I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

Zhou Yu'an passed the TOEFL test last month, scoring 112, one point higher than Ouye's. His English has always been good. He participated in the IMO in the UK a few years ago, and Zhou Yu'an acted as Shen Qi's temporary interpreter.

GPA is also 4.0, Zhou Yuan is an excellent student.

Calculated according to the 100-point scale, Zhou Yu'an's average score in professional courses was 0.8 points lower than Ouye's.

It is not difficult for Zhou Yu'an to apply for an American university, but the difficult thing is the offer from Princeton.

Compared with Ouye, Zhou Yu'an has limited scientific research experience. He is currently working on a project with Sun Erxiong, the project code is SOZ, and the results have not yet been published.

And Ouye is also a member of the SOZ project team, and Ouye will always be ahead of Zhou Yu'an in scientific research experience.

If it was similar to Shen Qi's season, the Princeton Mathematics Department only recruited one graduate student in China, then Ou Ye and Zhou Yu'an, two classmates, formed a competitive situation, and there was always a priority for who went to Princeton.

Zhou Yu'an's pressure is not small, he regards Shen Qi as an academic catch-up target.

"Take care, push the king, goodbye." Zhou Yu'an and Shen Qi hugged and bid farewell, with six simple words, the first two words entrusted blessings, the middle two words carried hope, and the last two words let go of dreams.

Shen Qi took the opportunity to leave Hong Kong and return to Princeton.

Life has to go on, and there is no end to academics.

In order to let his family and loved ones live a better life, Shen Qi can't stop and must go forward.

In the first semester of graduate school at Princeton, Shen Qi chose to take 16 courses.

In the last two months of the first semester, Shen Qi devoted most of his energy to important research topics such as the Walsh conjecture, the Riemann zeta function ζ(2n+1), and the orbifold fundamental group to describe the symplectic orbifold group embryos. Completed 10 of the 16 courses for further study, and the remaining 6 courses were postponed to the second semester for further study.

Shen Qi received 80 credits for 10 courses. The results of the project "Proof of the Walsh Conjecture of the Diophantine Equation" were verified by the Department of Mathematics of Pudong University, and finally converted into 70 credits and awarded to Shen Qi.

In the first semester, Shen Qi obtained 150 credits through the combination of course study and thesis publication, which is 75 credits short of the goal of 225 credits for the master's degree of the Mathematics Department of Pudong University.

Terence Tao and Yun Wei obtained a master's degree in just two semesters during their study at Princeton, which is an astonishing efficiency.

Because of the curriculum of the Department of Mathematics of Pudong University, as well as the verification and publication cycle of mathematics papers and other factors, Shen Qi felt that it was the limit to obtain a master's degree in the Department of Mathematics of Pudong University in two semesters. The fastest records of Tao Zhexuan and Yunwei could only be passed by Tied, cannot be refreshed.

Harvesting a master's degree from the Department of Mathematics of Pudong University in one semester, this kind of super god-like performance, even the god of mathematics can hardly do it, unless Euler, the thesis-reading maniac in his heyday, was resurrected and reborn.

It is generally believed in the mathematics circles that among the four major gods, Euler has the fastest hand speed, the most frequent updates, the best body, the most energetic, and the most dedicated emotion.

Gauss wins in quality, and inspiration determines everything. The number of papers he published in his life is less than half that of Euler, but there are as many as 110 mathematical and physical theorems and formulas named after "Gauss", twice that of Euler more than enough. Goss only makes high-quality products, creating a brand reputation of the Göttingen School for hundreds of years.

Newton is erudite and has the most extensive knowledge. His advantages and disadvantages are equally obvious. He has a genius brain and a utilitarian mortal heart.

Archimedes is the most imaginative, he is the most legendary but the most tragic ending, he was stabbed to death in his home by an unknown Roman soldier.

Shen Qi hung the portraits of the four major gods of mathematics in his Princeton apartment. With the four major gods as his idols, the four major awards as his goals, and the four major journals as his cornerstones, he set a new mid-to-long-term plan for himself.

Of course, Princeton's PhD needs to be obtained as soon as possible. Shen Qi has held meetings in the United States and Hong Kong. In the high-end mathematics circle these days, it is a bit embarrassing not to have a doctorate title to support the facade.

"Based on this estimate, in the second semester, I only need to publish one more paper in the four major journals and complete one course of advanced study, and then I will be able to graduate with a master's degree and study for a doctoral degree."

The thesis on the Riemann zeta function ζ(2n+1) was jointly drafted by Shen Qi and Mary, and it was submitted to the most prestigious and highest IF among the four major journals, "Annals of Mathematics".

Months passed and the paper was still under peer review, seemingly going nowhere.

After returning from the award in Hong Kong, Shen Qi was in a brave state, full of inspiration.

The unpopular subject "Orbifold Fundamental Groups to Characterize Simultaneous Orbifold Group Embryos", which once almost drove Shen Qi into a psychopath, now has new progress.

Shen Qi completed this project independently. His hand speed is very fast, his updates are frequent, his body burns, and his endurance is long-lasting.

"Ola is possessed!"

Shen Qi turned on the lamp to fight at night, and broke two pencils.

"Obviously, {,}g is well-defined and satisfies bilinearity, anti-symmetry, Jacobian identity and Leibniz identity!"

"I have a bold idea!"

"Assume g=(G0, G1), h=(H0, H1) as the group embryo, and through smooth mapping, I can theoretically get an orbifold Poisson mapping!"

"I have a bolder idea!"

"If the orbital fundamental group of g is trivial, and the orbital space∣g∣=G0/G1 is a connected topological space, then...then...then?"

Shen Qi, who had reached the peak, stopped abruptly, and suddenly couldn't get out at the most critical moment.

"Huh... let's stop here for today's work. All in all, the Orbifold project has made a major breakthrough. People, you must know how to be content. Ask Professor Muller for advice tomorrow."

Shake to the extreme, and then feel empty and tired for a while.

Not being able to shiver makes me feel more tired and depressed.

Shen Qi was tired, took a shower and went to sleep, it was already two o'clock in the morning.

In the history of thousands of years of mathematics, orbifold is very young. The concept of orbifold appeared in the 1950s. It cannot be regarded as an independent branch. It is a new theory produced by the intersection of topology and differential geometry.

After decades of development, the orbifold theory involves many branches of mathematics and physics, such as topology, algebraic geometry, and string theory.

"Professor Muller, I have a problem now. If the orbifold fundamental group of g is ordinary, the orbital space ∣g∣=G0/G1 is a connected topological space. I want to obtain the existence of an orbifold fiber-connected and orbifold simply connected. May I ask how to deal with it?" Shen Qi raised this issue at Professor Muller's regular academic meeting.

"Shen Qi, congratulations on winning the Shiingshen Chern Mathematics Award, amazing boy. Shiingshen Chern is a great mathematician. I have held meetings with him more than once." Mueller did not immediately answer Shen Qi's academic doubts.

"Thank you." Shen Qixin said, doesn't Mr. Muller understand?

"I think we should solve the "Problem of the Riemann Zeta Function ζ(2n+1)" first, Shen Qi, after all, you are one of the participants." Muller said.

"Okay." Shen Qi nodded, and then said: "But "The Problem of the Riemann Zeta Function ζ(2n+1)" is there any other topics that need to be discussed? We have submitted it to the "Annals of Mathematics" and are currently working on it. Under review."

"Of course there is a problem. The manuscript was rejected and needs to be revised." Mary was distressed. She is also one of the authors of this paper.

"It's really unfortunate news." Shen Qi was hit. He put a lot of effort into this paper on analyzing number theory.