Chapter 313 The Former Opponent

Although there was a brief communication during the interview, because he was busy with the Jinling Institute of Computing Materials at that time, Lu Zhou did not spend too much time on every interviewee.

Moreover, seeing it on camera and seeing it in reality are two completely different feelings.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but looking at this freshman, Lu Zhou always feels a little familiar.

It's just that I can't remember where I saw it.

Wei Wen looked a little embarrassed, coughed lightly and said.

"I saw it during the interview... and the math-to-model contest."

The first sentence is bullshit.

As for the second sentence...that's really embarrassing.

At that time, during the final expert interview of the national competition, he deliberately walked over and pretended to be aggressive in front of Lu Zhou, saying, "Your thesis is not well written, but the champion will be mine." In the end, the Higher Education Society Cup was still It was taken back by Lu Zhou.

It was also since then that he has been chasing Lu Zhou as his goal.

However, what is desperate is that the gap between the two has not narrowed, but has become larger and larger, and even Lu Shen's taillights are invisible.

Especially when he followed his teacher to Beijing Normal University to participate in the Huaguo Mathematicians Conference as a student, and saw that Lu Zhou won the Chen Shiingshen Mathematics Award, he basically gave up and just subconsciously worked hard in that direction.

But I have to say that if you strive towards a higher goal, even if you don't reach the same height, you can still gain a lot in the process of struggle.

Three years have passed in the blink of an eye. Wei Wen has graduated from his sophomore year and has successfully obtained an offer from Princeton Professor Lu. He has become a god in the eyes of his classmates and a "child of other people" in the eyes of his fellow villagers.

However, if you want to say what it's like in his heart, I'm afraid only he knows.

However, choosing Lu Zhou as a mentor was also his decision.

As for the reason, it is also very simple, that is to want to become stronger.

He had a preliminary understanding of the characters of the two freshmen. Lu Zhou didn't assign them jobs for the time being. He just gave each of them a book, and asked them to read it first when they went back, and hand in their notes after reading.

Basic learning still has to start from books. Only when you have a comprehensive understanding of knowledge can you discover your interests and further choose your own research direction.

After that, it is more advanced learning.

At this stage, it is necessary to use literature to understand those places in the book that have not been described in detail because of disputes or unresolved issues.

If some innovations can be made on this basis, even if it is only a millimeter to advance the previous work that has not been perfected, it can be regarded as a truly qualified graduation thesis.

At the current level of the two, there is still a long way to go to achieve this.

As for the most important thing at this stage, is to lay a good foundation.

Other than that, there are no other shortcuts.

With Lu Zhou's return, the daily life in the laboratory is back on track.

Even Hardy, who was full of energy, sat obediently in his seat, delving into his own subject.

In a state of concentration, time always passes quickly.

It was about six o'clock in the afternoon, and the students in the office also left their seats and went downstairs to eat.

Gradually, there were only two people left in the office.

At this time, Vera raised her head, obviously she had done nothing wrong, but she still couldn't help but peeked left and right.

After confirming that there was no one else in the office, she took out the first draft of the thesis from the drawer, and walked lightly to Lu Zhou's desk.

Looking up at Vera, remembering the previous communication in the email, Lu Zhou probably guessed her intention, put down the pen in his hand, and said kindly: "Are you going to reveal the mystery with me?"

Vera's expression was a little embarrassed, she squeezed the paper's hands, and handed it out.

"...Please help me look."

After receiving the first draft of the thesis, Lu Zhou started from the abstract and flipped backwards. After flipping through a few pages, he nodded approvingly.

good.

Among his three students, Vera is probably the only one who has truly understood and mastered his group construction method.

Not only that, in her proof ideas, he could see her own thoughts.

Strictly speaking, although the Kakutani conjecture is a classic problem of additive number theory, it is more like a complex analysis problem. It is not perfectly compatible to directly apply the group construction method to solve Goldbach's conjecture.

