I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

The day after Shen Qi won the Ford Prize, the IMU (International Mathematical Union) awarded this year's Ramanujan Prize.

The winner is Iranian mathematician Anouzi, who is 37 years old this year. He has made outstanding contributions to abstract algebra, so he won the award.

The Ramanujan Medal is awarded to mathematicians under the age of 45, and this important award is generally considered to be the only way to the Fields Medal.

Next year is the year of the Philippine Awards, and Shen Qi knows that there is a 99.99% possibility that next year's Philippine Awards will not be for him.

One of the effective ways to win the Fields Medal is to solve world-class mathematical problems.

The verification cycle of world-class mathematical problems generally lasts for several years.

The verifier is IMU, and the world's top mathematics experts convened by IMU.

After Perelman proved the Poincaré conjecture, it took four years for the IMU to verify Perelman's results.

After Wiles proved Fermat's last theorem, the IMU verified it for three years.

Bochelz guessed and proved himself, and it took him several years to come up with the set of moonlight conjectures. It took another two years for the IMU to verify his moonlight conjecture.

After several years of waiting, all three of the aforementioned mathematicians eventually received Fields Medals.

There is no doubt that Riemann's conjecture is at the same level as Poincaré's conjecture and Fermat's last theorem.

Even if Shen Qi unilaterally proves the Riemann Hypothesis, the follow-up verification of the IMU will continue for several years.

Well, the math is improving and the IMU is getting stronger. But for the verification of RH, the IMU will take a year or two.

So Shen Qi had a more urgent mentality some time ago. He was eager to prove RH immediately, and gave IMU a year or two to verify it. He just happened to win the award next year.

If you can't catch up with the Philippine Awards next year, you can only wait another four years.

Just wait, Shen Qi has already figured it out, and he will only be 26 years old after five years, which is still young.

What we need to do now is to continue to accumulate academic capital and Xueba points.

In July, Shen Qi's two group theory papers "Research on the Fundamental Fields of High-Dimensional Fuchsian Groups" and "Convergence to Nonzero Elements in Stable Homotopy Groups" were published in "Pacific Journal of Mathematics" and "American Transactions on Mathematics" respectively published.

The IF of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics is 2.231, and the IF of the American Transactions on Mathematics is 1.875.

System: "New achievement! The host publishes a paper in an internationally influential mathematics journal. The basic reward is 25,000 Xueba points, which are multiplied by the IF value and the mathematics master talent coefficient 2.0. The final reward is 205,300 Xueba points. The balance is 1224110 Xueba points, please confirm with the host."

"Very good, upgrade math to 11th grade."

In the system set by the system, Shen Qi finally became a master of mathematics.

Host, Shen Qi

age, 21

Mathematics Level 11 (master level), 0/2 million

Physics Level 6, 932/150,000

Sports level 5, 2910/50,000

English Level 5, 726/50,000

Chinese level 5, 731/50,000

Politics Level 5, 472/50,000

Chemistry Level 3, 422/5000

Biology Level 3, 533/5000

History Level 2, 1129/3000

Geography Level 2, 679/3000

Balance of Xueba points: 24110 points

A week later, the Princeton Department of Mathematics awarded Shen Qi a master's degree.

After coming to Princeton for nearly a year, Shen Qi published a total of three papers, all of which were converted into credits.

Among them, the Walsh conjecture published in the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society" proves that the paper has the highest credits, reaching 70 credits.

The two papers just published are converted into 45 credits and 35 credits respectively.

Shen Qi obtained 80 credits through course study in the first semester of graduate school.

Adding up all the credits, Shen Qi currently has 230 credits, which is 5 credits more than the minimum credit requirement of 225 for a master's degree in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Puerto Rico.

The Department of Mathematics at Princeton does not set up a master's defense. Graduate students who have completed the minimum credits can choose to graduate and leave school, or they can stay and continue their doctoral studies.

Nine out of ten graduate students in the Department of Mathematics of Universities will choose to stay in school to continue their Ph.D.

Shen Qi is one of them.

"After all, it took two semesters to get a master's degree in Mathematics from Pudong University."

Shen Qi put on his master's uniform and took pictures at the gate of Princeton as a souvenir.

There is no large-scale ceremonial event similar to undergraduate graduation, graduation ceremony or something.

Fefferman, the dean of the Department of Mathematics, handed Shen Qi a master's degree certificate, and said lightly: "Hold it, don't be complacent, this is just the only way to go."

"Thank you." Shen Qi received the Princeton master's degree certificate in mathematics.

In this succinct handover ceremony, Shen Qi completed the first-stage goal after coming to Princeton.

System: "New achievement! Congratulations to the host for obtaining a master's degree in Mathematics from Princeton, tying the fastest record in the history of the school. The basic reward is 400,000 Xueba points, multiplied by the mathematics master talent coefficient 2.0, and the final award is 800,000 Xueba points. The balance is 824,110 Xueba points, please confirm with the host."

"This is really evidence in hand, so don't panic."

Shen Qi was in a good mood, and he kept the Princeton Mathematics master's degree certificate and classified them.

Advanced Certificate: Princeton Mathematics Master's Degree Certificate, Ford Award Certificate, Chern Mathematics Award Certificate

Advanced journal paper: "Journal of the American Mathematical Society" × 1

Intermediate periodical papers: "Pacific Journal of Mathematics" × 1, "American Transactions on Mathematical Transactions" × 1

These are Shen Qi's trophies after he came to Princeton. There are only a handful of them, and the number is not large, but they are worth archiving and collecting.

After thinking about it, Shen Qi got +3 in the collection of intermediate periodical papers.

When he was an undergraduate at Yanda University, he published a total of three SIC papers, which can be regarded as intermediate journal papers.

The remaining seven papers, as well as one general publication paper in high school, were all classified by Shen Qi as entry-level journal papers.

The statistics so far are:

Advanced certificate × 3

Intermediate certificate × 5: Yanda Mathematics Undergraduate Degree Certificate, Yanda Physics Undergraduate Degree Certificate, Yanda Excellent Student Certificate, Capital University Athletic Games Champion Certificate × 2

Entry-level certificate × 3: IMO champion certificate, CMO champion certificate, CPhO champion certificate

Political, Ideological and Moral Certificate × 1: Provincial Three-Good Student

Advanced journal paper × 1

Intermediate periodical papers × 5

Entry-level journal papers × 8

"It seems that the past few years have not been wasted." Shen Qi checked the main spoils of the past few years, took a photo of the master's degree certificate from the Mathematics Department of Pudong University that he just got, and posted it on Moments to report the news to his relatives in the motherland.

Zhou Yu'an was the first to like it, and the first to leave a message: "Congratulations to Shen Biwang for obtaining a master's degree from Pudong University in only one year. See you at Pudu University in January next year!"

Shen Qi made a phone call to China and Zhou Yu'an: "Have you received an offer from Pudong University?"

"That's right, that's right, hahaha, I just received it yesterday! In the whole of China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, I am the only one who received an offer from the Graduate School of Mathematics at Pudong University this season, and there is only one place." Zhou Yu'an Laughing and sounding very happy.

"Then... what about Ouye?" Shen Qixin said that this question is probably a waste of time. If it is true that Zhou Yu'an said that there is only one offer from the Mathematics Department of Pudong University this season, then Ouye can only wait until the next season, which is September next year at the earliest. She can report to Princeton.