I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

In this number theory paper, the two authors are both from MIT. They obtained the integer points of a class of elliptic curves through the decomposition calculation of algebraic numbers on the subring of a class of full imaginary quartic fields, combined with the Dirichlet L function.

This reminded Shen Qi of Toyo Taniyama and Goro Shimura, as well as Wiles and Taylor back then.

The Taniyama-Shimura conjecture proposes a connection between elliptic curves and modular forms, a certain connection between algebraic geometry and number theory.

Everyone knows what happened later. Wiles and Taylor proved the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture in the process of proving Fermat's last theorem.

History is always like this, a powerful protagonist must be accompanied by a distinctive and capable deputy.

Gu Shanfeng is surrounded by Shimura Goro, and Wiles is surrounded by Taylor. It is Watson who has followed Holmes all his life, and Wei Yixiao has helped Zhang Wuji clean up the mobs.

"And my capable deputy is..." Shen Qi counted, and it got too far... The core content of this paper is to use number theory to solve elliptic curve problems, which coincides with the ideas of Wiles and Gu Shanfeng. on the contrary.

"It's interesting. These two MIT number theorists are not inferior to my wife." Shen Qi's wife has been out of the field of mathematics for a while, and this powerful newcomer is constantly emerging, and the competition is still quite fierce.

Will it be reviewed by the two mathematics colleagues of MIT?

Shen Qi fell into deep thought.

This is not an ordinary journal, but the Annals of Mathematics, one of the four major journals in mathematics.

If Shen Qi makes a decision, pass!

The two authors must be very happy.

In the end, Shen Qi decided to pass the review, because the two MIT authors really wrote well.

As far as this paper is concerned, Shen Qi was also inspired to a certain extent. If Wiles used the elliptic curve method to solve the problem of number theory in the past, Fermat's last theorem is a forward operation, then the two MIT authors used the reverse operation in this paper. operate.

The conclusion is actually unremarkable, just to prove the integer points of a class of elliptic curves.

Shen Qi is interested in this reverse processing method.

"Please see the attachment for my review comments. Overall, there is no problem and can pass the review. If it is improved and group theory is added, then this involves another problem...BSD conjecture." Shen Qi told the "Annual of Mathematics" in an email Editor-in-Chief Exchange.

Editor-in-Chief: "Qi, your idea can be compiled into an article and published in our journal."

Shen Qi: "This cannot be regarded as a thesis, at most it can only be regarded as an after-reading review, and the length will not exceed 2 pages."

Editor-in-Chief: "Your post-reading impressions also have high academic value."

Shen Qi has not contributed to "Annals of Mathematics" or other mathematical journals for many years, and his current practice is to publish monographs.

Doing scientific research is actually a process of learning. Shen Qi never gave up studying.

In the process of learning, Shen Qi wrote a review, which was also accepted by famous mathematics journals.

The editor-in-chief of "Mathematics Annals" invited Shen Qi to write a manuscript, and Shen Qi's kindness was hard to turn down. Shen Qi agreed, and just wrote it. It wouldn't take much time to write two pages of post-reading comments, and it was done in an hour.

After writing the post-reading impressions and organizing them into a thesis format, Shen Qi did not go through any submission system, and sent them directly to the email of the editor-in-chief of "Annual Mathematics".

Shen Qi is the only author of this post-reading paper. This kind of paper cannot bring others to fly together, and it belongs to the exclusive treatment of big bosses.

The second paper that needs to be reviewed by Shen Qi comes from the PRL editorial department. It is a paper on condensed matter physics. The composition of six authors is complex, including UCLA, the University of Tokyo, and Imperial College London. It seems that this is a multinational The cooperation projects have spanned the three continents of the United States, Europe and Asia. Among them, the corresponding author is from UCLA, whose name is Li-Li, what a strange name.

This condensed matter physics paper studies the structure, mechanics, and thermodynamic properties of condensed matter. This is different from the research direction of Shen Qi and his FASTER project team, and somewhat similar to the research field of Shen Qi when he worked alone in the early days.

What the FASTER project team is doing now can be summed up in one sentence as developing new materials. This is very application-oriented, and the dividends brought by the research results are also very attractive.

To build a national key laboratory, the personnel composition cannot be all experimenters, there must be a few scholars who are good at academic theoretical research.

"This condensed matter physics paper sent by PRL is really well written." Shen Qi quickly browsed through the paper. His first impression was that this paper only attached a small number of test result pictures, and the rest was theoretical analysis. .

This multinational project team used the self-consistent field theory to study the microphase structure defects of condensed matter, which has certain theoretical guiding significance for the preparation of photonic crystals, biomedicine, and functional nanomaterials.

"Comparatively high-end." This was Shen Qi's conclusion after carefully reading the paper.

It is undeniable that purely applied researchers will have more material gains.

But in terms of academic status, theoretical research scholars are more noble.

There is no harm without comparison, and there are many experts in the international condensed matter physics team.

Including the deputy team leader Tang Yuan, no one in the FASTER project team can really calm down and do academic theoretical research.

It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal.

After tasting the sweetness, it is difficult to switch back to theory.

That is to say, Shen Qi is interested in the theoretical research direction of condensed matter physics, and he must not let his center become an institution that only makes applied products.

Shen Qi replied to the PRL editorial department: "It has been reviewed."

Although it has passed the review, Shen Qi still contacted the editor-in-chief of PRL via email, and made some suggestions for this paper: "The confinement of the system has changed, which has caused a significant change in the appearance of the system, such as from three-layer columnar phase to symmetrical The transformation of the double-layer columnar phase, or the transition from the horizontal layered phase to the vertical layered phase, the entropy of the system plays a very important role in the final morphology...Of course, this paper is already very good, I also hope that my suggestion can play a certain role in their next similar project.”

The editor-in-chief of PRL replied to the email: "Professor Shen, can we organize your suggestion into a review article and publish it on PRL?"

"Yes." Shen Qi agreed. He reviewed two papers and wrote two post-reading reviews. He didn't expect the post-reading reviews to be quite popular.

"Annual Journal of Mathematics" is published once a quarter, and PRL is a weekly publication, which is published quickly.

The condensed matter physics paper reviewed by Shen Qi was soon reported on the latest issue of PRL.

His condensed matter physics review article was also published in this PRL, only one page.

System: "New achievement! The host publishes a paper in the physical journal "Physical Review Letters". The basic reward is 50,000 Xueba points, multiplied by the journal's IF value of 11.382, and the final reward is 569,100 Xueba points. The balance is 54,261,588 points Overlord points, please confirm with the host."

"There are also rewards for post-reading impressions, which is really good." Shen Qi reviewed the manuscript and made an unexpected discovery.