"To analyze this kind of experimental data, we often need to use statistical principles."

"Of course, statistical principles do not represent everything, any different experiments, the final experimental data are different, we do not have a fixed methodology, at this point we need to analyze according to the different experimental data."

"I'll give you an example from that paper."

“……”

Subsequently, Li Mu gave an example from their paper to illustrate to the biologists present.

The biologists below also listened with relish, at least for now, Li Mu's speech was indeed relatively simple and easy to understand.

And as Li Mu shared his analysis ideas, the biologists below were also brightly lit up.

"It's so good!"

"No wonder...... He was able to find this difference in so much data......"

There was a burst of amazement.

And on the seats in the first row.

"Adrian, it's a shame you didn't invite him over last time."

One person said to the other person next to him, "You were even blocked by him." ”

"Don't talk about it."

The man named Adrian replied angrily.

He is Adrian Kleiner from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and this year's winner of the Wolf Prize in Medicine.

I called Li Mu a month ago, but he was blocked, but he was laughed at by other colleagues for a long time, at least until now.

Thinking back to the scene of the phone call, he reflected on it and said, "Maybe I was too enthusiastic last time...... When this report is over, I'll have to talk to him again. ”

"Then I wish you success."

旁边的人笑呵呵地说道：“如果能给我们实验室带来李牧，我肯定记你一功。 ”

This person is the director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Bruce Stillman.

As the director of the laboratory, it is also one of his jobs to help the laboratory recruit talents, so if Li Mu can really come to their laboratory, it is naturally what he is willing to see.

……

Of course, they were not the only ones who were discussing, and a few lower rows were also discussing with representatives from large companies and researchers from these companies.

For people in large companies, all they care about is whether they can make money, or whether they can save money, and Li Mu's mathematical analysis method, to a certain extent, is of great help to them.

In the middle of the third row of seats, the vice president of Pfizer turned his head to look at the person next to him and asked, "Professor Slavie, is this method proposed by Li Mu helpful for your research?" ”

斯卡纳·斯拉维，辉瑞公司的首席科学家，医药学家，曾经为辉瑞公司研究出过几种畅销药物，是辉瑞公司最有资历的研究人员之一。

Hearing the vice president's question, Slavi was silent for a moment, and then said, "Although I have always disagreed with the role of mathematics in medical research, the role of mathematical analysis in that paper is ...... I have to admit that maybe it really helped us a lot. ”

"His mathematical method can help us analyze very detailed things, just like in a certain set of experiments, there may be a small proportion of the component that brings the effect, but because the proportion of this part of the component is small, the effect is not obvious, so we will generally ignore it, but his analysis can help us find this."

"In this way, it not only avoids us from doing repeated experiments, greatly reduces the cost of experiments, but also greatly improves the success rate of our experiments."

"This is an epoch-making change for us."

Hearing Slavi's words, the vice president's mind was full of "reducing the cost of experiments" and "improving the success rate of experiments".

That's what they'd love to hear.

He immediately asked, "Can you learn this method?" Apply to our laboratory. ”

Slavi pondered for a moment and said, "I can learn, but only a little—at least for now." ”

“这对数学有较高的要求，所以我们最好是请一些数学专家来帮忙，咱们实验室中的数学专家还是比较少的。 ”

The vice president nodded thoughtfully, and then said to Li Mununu on the stage, "What if you invite him over directly?" ”

Slavi: "...... Well, if he wants to come, I heard that he didn't agree to the invitation of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. ”

"Cold Spring Harbor Lab has a few bucks." The vice president waved his hand: "We're Pfizer." ”

Slavi didn't say much.

Indeed, to a certain extent, Pfizer lacks everything, that is, it is not short of money, and it earns $100 billion a year, which can compare to their company, which is pitiful in this world.

At this time, Li Mu on the stage also gave an example, and then said: "Next, I will focus on sharing with you, what kind of analytical thinking we should adopt in the face of different data, and in this regard, we must make better use of mathematical thinking......

"This part needs to use more mathematical methods to demonstrate, and I will try to keep it simple......"

Hearing Li Mu's words, those who were still discussing it watched intently, because they all knew that the next step was a more critical point.

It's just that as Li Mu's story began, they were a little confused.

It's called ...... Keep it simple?

Looking at the lines of formulas written by Li Mu on the blackboard, even if he was explaining the intention of these formulas in his mouth, the various biologists below were confused.

However, Li Mu found that it was really easier to use mathematics to make a report.

He said so much just now, and his mouth was dry, which made him feel too fake and empty, but the current mathematics is more realistic.

So, he gradually got better.

And with that, the listeners were in a desperate situation.

Adrian and Bruce were both silent.

Until the end, Adrian covered his eyes, and then leaned back in his seat with a tactical back.

"Oh my God, I really don't want to study math! Math, get out of biology! ”

Bruce said quietly: "If you don't want to learn, you have to learn, and this matter will be left to you." ”

"Please spare me."

Adrian looked loveless.

I still remember what Li Mu told them at the beginning, "I have high hopes" and "I won't let everyone down".

Good fellows, now they have neither high hopes nor disappointment, and directly despair on them.

And in the seat in the third row, the vice president from Pfizer stared at what Li Mu wrote, and then said to Slavi next to him: "Although strictly speaking, I am not a scientist, but I am also a biology graduate from MIT, I can't understand it at all, your scientific community is as simple as possible, is this simple?" ”

Slavi: "......"

