Chapter 16: The Man in the Corner
Mizuki University's curriculum, like Mizuki's teaching style, is intense and stressful, often with very short time outside of class, and the rest of the time is either on the way to class or in class.
However, Junxin didn't care about these tight and depressing classes, and often just sat in the last row of the classroom, although at the beginning, he also relived the old dream of his college days a little, and ran around with others to occupy the front seat, but he soon lost interest. Start looking for a corner, sit there, and study your own business. Occasionally, I would go to the library after class or when I didn't have class, and I would habitually sit in the most remote place and find some journals to study the research topics and thinking methods of those people.
The only time to rest was when I met Gu Mengxue in the library, I sat down with her to relax and read some tutorials and materials from other disciplines. Soon, the two gradually became familiar and became friends.
"I heard that you are in the corner every time you go to class, why?" One day, when the two were studying together in the library, Gu Mengxue asked.
"The current courses are all simple number theory and differential equations, which are too simple." Kimishin said a little lazily that he was reading an article about the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture.
But isn't the most basic always the most important? Just like literary writing, the simpler and more simple the knowledge, the more useful it is, such as the use of punctuation, what do you say? After being with Junxin for a long time, Gu Mengxue naturally knew that Junxin also had certain attainments in literature, so sometimes she would use some literary metaphors when talking, and she found that many of Junxin's views were different, and often a few casual words would bring her some inspiration, which was why she often stayed with Junxin.
"Do you know Qian Lao? When Mr. Qian was admitted to Jiaotong University, he often sat alone at the back of the classroom to do his own research during class, because he had already studied all the things taught in class, and there was no need to waste time studying from scratch. ”
"In fact, to a certain extent, I am learning from Qian Lao, I have learned all the knowledge taught by the teachers, mathematics is a flash of inspiration, rather than listening to the teacher's lectures, it is better to carry out research on my favorite topics, so that it may be better for future development."
"Okay!" Gu Mengxue didn't dwell on this issue, but just reminded her kindly out of a friend's concern.
"Who do you listen to about me?" Jun Xin asked curiously, this is not the first time he has asked, Gu Mengxue knows a lot about his life, even if his emotional intelligence is slightly low, he feels a little abnormal. "Don't say you'll know that next time, I think you'll know now."
"There is one of your majors named Wei Donglai, do you know him?" Gu Mengxue asked rhetorically
"Is that him?" Junxin instantly remembered someone, saying that Wei Donglai was also a man of the year in the class, if it weren't for Junxin's participation in the speech at the opening ceremony, then he must be the most prominent person in the mathematics department. Without him, just because he has gone abroad and received a Western education, it is still a very new thing for China, which has just reformed and opened up. "You know him?"
"He used to study in the United States, and then after returning to China, he studied in our class in the third semester of high school, and he told me all those things about mathematics, so I knew a little bit about it. It's the same with you, it's all what he told me, someone's feat of completing the entrance exam in 30 minutes at the beginning of the school year, even for him, a top overseas student, is unbelievable! ”
"He's good at math!" Junxin is actually not very familiar with the situation in the class, and he doesn't even know who is in the class committee, but Wei Donglai is one of the only people who has left an impression on him.
"Hehe, he told me in private, he saw that when you took the entrance exam, he knew that you were very strong in mathematics, but he was a little unconvinced by you, so he found a lot of information in private, thought about a lot of questions, and finally found a few problems he solved recently and then looked for you, but it seems that he suffered a few blows, and then turned into a sincere request for advice from you." Gu Mengxue thought of Wei Donglai, and he was also stunned for a while.
Jun Xin shook his head, he didn't know that Wei Donglai, who he had looked at a few times, still had such a few temptations for him, but Jun Xin didn't have any other ideas, and only Wei Donglai among the students could barely keep up with his own thinking, although it was just some very simple reasoning that didn't take much effort, but the requirements for thinking were also very high.
"Some of his recent research has been very interesting, and if it goes a little deeper, it might have been very good." Junxin thought about Wei Donglai's recent question and commented casually.
"I don't know about professional knowledge, you can go and talk to him yourself."
"Okay, save your face!"
"What face do I have?"
……
While the two were playing, suddenly a voice called their name in a low voice next to them. Jun Xin looked back and turned out to be Senior Hao Peng.
"Senior, what's the matter?" In response to the senior's words, Junxin asked.
"The teacher is looking for you, Hua Lao is here, and he said he wants to see you."
"Is it a thesis thing?" Junxin asked.
"Well, even Professor Wang Yuan is here, waiting for you in Professor Hu's office, you can go quickly!"
"Okay, wait. I'm going to return the book! After speaking, he bookmarked the journal in his hand, and then returned all the other magazines to their original places, but found that Gu Mengxue had also returned all the books, and when he was confused, Gu Mengxue explained: "Anyway, there is no class this afternoon, can I go with you to see it?" ”
"Whatever you want!" Junxin frowned, "But what we're going to discuss later may be boring, and you may not be interested in listening to it." And, we might be talking a little long, and you won't get bored by then? ”
"It's okay, I just want to see what communication between you mathematicians will look like! Don't forget that I'm also the top student in the college entrance examination, so I don't necessarily understand what you're saying! ”
"Senior, is that okay?" Junxin didn't care about Gu Mengxue's words, and turned to Hao Peng, who was standing aside, and asked.
"It's okay, as long as I don't disturb your discussion, I still have to go to class, you know the road, there's no problem to go by yourself, right?" After Hao Peng finished speaking, he didn't wait for Junxin to answer, and left again in a hurry.
Junxin also left the library with Gu Mengxue and walked towards Professor Hu's office.
"What kind of paper have you written? How did it come to Professor Hua? Gu Mengxue asked.
"A proof of Mordell's conjecture!" Junxin's tone was a little eager.
"What is this?"
Jun Xin glanced at Gu Mengxue and explained, "You know Fermat's theorem, right? Seeing Gu Mengxue nodded, Junxin continued, "No one has been able to prove Fermat's theorem so far, but some results have been made on the way to solve it, the Moder conjecture is a mathematical conjecture when solving Fermat's theorem, which was proposed in 1922 and no one can prove it so far, not long ago I wrote a proof about this problem, which was recommended by Professor Hu to Hua Lao, who came to the school to attend the opening ceremony, and it is estimated that the paper has a result." ”
"Oh, let's hurry up then!"