Chapter 229: Lectures at Harvard University

To be honest, Junxin's status seems a bit strange among the world's universities, and his status in the academic world (purely referring to the level and achievement of academic research) is one of the top few people in the world. But in the eyes of various universities, he is indeed an undergraduate, whether it is an undergraduate student of Mizuki University or Princeton University, no matter what the school is, he is essentially an undergraduate, which is really difficult in many cases.

Most of the people who can receive an academic report from Harvard are successful entrepreneurs, big scientists (at least professor-level project leaders), celebrities or high-level national leaders, etc., and it is rare that almost no one has received a speech invitation from Harvard University, the world's top university, when he was an undergraduate, and this speech is also the strongest academic speech report of Harvard University.

However, now Harvard University has to face such a situation: the fact that they invited Junxin to give an academic report at Harvard University has been announced, and even the time and place have been announced, but they find that they don't know what kind of specifications to use to receive Junxin this time.

In the eyes of the senior leaders and professors of Harvard University, Junxin's status is indeed as strange as the above. It stands to reason that Junxin's achievements are received as a world-class mathematician, which is no problem at all. But Junxin is now a sophomore at Princeton University, and there is no doubt about it, and by that standard, it would be a bit too high to receive him as a world-class math master. In the end, Professor Yau Chengtong proposed that all the professors of the Department of Mathematics come out to receive him, and the school's senior management did not mix with this method of mixing with the mud, and the majority agreed to settle the matter.

Junxin's major has sent the strongest reception lineup, which means that Junxin's mathematical research results have been unanimously recognized by the Department of Mathematics of Harvard University, affirming his status and ability in the academic community. The failure of the school's senior management to receive him said that this was a normal academic exchange, and it was a personal protection of Junxin as a student of another school, which showed the attitude of Harvard University.

In fact, not to mention that Harvard University is struggling with this matter, many other universities in the United States are also struggling with this matter. Of course, they can ignore any tacit things, throw an olive branch to Junxin, and send the school's senior management or even the chairman of the professors' council or the president of the university to receive him (such as the University of Pennsylvania), although this is a kind of respect for the status of a scholar, but it gives Junxin too high treatment, and indirectly puts his position below Princeton. This is something that Harvard, which is far superior to Princeton, could not do.

In fact, no matter how much you value Princeton, or even what you say in your mouth, and listen to Princeton's teachers and professors say that Harvard University is worthless, it cannot change the fact that Harvard University is indeed the world's number one university since World War II, and Princeton University cannot be compared with it. Unless the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton is merged into the University Division, it is a pity that the Princeton Advanced Studies and University Division are basically two administrative units, although they are academically related, but administratively they are not one unit, which is quite a bit of the relationship between the University of Science and Technology of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Junxin is not worried about what will go wrong in the speech at Harvard, he is very confident in the proof and paper he gave, this is the paper and results that have been tested by the time and history of later generations, and can fully support the objection of any mathematician in the world, so after the preparation is done, Junxin does not care about it, on the contrary, he is more important to the next meeting between Professor Alan Paley and Li Weist of Mit. Over and over again, I prepared the paper that I was going to bring with me.

Early the next morning, Jun Xin was found by Shi Wanxiong and other three disciples of Professor Yau Chengtong who came to the door, and Jun Xin, who slept less than five hours, had to get up, but it was not yet six o'clock in Eastern Time at this time, although the scientists were busy day and night, but the behavior of disturbing other people's good dreams in such free time was also particularly depressing. Fortunately, Junxin's temper was quite mild, so he didn't say anything, he simply got up and packed his schoolbag, and followed the three out of the hotel gate.

"Why did the three of you come and pick me up? What about Professor Yau? After sitting down in the car, Junxin spoke.

"The teacher will bring the other professors to meet you at the school, so let's get the three of us here first!" Shi Wanxiong turned his head and replied.

"Do you need to come here so early in the morning? Didn't you say it would start at half past nine in the morning? There are still more than three hours after half past nine! Junxin asked dissatisfied.

"It's better to go early, the school needs you to provide them with an outline of the report." Shi Wanxiong explained, "Originally, the teacher was going to come over in person, but unfortunately, his old friend Professor Calaby also came to visit Harvard, and the teacher couldn't leave for a while, so the three of us volunteered to come over." ”

Hearing this, Jun Xin asked, "Professor Calaby?" Is it the same Calabi professor that Calabi guessed? ”

"Well, Professor Calabi actually said that he was going to come to Harvard for an academic visit half a month ago, and the teacher called him the night before yesterday when he went back, and he heard that you were going to come to Harvard University to give a report on the four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture, so I flew over yesterday, and the teacher is currently accompaniing."

"Okay, the content of my speech is the three articles published in the Annals of Mathematics, and the outline or something will be read directly at the papers." Jun Xin said lightly, "There is no need for the three of you to come over at all, why don't you call me beforehand?" ”

"Anyway, I'm going to school, and I'll take you by the way, and the school in the province will send a car over!" Shi Wanxiong said with a smile.

Junxin was speechless, and he held his forehead, and he didn't know what to say for a moment. shook his head and directly revealed this article: "The three of you will also participate in the report meeting to be held, right?" ”

"Well, for this matter, the teacher asked us to study each of the three articles you wrote in detail, and asked us to have a little new experience about ourselves!" Shi Wanxiong said a little distressed.

"Any thoughts?" Jun Xin shook his head and said.

"The devil knows what you wrote!"

Junxin turned his head again and looked out the window, completely speechless. He knew that what Shi Wanxiong wanted to express was just a little incomprehensible, but he still felt that this guy was really the kind of person who couldn't speak.