Chapter Forty-Six: A Night Tour of Harvard

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"Science is the driving force for human progress!", Professor Nan straightened his back, although he has been in the United States for more than ten years, his heart is still the thinking of traditional Chinese literati.

"Can you two listen to me?", seeing that Coach Thompson and Professor Nan were about to quarrel, Lu Qiujian hurriedly stood up, "Professor Nan, you also know that the most important thing in mathematical research is inspiration, and being bored in the room all day is not necessarily the best way, occasionally participating in other activities to relax and relax your brain is easier to inspire, I feel that since I joined the basketball team, my thinking about problems has become much clearer, and several articles published in the Annals of Mathematics are also the results of this time period!"

"Well, too!", Professor Nan nodded slowly, what Lu Qiujian expounded was indeed the truth, "When I am tired of doing problems, I also like to play chess games to relax." ”

"It's good if you understand!", Lu Qiujian smiled, "Besides, my basketball team only has one or two games a week now, and it won't be delayed for long! If you don't feel at ease, you can add difficulty to my test paper! If you can't get an A grade, then I'll quit the team directly, do you think it's okay?"

Originally, Professor Nan also saw that Lu Qiujian was so strict with him for the sake of being Chinese with himself, and he was afraid that he would live up to his talent; only he would treat Lu Qiujian like this; if it were Professor Wiles, although he also admired him, he would not attach so much importance to it, first, the Westerners' national concept should be weaker, and second, their level of mathematical research was far ahead, and they would not care too much about the influence of one or two geniuses; for this, Lu Qiujian could only admire and be grateful.

"That's what you said!", Professor Nan's eyes lit up when he heard this, this is a way, instead of forcefully preventing the rebellion, it is better to increase the difficulty of the test paper to test him, if he can't reach A, he will probably put away his pride and concentrate on mathematics, if he can achieve A proves that the basketball team has indeed not affected his learning, then it is okay to let it go.

"Then it's decided! I promise to do it!", Lu Qiujian also has a good study of computational mathematics and applied mathematics, and of course some exams are not a problem, so he seems to be full of confidence.

"Okay, then when you come back from the competition, I'll give you a separate test paper!, but I want to explain in advance that the test paper of the individual exam must be more difficult than others!", Professor Nan declared in advance!

"No problem!Professor Nan, I'll take my leave today!I'll come back to you when the game comes back!", Lu Qiujian bowed and left Professor Nan's office with Coach Thompson.

Similar to China, the graduation examination in the United States also includes different forms such as large and small exams, homework exercises and written, semester reports, etc., Lu Qiujian's homework this semester has been completed very beautifully, whether it is individual homework or group cooperation, it is the first place, so he has achieved A results in the exams that have ended.

Even Professor Gowers gave him an A without assigning him any assignments, and if a student had a question, he answered directly, and if anyone in the room could make a problem he left or publish an article in the Annals of Mathematics, then he could apply for exemption.

"Come on, he's left with a much more difficult question than the exam!", Alforth shrugged, wondering if the second author would be eligible to apply for exemption.

After sending the last paper to the professor's mailbox, Lu Qiujian was left with only Professor Nan's last exam, and before leaving, he said hello to Professor Nan, and Lu Qiujian packed his things and embarked on an expedition to Massachusetts with the rest of his teammates on the basketball team.

"Don't be nervous, Harvard is a bad team! They have only reached the knockout round once so far! Only two nobodies have entered the NBA in history!", Patrice's mouth is always idle, and now he has begun to popularize the history of the Harvard Crimson team to Lu Qiujian, "Last year, their final record was seven wins and seven losses! They lost to us both home and away!"

"How did we do last year?", Lu Qiujian replied casually.

"Well, 11-3!", Patrice said proudly.

"Sounds good, are we champions?", if not the champion, it would be no different from Harvard, and only the champion of the Ivy League will participate in the knockout round.

"No, Penn is the champion, they had shit luck last year, and they won't have so much luck this year!", Patrice snorted, and Lu Qiujian shrugged and continued to look down at the book, this time he changed to a book on biological science.

"Rest early tonight and save up your energy for tomorrow's game!", after arriving in Cambridge, the elderly coach Thompson went back to his room to rest.

"I'm going to Harvard!", Lu Qiujian said hello to Patrice, changed out of his clothes with the Princeton Tigers logo and walked out of the hotel.

Harvard's mathematics department is also world-class, and Yin Xi, who was very popular when Lu Qiujian crossed over, was promoted to full professor at Harvard at the age of 32 and is known as the youngest Chinese full professor of Harvard; so who is the youngest full professor in Harvard history? The answer is Noem David Elkey, who received the tenured full professor of mathematics at Harvard at the age of 26.

Elki and Tao Zhexuan also became famous at a young age, he became the youngest winner of the International Mathematical Olympiad at the age of 14, and at the age of 21, he made a great contribution to solving the Euler conjecture. In 1996, he won the title of world chess champion, which can be called a demon.

Of course, Lu Qiujian didn't expect to meet him on the Harvard campus so easily, and this time he just wanted to appreciate the difference between Harvard and Princeton.

Walking past the noisy Harvard students, Lu Qiujian wandered aimlessly around the campus, and when he came to the bottom of a white tower, he found that there was no one around.

It's almost time to go back, right?" Lu Qiujian looked around, and was about to turn around to leave, when he heard a woman's voice from the corner of the wall.

Well, it was Hebrew, and Lu Qiujian heard her seem to be reciting Shakespeare's plays in Hebrew, "To live or to perish, that's the question!"

"It's not a question of survival or destruction, it's a crucial question of how to survive and how to perish. On a whim, Lu Qiujian also replied in Hebrew that Israel also has unique features in technology, so he also did some research on Hebrew.

"Abraham Joshua Heschel?", the girl turned around and said the origin of Lu Qiujian's words.

"Yes, it's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Herchle!", Lu Qiujian recognized the good girl in front of him and took the initiative to stretch out his right hand.

After checking the previous chess world champions, Mu You found Elki's name, maybe it was a small game, right?

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