In the end, Shen Qi picked Wu Shangfeng, and he recruited the first doctoral student in mathematics after returning to China.

Wu Shangfeng became a disciple of Shen Qi, and he said that he didn't care whether he had studied for a doctorate for three years, five years, or seven or eight years, and that the longer he could stay in school, the better.

"Your indifferent attitude is very similar to that of a friend of mine abroad. Shen Qi remembered his Swedish friend Jonas from Princeton, some people are like this, they just want to stay in school, how long they can stay.

Shen Qi told Wu Shangfeng that the direction of the country's plan to improve the quality of undergraduate education is correct, but it must not stay at the level of shouting slogans.

Isn't it the same as before for a professor to give an undergraduate lecture and then ignore it?

However, we cannot expect every professor to guide undergraduates carefully and answer all their questions after class.

After all, they are university professors, not middle school cram school teachers.

Therefore, it is necessary to set up a professional position that connects professors and students, and in Princeton, this position is called a tutor.

Shen Qi worked as a part-time tutor at Princeton, and this position is more of a full-time tutor.

Due to China's different national conditions, it is not an overnight task to set up a special tutorial system.

Shen Qi wants to establish a pilot program at Yan University, and Wu Shangfeng will become a full-time tutor in the first two years of his Ph.D. study.

The school supported Shen Qi, and the principal suggested setting up a site in the school.

Some people say that Shen Qi is not very concerned about academics now, and he thinks about reform and other things all day long.

Who is so bold as to dare to say this about Professor Shen?

It's anonymous, said on the Internet.

"These people don't even have the courage to report with their real names. Shen Qi smiled and said to Wu Shangfeng: "I don't care what others say about me, I just want to do what I think is meaningful." ”

"A scientist like you has the right to be capricious. Wu Shangfeng said.

"It's not that easy to tutor undergraduates, what undergraduates understand, you have to understand, what undergraduates don't understand, you have to understand, and answer their doubts in a way they can understand, so that they have a sense of happiness that is upgrading every day. Shen Qi imparted valuable experience and said: "The joy of learning lies in the fact that today's self is stronger than yesterday, and it is getting stronger every day, so students can't stop learning." ”

"In other words, learning will be addictive. ”

"So Xiao Wu, you have a great responsibility on your shoulders, and the reason why I chose you to be my student is that you believe in Buddhism and have a heart for goodness to all sentient beings, and second, your undergraduate and graduate performance is very comprehensive. You can get excellent grades in each course, and others talk about a girlfriend, and you talk about seven, which is an excellent quality for balanced development and considering the overall situation. ”

"It's so much fun chatting with Professor Shen. Wu Shangfeng laughed, he never thought that Shen Qi was such a humorous person.

"Xiao Wu, to become a qualified tutor, you still need to become stronger, I mean, I will train you to become a comprehensive doctor of mathematics, not only mathematics, if you are good enough, you can also develop in other fields. Shen Qi sent an email to Wu Shangfeng, saying: "The attached PDF is a manuscript of a mathematical paper, the author is from Oxford, and it is written about algebraic geometry. ”

"Hah, I'll review?" Wu Shangfeng was surprised, he knew that Shen Qi was a reviewer of various famous journals, but he didn't expect Shen Qi to let him conduct a preliminary review of the incoming documents.

In the first two years of his Ph.D., Shen Qi would not arrange for Wu Shangfeng to do any projects, but he could not completely disconnect Wu Shangfeng from academic research.

So Shen Qi asked Wu Shangfeng to review the manuscript and practice his hands.

The review of doctoral students is also a learning process, and Wu Shangfeng can review it, and if he can't review it, he will check the information.

Of course, the final judge is still Shen Qi.

This situation is very common in the academic world, where the author submits the manuscript to a well-known journal thinking that the reviewer is a well-known expert in the industry, but in fact the original reviewer is an unknown student or subordinate of a well-known expert.

"Then I'll try?" Wu Shangfeng tried the preliminary review, and he posted three articles when he was in graduate school, one of which was SCI, and his English level was OK.

Today's graduate students are half-study and half-research, and the first stage of research is an enhanced version of undergraduates, who still focus on learning, study graduate courses, and learn more deeply and specialized.

