I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 510 Continue to harvest more math awards!

The encounter between Qin Ke, Ning Qingyun and Professor Tao was indeed quite dramatic.

The mid-year academic report of the AMS (American Mathematical Society) was held at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, and mid-August happened to be the school’s summer vacation, so there is no need to worry about affecting the school’s teaching order.

Apart from listening to the lectures, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun would naturally wander around and visit world-class schools.

That evening, the two walked hand in hand on the university campus in a foreign country, and found that many students stayed in the school to participate in research projects during the summer vacation. Because of the good weather, these research groups often held seminars directly on the lawn or under the big trees. carried out in the form.

This kind of academic atmosphere made both Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun sigh a little. Qin Ke even remembered Mr. Qiu's question in the finals of the Qiu competition, and couldn't help but sigh:
"I found that the students here are really different from the students of Qingmu University. For example, most of the students of Qingmu University would choose to study quietly in the library alone, while the students here are more inclined to study in the form of exchanges and discussions. , Pay more attention to the sparks generated by the collision of thinking to improve yourself.”

Ning Qingyun blushed. Since she was a child, she belonged to the type who likes to read and study alone, and doesn't like to communicate with others. She changed after meeting Qin Ke, but the change was only to become willing to be with Qin Ke. Discussion and exchange, with others, even friends in the same dormitory, there is no academic exchange.

Of course, this is mainly because she has always been too good. Except for Qin Ke, the classmates around her can't have academic exchanges with her. At most, she unilaterally guides others to study.

She shifted her gaze, teased Qin Ke quietly, pointed at a middle-aged professor in the distance and pursed her lips with a smile: "Look, there are also scholars over there who like to think alone."

Qin Ke looked in the direction of her little finger, and saw a black-haired man squatting by the lake, writing and drawing on the sand with a branch, which seemed out of place with the lively discussions under the surrounding trees.

The students glanced at the black-haired man from time to time, but they didn't bother him in the past.

Qin Ke became a little curious, and said to Ning Qingyun: "Come on, let's go over and see what he is writing."

"Well, will it disturb others?"

"We don't talk, just watch quietly."

Qin Ke took the girl's tender little hands and walked behind the black-haired man together. He saw mathematical formulas written all over the ground. The black-haired man stopped writing and writing, apparently in deep thought.

Ning Qingyun looked at it for a while, and could only understand the relevant formulas of the two-dimensional conformal field theory. She couldn't help whispering: "What is this writing? Two-dimensional conformal field theory? Random matrix?"

Qin Ke was slightly surprised: "He is..."

Before Qin Ke could finish speaking, a blond American student ran over and gestured for the two to leave.

Seeing that the students were all staring at this side, Qin Ke guessed that what the black-haired man was writing might be related to his academic achievements and could not be watched by others, so he pulled Ning Qingyun away and replied as he walked: "He is writing The derivation of the Bennell-type random matrix integral is formally equivalent to the DF integral in two-dimensional conformal field theory."

Ning Qingjun nodded admiringly. Random matrices belong to the category of probability. Ning Qingjun is not good at it. She is best at number theory, calculus, functional analysis, etc. She is only a sophomore and junior in other sub-subjects. About the level, she has never heard of this Bennell type random matrix.

"Is this difficult?"

"It's not bad. Compared with the world-class conjecture, it is naturally much less difficult, but no one should be able to fully deduce it." Qin Ke recalled the derivation process he saw just now: "This person is very powerful, he Basically, most of it has been deduced, but I am stuck on the argument of the Tau function of the integrable system."

Ning Qingjun didn't quite understand, but seeing Qin Ke's expression was calm, she couldn't help asking: "Then can you deduce it?"

Qin Ke said with a smile: "If you suddenly ask me to deduce it completely, of course I can't do it. Such a difficult problem cannot be deduced at a glance. It will take about half an hour. But now this dear friend has deduced this It’s over, I can deduce the rest.”

Both of them spoke Mandarin, and they were not afraid of being heard by others, so they didn't deliberately lower their voices. Suddenly, someone asked in English: "Can you solve the demonstration problem of the Tau function of this integrable system?"

