After Ye Kaifu left, Zhang Yuan's restless heart gradually quieted down.

Actually, it doesn't matter, if you mess up your mind because of an entertainment list, it's simply mentally retarded.

Academic research relies on chance, talent, luck and diligence, and it is too normal for half a year or a year to not produce anything.

Ye Kaifu was just joking, and there was no special malice.

However, doing research is really a very painful thing, and the moment when the results are made are shiny and bright, and all kinds of halos are added, as if attracting the attention of the whole world.

But what about when you can't?

I can only sit quietly, in a daze, or read other people's papers, to seek that ethereal inspiration.

It was the first time for Zhang Yuan to feel such pain, seeing that others had made great achievements and he had achieved nothing, he would always have a little envy and wonder if he had chosen the wrong direction.

He thought about it for so many months, and discussed it with Academician Ding several times, but found that his various ideas were still too ordinary, so he rejected them directly.

He has enough energy, but he doesn't know where to go, and he doesn't know the path ahead, so he can only do nothing.

Three months is not enough at all, most likely three years, or thirty years.

The pain in it can only be truly experienced by those who have experienced it.

……

In his spare time, Zhang Yuan fell in love with the Star Library hidden in the observatory.

He finally knew why there was a library in such a remote corner. There is no superfluous sound, the light is unusually dim, and you can enjoy a kind of pure solitude.

“…… Mr. Zhang, I have a question, is the local homomorphic, continuous, and full mapping of Euclidean space to itself necessarily unipolar? ”

"It's a difficult question, and it shouldn't be in a broad sense." Zhang Yuan pondered for a while.

"Let me give you a simple counterexample, let the function F(z) be an integer function, and its derivative is F'(z)=e^(z^2), so F is a local homomorphism. On the other hand, F(0)=0, F(-z)=-F(z), assuming that z0≠0 does not belong to the range of F, then -z0 does not belong either, which violates Picard's minor theorem...... So, this big proposition is wrong. ”

"I see, thank you for your guidance." The young man named Ichiro Yamamoto was very accustomed to wanting to bow.

As a result, because there was no gravity, the whole person accidentally floated in the sky.

He struggled for a while before aiming his infrared probe at the electromagnet and sucking himself back in.

In the Xingchen Library, a large number of people who shared the same illness as Zhang Yuan gathered.

They want to study certain issues, but they don't have any inspiration and no direction, so they can only think hard here and suffer from pain.

This group of people quickly became more familiar.

Ichiro Yamamoto sighed: "Mr. Zhang, a person as strong as you, with such a solid foundation in mathematics, can't he do turbulence problems?" ”

"It's so hard, I don't have any good ideas yet. It's normal to not be able to do such a problem. ”

Zhang Yuan replied, "Mr. Yamamoto, you seem to be very anxious. ”

Yamamoto sighed, "Because I can't make anything at all......"

Ichiro Yamamoto is researching the direction of the electronic eye in bionics, and he wants to study technology that can restore light to blind people.

According to the current theory, it is not difficult to make an electronic eye, but it is a world-class problem to convert the signals of the electronic eye into biological signals that the brain can recognize.

Yamamoto said with a wry smile: "After getting on the spaceship, I didn't even have a mouse biological experiment, so I don't know how to study it." So take this opportunity to learn a little more math, anyway, if you learn math well, it won't be in vain......"

That being said, the anxiety on his face couldn't be hidden.

"Sticking to what we invest in but don't get a return on is a sunk cost fallacy. I don't want to do that, and I don't want to give up ......."

Zhang Yuan thought about it for a while, he was not good at comforting people, so he could only use a sentence that others often said to him: "Perhaps, you can take a break and find a life partner." ”

The atmosphere became extremely quiet, and it didn't seem very convincing to say this sentence from Zhang Yuan's own mouth.

"Thanks, I already have a girlfriend." Yamamoto smiled bitterly: "She is a doctor, a very nice person, and she takes good care of her life, so you don't have to worry about me." However, she still had a hard time understanding my anxiety, and she didn't know how to comfort me. ”

"Yes, different industries, it's really hard to understand."

"Mr. Zhang Yuan, do you think that if I do nothing all day long, will it be considered lazy?"

Zhang Yuan was stunned, "Probably not, you don't need to think like this." ”

Since the Fourth World War, the relationship between Xia and Twilight has become increasingly friendly, but the economic difference between the two is more than ten times, so there is naturally a suspicion of being a vassal country.

Probably because of the influence of their own culture, the people of the twilight country on these spaceships always have an inexplicable inferiority complex. They even subconsciously believed that this spaceship was a spaceship of the Xia people, and useless foreigners would be thrown out......

Yamamoto asked, "So, how do you think we should draw the line between the laziness of scientific researchers?" Does it depend on personal consciousness, or does it follow the set of earth civilization and look at the number of papers written by a person? ”

"In fact, one or two years is not enough to complete a world-class problem, but if you are too eager for quick success, you will rush people in the direction of worthless but easy to write papers, and you will waste a lot of smart brains in vain."

It is difficult for a professor under the traditional system to make up his mind to challenge a big topic such as a certain conjecture, because if three or five or even ten years of energy is invested, the result is likely to be nothing, and in the end he will not be able to make a difference and pass the assessment.

The more famous people are, the more they cherish their feathers, they have high abilities, but they dare not challenge big problems, this is actually a vicious circle.

Zhang Yuan shook his head: "I don't know how to solve the phenomenon you said, if you have a good idea, you can even write a good paper on this aspect!" ”

"This could be ...... Let's build a new civilization. ”

"Yes, I do want to work on that!" Speaking of the key point, Yamamoto accidentally jumped up from the ground and floated in mid-air again.

"Perhaps, I can join the New Civilization School instead of doing nothing all the time...... It's a shame to be ashamed of this society to accomplish nothing now. ”

Zhang Yuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and silently thought in his heart, "Another crazy one." ”

He kindly suggested: "There are not many public works of the New Civilization School, and you can read them in a few days, after all, it is only an idealistic school...... If the pressure is too much, you can also take a break for a while, and there is no need to force yourself to make grades. ”