first year of the Mathematics Department, and she is in poor health, relying on medication to stay alive every day. If we send her to participate in the long-distance race and she dies, who will be responsible?"
"Shen Qi, don't call me 'leader,' I'm only two or three years older than you." The student leader of the Mathematics Department's student union, a third-year student, said, "Just call me 'senior brother.'"
"Senior, it's true that our Mathematics Department can't send a single female athlete. It's a difficult situation for me," Shen Qi said with a worried look. "But we in the Mathematics Department will definitely cooperate actively and do our best to complete the tasks assigned by the Party Committee, the Youth League Committee, and the Student Union. I don't want to hear rumors from other departments saying that our Mathematics Department is full of nerdy guys who only know how to study and have no interests or special skills."
"That's not actually the case. Our Mathematics Department not only produces top students, but also a great number of multi-talented individuals. Senior, could the Mathematics Department send a cross-dressing guy to participate in the long-distance running festival?" Shen Qi offered a tentative suggestion.
The senior apprentice chuckled, "As long as you dare to send a cross-dressing master, I'll sign you up!"
Shen Qi replied, "Oh, okay. Zhou Yu'an and Luo Ji are my roommates. I'll arrange for them to sign up in women's clothing. Then, our department will send four more hunky guys, and then we'll have all six spots."
"Are you serious?" The senior brother was shocked. He had just been joking, but Shen Qi was about to send out a cross-dressing master without warning.
Shen Qi shrugged and said, "What else can we do? Didn't your student union require our department to send four men and two women to participate?"
The senior student compromised. "Alright, alright, cross-dressing will have a negative impact on the campus atmosphere of Peking University. How about this, your Mathematics Department sends six male students to participate, no need to deliberately cross-dress. I'll arrange for the financial Mathematics Department to send two more female athletes, since they have slightly more girls in their department."