At the beginning of the second year of graduate school, the graduate students participated in scientific research projects, followed the boss to work, and aimed to publish two or three papers, one of which was SCI.

Wu Shangfeng's academic performance is still very good, he has been in graduate school for three years and has published three papers, including one SCI.

Shen Qi inspected Wu Shangfeng's professional course results on the one hand, and of course he would also pay attention to the papers written by Wu Shangfeng.

Speaking of papers, Shen Qi's Riemann conjecture proof paper published seven years ago has exceeded the 5,000 citations mark.

The paper was published in the Annals of Mathematics, and the IF value was four o'clock at the time, and it is still four o'clock, changing to the number after the decimal point.

The impact factor algorithm of SCI journals is to use the total number of citations of articles in the previous two years, divided by the total number of articles in the previous two years, in other words, the IF value is the average number of citations of articles.

An IF of 1.0 means that the average number of citations of a paper published in that journal over the past two years is 1.

1 is not the bottom line of the impact factor, and there are a lot of journals with an IF value of a few tenths of a point, especially in the field of mathematics.

The IF value of the Annals of Mathematics is the highest among all mathematics journals, and it hovers between 3~5 all year round.

Take the maximum value of 5, that is, the mathematics paper published in the Annals of Mathematics is cited an average of 5 times every two years and 2.5 times per year.

Shen Qi's Riemann conjecture proves that the paper has been cited 5,000 times in seven years, that is, more than 700 times a year.

What is this concept?

It's a very scary concept.

It is normal for articles published in Nature and Science to be cited an average of thirty or forty times, because their IF values are so high.

Nature and Science articles that have been cited more than 300 times are considered bullish articles.

It's very rare for an article to be cited more than 500 times, and that's super bullish.

In the Annals of Mathematics, a journal with an IF value of less than 5, Shen Qi's article is cited more than 700 times a year on average, which can be understood as more than 700 mathematicians or teams cite Shen Qi's paper every year. Of course, there are cases where one author cites repeatedly.

The Riemann conjecture belongs to the field of analytic number theory, which is a very niche and high-end field of superhard analysis.

It is already remarkable that each of the top 100 universities in the world has 10 people who delve into this field and produce valuable results.

In other words, almost all scholars in the world engaged in analytic number theory research have cited Shen Qi's Riemann conjecture proof paper.

Shen Qi's overcoming of the Riemann conjecture was divided into two stages, and the paper published in the Annals of Mathematics was the research result of the first stage.

The complete version of the Riemann conjecture proof scheme was written by Shen Qi into his monograph "History of Number Theory".

It has been six years since the "History of Number Theory" was put on sale, and many academic events have occurred in the past six years, and Shen Qi began to revise the second edition of "History of Number Theory" a few months ago.

An American publishing house has contacted Shen Qi, hoping to obtain the right to publish and distribute the second edition of "History of Number Theory" in the United States.

The first edition of "The History of Number Theory" sold for more than eighty dollars in the United States.

The second edition of The History of Number Theory was estimated by the American publisher to go up at $150.

Why is it so expensive?

Because in the United States, academic monographs and textbooks are so expensive.

"Miss Domingos, do you mean that the second edition of The History of Number Theory will become a textbook for some colleges and universities in the United States?" Shen Qi asked a mixed-race woman.

This mixed-race woman who came to visit Shen Qi has a complex bloodline, she has Asian ancestry, Latin ancestry, and Slavic ancestry, and a variety of genes are fused together to create an exotic beauty that is bewitching and gorgeous and has no lack of classical beauty.

The mixed-race woman, the business manager of Springer's U.S. branch, spoke Chinese and was sent to China by the company to meet Shen Qi.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you can't speak Chinese, Shen Qi's English level is enough to communicate with Americans.

Mixed-race Americans who can speak Chinese may feel more intimate with Chinese.

The mixed-race female manager said: "Call me Jennifer, Professor Shen, in the first edition of "History of Number Theory", you cooperated with us Springer, we have worked very happily, and the results in the past 6 years are obvious to all. The second edition of The History of Number Theory, we hope to continue to work with you. Yes, because of your academic influence, a number theory paper with up to 5,000 citations, there is no doubt that this is a biblical existence in the world of number theory, so it is only natural that "History of Number Theory" became a textbook in American universities. ”(https:)

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