Chapter 339

The American Collegiate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, in terms of specifications, is naturally a grade higher than the Huaguo Collegiate Modeling Contest.

After all, Meisai is facing college students from all over the world.

According to a statistic, the 21st American College Student Modeling Contest held at the University of Chicago last year had 10,254 teams and 30,762 college students from more than 30 countries and regions around the world.

Presumably, the number of participants this year is not much compared to this number, and these more than 10,000 teams are all elites selected through modeling competitions in their respective countries.

However, the number of awards in the American competition is not as high as that of the national competition, where almost 20% of the participants can win the prize.

Although the number of participants has increased year by year, the number of places in the award has remained the same for more than two decades.

200 Merit Awards, 80 Grand Prize Nominations, 20 Grand Prizes, a total of 300 awards, an average of more than 10,000 teams, that is to say, only 3% of the teams can get awards.

Of course, there is also an award called the "Successful Participation Award", which is awarded according to 80% of the participating teams of the year.

This ratio...... It's about the same as screwing the cap to open a "thank you for participating".

No school will put this in a student's file as an award.

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The time for the 22nd Meisai has been confirmed, from February 14th to February 18th in the solar calendar.

In the lunar calendar, this time period is exactly from the 14th to the 18th of the first month.

Fortunately, I just missed the Lantern Festival. Cheng Nuo once heard the senior sister say that a beauty competition a few years ago happened to coincide with the Spring Festival.

Anyway, there is no custom of the Spring Festival in the United States, and the competition will be held as usual.

On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, all parts of the country stayed up late on Chinese New Year's Eve.

However, other people stay up late and get together to watch the Spring Festival Gala as a family, they stay up late and stay in the computer room to do modeling, typing code, and outside the window, it is the cold wind that can't stop blowing.

The north wind blows, and the snowflakes drift!

It's just a "bitter" word!

Of course, in addition to the difference in the scale of the competition, the competition system of the American competition and the national competition is basically the same, except that the national competition gives players 72 hours of competition, while the American competition is four days, that is, 96 hours.

The types of questions cover a wider range than the content of the national competition, including economics, management, environment, resources, ecology, medicine, security, future science and technology and many other fields.

Since the number of competitions has increased from time to time, the difficulty will naturally increase to a corresponding extent.

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Now that the time has just entered 2022, Cheng Nuo still has more than two months to prepare.

Hey, there's no preparation for the war!

Anyway, the strength is there, if it weren't for the requirements of the leaders of the academy, and the fact that it happened to happen to run into the World Abacus Mental Arithmetic Competition, Professor Fang didn't plan to let Cheng Nuo go on this trip.

You must know that we have entered the most critical stage of the weak BSD conjecture proof work, as long as we get through this difficult area, the road ahead will be a smooth road!

"Cheng Nuo, this time you went to participate in the competition, but you went with a task, twenty grand prizes, no matter what, you have to take one back!" This is Professor Fang's original words to Cheng Nuo.

But in the end, it is still the request of the college leadership.

The leaders of Tsinghua School of Mathematics have their own considerations.

Now Cheng Nuo is also well-known in their mathematical circles, and the title of "Professor Fang's disciple" has attracted a lot of attention for him.

Unless it was a last resort, they were unwilling to force Professor Fang's beloved disciples.

But the current situation has indeed reached a very serious level.

As we all know, Huaguo has always been one of the more active countries participating in the US competition. In the first few years of the competition, when there were still few participating countries, Huaguo often occupied about 10 of the 20 grand prize places, and Tsinghua University often had one or two modeling teams win the first prize, which symbolizes honor.

However, in recent years, as more and more countries and regions participate in the US competition, the scale and gold content are getting higher and higher, and at the same time, there are fewer and fewer groups of Chinese teams winning the grand prize, and in recent years, they are all four or five groups.

Especially Tsinghua University, except for the one group that won the grand prize four years ago, it has not won the grand prize even once for three consecutive years.

This makes the leaders of the School of Mathematics very uncomfortable!

As a last resort, they could only trouble Professor Fang and let his protégé Cheng Nuo come out of the mountain again!

In order to ensure that Cheng Nuo is qualified enough to impact the grand prize of this year's Mei Competition, the college is very well prepared, and even his teammates have chosen Cheng Nuo.

Originally, Cheng Nuo also said that it would be good to directly participate in the national competition with him, but he was decisively rejected by the instructor sent by the college.

The instructor, Associate Professor Sun, had a certain understanding of Cheng Nuo's other two teammates, Liu Qing and Gu Feifei.

I thought that the two of them were paddling or doing some work, but I didn't expect that Professor Sun overestimated them.

Therefore, Professor Sun will never allow the existence of these two unstable factors.

In one day, Professor Sun recruited a teammate for Cheng Nuo from the School of Planning and the School of Foreign Languages.

The three met in a small conference room.

Both of them have participated in the Mei Competition, and they are both bigwig-level existences in their respective academies, and now they are told to join the team of the young man in front of them, and they must obey his command, to be honest, they are a little unconvinced.

However, for this kind of unconvinced, Cheng Nuo simply said six words, "Follow me, there will be a prize!"

Although the two people from the Academy of Planning and the School of Foreign Languages had participated in the American competition, the 3% winning rate made them naturally lose their heads.

For Cheng Nuo's arrogant words, the two naturally maintained a half-believing attitude.

Anyway, there is still more than a month to come, and when the time comes, it will be a mule or a horse, and you will know if you pull it out and slip it!

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Revisions, exams, vacations!

After finishing the last course of the exam "Real Functions and Functional Analysis", Cheng Nuo ended the first semester of his sophomore year!

No, I can't talk about the first semester of my sophomore year now, because Cheng Nuo's current courses already include the courses of his senior year.

It would be more accurate to say that it is the first semester of the senior year.

Because in the second half of this year, he will finish all four years of undergraduate courses in mathematics, and at the same time represent the graduation of the bachelor's degree.

At that time, whether to stay at Peking University or go abroad for further study, Cheng Nuo is still considering.

However, there is still a very real problem that Cheng Nuo needs to face.

Until now, he has not prepared his graduation thesis and graduation defense.

It's not that he's not worried in the slightest, it's ...... It's really busy and forgot!

It seems that after solving the BSD conjecture, it is time to hurry up and get the graduation defense.