The master level is different, Shen Qi's love for talent is getting deeper and deeper.

The 12 boys in the tutorial class were nominally students of Professor Muller, but Shen Qi had more contact with them.

Shen Qi, now a Ph.D. student at Princeton, knew he would one day become a professor.

After two more tutorial classes, Shen Qi roughly figured out the basic personal situation of the 12 students, and used the coffee time to chat with the twelve boys one by one.

The rule of the Princeton math department is that you can skip classes, papers, and academic monographs, but you can't skip coffee.

Shen Qi, who rarely drinks coffee in China, has been drinking coffee almost every day since he came to the United States.

Twice a month, the Muller team has a regular academic meeting to drink coffee.

Shen Qi went to Mueller alone to exchange academic issues and wanted coffee.

On Wednesdays, the afternoon is coffee time, and PhD students have to go to the café on the third floor of the Department of Mathematics building to have coffee with the professors.

Professors say that if a PhD student misses coffee time, the PhD graduation defense will not be given to you (manual funny).

Coffee drinking is a culture in the Department of Mathematics of the University, and the focus of this coffee culture is not on the coffee itself, but on communication.

The Princeton Department of Mathematics encourages originality and equally values teamwork and communication.

Undergraduates are not eligible to go to the café on the third floor of the mathematics department building, so Shen Qi invites his tutorial students to the apartment for coffee.

The houses assigned to professors often have a large study room, and many professors like to invite students to drink coffee and discuss academic topics in the study room.

The apartment rented by Shen Qi does not have a study, just a bedroom and a living room.

Shen Qi arranged the living room, set up a round table, put a blackboard, and received twelve boys at the same time, it was a little crowded, and it was no problem to entertain five or six.

Shen Qida invited John M. Groston to coffee in his apartment the day before yesterday.

The young man was British, raised in the aristocracy, attended boys' schools until the age of 18, and Princeton was the first co-educational school attended by John M. Grosston.

John M. Grosston had always been in a suit and leather shoes, and Shen Qi had never seen him wear any other type of clothing.

The British guy said that he was not going to graduate school, and that Princeton would return to the UK to take over the family business after graduating from his bachelor's degree, and his family was in the financial services industry.

The day before yesterday's guest was Luca, an Italian young man whose family was engaged in the clothing business, and the business was not small, opening flagship stores in large Italian cities such as Milan, Turin, and Rome, as well as branches in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and the magic capital of China.

Shen Qi asked Luca, why do you want to study mathematics when your family sells clothes? Isn't it more appropriate to study fashion design, marketing, and business administration?

Luca said that math is fun, geometry is super charming, learn to play, and if you don't do well in school, you will go back to your hometown in Italy to sell clothes.

Yesterday, Stephen Corey said something similar.

This American young man from Colorado is a farmer in his family, and he is also engaged in animal husbandry, raising horses and sheep.

Stephen, who was born in the countryside, said that his ancestors had been farmers for generations, and he did not want to be a farmer with his back to the loess, and he wanted to work as a white-collar worker in New York, Los Angeles and other metropolises after graduation, and his ideal career was that of an IT engineer.

If he didn't do well and couldn't go to the Metropolis, Stephen would have to go back to the countryside of Colorado to farm and raise horses, and his family owns 4,000 acres of land, the size of seven Princeton universities combined.

Shen Qi wants to bite people, Stephen is the son of a big farmer, you are the son of a big farmer, and you are a cool and rich western cowboy, you are going to be a hard-working IT man?

Some Americans' brains are just broken, and things that seem incomprehensible to Orientals are the norm for these Americans.

There must be differences in chemistry and values, and Shen Qi is slowly understanding and respecting the three views, living habits, and religious beliefs of Westerners.

Tuition at Princeton is very expensive, and most of the students at Princeton are from families above the middle class, and there is no shortage of wealthy families.

Although Princeton has a series of scholarship policies, student financial aid policies, and academic loan policies, students from wealthy families have some advantages after all, they only need to meet Princeton's minimum admission requirements, and they do not have to brush their admission scores to a perverted level close to full scores.

During their studies at the University, children from wealthy families do not need to worry about whether they can pay off their academic loans, let alone work to earn living expenses, and they can devote all their energy to their studies and social life.

There is also a disparity between the rich and the poor in the United States, and the children of the rich naturally receive elite education, and the children of the United States sometimes fight for their fathers.

Of course, children from poor families also have the opportunity to receive an elite education, and they are completely on their own.

The student Shen Qi received today was Jack Ma.

In the three assignments that have been assigned, Shen Qi has given Jack Ma two A+ and one A, and he believes that Jack Ma is the smartest of the twelve boys.

"My family is poor, very poor. "Jack Ma is characterized by crying poor, and he will cry poor every time he sees Shen Qi.

"Jack, your English accent is no different from that of a white American, so you grew up in the United States, and what city are you from?" asked Shen Qi, trying to understand Jack Ma's family background.

"I was born in San Francisco and live in the poorest neighborhood in San Francisco. Jack Ma said, constantly taking out his mobile phone to look at the time: "Qi, look, I have to go to work later." ”

"What kind of part-time job?" asked Shen Qi.