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun turned their heads unexpectedly, and saw that the black-haired man had stood up at some point and was looking this way.

Qin Ke was taken aback, because he found that the black-haired man looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was.

This black-haired man is estimated to be about the same age as Qin Ke's father, but his face is very young. He has a haircut parted in the middle, a pink top and yellow-gray trousers. The match is neither fish nor fowl, and his long, messy bangs almost block half of it. gold-rimmed glasses.

This is a typical science man who doesn't care about clothes.

The black-haired man met the two of them face to face, and asked in English with some surprise: "Are you Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun from Xia Kingdom?"

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun didn't pretend to be disguised, but they also wore sunglasses that could cover half of their faces. If they weren't familiar people, they wouldn't be able to recognize them easily. Unexpectedly, this black-haired man could recognize them at a glance.

"Yes. You are..." Qin Ke always felt that this person looked more and more familiar, and Ning Qingyun who was beside him asked in surprise, "Are you Professor Tao from the University of California?"

Qin Ke also suddenly remembered, isn't this the famous Xia-born mathematician in the world, and Professor Tao Zhexuan, a Philippine Award winner?
Qin Ke had admired this legendary math genius for a long time, and even wanted to test whether Professor Tao was really "off the hook", for example, he also had a system or something.

It is also interesting to say that since Qin Ke won the IMO gold medal two years ago, some people have called Qin Ke "Little Tao Zhexuan". After Qin Ke won the "Mathematical Breakthrough Award", people on the Internet began to say that he can It is comparable to Tao Zhexuan.

Some domestic reporters even asked, Mr. Qin Ke, do you think you can surpass Tao Zhexuan in the future?
Anyway, Professor Tao is a standard for comparison. It seems that only after surpassing Professor Tao, can Mathematicians of the Xia Kingdom truly stand up.

Professor Tao stepped forward, shook Qin Ke's hand, and said with a friendly and slightly shy smile, "Hi, Tao Zhexuan, University of California."

Qin Ke took off his sunglasses, revealing his original handsome face, shook hands with Professor Tao, and said in Cantonese, "Hello, Professor Tao, I have long admired your name."

Qin Ke had learned some Cantonese with the little fat Jiang Zhenjie, and he could barely converse in Cantonese. Now he spoke in Cantonese, naturally because he remembered that Professor Tao could speak Cantonese.

Sure enough, Professor Tao was very pleasantly surprised, and immediately replied in Cantonese: "Qin Ke, it's great that you can speak Cantonese. Except with my family, I haven't had the chance to speak Cantonese for many years."

Qin Ke shrugged his shoulders: "My dad used to like to watch Hong Kong versions of Cantonese movies. I have been used to listening to them since I was a child. Unfortunately, my language talent is not very good. I can listen or speak. It was not until after college that a roommate came from Guangdong Province. That’s why I learned dozens of sentences, and if I say more, I’m going to reveal my truth.” In the end, his Cantonese was no longer fluent, so he switched back to English.

Professor Tao also switched back to English and said with a smile: "You are much better than me. I have been trying to learn Mandarin all these years, but unfortunately I also have no language talent. Just as simple as math."

As a mathematician who is active on the Internet and likes to comment on the country, Professor Tao is extremely talkative and has a sense of humor. The last sentence is obviously a joke.

Qin Ke was delighted: "Professor Tao, if you let liberal arts students who are not good at mathematics hear your words, they will go crazy."

Ning Qingjun was dumbfounded at the beginning because she couldn't speak Cantonese at all.Fortunately, the two of them switched back to English later, and she finally understood, she couldn't help but pursed her lips and chuckled, and she also took off her glasses out of politeness.

The surroundings seemed to brighten up.

Those American students were originally surprised to see Professor Tao suddenly strike up a conversation with these two foreign Asian students, but when they heard the names of "Qin Ke" and "Ning Qingyun", they started to commotion. Both of them took off their sunglasses, revealing their true appearance, and even cast surprised, curious, and faintly awe-inspiring eyes, but they didn't dare to disturb the conversation of the three of them.

Professor Tao also looked at Ning Qingyun twice, and said with a smile, "Qin Ke, your girlfriend is the most beautiful girl I've ever seen."

