"Teacher, the screening of the number competition has also begun, right? Can I apply for this IMO? In the corridor, Xu Chuan asked softly.

“IMO？ Are you ready to apply for both at the same time? Or are you not ready to participate in this competition? ”

Tang Gaoyuan frowned and looked at Xu Chuan in some surprise.

Although the training time varies from country to country, for example, if they want to participate in these two events, they generally start selecting people at the end of August and early September, starting from the school, to the municipal level, to the provincial level, and finally to the national team, each country has its own time.

But in the end, the world-class IMO and IPHO are held at the same time, around mid-July every year.

Normally, if you participate in the IMO, you will not be able to participate in the IPHO, because the schedule will be very tight offline.

And you have to make a special teacher to follow the transfer, and it is estimated that the national teams on both sides will not be very satisfied.

So normally, students who take the IMO will not choose to participate in the IPHO at the same time.

However, it is not uncommon for students to participate in both IMO and IPHO at the same time, and there have been students who have entered the training team twice at the same time, but there has never been a case of winning awards at both IMO and IPHO at the same time.

"Can I participate in both IMO and IPHO at the same time?"

Xu Chuan glanced at Teacher Tang with some surprise, he really didn't know much about this.

Although I have participated in IPHO three times in my previous life, the itinerary and related matters are handled, and the students who participate in it usually only need to train and study for exams.

At least that's what he did, and he knew very little about anything other than what was related to the camp exams.

"Yes."

Tang Gaoyuan nodded, frowned slightly, and continued: "But the time will be very tight, and not every session can participate in two competitions at the same time, some years of the competition and the time of the competition are together, it depends on the exam time." ”

"However, I still suggest that you only participate in the competition, with the foundation of last year, I believe that as long as you play steadily this year, you will definitely be able to get a medal."

Although there are students from Star City No. 1 Middle School who participate in IMO and IPHO competitions every year, there are also people who have reached the world competition and even won gold medals.

But a medal in an international competition is still quite a high honor, and if you can win a gold medal, it is probably the highest award that a high school student can win in high school.

With the medals of IMO or IPHO in hand, even if it is not a gold medal, only a silver and bronze award, or even a glory award, any university in China will rush to ask for it.

As his physics teacher, Tang Gaoyuan naturally didn't want Xu Chuan to miss out on this glory.

In his opinion, Xu Chuan, who has already reached the World Championships last year and won a personal silver medal, will definitely get better results by participating in the IPHO again this year.

After all, in this year's time, Xu Chuan's progress is in his eyes, this is a genius, coupled with hard work, he is sure that his future achievements will not be low.

"Mr. Tang, I want to participate in IMO and IPHO at the same time."

Xu Chuan opened his mouth and said, originally he thought he was going to miss this year's IPHO, but he didn't expect to be able to participate in this operation at the same time.

If he can participate at the same time, he will naturally not quit.

Although it is a bit of a bully to participate in IPHO with his current knowledge, the regret that he failed to get the first place in participating in IPHO three times in his previous life will definitely make up for it after being reborn.

Tang Gaoyuan frowned again, but then let go again, and said with a smile:

"Okay, I'll report it to you, you can go to Song Kaiji's old thing, let him sign you up, and enrich yourself."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment, he thought that Teacher Tang would insist on persuading him, and he was ready to continue to fight, but he didn't expect to agree.

In fact, Tang Gaoyuan didn't think much about it at all, when Xu Chuan proposed that he wanted to participate in the IMO, he just thought he wanted to try it out in mathematics.

After all, it's not bad to go to Shujing to enrich his high school career, anyway, it doesn't matter if he participates in the college entrance examination or not, some schools have already rushed to ask for it.

If he wants to, he doesn't have to study in the third year of high school, he can choose any university in China, and no school will refuse.

And with this kid's current level of mathematics, there is a high probability that he will stop at the provincial team, and he will be able to take the national exam, and the national team will not be able to enter, so it is almost the same to have fun.

Anyway, as long as he doesn't enter the national team and doesn't participate in the winter camp training team, for him, it will not affect his next participation in IPHO.

This is also the idea of supporting him to go.

......

After being stunned for a moment, Xu Chuan wanted to understand the meaning of Tang Gaoyuan's words, and suddenly couldn't laugh or cry.

He went to participate in the IMO with the idea of winning a gold medal, but he didn't expect that in the eyes of Mr. Tang, he just wanted to go over and have fun to enrich his high school experience.

But it's really normal to have this kind of thought, after all, he is now studying physics, and the competitions and special training he participated in in the past are also prepared for various competitions, although his math results are also good, but compared with physics, he must be a big step behind.

But this will not be the same person, he will be born again after twenty years.

Before he was reborn, although his mathematical ability and physical ability were very different, no matter how far he was, he could still kill most of the mathematics professors in seconds.

After all, there is no separation between mathematical physics, and in the process of studying physics, it is often necessary to use a variety of mathematical tools.

In particular, the mathematical tools used to prove the 'Yang-Mills existential and mass gap' problem can be said to be at the forefront of mathematics.