"Today is open to the public, and I'm going to be a tour guide for tourists, and I can earn $10 an hour. "When it comes to money, Jack Ma is in high spirits.

Shen Qi took out a $10 bill and put it on the table: "I'll give you $10, you talk with me for an hour, I think it's much easier than you being a tour guide." You just think it's a tip, and you don't have to have a psychological burden. ”

"Wow, the boss is so rich!" Jack Ma's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but say a word in Chinese, which was not a proper word, but he was also fluent.

It's too normal to tip in the United States, and Jack Ma has no psychological burden, and he naturally pockets the $10.

"So Jack, you are Chinese, where is your ancestral home?" Shen Qi switched to Chinese mode, he was not surprised that Jack Ma could speak Chinese, he had already guessed that Jack Ma was Chinese. Of course, there are also American-born Chinese Americans who do not speak Chinese and do not know Chinese characters.

"My mom is from the south, and I don't know where my dad is from. Jack Ma said, slightly melancholy.

"Oh?"

"My mom came to the U.S. when she was more than two months pregnant, but my dad hasn't come to the U.S. now, and I don't know who my dad is, and my mom told me that my dad is dead. ”

"Your surname is Ma, is it your mother's surname?"

"No, my father's surname is Ma. ”

"Your Chinese language is so slippery, so it must have a name, right?" Shen Qi tried to enter the inner world of Jack Ma's little brother step by step as a big brother.

"My English name is Jack-Ma, my name is Jack, and my mother calls me Applejack. "After Jack Ma received the money, he showed a very high level of professionalism, he knew everything, anyway, it was OK to serve Boss Shen comfortably.

"Applejack, what is your family doing in San Francisco?" Shen Qi asked again.

Marker: "The fruit seller has opened a very small fruit stall, which is a roadside stall. Non-skilled Chinese immigrants can only do these things in the United States, opening supermarkets, restaurants, selling fruit, and their main activities are limited to Chinatown. But if you have money, it's different, as long as you have money in the United States, you can do whatever you want. The dollar is the fairest, and it treats people of all colors equally. ”

"Applejack, you love money so much, it stands to reason that you shouldn't choose to major in mathematics, unless you transfer to applied mathematics later, then you have a chance to make a fortune. Shen Qi's positioning of Makjie is that he is smart, clever, and has a strong desire for wealth.

"yes, of course I'm going to make a fortune, hehehe. Marcje makes no secret of his thirst for wealth.

"Applejack, in fact, you are very talented, you come from an ordinary Chinese family, and you are admitted to Princeton with your own skills, which is not easy to do. Come on, there's still half an hour to do, let's do the questions. If you make it, I'll add another ten dollars, and if you can't do it, you'll get ten dollars at most today. Shen Qi drew a geometric pattern on the blackboard.

"This ...... Boss, your ten dollars are so hard to earn, it's much harder than me to be a tour guide!"

After a lot of hardships and burning countless brain cells, Marc Jie left Shen Qi's apartment extremely tired, clutching the hard-won twenty dollars in his hand.

Shen Qi looked at the answer on the blackboard and laughed, talent, talent is rare. People like Applejack should do something more meaningful and keep an eye on it.

Shen Qi's role switches between teacher and student, with him being a tutor in the morning and a doctoral student in the afternoon.

As on any Wednesday, the café on the third floor of the Mathematics Building is packed.

Ph.D. students and professors talk about everything from the NFL to the U.S. Open, from health care reform to whose dog has been neutered.

Mathematics is, of course, the main topic.

Today's math topic is, name three Princeton mathematicians, who represent the brightest, most famous, and most valuable academics. You can nominate yourself.

The geniuses with the brightest brains are not necessarily the most famous, and the most famous big people do not necessarily produce the most valuable research results.

These are the rules of the game that Director Peverman improvised.

"The three people I have in mind are Gödel the smartest, Nash the most famous, and Professor Mirno's scholarship the highest. Director Peverman made a gesture, and he said three names first.

Gödel and Nash are no longer alive, and Professor John Milno is sitting in the café.

Old man Mirno is over eighty years old, with white hair and beard, snow-white and snow-white like Santa Claus.

Saying that Gödel is the smartest, the professors and doctoral students present here are half against and half in favor.

Müller and Shen Qi are the ones who are in favor, they are Gödel's apprentices, and the apprentices of apprentices.

said that John Nash is the most famous, nine adults here voted yes, and "A Beautiful Mind" won the Oscar for Best Picture, can Nash not be famous?

Saying that Professor John Milno's academic achievements were the highest, everyone present, including Shen Qi, voted in favor.

After graduating, he taught at the University and spent several years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before returning to the University to continue his research.

It is said that Mirno has never completed a single proof in class in his life, he doesn't care about details, and his strength is to build systems.

For his contributions to differential topological systems, K-theory, and dynamical systems, Mirno was awarded the Fields Medal, the Wolf Medal, and the Abel Prize.

Professor Mirno, a super bull who integrates the three major F++A majors, who dares to say that the old man's academic achievements are not the highest?

I don't want to mess around in Princeton. 8)