Qin Ke blinked and joked, "Prettier than your wife?"

Professor Tao said humorously: "Oh, my wife Laura can no longer be called a 'girl', but she will always be the most beautiful lady in my heart."

Professor Tao's wife is his student. She is not pretty, but she is also outstanding in science. She used to work as an engineer in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Professor Tao chatted with the two of them for a while, and soon brought the topic back to mathematics. He asked curiously: "Qin Ke, I heard you just now, do you know how I can deduce it?"

"That's right. In fact, your thinking is very clear. You just need to start with the Tracy-Widom distribution of the Painlevé II integrable system."

Qin Ke picked up the branch and wrote on the sand:
"μ2(dM)) = P2(M)dM = exp[aTr(M^2)+bTr(M)+c]dm..."

In about 3 minutes, he dropped the branch: "At this point, the argument is complete."

"You are looking for the solution of a specific Painlevet equation... yes, why didn't I think of it!" Professor Tao exclaimed a little more in his eyes: "It's a very perfect argument. It's amazing, Qin Ke, you are stronger than the rumors."

As a genius who is used to being looked up to by others, it has been a long time since Professor Tao has the feeling of marveling at a person's mathematical ability from the bottom of his heart. It was also when his mentor, the winner of the Wolf Prize, Elias Stein, made him He has looked up and marveled, but as his level has improved, there are not many people who can make him feel this way.

The boy from Xia who was too young in front of him made him feel a sense of admiration.

Qin Ke said with a smile: "Professor Tao, you can actually figure it out. I think you have already thought of the Gauss unitary ensemble in the steps just now. I guess it will take another 10 minutes to think of this solution. To be honest, if I don't follow along Following your train of thought, I can’t imagine the derivation process behind.”

Qin Ke did not underestimate the mathematical genius in front of him. From the derivation process written by Professor Tao he saw just now, it is obvious that he is very proficient in probability and statistics. He is worthy of being called a super genius who is proficient in all fields of mathematics. , Qin Ke even wanted to ask if there was really a system cheat.

Professor Tao waved to the American students, and a group of American students hurried over and said politely: "Professor Tao."

"The argumentation process I wrote over there, together with the argumentation process here, is the answer you asked me just now. Come and see for yourself."

A group of American students looked at me, but finally lowered their heads and thanked Professor Tao and Qin Ke.

Professor Tao then smiled and said to Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun: "Have you had dinner yet? Let's go, I'll treat you to dinner. Thank you for doing me a favor."

After chatting with Professor Tao, Qin and Ke found out that he usually works at the Los Angeles branch of the University of California. This time, he came to Berkeley just to attend the academic report meeting. He didn’t expect to meet some people who recognized him just now. When the students asked questions, he had a whim, so he tried to deduce the answers on the spot.

"Qin Ke, if you hadn't reminded me, I might have spent an extra half an hour here." Professor Tao didn't have the arrogance of the boss of the Fei Award, but could directly speak out his own shortcomings, just because of his open-mindedness. It was worth making friends with, and Qin Ke had a better impression of him. The three of them chatted and walked to the restaurant.

Professor Tao directly led the two of them to a restaurant on campus, glanced at Chen Ming and Chen Lan who were following them, and asked, "Companions?"

Qin Ke said with a smile: "The teachers in our school are afraid that we will be trafficked and trafficked when we come to a foreign country where we don't know each other well, and the school will not be able to take responsibility if our parents make trouble with the school."

Professor Tao shook his head and said, "I heard that you are still freshmen? Your school is really strict. If you were in our University of California, you would at least be able to get a doctorate in mathematics.

"In fact, when school starts in half a month, we will officially be promoted to sophomore year."

"What is your level of sophomore? Are you interested in teaching at our University of California? I can be your referrer. The mathematics department of the University of California can be ranked among the top seven in the world, which is a good choice."

Qin Ke smiled and said, "We study physics."

Professor Tao knew that Qin Ke declined, and sighed: "It's a pity, I think we should be a good partner with you. By the way, are you delving into the hail conjecture?"

"Yeah, Professor Tao, you are also a big expert in this field."

