009 Wayward Academicians (Part I)
After hanging up Higginson's phone, Fan Zhenhua no longer had the heart to read the report that his doctoral student had spent a week preparing. Although he knew that his students were really hard, in order to write this summary, he had to go through almost all the mathematics journals for nearly three years in the past three years.
No way, all his mind and curiosity at this time had been attracted by the paper in Higginson's mouth.
In fact, reading essays is a pain for 99% of the people in this world. It has nothing to do with IQ, it has nothing to do with the industry, and even for many PhD students and even researchers who have to deal with papers every day, in fact, the same is true.
Especially for many hard-pressed graduate students, it can be a chore to search through databases and find peer papers before applying for new programs. Not to mention the uneven level of the papers, you have to analyze the valuable information from them, so that your own application report can be more beautiful, at least you can't make your own brand new project to apply, and the one-stop patent oolong of your domestic counterparts.
It's a job that can definitely make people bald.
But for those who are really on the front line of scientific research subdivisions and are at the top of the food chain, it is a pleasure to read those papers that are highly recommended by peers and are of high quality. Especially a dissertation that solves a worldwide problem, that is definitely the biggest thing in life, there is no one.
The most important characteristic of a true theoretical scientist is that he always maintains a pure and strong curiosity about the world. Without this trait, it is actually difficult to go on the boring road of scientific research.
After all, there are too many temptations from the outside world in this world. The pursuit of science can only be supported by curiosity.
Fortunately, Fan Zhenhua received a reply soon, and then he couldn't wait to open the paper immersively, and after scanning the topic, his mind was put into the review.
"Sure enough, the level is very high!" This is the judgment given by Fan Zhenhua after reading the review, and then he did not read the text first as Higginson suggested, but directly began to read the author's profile, and then the whole person was really as Higginson said, not very good......
And then there was a moment when he wanted to think about the reality of the world!
The profession turned out to be a student?! The unit is Ningjiacun Agricultural Machinery Factory?!
What is this wonderful combination? What made him feel even more crazy was that the corresponding author and first author of this paper were only NingJie.
In other words, this paper was independently completed by a student from a Huaxia Rural Agricultural Machinery Factory?
He probably understood the meaning of Higginson's words, no wonder he asked him to confirm whether the paper was really written by the author independently, and even more understood why the editor-in-chief of the Annals of Mathematics invited Lu Zhengyue after inviting himself to be a reviewer.
This is not at ease with him! I'm afraid that he will keep the results for himself, so he specially found two reviewers in Huaxia to supervise each other?
Well, that's as it should be.
Really, the moment he saw the author's profile, Fan Zhenhua was really moved.
Although he hasn't read the text yet, if this paper solves the problem of the Navier-Stokes equation as Higginson said, and reaches a consensus in the academic community, the World Congress of Mathematicians to be held in Brazil next year will definitely send more invitations, and the authors will be directly invited to make reports, and it will be the top report at the opening ceremony!
If the academic consensus is fast enough, maybe next year's Fields Medal will be awarded directly to the author of the paper!
If this paper was completed independently by a student under his command, he would really dare to argue for his own student to apply for an academician of mathematics of the Academy of Sciences, and he could even guarantee that the next academician selection would definitely pass.
But what the hell are the students of the agricultural machinery factory?!
That's right, there was a lot of bad atmosphere in the academic world before China, what primary school students did scientific research and SCI, and middle school students did their homework for cancer, but most of the so-called papers and innovations were not dazzling, and they were nothing more than ordinary academic parents brushing their children's resumes. But Fan Zhenhua couldn't figure it out when he broke his head, which academic master would be so brain-dead that he would use this kind of world-class achievement qualified for the Fields Medal to play with his children's resumes?
Not to mention which mathematician in China would stay in a small county town where there are no universities and research institutes?
There was no wind in the office, but Fan Zhenhua's brain was still messy.
There were so many weird things about this thing that his head couldn't turn around at all.
Fortunately, with Higginson's previous spoilers, Fan Zhenhua was not stunned for long, and instead began to study the text. Then, like Robert Caney, the editor-in-chief of the Annals of Mathematics, who first read the paper, he fell into it.
Until the preliminary knowledge points of the paper and the first complete theorem proving process in the paper are carefully read. The author's idea of approximating the solution obtained by the TH element iteration method through multiple iterations is close to the discrete solution of SV mixed finite element, so as to obtain the discrete velocity solution with zero divergence and the continuous discrete pressure solution.
And when he subconsciously raised his head and wanted to continue thinking about this method, he found that there was already a faint light outside the window.
I glanced at my phone, it was already 5:28 in the morning. But he didn't feel sleepy at all, and his mind was still filled with the slightest mathematical formula from the paper. The question swirling in my mind was, how could this still be the case?
It's very interesting!
Suddenly, some not-so-rosy information rushed into my mind.
Wait, Higginson seemed to say when he called, Lu Zhengyue was also invited to be a reviewer?
With that annoying face in his mind, Fan Zhenhua immediately opened the drawer and began to rummage through it, and soon he found a phone book inside Yanbei University. Then I picked up my mobile phone, followed the information in the phone book, and didn't care whether this time would disturb people's dreams, and dialed it out directly.
If it doesn't work once, it's a second time......
Until someone finally answered......
"Hey, is it Teacher Xu from the Nanhu Provincial Admissions Team?"
"Ah, I am, may I ask who you are?" Although honorifics are used, the tone is actually not polite, after all, being suddenly woken up in a sweet dream is definitely not a beautiful experience.
"I'm Fan Zhenhua from the School of Mathematics, I want to ask you, do you know that there is a Ningjia Village in Luohe County, Dongyu City, Nanhu Province?"
"Oh, it's Academician Fan, hello, hello, I have an impression of EAST City, but I don't know much about the county seat below. Gotta ask. ”
"That's it, then you hurry up and help me ask, I'll book a high-speed rail ticket to Xingcheng later, why don't we meet at Xingcheng high-speed rail station, please help me see how to get to Luohe County from Xingcheng, is it okay?"
"Of course no problem, why don't you add my WeChat, it's this mobile phone number, you book the ticket and send me the arrival time and ID number, and I'll arrange the next journey?"
"Okay, then I'll trouble you, Comrade Xu."
"No trouble, no trouble."
"By the way, have you heard of a student named Ning Xiao?"
"Huh? Not very impressed. ”
Hearing this answer, Fan Zhenhua was not surprised, after all, the head of the admissions team of a province in the following counties and cities would definitely not go to a small county town that was not well-known.
"Okay, hang up first, I'll contact you later."
"Okay, I'll wait for your news!"