Although he started with the physical aspect of proving the 'Yang-Mills existence and mass gap' problem, he also won the Fields Medal after completing the proof of the 'Yang-Mills existence and mass gap'.

Therefore, although his mathematical ability is not as good as physics, it is definitely not too bad.

Of course, compared to the top mathematicians who purely study mathematics, such as Andrew Wiles, Pierre Deligne, G. Faltins and other supergiants in mathematics, his mathematics is still much worse.

However, it is definitely enough to participate in a competition for high school students like IMO, and some basic high school and college mathematics may not be very memorable now, but these things are enough for him to watch again.

......

"Weicai, what about you? Do you want to go to IMO too? ”

After agreeing to Xu Chuan to go to IMO, Tang Gaoyuan looked at Cao Weicai who was standing aside with a smile.

Although this kid is not as good as Xu Chuan, he is also a physics genius, but if he also wants to participate in the math competition, see how he cleans up Song Kaiji's old things after he goes back, the two best physics seedlings in the class have been taken to learn mathematics, is this great?

"No, no, Brother Chuan has the strength to participate at the same time, just participate in the competition honestly with a little Kami like me."

Seeing Teacher Tang staring at him with a smile, Cao Weicai only felt like a mang on his back, and hurriedly waved his hand back.

His mathematics is average, and he can't get into the provincial team of mathematics competition.

"Go back and prepare well and try to come back with a medal from IPHO next year."

Hearing this, Tang Gaoyuan smiled, turned around and entered the classroom to invigilate.

......

Tang Gao walked away, Xu Chuan was about to go back to the classroom, and Cao Weicai had a resentful voice behind him.

"Brother Chuan, what should I do if you go to the IMO? Said okay to stay and fly with me, why did you run away alone. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xu Chuan stumbled, and almost fell to the ground without mixing his left foot with his right foot.

This is really a living treasure, why, he went to participate in the competition, is it possible that he can't participate in the competition?

Ignoring Cao Weicai, Xu Chuan continued to walk towards the classroom, and the moment he stepped into the classroom, an idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Maybe I should change my major in my life."

In his previous life, he had almost reached the limit on the road of physics, but this limit was his own, not physical.

Because of mathematics and some reasons, when facing some physical problems, they often fall into a situation that is difficult to solve or even difficult to move forward.

Just like before his rebirth, after developing superconducting materials, he studied controlled nuclear fusion technology for a period of time.

Theoretically, the possession of superconducting materials should be able to push the magnetic confinement effect of controlled nuclear fusion reactors to a higher level.

However, he has done experiments, and after replacing the magnetic confinement mirror hoop made of superconducting materials, the effect of magnetic confinement is indeed much higher than before, but it has not improved to the point he predicted.

Magnetic mirrors made of superconducting materials cannot be perfectly controlled for ultra-high temperature plasma in the reaction chamber.

Later, through the analysis of experimental data, this should be related to the control system of ultra-high temperature plasma.

The so-called control system is based on a mathematical model of ultra-high temperature plasma.

Although the ultra-high temperature plasma in the chamber of a controlled nuclear fusion reaction is theoretically a part of physics, in practice you have to find a mathematical model to control it.

A mathematical model for ultra-high temperature plasma could be built that no one had done even twenty years later.

Because this belongs to the hardest part of mathematics, the turbulence model.

Turbulence is a well-known chaotic system in mathematics, and it is already difficult to build a mathematical model for ordinary turbulence, let alone the plasma in the chamber of a controlled nuclear fusion reactor with tens of millions of degrees of heat.

To solve this problem, he worked with other mathematicians, such as Charles Louis Feynman (Professor Feverman), a Fields Medal winner who also teaches at Princeton University.

But the results are clearly not so good.

In many cases, he was able to come up with theories that were physically feasible, but perhaps Professor Feverman was not physically capable enough to describe some theories or problems in mathematical language.

After all, there are very few people who can achieve the top in both mathematics and physics, and his mentor Edward Witten should be counted as one, after all, this is the first physicist in history to win the Fields Medal.

Unfortunately, his mathematical research is not in the area of turbulence.

Xu Chuan suddenly felt that his research direction should be changed in this life.

I majored in physics in my previous life, and I should probably change my major to mathematics in this life.

There is no doubt that mathematics is the foundation of all subjects.

After all, the nature of science is induction and deduction, and mathematics is the tool of induction and deduction.

If a subject can be called a science, it must be able to be expressed mathematically.

As long as you can use mathematics to build models, inductions and deductions, then you will eventually be able to find certain internal laws for human use.

It can be the foundation of all natural sciences, and that's why it works.

If he majored in mathematics in this life, even if he couldn't achieve the achievements in physics in his previous life, in terms of his talent, it would definitely not be too bad.

When the mathematical ability is sufficient, it may be able to drive the physical ability that has almost stopped before being reborn, and take another step forward.

As for minors, materials are still a good choice.

Even if he developed top materials such as superconducting materials and bionanomaterials through materials physics and biophysics in his previous life, this is only a drop in the bucket compared to the future that materials can show.

......