Professor Tao spread his hands: "In fact, I failed." He explained his proof thinking at that time without any secrecy, and said:
"I have proved that almost all orbits with related mappings can converge to the smallest natural number 1, but I cannot be sure that all orbits can be proved in the same way. This involves the estimation of the probability interval of the mapping triangle, which is currently Under the conditions, my idea of ​​proof is unsolvable.”

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun listened intently. They had also read Professor Tao's thesis at that time, but they still benefited a lot from listening to him describe his ideas in person.

I also heard Professor Tao say: "When I found out that the hail conjecture was beyond my ability to solve, I basically gave up. But after listening to your report yesterday, I suddenly had a new inspiration. Your 'Lime Number Theory Hypergeometric' Mapping method', it may be possible to prove this world-class problem."

Qin Ke's heart skipped a beat. This Professor Tao is worthy of being a super genius with an IQ of 230. It took him almost four months to come up with a possible feasible idea and transform this hailstone conjecture into "Lime Number Theory Hypergeometric Mapping Unexpectedly, Professor Tao also thought of the problem that can be solved by the law.

But I heard Professor Tao sighed again: "But I just have a vague idea. I tried it last night, but there was no result. Your 'Lime Number Theory Hypergeometric Mapping Method' is not easy to master. I want to use it freely. , it will take at least one or two years. I think you can try it, after all, no one in the world can compare to you when it comes to this brand-new mathematical processing method."

Speaking of this, he showed a sincere smile of approval: "By the way, your report yesterday was very exciting. Congratulations in advance, this year's Cole Prize winners in number theory."

At this time, the food began to be served, and the three of them chatted and ate. The topics were naturally related to mathematics. In addition to talking about the Hail conjecture, they also talked about the cutting-edge academic achievements in today's mathematics field, including Professor Tao's own research direction.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun once again realized how powerful the "all-rounder in mathematics" is. Professor Tao is good at many fields of mathematics. He is almost an all-rounder in mathematics. Even if he is not proficient, he knows a little bit.

But even more surprising was Professor Tao.

Ning Qingyun's profound attainments and spirituality in the direction of number theory have already surprised him, and it is Qin Ke who really makes him feel unbelievable!

No matter what direction or subfield he talked about, Qin Ke could keep up with his thinking and answer fluently.

This young Xia country mathematician is even more profound than him in terms of mathematical knowledge. Even if he asks some very unpopular knowledge, Qin Ke can still answer, and he really understands it. !

This is the true 360-degree mastery of all subjects without dead ends!

Professor Tao couldn't help but lament the awesome young people.

He didn't know that Qin Ke had basically completed the absorption of master-level mathematics knowledge, and the depth of knowledge in various mathematics subjects was no less than that of most university professors.

The current Qin Ke is a real mathematician.

After the dinner, the three of them got to know each other very well. Professor Tao not only exchanged emails with them, but also told them his personal phone number, and agreed to make more contacts when he was free, and to cooperate on the subject.

In the next few days, Professor Tao sat with Qin Ke in almost every lecture, and introduced him to the bigwigs in the mathematics field in the United States, which further broadened the relationship between the two.

On the last day of the academic report meeting, the award ceremony was held as scheduled.

Unsurprisingly, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun won the second international award in their lives, the Cole Prize in Number Theory.

"Ding! Congratulations, you have won the 'Kehl Prize in Number Theory', and the system has rated 'Grade S+' as 'S+', the 'Grade Improvement' function is in effect, and your math points are +1000!"

Qin Ke excitedly clenched his fist, and in this way, the upgrade progress of the mathematics subject became 6689/10000.

It's getting closer and closer to the next level of grand master. Once it reaches the grand master level, it will be at the level of the Philippine award boss.

Suddenly, the system prompt sounded again:

"Ding! You have a new mission to learn God!"

"Ding dong! The task of learning the gods is updated 'Please continue to harvest more math awards'!"

"②Please continue to receive more mathematics awards: the host has won two international mathematics awards, please continue to work hard and strive to win five international mathematics awards that are equivalent to or higher than the 'Kehl Number Theory Award'!"

"Mission Reward: Your Academic Points (Mathematics) +5000! An additional mysterious gift bag!"

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