In addition, Hawking's participation in the filming of "The Big Bang Theory" and the recording of music with the veteran rock band Pink Floyd have made him often appear in the public eye, and his experience as a disabled person makes it easy for those who do not know much about the scientific community to think that he is currently the best living scientist.

This also helped Hawking to secure funding and promote his academic ideas, and think about it, when the academic level is about the same, Hawking and someone you haven't heard of much of the name come to you at the same time, whose views would you believe?

Lu Qiujian's popularity among the Chinese people is now more than that of Academician Qiao and other old-timers, in addition to the achievements of Poincaré's conjecture, and the hype of the major sports media for him, but this is not enough, so he recorded such a program, if he waits until his status in the hearts of the Chinese people is about the same as Hawking, whether it is to set up his own laboratory or apply for fees, his own popularity can play a great role.

Of course, it would have been better if he had won the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians two years later! The winner of China's first heavyweight natural science prize, this title will be gilded with a halo of glory; with this thing, it is enough to ignore the bad habit of ranking people according to seniority, and make himself a calling for the wind and rain in China's scientific circles.

For the above reasons, Lu Qiujian took special care in the production of the program, striving to make more people understand and like his teaching methods, and in order to better achieve the purpose, he also used educational psychology, communication psychology and other related knowledge in the program, so as to maximize the effect.

In addition to his reputation, another reason is that in order to complete his plan, it is necessary to have a large number of subordinates with solid knowledge to cooperate, and what he is doing now is to lay a solid foundation in mathematics for these children, so that when they are admitted to university, whether they are studying physics, chemistry or mechanical computers, mathematics will not hold them back.

Because each episode of the program is not long. So it didn't take him much time, half an hour of work in front of the computer every day, and the next day's update was successfully completed, leaving the rest of the time for arXiv, classes, and physics.

In addition to going to the classroom to take his professional classes, he often went to the physics department to listen to lectures, because it was not efficient enough to rely on self-study.

The Department of Physics at Beijing Normal University developed rapidly after the turmoil, and with the help of overseas Chinese physicists such as Tsung-Dao Lee, it struggled to catch up with the frontiers of international research, and during this period, the Center for Modern Physics of Beijing Normal University, founded by Tsung-Dao Lee, played a great role.

The main role of this center is to organize research and invigorate academic exchanges at home and abroad, promote scientific research in the frontier field of physics in China, and train a large number of young physicists for Huaguo and Beijing Normal University, so that they can become the backbone of catching up with the international frontier.

This is also very beneficial to Lu Qiujian, at least some basic knowledge can be answered smoothly by those substitute teachers, which saves him a lot of time.

Physics and mathematics have always been closely related. If you want to learn physics well, such as group theory, mathematical equations, partial differential equations, differential geometry, statistics, probability theory, etc., are all necessary basic knowledge, so it is much more convenient for students in the Department of Mathematics to transfer to the Department of Physics than other majors, at least they don't have to worry about these basic mathematics, they can start directly from the most basic mechanics, thermal, optical, and electrical, and then slowly go deep into theoretical mechanics, quantum mechanics, computational physics until the higher-end general relativity, quantum field theory, and so on.

Therefore, these teachers also know Lu Qiujian, and every time they meet him, they will answer politely when they ask him, and sometimes they will communicate with him about their confusion in mathematics. After learning that he wanted to transfer to a graduate school in physics, he enthusiastically helped him introduce the current situation of physics departments in various universities around the world.

"If you're going to study high-energy physics. The United States is still the best choice, such as Caltech, MIT, and Princeton, where you used to be, are all at the top level in the world!" the teacher of the physics department patiently explained to him, "If you don't want to go to the United States, the United Kingdom can also do it." Oxford and Cambridge are not weaker than the above three schools, Imperial College London is also strong, in addition to the University of Paris VI and University XI in France, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich also has its own unique characteristics, and of course the Russian University in Lucia is also very strong. It's just that I can't compare with the previous schools in terms of funding! High-energy physics is the most money-burning project, and there is no money to play. ”

"School is important, but the tutor is the key!" Lu Qiujian replied with a smile. Regarding the choice of school, he has already found the most suitable one for himself through all parties.

"Well, that's right, but since you've been in Princeton, why don't you go to Witten or Dyson? There aren't many physicists alive who can compare to them?" "I count Weinberg, Philip Anderson, Hawking, Welterman, Higgs, Gross, and Yang Zhenning, and a few others, and if I have this opportunity to study under him, you will let me do anything!"

From this list, it can be seen that the Nobel Prize is not the key to evaluating the greatness of physicists, and these people have won the Nobel Prize in Chenning Yang, Anderson, Welterman, Weinberg and Gross. Higgs won't win the prize until later when the Higgs boson is discovered.

The reason for this is that the Nobel Prize is very cautious about theoretical research, such as Einstein's award for the discovery of the photoelectric effect, while the greater achievement of the theory of relativity did not win the award; Yang Zhenning won the award because of the theory of non-conservation of universal symmetry, not the greater Yangmi equation. Applied physical results are easy to test, but theoretical ones are countless times more difficult, and the Nobel Committee is also afraid of awarding the wrong prize.

If you ask Dyson and Witten, they will all agree to accept you as a disciple after assessing your physics foundation, right?

But Lu Qiujian did not choose this way, because there is something more attractive to him in Europe, that is, the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), any theory needs to be tested experimentally, and the European Center for Nuclear Research has the largest high-energy physics experimental facilities in the world. (To be continued.) )

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