Stubborn

"Yes, we should do it this way..." Ou Ye spoke less and wrote more, conveying her thoughts to the three students.

The three students listened attentively, watched carefully, and took notes; their logic gradually became clearer.

Assume, calculate, and prove.

The conclusions proven by calculation lead to new hypotheses.

Continue with the calculations, proofs, and assumptions.

This process continues until the last hypothesis is proven to have a universal law.

Suddenly, Ou Ye turned very pale, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

She persevered and finished writing a Taylor polynomial, then leaned weakly against the chair, feeling dizzy and powerless.

"Sister Yezi, are you alright?"

"Sister Yezi, where's your medicine?"

The three students panicked. Xiao Yun, a girl, fumbled in Ou Ye's pocket for medicine.

Ou Ye struggled to raise her arm and pointed to the door. "The medicine... the medicine is in my bag... the bag is on my desk..."

Zeng Han immediately rushed out, knocking over several math department teachers along the way, and hurriedly went to Ou Ye's office to retrieve Ou Ye's bag.

"Sister Yezi, take your medicine."

Three students helped Ou Ye take her medicine.

After taking the medication, Ou Ye felt slightly better, but she still couldn't maintain a high level of brain activity.

Studying mathematics is both mentally and physically demanding; it seems that this is the extent of Ou Ye's research for today.

Xiao Yun grasped Ou Ye's hand, feeling its icy coldness. "Sister Yezi, shall I take you home to rest? Or to the hospital? Should we notify Professor Shen?"

"You guys continue, I'm going to rest for a bit." Ou Ye said before leaving. As she reached the door, she added, "Calculate the density function first."

In the dead of winter, the house is well-heated, while the wind outside is biting cold.

Wrapped in a thick down jacket, Ou Ye moved forward with difficulty, step by step.

The distance from the Mathematical Academy to Academician Shen's villa is very short, Ou Ye walked home alone.

She didn't want to appear too vulnerable in front of her students; how could she be any different from a useless person if she needed them to walk her home for such a short distance?

Back home, Ou Ye leaned back on the sofa, lost in thought.

Shen Qi went to work, Nuofei went to kindergarten, and Sister Cuiping went to pick Nuofei up from kindergarten.

Everyone was busy, and only Ou Ye was in the huge villa.

She felt she was not a good wife, mother, or teacher.

In both his career and personal life, Ou Ye really wanted to help Shen Qi in some way.

However, they haven't even had the most basic marital relations in a long time.

Ou Ye is very dedicated and hardworking in disciplining her daughter.

But she felt she hadn't done enough. What she could teach Nofi, Shen Qi could also teach, and Shen Qi was more knowledgeable and had more diverse teaching methods.

Furthermore, Shen Qi has an exceptionally strong learning ability. Recently, Shen Qi has been studying music theory on his own, which seems to indicate that he wants to exchange musical ideas with Nofi.

With a near-invincible, all-powerful husband and father at home, Ou Ye finds her presence in the family becoming increasingly weak.

In terms of scientific research and teaching, Ou Ye felt even more incompetent.

In terms of the number of papers published, Ou Ye is far fewer than her colleagues of the same level and rank in the School of Mathematical Sciences.

Ou Ye's record of supervising 0 master's or doctoral students to graduation is 0.

Ou Ye grew up in luxury and was pampered. She was a person who cared a lot about her reputation. She didn't talk much, but she had a very strong sense of self-respect.

Working at a university like Yenching University, the infighting within a public institution is unavoidable. You look at me, I look at you, you're awesome, you have the ability, you have the connections, OK, then you get the position. I can only whisper and dare not make a sound.

You're a lazy bum, a good-for-nothing, and you haven't achieved anything, so what right do you have to sit in this position? I'm openly criticizing you, and you can only silently endure it.

Ou Ye may seem like Yang Guo's aunt—a carefree, unambitious young woman with no ambitions, no job, and no family ties—but she understands the unspoken rules of the workplace.

As a Senior Intellectuals with the title of full professor, Ou Ye was too embarrassed to stay in the profession with such poor performance in scientific research and teaching.

She was also very distressed, as her physical condition limited her ability to act.

The reason why Ou Ye insisted on working in the School of Mathematical Sciences despite her shamelessness was because she had not forgotten her original aspiration: she loved mathematics.

Mathematics was her matchmaker; through its arrangement, she met Shen Qi, started a family, and had children.

"If only I weren't sick..."

Ou Ye dragged her tired body upstairs to the study.

The design of this study was done with Shen Qi's input, and after completion, its area was equivalent to that of an apartment.

The bookshelves, desks, sofas, and chairs are all high-end custom-made products; the price of this furniture could buy a house elsewhere.

Awards, trophies, and certificates, including the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize, are displayed here. They have no price, only value.

The number of books in the study is so large that an average person could not finish reading them even if they didn't eat, drink, or sleep for a lifetime. Even if they did finish reading them, they might not be able to understand them all.

That's why people say Shen Qi is abnormal; he read all the books in the study, while Ou Ye only read a quarter of them.

Ordinary households probably don't categorize bookshelves. At most, they categorize the books inside, putting history books on top, tools in the middle, and driving books at the bottom.

Shen Qi and Ou Ye categorized their bookshelves: the science bookshelf was placed on the east side, the engineering bookshelf on the west side, the literature bookshelf on the south side, the medical bookshelf on the north side, and the general bookshelf in the middle.

There's a reason for this arrangement: the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise correspond to science, engineering, literature, and medicine, respectively.

Ou Ye had basically finished reading all the books in the Neo-Confucian bookshelf.

She not only read all the books and documents on mathematics, but she also understood them all.

Not only did she understand it, but she was also able to extract the core information she needed.

In order to solve the BSD Conjecture, Ou Ye read and studied a large number of documents on Elliptic Curve, Group Theory, and even Partial Differential Equations during the period when her physical condition was still okay.

Ou Ye already knew these branches of mathematics.

Understanding something is one thing, mastering it is another.

Ou Ye took out a copy of <Lie groups and algebraic groups 1> from the bookshelf, which is the first volume of <Lie groups and algebraic groups>, by Vinberg.

Vinberg's edition of "Lie groups and algebraic groups" consists of three volumes and is known as the "Vinberg Trilogy" of essential books by the Mathematics Department master's students.

In academia, anyone whose name ends in "berg" is generally considered a formidable figure, such as Heisenberg and Weinberg.

The three-part series "Lie groups and algebraic groups" written by mathematician Vinberg has been selected as a textbook for master's students in the Mathematics Department of many universities around the world.

The master's student in the Mathematics Department at Yenching University studied Vinberg's version of "Lie groups and algebraic groups 1".

This classic textbook is indeed well-written, so well-written that even Shen Qi found it difficult to revise.

Ou Ye turned to page 53 of <Lie groups and algebraic groups 1>, where there was a handwritten note in the margin. "The rank of Elliptic Curve can be explained using ideas from Group Theory, but there's too little space here to write it down, so I won't."

Ou Ye laughed and cursed at the handwritten text, "Keep pretending, keep pretending."