The part that Vera completed is roughly equivalent to a lubricant, allowing the theory of group construction to permeate from a series of additive number theory problems about prime numbers to the proposition that the set is a whole natural number.

Of course, this work is not so simple to complete, and she only conducts a specific analysis on a specific problem, and the flaws in the process are also obvious.

After reading the paper quickly, Lu Zhou made two marks with a ballpoint pen, and then said, "I have a few questions."

Vera humbly asked for advice: "Professor, please tell me."

Lu Zhou: "On the fourth page, line 13, I noticed that you set the holomorphic mapping K:→△ so that πog=f, can you tell me the meaning of this part?"

Vera came closer, looked at the paper and explained: "K(x) is a bounded holomorphic function on the complex plane. According to Liouville's theorem, we can find that Q(x) in the 5th row on the third page is a constant value function, and then it can be proved that formula (7) holds.”

"There is no problem with this step." Regarding Vera's logical rigor, Lu Zhou nodded approvingly and continued, "But I noticed that you directly use formulas (7) and (8) in line 11 on page 7 It proves that every branch D of Φ(g) containing a certain positive integer has z0∈D, but there is a problem in this step.”

Vera hurriedly moved closer, staring at the paper for a while.

Gradually, she became a little embarrassed, and finally lowered her head.

"You're right...I'll think about it when I go back."

"Don't be depressed, you've done a good job." Lu Zhou encouraged, "As long as you solve the flaws in the paper, there is no doubt that this is an excellent result."

Biting her lip, Vera shook her head stubbornly, her golden hair swaying slightly.

"But I was still wrong."

Looking at the students who were deep in thought, Lu Zhou thought for a moment and said.

"Wednesday is my first number theory class. If you have time, I hope you can attend it."

After a pause, he continued, "Although the undergraduate course is of little significance to you, you are my teaching assistant. Sometimes when I am too busy, I still need you to help me with the class."

As soon as she heard that she was going to give a lecture, the little girl who was still listening carefully, suddenly became a little nervous: "Do I have to give a lecture too?"

"Of course, substituting is part of the teaching assistant's job. I should have told you before."

Lu Zhou smiled and continued, "Besides, occasionally thinking about some obvious problems will be very helpful to your research. Maybe any number theory class will become your starting point for inspiration. Just like when I solved Goldbach The conjecture was also inspired by Fefferman's number theory class, although the content of his class at that time had nothing to do with Goldbach's conjecture."

Vera opened her mouth, wanting to say something else, but Lu Zhou didn't leave her any retreat, patted her on the shoulder, and gave him an encouraging look.

"Take it easy, you've survived the lecture at Berkeley, so you don't need to worry about math at Princeton?"

Vera blushed and lowered her head.

"I see."

...

Because of eating on the plane and jet lag, Lu Zhou is not very hungry now.

After asking Willa who came downstairs to bring him a bacon sandwich, he stopped what he was doing and started sorting out the mountain of mail in the drawer.

I haven't come back for a month, and the mail stuffed in the drawer has piled up like a mountain.

Most of them are copies of contracts sent by White Sheridan, and some of them are stuffed in through various methods.

From the bottom of the folded document, Lu Zhou suddenly found an exquisitely packaged letter.

When he saw the signature on the envelope, he couldn't help being slightly stunned.

"American Chemical Society?"

With a puzzled expression on his face, Lu Zhou opened the envelope.

【Dear Professor Lu Zhou, I am the president of the American Chemical Society...】

After skipping the middle part, Lu Zhou looked directly at the last line.

According to his experience, the focus of this formal written letter is often in the last few lines.

Then he froze.

【...In order to thank you for your contribution to the field of organic synthesis, and the changes that the modified PDMS film has brought to our world's energy and environment, we decided to award you the Roger Adams Award. 】

_(:з」∠)_I’m not late today, can I secretly ask for a ticket?