Chapter 282: Days in Princeton (Finale)

Lisa, a junior at Princeton University, chose an elective related to her subject because of the mandatory elective credits, which is a comprehensive math elective that has just started this semester.

Lisa looked carefully at the introduction of this elective course, which was based on mathematics and used to describe the application of mathematics in physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, computer science, and so on. Although Lisa has some interest in this course, it does not mean that she recognizes the creator of this course.

Lisa is a student in the School of Economics, and Princeton does not have a business school, they do not study how to make money, but they study how to understand the use of money in social life, so although there is no business school, there is still a research school such as the School of Economics.

Because the content of economics inherently involves a lot of mathematical knowledge. The simplest and most understandable aspect is statistics. Historically, many Nobel laureates in economics have actually achieved results in mathematics. Like Nash, although he is an economist and even won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he is a pure mathematician.

As a student of the School of Economics, Lisa is still very welcome to offer courses on the application of mathematics in various disciplines, but for Junxin, an Oriental student who is obviously younger than herself, even if this student has made extremely high achievements in mathematics, she also looks at it with colored glasses.

The reason is very simple, such a comprehensive discipline is not only capable of high talent and high achievement, but more often it takes time to accumulate and spend more energy, and then under the accumulation of time, relying on experience to complete such a huge project. Yes, for Lisa, this is a huge project, not a mere discipline.

In fact, although the course was launched in 2005, it was already in the works for a long time. Even after the official opening, there has been a long period of time to revise all aspects of this course, which can be described as a huge project and a lot of good things.

However, unlike her other friends and classmates, Lisa is the kind of student who pays attention to discovery and summary, so she doesn't constantly brush her presence in class like everyone else, so that now she doesn't have a sense of pure presence. There are so many things involved in this class, so much so that many times people who haven't escaped even a single class have a lot of brains crashing and don't know what to do. Just as you can't talk to an economist about the evolution of the formulas of quantum mechanics, a huge curriculum can't make every student understand it.

Therefore, Junxin, as the founder of this course, attracted more and more attention from Lisa in the back, and even because there were no handouts for this course, she also took the initiative to ask Junxin for the handouts of all the previous courses, and slowly researched and analyzed after going back, which is an incredible thing for an economist.

After seeing that no one spoke, Junxin was a little unaccustomed at first, but he didn't care too much about it later, and continued to start talking, in fact, because it was an experimental course, Junxin didn't plan to talk too much, and it added up to a total of sixteen courses, a total of thirty-two class hours, many times, many places and many things Junxin explained were a little vague, and some places passed by, so although the content was very advanced, but Junxin didn't care too much about these things that were proposed.

Today is the last lesson of this course, from the beginning of the recording of this course to the end of the last class. Professor Thurston was involved in the whole process, in fact, in the final analysis, no one could compare to him for his understanding of this course, or his understanding of Junxin, after the end of these sixteen courses, even he was shocked by the majestic amount of knowledge of Junxin.

As far as Principal William's curriculum reform is concerned, there is no doubt that this reform is a success in Professor Thurston's opinion, because many of the things that Junxin mentioned in the recess have formed a perfect system, with a very mature system, and can be launched as a mature curriculum.

Because he is also a mathematician, Junxin starts from a mathematical perspective when he expounds problems in other disciplines from the mathematical aspect, so he has a deeper understanding than any student, and it is precisely because of this that he has a very high evaluation of this course. Standing behind Professor Thurston, Professor Mirno, Professor Feverman, and the real boss, President William, were naturally very satisfied with the original decision. After distributing the video materials of these courses to the Professors' Council, the University Board and the Board of Trustees, they have won the support of the Professors' Council, and there is basically no much resistance to the rest, after all, although Princeton is not like Yale University's hope that pure professors will govern the school, the authority of the Professors' Council is undoubtedly the greatest, and the support of the Professors' Council is undoubtedly the final victory.

Of course, Jun Xincai didn't care about the rest of the matter, anyway, he just had to complete the task given to him by Principal William, and he didn't care too much about the rest of the things.

“… Since there is no doubt about it. So that's the end of this semester's course, do you have any other questions? ”

"Sir, how do we count as passing this course?" A boy raised his hand and asked.

"After communicating with the school council of the school, I decided to adopt the paper mode, and asked everyone to write a specific paper for their own discipline, the content of the paper includes but is not limited to the theories and content related to the students' majors explained in class. The word count is about 6,000 words, and it will be turned in after a week. ”

"Sir, many of the places you understand are vague, can you send your class handouts, I cry some places still need to be scrutinized, but we don't have unified handouts, only class notes, and there are many things in the notes that I can't understand!"

"There is no problem with this, I will discuss it with the publisher of the school's publications, and I will provide the content of the lecture notes to the publisher, and then provide it to the elective students of this course for free, but you have to remember that you only have one week, and the 6,000-word essay is a mandatory requirement. Of course, if you think your paper is very good, then the word count is up to you, but the final review is in my hands, and you need to be extra careful. Alright, goodbye everyone! ”