People, sometimes you need to be stimulated to burst your potential.

Zhou Yu'an was stimulated by Shen Qi, and he also stimulated Shen Qi, and the two stimulated each other.

As a result of the stimulus, Zhou Yu'an's partial differential equation paper, which he had not finished for more than a year, was completed in more than a month.

This paper is a total of 83 pages, and in the past year or so, Zhou Yu'an slowly conceived, carefully deduced, and advanced the work according to the rhythm of Princeton, writing more than 30 pages.

In the past month, Zhou Yu'an has been grateful, and suddenly exploded, writing fifty pages.

"Boss Shen, please review. Zhou Yu'an submitted the manuscript to Shen Qi.

As a subordinate, Zhou Yu'an has the obligation to submit the manuscript to the director of the center for review.

As a mathematics peer, Zhou Yu'an wanted to hear Shen Qi's professional advice.

Shen Qi took the paper and said: "It took you a year and a half to write this paper, and counting the time for preliminary research, it is close to two years. It's not easy, it's hard. Give me half a day, and I'll look for you when I'm done. ”

For Zhou Yu'an's paper, Shen Qi reviewed it very carefully, and from time to time took a pen to calculate a few formulas to verify Zhou Yu'an's derivation logic.

In the afternoon, Zhou Yu'an came to Shen Qi's office again: "Boss Shen, please instruct." ”

Shen Qi handed the annotated manuscript to Zhou Yu'an: "Generally speaking, your paper meets the level of a doctor of mathematics from the University of Mathematics and a disciple of a Philippine Prize winner. You have proved that this class of first-order nonlinear partial differential equations with non-regular singularities has formal power series solutions that belong to the Geyster class, and you have accurately characterized them. This is a delicate job, you are very rigorous, my suggestion is to use the implicit function theorem and then make an analytic function equation about Y, this article is perfect. After that, you can send the journal directly, and you don't have to read it to me anymore. ”

Zhou Yu'an took the paper annotated by Shen Qi and flipped through it: "OK, I'll change it, thank you." ”

"Why is your attitude so good today?" asked Shen Qi.

"Because I see in you the image of that scholar who is supreme in academics again. Zhou Yu'an put away the paper and asked with concern: "How is your body recovering?"

"It's good. ”

"That's good. Zhou Yu'an said goodbye and changed his thesis.

Shen Qi is recovering well, and Shen Qi pays attention to some of the latest developments of this year's Nobel Prize through online news and academic reports.

In just over two months, in October, the relevant Swedish institutions and the Norwegian government will announce the winners of this year's Nobel Prizes in six categories.

The Nobel Prize judging process is strictly confidential, and there are many predictions from the outside world.

Haruki Murakami, a famous writer in his seventies, has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature again, and I can't remember how many times this is the first time that Mr. Murakami has been nominated for the Nobel Prize, and this year his voice is very high.

Of course, in the past ten years, Haruki Murakami's call for winning the award has been very high, but he has never won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

"I'm still writing in my seventies, and I've just published a new book, and the old man Murakami is so diligent that he deserves respect. Shen Qi has read several of Haruki Murakami's best-selling books, but the best-selling ones are useless, and the Nobel Prize jury does not look at sales.

No one knows what the judging criteria for the six categories of Nobel Prize jury are based on, and for a hundred years they have never disclosed the details of the jury.

This year's list of candidates for the Peace Prize includes, as always, several heads of state, as well as a number of international institutions.

Perhaps the most controversial in the history of the selection of the six Nobel Prizes is the Peace Prize.

The Peace Prize does not look at academic achievements or scientific research achievements, and the evaluation criteria are relatively emotional.

The President of the United States has won the Peace Prize, and the European Union has won the Peace Prize.

In terms of military budget, the United States ranks first in the world, China ranks second, and several major countries in the European Union together rank third.

"War and peace?" Shen Qi said inexplicably, and he saw that the name of the President of the United States was in the list of candidates for this year's Peace Prize.

Literature Award, Peace Prize, Shen Qi watched a lively look, and what he was most concerned about was of course the Nobel Prize in science.

