Chapter 18 The Importance of Mathematics

"Learning is fun and boring, but it's really satisfying to see that you can get results from your own learning."

Zhou Yu saw the leaves on his technology tree that represented holographic technology grow again, and it turned into a small branch with two leaves growing on it, one of which was holographic display technology and the other was holographic camera technology.

During this time, he saw that the company's holographic display equipment sales were sluggish, so he wanted to upgrade the technology.

Companies need to expand quickly to withstand possible attacks from international speculative capital, and in doing so, they must invest a lot of money.

Now holographic display devices have not become a hit, and they cannot become the company's cash cows.

The average person is just curious about it, understands the features of the holographic device, but has no idea of buying it.

"Xiaomi, let Lin Yun, the sales manager, come to my office."

Zhang Yunqiang led the staff of the network technology department to develop a full-featured company management software, and Zhou Yu asked Xiaomi to take over the software.

Now that the company has achieved paperless office, Xiaomi can fully control every detail of the company's work through the network, even if it is a business trip, they need to carry out the company's business operations through the APP.

On the first day it took control of the company, it pulled out three rats, and Zhou Yu directly reported the murder of chickens and monkeys.

Lin Yun walked to Zhou Yu's office, she was a little apprehensive, didn't there be a problem with the employees in their sales department?

There was a small nest case in the purchasing department, and three supervisors were arrested, and Feng Fengming, the manager of the purchasing department, was reprimanded by the president for a long time.

When Zhou Yu saw Lin Yun coming in, he said in a soft tone, "Manager Lin is here, please take a seat." Your sales department surveyed consumers about the purchase index of holographic display devices, and now the statistical results are out? ”

When Lin Yun heard this question, she said in a relaxed tone: "President, we have collected 180,000 valid answers through a questionnaire with prizes.

After Xiaomi's data processing, our sales team analyzed and found the reason for the unsalable holographic equipment. ”

"What is the reason for this? Is it because our company's technical level is insufficient, or is there a problem with our company's publicity strategy? Zhou Yu hurriedly asked.

Lin Yun said helplessly: "After our analysis, this is because we have not chosen a good market positioning.

Now the vast majority of young people don't watch TV, they all watch online videos, our company is now negotiating cooperation with major online video platforms, and has not yet reached an agreement.

On our holographic display devices, we can only watch live broadcasts of CCTV and David TV, video programs with public copyrights and self-made video content from netizens.

Netizens' self-made video content tends to be in the two-dimensional circle, and the holographic display device is still not attractive enough for people who are not in this circle.

Videos shared by netizens on online platforms cannot be played through smartphones and other devices, which greatly dampens netizens' enthusiasm for making videos.

This is the main reason, but there are also some secondary reasons, such as the high bandwidth required by holographic display devices, the poor fault tolerance rate of data transmission, and the fact that the hologram is often mosaic in areas where the network is slightly unstable, and the experience is not very good.

Nowadays, the mainstream viewers of TV programs are middle-aged and elderly people, and the way we use APP to control the device is too troublesome and not very friendly to these people. ”

Zhou Yu said helplessly: "Xinghuo Technology was just a start-up small company at that time, with less than ten employees, how could it have so much energy to analyze the market.

Listening to you say this, it can achieve such a result, which is already an effect with high-tech bonuses. ”

"Manager Lin Yun, now I will give you a task, count the feedback of consumers, and hand it over to the R&D department and the network technology department after the data is sorted out, so that they can make targeted improvements."

After Lin Yun left, Zhou Yu began to sort out the holographic camera technology he had just acquired.

This technology only needs to coat the special glass of holographic display technology with a layer of film, but it is this layer of film that requires extremely high technology content.

Xiaomi: [Discover what the owner is concerned about.] 】

Zhou Yu received a reminder from Xiaomi, and he saw that it was Xinhuanet that broke a news.

The Ministry of Public Security, together with the Ministry of Culture, carried out a special rectification of illegal antique trafficking, smashed the treasure hunting network that sold antiques abroad through the Internet, and recovered 28 national treasure-level cultural relics and more than 120 national first-class cultural relics.