"Don't get me wrong, the scientific community is also divided into ordinary science and genius science, and he belongs to the genius science community in this case, and it is not within the scope of our ordinary science community."

Vice President: "......"

After thinking about it, he asked again: "Then can our people still learn these things he talked about?" ”

"Ahh......h ”

Stop torturing the researchers in their lab.

I really can't learn this.

The vice president nodded approvingly.

That's all there is to it.

Then he took out his phone and began to report the matter to their president.

Soon, John Young, the president of Pfizer, replied with a message: [No problem. 】

看到这条消息后，这名副总裁便给斯拉维教授比了个OK的手势。

If their president makes the decision himself, probably no one in this world can refuse, right?

……

与此同时，辉瑞公司总部，总裁办公室中。

John Young put down his phone and called his assistant.

"Let's assess how much it costs to hire Li Mu as our scientist."

The assistant was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Is that the young mathematician?" ”

"Well, it should be." John Young nodded.

He didn't know much about Li Mu, but he had heard that he had solved famous problems in mathematics, and then it seemed to have caused a lot of repercussions in the physics community.

He doesn't care about mathematics or physics, he only cares about how to make their financial reports look better, so his understanding of Li Mu is limited to these, at most, Li Mu has recently caused a major impact in their biomedical community, which made him pay a little attention.

不过既然他们的副总裁康恩说务必要把这个人挖来，那就挖来好了。

Conn's vision is still more trusting than that.

The assistant nodded, and then quickly left, and after a while, he returned, and handed a document to John Young.

"President, this is the result of the evaluation on the personnel side, please take a look."

John Young nodded, took it and looked at it, and was stunned for a moment.

"At least $30 million a year, is it a joke on the HR side!?"

The person that Conn wants to dig actually costs him 30 million a year?

In 10 years, that's 300 million!

That's enough for them to build another lab!

This still does not take into account the salary increase, if this is a salary increase, I am afraid it will be even worse.

The assistant said weakly: "The detailed rules for the evaluation of the personnel side are behind, which is actually quite reasonable." ”

John Young didn't speak, he turned to the next page and looked at the fine print of the assessment.

Companies like theirs have a standard for hiring talent.

He wanted to see what kind of ability this Li Mu had that could make him spend $30 million a year.

As a result, first two key words came into his eyes.

【Li Mu】

[Age: 21]

[Identity: Fields Medal, Nobel Prize candidate (the probability of winning two prizes within five years is more than 90%)]

"Twenty-one-year-old Fields Medal, Nobel Prize candidate?"

Seeing this, John Young's understanding of Li Mu deepened in an instant.

The assistant nodded and said with emotion: "This is a veritable super genius, and with these two points alone, he is already worth an eight-figure annual salary." ”

John Young didn't say anything more, just stared at his brow and continued to look down.

"Almighty genius...... Recently, the method of experimental data analysis in the biomedical field has helped Huaguo Chen Shanping's team to study a new recognition mechanism between immune cells and lung cancer cells, which is very ingenious and is considered to open up a new direction of research in the biological community......"

Until the end, John Yang directly put down the information in his hand, and then said to the assistant: "Find the live broadcast room of the Max Planck Society Life Science Conference, I want to watch this Li Mu report now." ”

"Yes."

The assistant immediately responded, and then turned on a large screen in the office and played a live broadcast for John Young.

It's just that as soon as he entered the live broadcast room, the content on the blackboard at the front of the conference hall made John Young feel puzzled and couldn't help asking: "Are they a life science conference?" Isn't it a mathematical academic conference? ”

He has also participated in a lot of reports on biomedicine, how can there be such a thing that is all about mathematics?

The assistant looked confused: "I ...... it too Not very clear. ”

……

Of course, not to mention them, these biologists on the scene have basically given up.

Let's wait until we get back and study it slowly.

For now, they still don't have to think about it to understand it in the field.

As time passed, Li Mu spoke for fifty-five minutes for an hour.

After writing the last form happily, Li Mu nodded with satisfaction, and finally wrote out everything he wanted to say.

Then he turned his head to look at the people present and said, "This is the end of my report, I hope my sharing can bring a little help to your future research." ”

The people present suddenly woke up from a dream.

Report...... Finished?

It wasn't until everyone reacted that the applause finally rang out.

Although I don't know what Li Mu shared, it looks powerful anyway.

Applause and that's it.

It wasn't until the applause was over that Li Mufang asked with a smile: "Then if you have any questions next, you can ask questions." ”

There was silence.

To ask a question, you must first understand the report before asking a question, so how can you ask a question if you don't understand it?

Until finally, Svante Pebo, the chairman of the Life Sciences Committee sitting in the first row, finally raised his hand and stood up.

"Li, thank you for sharing, although I have to admit that my math level is not very high, so I don't understand it very well."

"But I still have to ask, will it really help a lot to use mathematics to help with biomedical analysis?"

"I've always listened to other people's comments, but now I want to hear your own thoughts."

Hearing this question, Li Mu was silent for a moment, and then said: "I can't give a definite answer to this question, but I am a mathematician, so I also believe in the role of mathematics. ”

"Later, if I have the chance, I will try to test the role of mathematics for biomedical research again."

"You can look forward to it."

……

(End of chapter)