10 a.m., Laboratory Building, Mathematics Department Office.

Sitting at his desk, staring meticulously at the computer screen, Professor Tang was revising his thesis.

Every time he saw the logical and meticulous calculation and argumentation process, he couldn't help but feel emotion in his heart. Even if he wanted to find the loopholes in it with a critical eye and let the kid take it back and revise it, he actually had a feeling that he didn't know where to start.

The discussion is complete, and no line of equation is superfluous.

All I could do was to help him make a little correction in the choice of words and sentences and part of the English grammar part of the paper.

"The afterlife is terrifying." With a sigh of emotion in his heart, Professor Tang Zhiwei leaned back in his chair.

Just then, the office door opened.

The visitor neither knocked nor greeted him, this rude behavior made Professor Tang frown, but after seeing who that person was, his brow couldn't help but stretch, and a smile appeared on his face.

Lu Fangping, the head of the Department of Mathematics at Jinling University, is not only a colleague, but also an old friend and classmate.

"Old Tang, why is the phone turned off? I called you for half a day and couldn't find anyone. Walking in the door, Lu Fangping greeted with a smile.

"Heh, I have to turn off my phone for a few days after the exam every year, and you don't know it." Glancing at Professor Lu Fangping who walked back, Tang Zhiwei smiled, leaned back in his chair, picked up the thermos cup and took a sip of tea, and the old god said, "Haven't you been quite busy lately." Why, I have time to visit the door today? ”

Sitting down on the sofa in the office, Lu Fangping said with a smile: "Isn't there something I want to ask you for help, so I will come uninvited!" ”

"You old thing is quite thick-skinned, others asked me for help to carry two cases of wine, and you didn't even hand me a cigarette. What to help, don't help! Tang Zhiwei scolded with a smile.

"Aren't you the most annoyed by this, if I bring something, I'm afraid I won't even be able to enter this door." Lu Fangping said with a smile.

Tang Zhiwei smiled: "Okay, let's stop here as a joke, don't go around in circles, just say anything you need my help with." ”

Lu Fangping patted his thigh and said, "Hey, isn't there a national mathematical modeling competition in September?" The meaning of the institute is that we should try to get together as many teams as possible, hand in hand with the software institute next door, shoulder to shoulder, and strive to win a few more national first prizes back, which can be regarded as more glory for the college and our school! ”

By the way, it can be regarded as a bottom line for the year-end teaching and research assessment.

In case it rolls over, the entire college of mathematics will not even have a national one, and how faceless will it be when the meeting is held?

Of course, Director Lu naturally wouldn't say these things.

"Do you want to ...... Let me be an instructor? Tang Zhiwei frowned slightly, "But I am engaged in pure theoretical mathematics research, and I am afraid that I will not be able to help in mathematical modeling." ”

Mathematical modeling and mathematical research are two completely different things, although they both involve mathematics. Whether it is the ability to think innovatively or the speed of accepting new things, it is difficult for an old academician like Professor Tang who concentrates on learning to keep up with the ideas of those young people, so naturally there is no guidance.

"No, the teacher group has already been arranged, don't bother you, I just want to borrow two people from you, to see if any of the majors you bring are more outstanding in mathematics and flexible thinking?" Lu Fangping said with a smile.

"Oh, that's it. Okay, you're here, and I just have someone to recommend to you. Count the land boats of one class, you can use them, you're welcome. Tang Zhiwei said with a smile.

"Lu Zhou?" Lu Fangping frowned, "I seem to have seen this name somewhere......"

Suddenly, he remembered, isn't this name the student who finished the paper in less than half an hour yesterday when he was invigilating the high school math exam, and he was still all right?

But......

He's a freshman!

The National College Student Mathematical Contest in Modeling is not a traditional Olympiad exam, just send a paper for you to do. The focus is not on the mastery of theoretical knowledge, but on the ability of college students to apply theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems.

Moreover, according to the experience of previous competitions, the winning results of the Mathematical Modeling Competition are not completely positively correlated with the mathematical scores of the contestants, but the kind of students with balanced scores in each subject can perform better in the competition.

Moreover, due to the wide range of questions in the competition, first-year contestants are limited by the breadth of their own knowledge, and it is difficult for them to play a role in the competition.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you just sign up, after all, the focus is on participation, but what Lu Fangping wants is obviously not the kind of student who "focuses on participation", what he wants is the kind that can win the national one.

As for that Lu Zhou, although mathematical ability is not a problem, the knowledge is still too narrow!

"Think too young?" Seeing at a glance what his old friend was thinking, Tang Zhiwei asked with a smile.

"That's right." Lu Fangping nodded, "The software institute still attaches great importance to this cooperation, and the player they sent out is the computer genius in his sophomore year, who won two national computer software innovation awards in high school, and won the first prize in the Huaguo University Student Software Cup during his freshman year." I actually have a few candidates here, but I still want to ask you what you mean, my psychological bottom line is at least sophomore...... You know what I mean, right? ”

Lu Fangping felt that he had made his words very clear.

