Princeton University, Library.

Lying on the table, Hardy pressed his eyebrows with a headache and whispered in pain.

"That man is a devil, it's an impossible task...... Is there really a human being who can handle this stuff in a month and a half? ”

Piled up in front of him, there were six reference books, including the "entry-level" Hardy's "Introduction to Number Theory" and Dirichlet's "Lecture Notes on Number Theory" from the shallow to the deep. Not just things about number theory, but also things like functional analysis, algebraic geometry, differential topology, and so on.

Although before coming here, considering the name of this tutor, Hardy had done a lot of preparation, but he did not expect that as soon as he stepped through this door, there would be such a large number of learning tasks waiting for him.

Fortunately, he made some preparations, otherwise he probably wouldn't even be able to touch the door now.

Qin Yue, who was sitting opposite Hardy, was much calmer, at least he didn't think about the unrelated question of "whether it can be completed", and he seriously cooperated with the printed literature and studied the "Lecture Notes on Number Theory" in his hand.

Although he doesn't flip through books as fast as Hardy, he is better than lasting.

From the beginning to the present, there has been almost no stopping.

Sighing, Hardy gave up completely and asked with a headache.

"Qin, are all your professors in Huaguo so terrifying?"

Qin Yue: "Horror? ”

Hardy nodded earnestly: "That's right, when I was in Brazil, my math scores were always the first in our high school, and everyone thought I was a genius. When I got to Columbia, I met a lot of people who were more talented than me, but the things in the course were still easy for me, and I didn't even need to take a lot of time to complete. ”

Speaking of this, Hardy sighed in frustration: "However, when I got here, I even began to doubt the ...... of life"

Qin Yue didn't know how to comfort this young man, pushed his glasses, smiled embarrassedly and said, "Maybe it's because this is Princeton?" ”

To be honest, the professors at Kaida are not so strict.

But he's been like this for four years, and he's used to it.

"It's absolutely impossible for a professor at Princeton to be so strict, I asked the senior who played football with me yesterday, and Professor Lu Zhou is definitely an example." Hardy shook his head, paused for a moment, suddenly thought of something, and asked with a serious face, "Speaking of which, Qin, I noticed that you have started to read the second book, do you have any skills?" Or have you studied these things before? ”

"No," Qin Yue shook his head, "It's also my first time coming into contact with these things. ”

At most, like him, I did a similar preview before coming.

Hardy said in disbelief, "This can't be! Wait, are you going back to your dorm and still reading, God...... How much time do you spend studying in a day? ”

Qin Yue thought for a moment and replied, "Besides eating and sleeping? ”

Hardy: "......"

It seems that the topic is running out of progress......

……

It is indeed very difficult to complete six books in a month and a half, and when arranging this task, Lu Zhou actually knew this.

Therefore, when he made a training plan for his students, he set the expected effect not very high. That is, as long as they can digest half of the knowledge points in it, they can be regarded as passing.

As for the consolidation and reinforcement of the remaining knowledge points and the knowledge you have already acquired, you can learn it slowly while participating in specific research topics.

After all, there is a certain lag in the things in the books, to put it bluntly, they are only used to get started, and when it comes to research in frontier fields, the reference materials are basically the literature of peers, and the things in the books will be used less.

It's just that what Lu Zhou didn't expect was that less than a week after entering August, someone completed his task ahead of schedule.

After learning the news, his mood can no longer be described as surprised.

It's a surprise......

Looks like he's picked up a treasure.

“…… Your talent is amazing, I originally thought that you could make five or even four of these ten questions is already very good, it seems that I underestimated you. ”

Removing his gaze from the test paper in his hand, Lu Zhou looked at Vera who was standing across from his desk, his expression full of surprise.

The test questions are all made by himself, and it is impossible to memorize the answers. Although the ten questions are not particularly difficult, she can get them all right, and there is no doubt that she has completely eaten the knowledge points in the six books she assigned.

Suddenly complimented, Vera smiled a little shyly and said modestly.

"Four of the books in that list you gave me were read when I was at Berkeley, so maybe I was lucky."

"It's not a matter of luck," Lu Zhou put the test paper on the side of the table and said with a smile, "Congratulations on passing my assessment, from now on, you have become a member of my research group!" ”

A smile of joy appeared on Vera's face, which was exactly what she had dreamed of.

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued: "I will send an email about the content of the project to your mailbox. Although the formal application will not be opened until September, you can take the questions and think about them first. This is a very interesting proposition, I believe you will be interested. ”

Vera nodded earnestly, her golden ponytail swaying gently like a squirrel's tail.

"I see, anything else?"

Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "No, you can go back first." ”

Putting her things into her school bag, Vera said goodbye to Lu Zhou happily and turned to walk out of the office.

Looking at the slightly thin and thin back, Lu Zhou suddenly remembered something and spoke.

"By the way, there's one more thing."

Vera, who had reached the door, stopped, turned back to Lu Zhou and cast a confused gaze.

"My statement may be a bit presumptuous, I hope you don't mind," pulling open the drawer, Lu Zhou took out a document from it and gently placed it on the table, "I understand that your financial situation may not be very good, so I inquired about the scholarship from Princeton University." You take this document back and fill it out, it's best to give it to me tomorrow, and I will help you apply. ”

Doctoral scholarships are relatively easy to get, but master's scholarships, especially full awards, are difficult to get.

Generally speaking, unless you follow a very good mentor or get a very good recommendation letter, you will get a half prize at most.

Especially in a place like Princeton, where a lot of people are grabbed, and each one is more awesome than the other, the competition can no longer be described as miserable.

Looking at those eyes full of surprise and disbelief, Lu Zhou paused for a moment and continued.

"I hope you don't delay your studies because of the financial burden, especially don't go to places like fast food restaurants to wash dishes and act as cheap labor. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, I just want you to always remember that your knowledge is your greatest asset. If the full award isn't enough, I can help you apply for a part-time job as a teaching assistant, starting with some basic jobs. ”

Taking the material from Lu Zhou's hand, Vera lowered her head and didn't speak for a long time.

Her little hand clutched the material tightly, her eyes were slightly red, and she suddenly bowed deeply to Lu Zhou.

"Thank you! (Ukrainian)"

Before the confused Lu Zhou could react to what was going on, the little girl turned around and ran out of the door, and the footsteps gradually faded away.

The expression was a little subtle and strange, Lu Zhou carefully recalled what he said before, and was sure that he definitely didn't say anything offensive to people.

In fact, to be honest, because he is always complained by Senior Sister Chen for being too "upright" when chatting online, he will think about it in advance when he says something important now.

Thinking of the little girl's slightly red eyes before she went out, Lu Zhou had a headache.

Obviously did a good thing.

I hope there is no misunderstanding......

Otherwise, that's really a headache for him.

Shaking his head, Lu Zhou decided not to think about these troublesome things, took out his mobile phone and looked at the time.

It's almost time to go to lunch.

Stretching, Lu Zhou stood up from the office chair, looked at the completed proposal report on the computer screen, and couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.

The Hail Conjecture, also known as the Kakutani Conjecture, is the legendary mathematical black hole! It's like a real black hole, devouring all natural numbers.

The general view in modern mathematics is that it is not yet time to solve this problem, but now that Goldbach's conjecture has been solved, and the theoretical tools born from it are powerful enough, Lu Zhou feels that he can try to challenge it.

The thought of this challenging problem filled him with energy.

Sure enough, the math is interesting.

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