The Nature of a Professor's Work
"I really enjoy being a professor. While doing research, I can also impart my understanding of scientific knowledge to students and share it with them."
Shen Qi and Zhou Yu'an talked about everything, and he shared his views on the professorship.
"Old Zhou, your recent efforts have been noticed by the entire department's faculty and students."
"If you maintain this academic hunger and immerse yourself in the study of differential Differential Geometry and Partial Differential Equations, you, Zhou Yu'an, could be the next Blund or Faltings."
"Actually, it's a pity that Professor Faltings Fields Medal this year, but he's only 35 years old this year, and he'll definitely win the next Fields Medal. There's nothing we can do about this year's Fields Medal; Blund suppressed Professor Faltings." Shen Qi refilled Zhou Yu'an's coffee, highly approving of Zhou Yu'an's recent positive attitude and good results.
"Damn it, Shen Qi, don't try to tempt me with that kind of look. I'm determined to follow Professor Faltings. My doctoral advisor will still be Professor Faltings." Zhou Yu'an was getting better and better at Princeton University, after all, he had the background of being a top student at Peking University. Once he adapted to the new environment, he was able to survive well.
"We'll always be brothers. If you really want to become my apprentice, I won't accept you. How awkward would that be? How can we be brothers then?" Shen Qi chuckled.
Shen Qi admires Zhou Yu'an's academic level. Looking to the future, he believes in conducting differentiated academic research. Shen Qi's team cannot study number theory every day; he needs outstanding talents in other fields, such as Zhou Yu'an, who specializes in Differential Geometry and Partial Differential Equations.
Differential Geometry Partial Differential Equations is quite promising. The German mathematician Blund, who was a shoo-in for this year's Fields Medal, focused on this area and was therefore awarded the prize.
Shen Qi even considered taking Zhou Yu'an as his doctoral student in the near future.
Once Zhou Yu'an was accepted as a student, Shen Qi felt that with his guidance, the task under condition three would be completed in a relatively short time.
However, Zhou Yu'an's attitude was firm; he absolutely refused to acknowledge Shen Qi as his teacher.
"What about Yu Lei? Aren't you afraid he'll be embarrassed?" Zhou Yu'an asked.
Shen Qi said confidently, "Yu Lei is a year younger than us, a junior brother. I'm confident I can tame him."
Zhou Yu'an shrugged. "Okay, you're a big shot at the Fields Medal, whatever makes you happy."
Shen Qi insisted on choosing Yu Lei as his graduate student and arranged for Zhou Yu'an to convey this message to Yu Lei through domestic channels.
China and the United States are far apart, and it takes time for messages to be transmitted.
Several days passed, Yu Lei did not reply.
Over the past few days, Shen Qi has conducted two-way selection interviews with the other two students on the five-person list.
Both students were undergraduates in the Mathematics Department at Princeton University. After communication, and taking into account factors such as undergraduate grades, academic potential, attitude, demeanor, personality, and appearance, Shen Qi chose the American student as his other graduate student.
One Chinese student and one American student—this is the tentative plan for Shen Qi's first two graduate student slots.
Shen Qi continues writing "History of Number Theory," and is having a lot of fun with it. He expects to complete the first draft within the year.
Meanwhile, Shen Qi took time to study physics on his own.
It had been a long time since Shen Qi had touched physics, so he reviewed the Four Great Mechanics.
The Four Great Mechanics form the most fundamental framework of the theoretical system of physics. Each branch integrates a large amount of basic mathematical and physical knowledge. By deeply understanding the Four Great Mechanics, you can understand the essence of the material world.
Mathematical methods in physics posed no difficulty for Shen Qi.
What Shen Qi needs to do is to reach a higher level in the field of pure physics.
It's time to give physics a try.
Shen Qi checked his inventory and found he still had over 29 million academic points, which was quite alarming.
Excessive inventory buildup that doesn't dissipate over time is bad for your health.
Let's sell some inventory physically.
Shen Qi's current physical level is 6 (1183/150,000).
Smash it.
System: "Congratulations, host, your physics level has been upgraded to level 7. Your comprehension, perception, observation, and reasoning abilities in physics have significantly improved compared to the previous level, and you are also enjoying the effective bonus from your primary mathematical talent."
Keep attacking with physical attacks.
It takes 250,000 academic points to advance from level 7 to level 8.
It takes 400,000 academic points to advance from level 8 to level 9.
It takes 750,000 academic points to advance from level 9 to level 10.
Upgrading from level 10 to level 11 requires 1.2 million academic points... Forget it, let's just upgrade physics to level 10 first. Shen Qi will stop here.
Level 10 is the top elite level, close to the master level. For the master's thesis required by Edward Witten, the physics level of Level 10 is more than sufficient.
Shen Qi still needs to save some points. What if it requires 50 million or even 100 million academic points to advance from Math Level 14? Where will he get those?
Shen Qi has already dominated the Fields Medal. With the doubled boost from his primary mathematical talent, it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to accumulate tens of millions of academic points.
Cracking the Lê Conjecture and establishing a theoretical system for the distribution of prime numbers only earned me 10 million academic points.
There are still five Millennium Prize Problem left. Do you really think I can solve them all? Shen Qi shook his head. Some problems, even if Gauss were resurrected, probably couldn't solve.
Math Level 13, Physics Level 10, with a remaining 27,828,693 academic points.
The nearly 20 million points remaining from the top student's credits are intended to be used to advance to level 14 in mathematics.
In other words, Shen Qi has less than 8 million academic points left.
Be thrifty and use your points wisely, take things one step at a time. Leveling up physics to 10 is enough for Shen Qi for a while; once he officially becomes Witten's physics teacher, he can make further plans.
Before the Christmas holidays, Shen Qi consulted a large amount of number theory materials and basic physics literature.
Professors also need to maintain their passion for learning, or they will be eliminated.
The first draft of "History of Number Theory" was finally completed. Shen Qi spent nearly a year writing this monumental work.
The book has 400 pages in total and is in English. Shen Qi plans to have it published by an international publishing group.
Shen Qi will also complete the Chinese version of "History of Number Theory," which will be published by a Chinese publishing house.
The plan is great, but the problem is whether any publishing house would be willing to take on Shen Qi's project?
Of course, Springer Publishing Group's manager, Wieser, has made contact with Shen Qi.
Wieser brought an editor with him to discuss the global publication and distribution of "History of Number Theory" with Shen Qi.
After quickly reviewing the first draft of * History of Number Theory *, the editor remarked, "Professor Shen, in this book you have integrated *A Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis Based on Shen's twin matching method * with * The RT Third Expression * into a complete version of *The Theory of Prime Distribution of Riemann zeta function *, and added author's annotations."
"That's right, is there a problem?" Shen Qi asked.
In March of this year, Shen Qi publicly published "A Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis Based on Shen's twin matching method". This paper was later published in a special issue of the Journal of Mathematics.
At the International Congress of Mathematicians in October, Shen Qi presented the paper "RT Third Expression". Shen Qi uploaded the paper to arVix for other mathematicians to view and study online, but did not submit it to any academic journal.
<Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis Based on Shen's twin matching method> + <RT Third Expression> = <Theoretical System of Prime Distribution of Riemann zeta function>.
The first publication of the complete version of "The Theory of Prime Distribution of Riemann zeta function" is Shen Qi's original mathematical monograph "History of Number Theory".
The editor stated, "No problem. Given the premiere of the complete 'Theory of Prime Distribution of Riemann zeta function,' we believe Professor Shen's 'History of Number Theory' has the potential to be a global bestseller. Of course, 'History of Number Theory' cannot compete with 'Elements,' but its sales should be quite good."