Sending warmth?

Sure enough, Han Ziyue pointed at one of the words and laughed: "What does this... this 'ideal' mean? How strange? Do words like this even appear in academic papers?"

"Do you have to talk about ideals when writing a paper?"

"Could it be a paper about the legendary New Civilization School?"

Zhang Yuan covered his face and said irritably: "...For a non-empty subset I of a ring R, if for the two algebraic operations of R, it satisfies the conditions: for any a, b in I and r in R, a-b is in I and ra is in I, then I is called a left ideal of ring R. A similar definition exists for a right ideal."

"If a non-empty subset I of a ring R is both a left ideal and a right ideal, I is called a two-sided ideal of R, usually referred to simply as an ideal of R."

Give me a break, these are the most basic mathematical concepts, okay?

Having exposed her nature as a weakling, Han Ziyue couldn't help but blush.

She stuck out her tongue and said: "You're really boring! I was just teasing you, and you actually recited the mathematical definition."

"No wonder you're a single dog; after being dumped by my sister, no girl likes you anymore! You shouldn't be like this, you know?"

Zhang Yuan said expressionlessly: "I know, but I won't change."

"..."

Han Ziyue was instantly speechless.

"Zhang Yuan, are you there?" Just then, another female voice rang out from outside the door; it sounded like Wang Lili.

When it comes to the word "unlucky," there is probably no one more unlucky than Wang Lili.

She had been held captive by her advisor all night to read papers, only to find she couldn't understand a single thing.

Not understanding wasn't the issue—after all, Zhang Yuan, the person involved, didn't know, so it was just a private embarrassment.

But...

Her damn advisor had actually ordered her to invite Zhang Yuan to attend some meeting at the School of Mechanical Engineering!

She would likely be exposed by then, and there was even a chance she'd have to become Zhang Yuan's student!

Why am I so unlucky!

"Oh, there's a girl inside too?! Hahaha!" As soon as Wang Lili saw the two of them alone in the room, her terrible mood improved.

Caught you, is this your new little girlfriend?

She's quite cute; don't go around teasing people, little girl, you must not be fooled!

I didn't expect this blockheaded Zhang Yuan to be a closet pervert.

But it's understandable; this age is the prime time for playing around. Once we're on the spaceship, everyone will be serious people and won't be able to mess around anymore.

"Ah, sorry, sorry, you two continue, please continue..."

Although she said "continue," Wang Lili had no intention of avoiding the scene; she just stood outside laughing, looking incredibly happy.

"Wait a second! Continue what..." Zhang Yuan hurriedly defended himself, sweating profusely from anxiety.

"This is... my ex-girlfriend's younger sister."

Fearing the world wouldn't be chaotic enough, Han Ziyue added: "The younger sister of his first love ex-girlfriend!"

This relationship is a bit complicated; even after breaking up, you can still mess around with the sister-in-law? Wang Lili's face showed curiosity, her gossiping nature intensifying.

Young people these days... they're amazing!

Zhang Yuan was extremely embarrassed and quickly changed the subject: "By the way, why are you looking for me?"

Since it was time for business, Wang Lili stopped playing coy: "My boss wants to invite you over for a face-to-face discussion."

She paused, pretending to be very serious: "I've read your paper... it's very good."

"You read it, and it's very good?"

Zhang Yuan remembered that reply letter, which had indeed been forwarded by the School of Mechanical Engineering, and a thought suddenly occurred to him: "You weren't the one helping me edit the draft, were you?"

Wang Lili's heart skipped a beat: "Don't overthink it! I just took a casual look."

"Based on your draft, not only can many follow-up papers be published, but there are also many projects that can be done. We forwarded the paper to several large companies, and they value it highly."

"There are so many representatives from large companies here this time..."

The work of professors at the university is not limited to research projects; there are also outsourced projects from society. When high-tech enterprises encounter difficult problems during development, many will directly contract them out to university professors to solve.

Zhang Yuan asked suspiciously: "Many corporate representatives? What does that have to do with me? Are they going to share the money with me?"

"Forget it, how could they share money with you for nothing? With your paper as a framework, professors can already do many things on their own..."

Wang Lili explained: "However, first, their understanding of that paper is definitely not as profound as yours, and their speed in doing projects is not as fast as yours. For some commercial projects, time is money. Second, one should not forget the well-digger when drinking the water. If those professors take on the entire big project, it would look too greedy. It would be best if you were willing to participate."

"How about it, are you going or not?"

Zhang Yuan nodded; it turned out the wealthy patrons were here to send warmth: "I see... I'm free right now, let's go."

"I'm going too!" Han Ziyue said quickly.

The three of them walked along, listening to Wang Lili ramble on.

A paper is something that cannot be patented; anyone can read it and cite it as they please. Aside from bringing prestige, it cannot bring the author any substantial economic benefits.

However, if Zhang Yuan's new algorithm were used to write robot control software, that entire software suite could be protected by intellectual property rights, meaning anyone else who wanted to use it would have to pay.

Zhang Yuan had plenty of free time on the spaceship, so making a few more contributions wouldn't be a bad thing.

"This algorithm of yours is likely even more advanced than the original one!"

"The market for high-degree-of-freedom robots is simply too massive; it's no wonder those big corporations are getting anxious."

Zhang Yuan nodded continuously.

Han Ziyue's eyes sparkled: "Wow, Zhang Yuan, you're amazing! My sister's taste is truly terrible for dumping you... How about I step in myself? I don't have a boyfriend yet!"

"Ahem..." Zhang Yuan scratched his head in embarrassment.

In truth, he wasn't interested in money; even if he earned a fortune, he would just donate it to the foundation...

He immediately made a call to Professor Wang Zhong.

Professor Wang was, as always, in high spirits: "What? A big project? I'm not against it, I'm definitely not against it! If you want to pursue research in this field in the future, doing a few more projects now is a good idea. It's a way to accumulate experience..."

"Right, before the ship reaches Jupiter, you have at least another year of wakefulness, which is enough time for you to complete a major project."

"What... you want to donate the money you earn to the foundation?" Professor Wang immediately became excited: "Good, good, I'll send two people over to help you right away!"

After hanging up the phone, Wang Zhong couldn't stop marveling; this grand-student of his was truly remarkable, already beginning to stand out at such a young age, much like he had in his own prime.