Although in principle, the school encourages the free formation of teams, but it is not opposed to the department taking the lead in establishing a regular army, after all, winning more national awards is a political achievement for the leader, and it is also an honor for the school.

There is such a talent on the side of the software institute, they don't pay attention to it, at least they can't pit their teammates, right? At that time, the "regular army" in the courtyard will not even be able to enter the gate of the national competition, which will be a shame!

Tang Zhiwei smiled, and did not answer directly, but looked at the computer on the desk, and said, "It just so happens that I have a paper here, you can come and take a look." ”

Lu Fangping was stunned for a moment, not knowing what his old classmate meant, but he still got up and walked over with the idea of being suspicious.

"Optimal Inversion Theory of Linear Operators and Linear Functionals...... When did your research become like this? Looking at the title and abstract of the paper, Lu Fangping sighed lightly and asked with interest.

Tang Zhiwei didn't answer, but urged: "Don't ask so much, read the paper and give an evaluation." ”

Pretending to be full of questions, Lu Fangping continued to look down, and the more he saw the expression behind him, the more interesting it became.

After reading the last line of argumentation, he stopped there and thought for a while, then sighed softly and said enviously: "Old Tang, to be honest, I envy you. ”

"I'll ask you to give a review of this paper, why do you envy me?" Tang Zhiwei laughed.

"You said that the good seedlings of our mathematics department are all monopolized by you? Even if you are an undergraduate, you can also take a graduate student. The more Lu Fangping thought about it, the more unwilling he became, why couldn't he teach graduate students of this level.

Hearing this, Tang Zhiwei laughed, but Lu Fangping, who was laughing, was confused, and he didn't know what his old friend was laughing at?

"Graduate student? Hahaha! This paper was written by that kid from Lu Zhou! Guess what happened yesterday? I asked him where he was going to submit his paper. He even told me that he wanted to vote for AMC! Fortunately, I stopped him, or I would have waited for this kid to read a PhD in the future, and then look back at this paper, I was afraid that I would regret hitting the wall. Tang Zhiwei said with a smile.

Lu Fangping was completely confused, looked at the paper on his laptop, and then at his old friend. After a long pause, he coughed dryly, and said in an uncertain tone, "I said Old Tang, there's no need to tease me like this, right?" ”

"I'm not joking with you," retracting the smile on his face, Tang Zhiwei looked at his old friend and said in a serious tone, "The argumentation process of this paper was completed by him alone from beginning to end, and my guidance to him was limited to explaining a few of the difficult points of knowledge. It was the questions he asked me that convinced me that these papers were written by him. The only thing I helped him revise was the choice of words and sentences in the paper, and I couldn't even find fault with the core part of the thesis's argument and the final conclusion except for emotion. Although this kid has a utilitarian personality and is a little impatient, he is a rare good seedling. If you ask me who I recommend to join the regular army of our hospital, I will definitely push him. Whether it is thesis skills or mathematics skills, no one in the first or third class of Jinling University can beat it! ”

What a guy no one can beat!

How many students in the entire first and third classes of Jinling University did you make? Even I, the head of the department, don't know!

However, Lu Fangping could not refute it.

Especially after seeing this paper, all the doubts in his heart about the ability of the student named Lu Zhou collapsed in an instant.

If Tang Zhiwei hadn't told him, he would have even thought that the paper was written by a graduate student, or even a doctoral student......

At least in the field of functional analysis, he has reached heights that are impossible for undergraduates.

Lu Fangping coughed lightly: "I...... There's nothing to say, the job of convincing him to sign up is up to you. ”

"Don't worry, that kid listens to me. Don't be in a hurry to leave, I'll call him and explain this now. Tang Zhiwei said with a package ticket, and then reached out and picked up the phone on the desk.

It is a rare opportunity to participate in this kind of national competition as a "regular army" in the hospital. Not to mention anything else, when the award comes back, the head of the department knows your name, and the scholarship for the next four years will definitely not run.

In line with the principle that fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, Tang Zhiwei also wanted to settle this matter earlier, so he called Lu Zhou in front of the head of the department.

"The user you are calling is not in the service area, please dial again later...... Toot toot. ”

Turn off your phone?

Tang Zhiwei was stunned, frowned and hung up the phone.

"What is this kid doing? I didn't answer the phone either, so I went back to him. ”

Lu Fangping is not in a hurry at all, this talent is going to be decided!

Regardless of the amount of knowledge, the foundation of this paper alone is enough to qualify for the competition. The standard configuration of the three-person mathematical modeling team itself is programming + modeling + thesis writing, and he is an all-round essay writer and mathematical modeling, so this competition is stable!

As for whether Lu Zhou would refuse, he was even less worried.

But if you are a college student, you will not refuse such a good opportunity.

Thinking of this, Lu Fangping smiled and said, "Okay, I'll leave this matter to you, I still have something to do, so I won't bother here." ”

"Don't worry, I'll give you an answer before tomorrow." Tang Zhiwei waved his hand and said.