Conventionally, the Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, with each category of the Nobel Prize usually awarded to two or three nominees per session.

In the case of the Physics Prize, for example, the 2016 Physics Prize was awarded to three scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom for their contributions to the field of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. This is a single topic, and the three of them jointly won the award.

The 2010 Physics Prize was awarded to two scientists from the Netherlands and Russia for their outstanding achievements in the field of graphene preparation. This is a joint award for two people.

The 2008 Physics Prize was awarded to two Japanese scientists and one Japanese-American scientist.

In what form will this year's Nobel Prize in Physics be awarded, with several scientists and topics awarded?

Nobel Prize candidate Shen Qi has no way of knowing the specific news, he can only predict.

"There are a lot of competitors. ”

Shen Qi found that competitors from all over the world are mainly concentrated in subdivisions such as astrophysics, quantum physics, and condensed matter physics, which are also the most cutting-edge research directions in today's physics field.

Harry Clarke, a professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton, USA, 37, is a professor in condensed matter physics. The name of an American scientist caught Shen Qi's attention.

When Shen Qi was a professor of mathematics at Princeton, he heard the name Harry Clark in the physics department next door, and this guy was not a professor at the time, as if he was a researcher or something.

Harry Clark himself is not well-known, but Princeton behind him has a high international academic standing and influence.

What kind of energy does Princeton have, Shen Qi knows very well in his heart, he has received some help with the support of this energy.

Princeton's fundamental mathematics is the best in the world, and the physics major at Princeton University is also well-known and very powerful.

In fact, the number of front-line scientific researchers in the Department of Physics of the University of Science is not as large as that of the Institute of Physics of Yan University.

The academic philosophy of not seeking big but complete, but only small and refined, has penetrated into every department of Princeton.

The three major majors of the Department of Physics of the University of Physics are astrophysics, quantum physics, and condensed matter physics, and they concentrate superior resources to do the most cutting-edge research.

"My biggest competitor is most likely my colleagues from my old club. Shen Qi now works for Yan University, and although he holds the title of honorary professor of mathematics at Princeton, in the field of physics, Shen Qi will inevitably face competition from the physics department of Princeton.

Shen Qi's condensed matter physics project and Harry Clark's condensed matter physics project are very similar, and the two of them, or the two condensed matter physics teams in China and the United States, are fighting for food in the same pot.

"Harry Clarke is making rapid progress, and most crucially, his boss behind the scenes is Professor Duncan Haldane. ”

Duncan Haldane, a British national, is currently Professor of Physics at Princeton, a master of condensed matter physics, and a 2016 Nobel Laureate in Physics.

The Haldane Laboratory is known as the Rutherford Laboratory of our time.

The two British physicists have one thing in common: they are so skilled that they have won the Nobel Prize.

They are highly academically capable and good at taking apprentices.

After Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, his laboratory produced eight Nobel laureates, all of whom were Physics Prize winners.

After Haldane won the Nobel Prize in Physics, his Princeton laboratory produced two Nobel Prize winners in physics, just in recent years.

"Will Harry Clarke be the fourth Nobel laureate at the Haldane Lab? The first three are Duncan Haldane, and his two students. --- this is the prediction of a review in the American journal Chemical Review.

"Shen Qi's personal academic ability is undoubted, but his achievements in cultivating talents are not brilliant. Shen Qi VS Haldane's students, who will win?", --- this is a comment from the British journal Nature.

The British are like this, yesterday you were on your knees and crying, and today they may be teasing you with a tone of voice.

It is said that Haldane refused to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics again this year, and it seems that the Nobel Prize boss wants to make his student Clark popular with all his might.

In fact, Shen Qi has some connections with Professor Haldane and has dealt with them.

At the beginning of last year, Shen Qi published his first paper on condensed matter physics after returning to China, and it was Haldane who was the first to stand up and affirm Shen Qi's research results. As a result, the Shen Qi phase transition rule and the Shen Qi equation were quickly recognized by the ICTP and written into the textbook.