Health Comes First
Ou Ye's test results came back. The American doctor's diagnosis was similar to that of the Chinese doctor: anemia caused by Immune System disorder. Chronic clinical manifestations included dizziness and fatigue, while acute clinical manifestations included chills, high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and shock.
The doctor advised: injections, medication, and plenty of rest. This illness can only be controlled and is difficult to cure completely in a short time.
"I also want to remind you that you shouldn't have sex too frequently, especially while Ms. Ou is taking medication. You need to control your desires," the American doctor solemnly warned Ou Ye and Shen Qi.
"Thank you for your diagnosis and advice." Shen Qi thanked the doctor and left the hospital with Ou Ye.
Shen Qi and Ou Ye had known each other for six years and dated for four. From China to the United States, from traditional Chinese medicine to Western medicine, he discovered that Ou Ye's condition had always been in a so-called controlled stage. She was not in immediate danger, but she had not enjoyed a few days of health and comfort, which was quite pitiful.
Medicine is an extremely large and complex discipline, encompassing science, engineering, literature, history, agriculture, and medicine, with medicine and science on equal footing.
Why has Princeton never offered a medical school?
Because medicine is such a vast field, establishing a medical system that integrates basic medical science and clinical technology applications requires a huge amount of human, material, and financial resources, which is not in line with Princeton's positioning as a small but excellent research university.
Chemistry + Biology = 1/2 Medicine?
It's difficult to equate these two things.
But chemistry + biology = pharmacy.
Pharmacy is an integral and important part of medicine.
The vast majority of patients rely on medication to treat their illnesses, and only undergo surgery as a last resort. If the problem can be solved with medication, who would want to have surgery?
Of course, being healthy, free from all diseases, and living a long and healthy life without taking medicine or undergoing surgery is what everyone hopes for most.
Shen Qi upgraded his chemistry level to 6, primarily to support his research in Condensed Matter Physics. Looking to the future, chemistry may play a crucial role, as it is the most fundamental course in pharmacology, and the pharmaceutical process involves complex chemical reactions.
Shen Qi is currently working on his master's thesis in Condensed Matter Physics, which he has titled "Research on Defect Topology Based on Spherical Stable Homotopy Group." This is a very meaningful topic.
Condensed Matter Physics typically use the Burgers circuit to define defects in continuous media and crystals, but this method relies too heavily on physical intuition.
Mathematicians use the mathematical language of Group Theory and the processing methods of topology to optimize the fundamental theoretical framework of Condensed Matter Physics, making Condensed Matter Physics more refined, precise, and accurate.
That's exactly what Shen Qi is doing.
"Linear singularities in crystals and liquid crystals, such as dislocations and analytic faults, must be addressed through topological analysis of possible singularities of order parameters."
Shen Qi drew many patterns on the draft paper: the distribution of edge dislocations in curved crystals, wedge dislocations, the arrangement of hyperbolic molecules, expandable domains in columnar phases... He was trying to discover new mysteries in the massive fundamental laws, which was a very complex task.
From simple to complex, we can discover new universal laws, return to simplicity, and then rebuild complexity.
The complexity after reconstruction is vastly different from the original complexity, and Shen Qi is both eager and curious to obtain the complexity after reconstruction.
Knock knock.
Someone knocked on Shen Qi's office door, and then a middle-aged white woman with short blonde hair and a rather plump figure entered. She was a newly appointed administrative assistant, assigned to Shen Qi by the organization.
"Hello, Barbara." Shen Qi and his administrative assistant Barbara had only known each other for a few days and were still in the process of getting to know each other.
The administrative assistants assigned to renowned professors are mostly middle-aged women. The technical requirements for this position are not high. They are responsible for the professor's daily tasks such as booking tickets, reimbursement, arranging appointments, and organizing schedules. The most important professional qualities are patience, meticulousness, and politeness.
In mainstream American universities, professors are not allowed to instruct students to run errands or do odd jobs for them. If a student is willing to do errands or do odd jobs for a professor, the professor will usually pay them.
Leave professional matters to professionals; administrative assistants are there to do errands and odd jobs.
Barbara has a son and a daughter and a happy family. She loves her job as an administrative assistant at Princeton; the work isn't too tiring, and the pay is decent.
Barbara, who was about the same age as Shen Qi's Mom, was steady and meticulous in her work. "Professor Shen, I've received as many as 18 formal invitations in the past few days, as well as countless phone calls. The buzz surrounding your Fields Medal win continues, and many people want to meet you."
"I've sorted them by importance. You can select the events you want to attend or the people you want to meet in Outlook, and I'll update your schedule for you."
"Also, you need to put your teaching assistant selection on the agenda. The department has issued a list of candidates; you can take a look."
"Okay, Barbara, I feel very reassured with you here. I'll let you know my schedule for the coming period as soon as possible."
Shen Qi checked the schedule that Barbara had arranged for him. So many mundane tasks, how could he possibly concentrate on his research?
Shen Qi selected a few important events and canceled all others, then asked Barbara to arrange the related matters.
After a while, another person arrived; it was Ralph, Shen Qi's graduate student.
Ralph sat down at Shen Qi's desk and found that the desk was covered with white paper with various patterns drawn on it.
Some of the patterns were patterns Ralph had never seen before and couldn't explain why.
Some of the patterns looked very familiar to Ralph. Pointing to a piece of paper, he said, "These are the products of homotopic rings."
"Yes, Ralph, you have a very keen eye."
"Professor Shen, it seems you're calculating stable Homotopy Group spheres, but... this homotopy class of arbitrarily large dimensions seems rather strange." Ralph's main area of expertise is Group Theory, so he understands this.
"From a purely mathematical perspective, it is indeed strange, but when combined with the relevant theories of Condensed Matter Physics, it makes sense, or at least seems to make sense. Well, I will verify its rationality, which will take some time." Shen Qi felt gratified. In the field of Condensed Matter Physics, there weren't many people in the Mathematics Department who could communicate with him, and Ralph was one of them.
"Condensed Matter Physics? Professor Shen, are you planning to leave the Mathematics Department?" Ralph seemed surprised.
Shen Qi shook his head and said, "No, no, no, studying Condensed Matter Physics doesn't necessarily require leaving the Mathematics Department. By the way, Ralph, what did you want to see me about?"
Ralph handed Shen Qi a document and said, "In the last Functional Analysis class, you left a problem about C0 semigroups with strong mixing on Banach space. I have already solved it."
"So fast?" Shen Qi was a little surprised. He took Ralph's homework, quickly glanced through it, and found that there were no obvious flaws in the derivation process and the conclusion was completely correct. Wow, what a talent.