I just want to be a quiet scholar

Chapter 191 I Can See Through You Shen Qi

"There will be a lecture on November 11rd. The lecturer is Lax, an honorary doctor of the School of Mathematics. Interested students should go and listen." Shen Qi sent a message to the WeChat group of the Department of Mathematics, and then continued to blow water with foreigners.

"Miss Helen, why do you Americans always like to provoke wars?" Shen Qi started speaking English, and the chat object was his college English teacher.

Helen Margaret Lawrence is from the United States and is an English foreign teacher at Yanda University. She named herself "Hua Mulan" in Chinese.

"This is a banker's conspiracy and a politician's trick to divert domestic conflicts. Most of the American people are against war, and our whole family is anti-war." Helen said.

"It looks like America is in a mess?" Shen Qi asked.

"So I came to China." Helen didn't get angry, but smiled: "My current boyfriend is Chinese. He is very handsome and charming, and more importantly, he is knowledgeable and talented."

"Really, he is also a teacher?" Shen Qi asked.

"No, he's still studying and doing a Ph.D. at Shuimu University." Helen's smile was full of happiness. She raised her palm and wore a diamond ring on her left middle finger: "Actually, he has proposed to me."

"Congratulations!" Shen Qi congratulated.

Yanda's sister, Shuimu's man, sure enough, the man of Shuimu University has a routine, and even the foreign female teacher of Yanda was abducted by Shuimu.

"We're going to have a Chinese wedding in his hometown, after his PhD. Wow, his hometown is so beautiful, I've been there a few times, and the stinky tofu is so delicious, I don't think I can live without it for the rest of my life, and China." Helen was excited, "Yes, I love China, and Chinese doctors."

"Miss Helen, your taste is really special. Maybe in the near future, should I call you Mrs. Helen Wang or Mrs. Helen Zhang?"

"Do as the locals do. After I marry a Chinese man, I don't need to change my surname."

Shen Qi and Helen chatted all afternoon.

English +1
In the next few days, Shen Qi and his college English teacher continued to communicate, looking for the feeling of listening and speaking in English. Shen Qi also learned a lot of American social characteristics and customs from Helen's mouth.

"So you are determined to go to Princeton?" Zhou Yuan asked Shen Qi.

Today is November 11rd. This is a large classroom in the Science Building. Mr. Lax's mathematics lecture is about to begin.

"If it weren't for mathematics, I really don't want to go to the United States. The United States is too chaotic." Shen Qi said, he looked around, why hasn't Ou Ye come yet?
"For the sake of mathematics, you are willing to step into danger. For the sake of the girl, you are indifferent." Zhou Yuan sighed, "You can't have both the beauty of the country and the mountains, and the beauty of the face is so bad since ancient times."

"Where is the beauty? Are you?" Shen Qi asked back.

"Don't pretend to be confused!" Zhou Yuan felt distressed for the girls, "I can see through you Shen Qi. There is only one woman you love, and her name is mathematics."

At this time, a young man pushed a wheelchair into the classroom, and the audience fell into a spontaneous silence.

In the wheelchair sits an old white man, Peter Lacks, a leading figure in the field of contemporary applied mathematics.

Lax has been teaching at New York University, the holy land of applied mathematics, for a long time. He is very friendly to the Chinese mathematics community and was awarded the title of honorary doctorate by the Yan University School of Mathematics.

There are many formulas, theorems and theories named after Lacks in the mathematics community today, such as the Lacks shock condition and the application of entropy in shock theory, the Lacks-Windrove scheme, and the Lacks-Milgram theorem. Wait.

Lax, a 90-year-old Wolf Prize winner, is an elderly man who is incapacitated and confined to a wheelchair to give speeches.

Nian Ruiming was right, Mr. Lax's English accent was particularly heavy, with obvious Eastern European pronunciation.Lax was born in Budapest, Hungary, and immigrated to the United States.

Lax's lecture was intermittent, and he had to pause for a while in three sentences before continuing.

But the students listened with relish, including Shen Qi.

"Nonlinear equations are always annoying...but in the KdV equation, it is these nonlinear effects that make us..."

"No other field relies on computing like Chaos... With computing, we can explore the mysteries of Chaos, a branch of mathematics that can change the world..."

"Children, you must have heard of the butterfly effect... the butterfly effect is a theory of chaos..."

"The butterfly flutters its wings, causing a devastating typhoon on the other side of the earth..."

"The question is, in the vast Amazon rainforest, there are trillions of butterflies flying, which butterfly is the source of the typhoon..."

"Through mathematics, through calculation, we can find this butterfly precisely..."

"And let this butterfly flap its wings at a certain frequency within the specified time..."

"The amount of computation is astronomical, and humans can't do this work... Fortunately, we invented the computer..."

"We must never turn mathematics into a weapon of war...but with unimaginable mathematics, we can solve droughts in the Sahara, or floods in the Amazon, at very low cost..."

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The sanctuary of elementary mathematics is at Princeton, where scholars conduct theoretical research.

The arsenal of applied mathematics is at NYU, where the engineers are responsible for the practical application.

Shen Qi prefers basic mathematics. He believes that theory determines the application level, so his target is Princeton.

"Come to the Science Building!" Shen Qi sent Ouye a WeChat message. He felt that Ouye was very necessary to listen to Lax's lecture. Ouye was the calculation girl, and Lax was the calculation emperor.If Ouye can learn the essence of computing from Lax, she will one day hope to become the new emperor of computing, the computing queen.

In fact, Shen Qi had already informed Ouye that there was a mathematics lecture today, but until Lax finished the lecture, Ouye did not appear in the classroom of the Science Building.

"Ouye, what are you doing!" Shen Qi was furious. Lax was 90 years old, and he only gave a lecture at Yanda University once a year, and he only listened to it once a year.

After listening to Lax's lecture, Shen Qi flew towards the building of the Institute of Mathematics, Ouye, you have become a hot stock, and the professors of the Institute of Mathematics are rushing for you, are you floating?inflated?
Shen Qi came to the Shuyuan, pushed open the door of the SOS project office, and was about to freak out, but found that Ou Ye was lying on the computer desk and fell asleep, with a small medicine bottle next to the computer screen.

There is a LaTex document on Ouye's computer screen, and she is writing the summary section of the SOS project paper.

"Hey..." Shen Qi sighed, distressed, the previous complaints were long gone.

Taking off his coat and draping it lightly on Ou Ye's slender shoulders, Shen Qi sat beside Ou Ye and looked at her so quietly.

(End of this chapter)