This semester is Zhou's fourth year of Ph.D., and he would love to get a PhD this semester.

Earning a PhD from Princeton means academic success, after which you can go out and pretend to be a B.

However, Zhou Yu'an's doctoral dissertation, which had been painstakingly brewing for three semesters, was rejected by his supervisor Fei Jiali at the beginning of the semester.

Shen Qi asked, "When you started your doctoral dissertation, you didn't consult Professor Fei Jiali?"

"Of course, I asked him, and he agreed with my project design, but when I got to the back, I wrote and wrote, and I wrote ...... deviated" Zhou Yu'an was annoyed.

"Then there is no way, this is your own problem, you can't blame the mentor. Shen Qi understood, Zhou Yu'an's doctoral dissertation was amazing at the beginning, but it was written at the end.

"It's annoying, my PhD dissertation may have to be overhauled, and it will take me an extra year or two, or even longer. Zhou Yu'an beat his chest, and God had a bad start and an end, which is a tragedy that every author of the paper does not want to encounter.

"This happens to you a lot, so you can feel at ease as soon as possible, start a new project early, and graduate early. Shen Qi put forward an objective and pertinent suggestion.

"Do you want to be so cruel?" Zhou Yu'an was speechless.

"It's not cruelty, it's reality. Shen Qi retorted.

"I came to you to confide, but you hit me mercilessly, this is a brother?" Zhou Yu Abe was shocked.

Shen Qi said: "The real brother will persuade you to cut off the unfinished paper as soon as possible, Zhou Yu'an, bring your paper to me, and I will help you diagnose it, see how to cut it, full or partial cut." ”

Zhou Yu'an took out a USB flash drive and plugged it into Shen Qi's computer case, and his doctoral dissertation was in the USB flash drive.

"Take the papers with you, you guys come prepared. Shen Qi operated the mouse and quickly reviewed Zhou Yu'an's paper.

"Differential geometry + partial differential equations, the majestic opening, eye-catching and fascinating. Shen Qi praised the introduction to the paper.

"Mr. Qiu Chengtong won the Philippine Award for this craft, and Brende, who won the award with me, is also a master in this field, and your mentor Fei Jiali is very promising for the next Philippine Award. Shen Qi quickly scrolled down, and a page of paper stayed for a maximum of 1 minute.

"Can you be serious?" Zhou Yu'an knew Shen Qi's level, but it would take me days or even months to complete a one-page thesis, and you could finish it in 1 minute?

Shen Qi summed up Zhou's doctoral dissertation: "From the point of view of partial differential equations, this is a highly nonlinear hyperbolic equation, and up to page 37, your work is perfect, and I can't fault it. However, after page 37, you inexplicably collapsed, the n-dimensional compact manifold on page 63 is the biggest failure, and after page 63 I don't want to read it, it doesn't make any sense. ”

"Hey......" Zhou Yu'an sighed, Shen Qi hit his sore spot with a sharp shot, he wrote 120 pages of this paper, it took a year and a half, in Shen Qi's opinion, only the first third is qualified, and the back are useless articles.

"After 37 pages, I'm going to show you a way to get to the right conclusion without changing the original premise of your paper. Shen Qi gave his diagnosis.

"This ...... Cut so much that Professor Figari suggested that I keep the first 50 pages. ”

"Then you should follow Professor Figali's advice and change it, after all, he is your mentor. ”

"Professor Shen, let's listen to your detailed opinions. ”

"Your goal is to find the exact solution of hyperbolic geometric flows, and the first 37 pages actually find the first type of solution, and then you don't need to verify the second type of solution, just give a special solution and you're done. Shen Qi deleted all 38-120 pages of Yu'an's paper last week on the computer.

Zhou Yu'an was anxious: "Hey, make a copy first and then delete it!"

"Forget all about the 37 pages onwards, Zhou Yu'an. Shen Qi crackled and typed in the new 38 pages, wrote half a page, saved it, pulled out the USB flash drive and returned it to Zhou Yu'an: "My suggestions are all in it, take it back and study it yourself." ”

"Only half a page was written, and I slammed the door. Zhou Yu'an put away the USB flash drive.

"Are you content Zhou Yu'an, I am a reviewer for a mathematics journal, and the review comments are at most three sentences or three formulas. Ouye's doctoral dissertation, I didn't provide her with a single word of advice. ”

Zhou Yu'an was surprised and asked: "Ou Ye is so strong, so strong that you can't find a single word?" Or is her doctoral dissertation so bad that you don't want to continue reading at all?"

Shen Qi: "I haven't read her doctoral dissertation, but I know that the general direction of the topic is related to the Jesmanovich conjecture. ”

"I'm still reluctant to watch it when I sleep in the same bed, you two are really funny. Zhou Yu'an shook his head and left.

End of January, Chinese New Year's Eve.

Academician Pan, Lu Guozhen, and Director Wu called Shen Qi one after another to congratulate the New Year.

Lu Guozhen reported good news, he was in charge of the Hodge conjecture mathematical analysis section has made significant progress, his team has a holiday on the 25th of the lunar month, and goes to work on the eighth day of the new year.

Director Wu reported that he was worried, saying that the topology section he was responsible for encountered major obstacles that were difficult to overcome, and his team was still working overtime on Chinese New Year's Eve and going to work in the fourth year of junior high school.

Academician Pan didn't report good news or bad news, he just complained that the gift given to him by Shen Qi was too profound, he and his team studied it for nearly two months, and the preliminary conclusion was: I can't understand it!

Shen Qi settled everything in Princeton, returned to Nangang City on the 14th day of the first lunar month in China, ate a Lantern Festival at home, and went to the capital after the Lantern Festival.

The first stop, Yanda.

Shen Qi listened to the special report of Lu Guozhen's team on the "Mathematical Analysis Method of the Hodge Conjecture", which lasted for three whole days, and the dean of the School of Mathematics of Yan University and the four academicians of the Academy of Mathematics attended the report meeting.

The 973 project, led by Shen Qi, is highly valued by the school of Yan University, and those who are engaged in mathematics understand the important position of Hodge's conjecture.

In particular, after physicists proposed an intimate cross-border relationship between the Hodge conjecture and quantum entanglement, the academic status of this mathematical millennial problem continued to rise.

Hodge's conjecture was originally located on Mount Everest, which is 8,848 meters high, and the status is so high that it will break through the sky if it rises again.

Shen Qi recognized the preliminary research results of Lu Guozhen's team, and also put forward some suggestions and opinions, hoping that the Yanda team would make persistent efforts to achieve final results as soon as possible and meet with his Princeton team smoothly.

The second stop is the Morningside Math Center.

Shen Qi listened to the special report of Director Wu's team on "Hodge Conjecture Topology Method", which lasted for half a day, and Director Wu's preliminary research results were only enough to report for half a day.

Shen Qi made a summary and instructions: "The results are gratifying, and the problems also exist, Director Wu, I know it in my heart, so let's do it, our team has two days off, counting the four days of rest last weekend...... Don't be like this, brothers, I know that you are working overtime to overcome problems on Chinese New Year's Eve, and you really need to rest and empty yourself. Next Monday, I'll work with you to solve the problem, and for the next four days, I'm asking you to relax completely. ”