Li Kaifu, the actual controller of Treasure Hunting.com, fled overseas, and the Ministry of Public Security has issued an A-level wanted warrant.

"The state moved so fast that it only took a week to defeat this gang." Zhou Yu somewhat admired the speed of the country's actions.

In the Jinling Public Security Department, there is a policeman named Gao Li who is sulking.

"you 🐎, don't let me know who you are, fortunately the case has been laid out for more than a year, and it was messed up by a report letter.

Prepare dozens of sets of fake antiques, and are about to catch big fish abroad, but they catch a bunch of small shrimp. ”

Zhou Yu had no idea that he had disrupted a police officer's plan and forced them to close the net early.

"President, good news, our R&D department has not invested in vain, and technology has made breakthroughs."

Yu Zhenfeng directly rushed open the door of Zhou Yu's office, his face was flushed, and he said excitedly.

"Manager Yu is calm, your R&D department has results, and it won't be another discovery of something that others have already developed." Zhou Yu asked in surprise.

The R&D department of Xinghuo Technology is the largest department of the company.

There are 38 scientists, 115 engineers, and more than 300 part-time students.

This is also the only department where Xinghuo Technology has entered the formal and recruited part-time students.

30% of Xinghuo Technology's profits are used for R&D expenses, but Zhou Yu has not discounted it at all, and fully supports the research and development of new technologies.

"This is definitely a major breakthrough for us, it's really different from the previous times, President, you go over and have a look." Yu Zhenfeng happily invited.

"Okay, I'll go over and see what kind of technology you said about the big breakthrough."

Zhou Yu got up and went to the laboratory of the R&D department with Yu Zhenfeng.

He is very familiar with this place, and the technology tree is biased towards technical knowledge, and he must be familiar with it through hands-on familiarity before he can deeply understand it.

Zhou Yu also often comes to the R&D department to discuss technology with them.

Because he found that discussing technology with others, the technology tree will also absorb knowledge and grow, and it is easy to collide with sparks of inspiration, so that the growth efficiency of the technology tree is higher than that of reading books and learning by himself.

Under the leadership of Yu Zhenfeng, Zhou Yu came to the optical materials laboratory.

He saw an old man with gray hair, age spots on his face, and a bright spirit, who was instructing his employees in experiments.

Zhou Yu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who is this old man?" He doesn't seem to be an employee of our company, is it where you got foreign help? Patent issues should be well coordinated. ”

Ma Shangshu, deputy manager of the R&D department, walked over with a proud face and showed off: "President, this is my father, he is retired at home now."

Our R&D was delayed, so I had to invite my dad to summarize the data of our R&D, but I didn't expect to make a breakthrough. ”

Zhou Yu stepped forward and said politely: "The old gentleman must be an expert in materials science, where did you go to high school before, and would you like to come to our company to exert your residual heat?"

"Haha, young man, you admit that you are wrong, old man, I used to be the head of the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University, and I have been engaged in mathematics all my life, but I don't know anything about material science." Uncle Ma patted Zhou Yu on the shoulder and replied heartily.

Ma Shangshu immediately explained: "President, when we improved the holographic display equipment, we found that after the optical path passed through the glass soaked in different concentrations of ion solution, the holographic images displayed were very different, and we collected experimental data many times.

But holographic display is a new discipline, and there is no theoretical data to back it up.

I thought of my dad being a mathematician, and asked him to try to figure out formulas or rules.

I didn't expect it to be really successful, these data are distributed according to a certain law, and after we find the pattern, the research and development process has guidance. ”

Zhou Yu was very emotional after hearing this, and then he thought that the backbone in the middle of the science and technology tree was mathematics.

Mathematics does not belong to the category of natural sciences, it belongs to a type of formal science.

Mathematics is known as the crown of natural science, and without mathematics there would be no natural science.

Any new theory needs to be expressed mathematically.

Only then did Zhou Yu discover that mathematics determines the height of the science and technology tree, that is, the lower limit of science and technology.

He was accustomed to it and didn't pay enough attention to mathematics, but he didn't expect mathematics to play such an important role in a new subject area.