Of course, for these four rookies who have just entered the academic world, this incident can make them feel very shocked, but for Li Mu, or the editor-in-chief of Nature, Joss Winston, it is too normal.

That's how big bulls are treated.

And Li Mu also smiled slightly in the face of the editor-in-chief who had worked with him.

"Since Editor-in-Chief Winston personally invited me, then I actually quite like you, after all, we have always had a good working relationship."

"Coincidentally, just this morning, Science sent me an email inviting me to submit my paper to them."

Hearing this, Joss Winston immediately became vigilant.

"And how did you reply to them? I guess you haven't said yes yet, right? ”

"You must vote for us!"

"You see, I even brought the protocol and USB flash drive, and I'm waiting to copy the paper back from you."

Li Mu laughed: "Of course, don't worry, you must not have agreed yet, at this point, we can discuss more." ”

"Okay, let's talk about it more." Joss Winston nodded repeatedly.

Afterwards, Li Mu said to his four students, "You wait a little longer. ”

How could a few students say anything, they all nodded like chickens pecking rice, and then sat down next to them, putting their hands on their legs, looking obedient, and then looking at Li Mu's eyes were also full of admiration.

Well, this is their mentor.

On the first day of school, they witnessed what it means to break a cow.

Probably, if they also have their own reputation in the academic world in the future, when reporters interview them and ask them about their impressions of their mentors, today's scene is estimated to become a scene that they are likely to mention.

Joss Winston also looked at the four of them at this time, and then asked Li Mu: "It seems that it is the time when I entered Oxford University recently, and these four young people should be Professor Li's graduate students, right?" ”

Li Mu nodded: "Yes." ”

Joss Winston smiled, then turned his head to look at Yuan Siping and the four of them again, and said to them kindly: "Children, first of all, congratulations on becoming a student of Professor Li Mu. ”

"Believe me, this is definitely the most important opportunity of your life, and you will be better guided than others, and I wish you will continue to use the spirit of your mentor to bring more supreme truths to our science."

As the editor-in-chief of "Nature", Joss Winston is still a big man and an old-timer for Yuan Siping, so in the face of his blessings, the four of them hurriedly got up and thanked them.

"Thank you, Mr. Winston!"

The four young men said one after another.

At the same time, they also muttered in their hearts, fortunately what Winston said was not to play the tradition of their mentor, but to play the spirit, according to the tradition of Li Mu......

Solve an academic problem first?

Like what...... Twin prime conjecture?

Oh, the problem has been solved by their mentor, and it has to be replaced - well, they can't think of any problems left for them to solve at the first time, and the other five unsolved problems of the Seven Millennium Problems are not among the alternatives at all, and they won't even think about the Millennium Problem even if they were dreaming.

Then, they watched quietly from the side, and Li Mu and Joss Winston talked about the details of the publication of the paper.

For them, this is even more magical, to submit a paper to a top journal like Nature, and the editor-in-chief personally comes to the door, and can continue to negotiate conditions with the editor-in-chief, such a thing is really too sci-fi for them.

And right now, it's really happening in front of them.

About ten minutes later, Li Mu also negotiated various conditions with Joss Winston.

With a smile on his face, Joss Winston stood up and shook Li Mu's hand, "Then don't bother Professor Li." ”

Before leaving the office, he didn't forget to look at Yuan Siping and the four of them, and said with a smile: "If you have any excellent papers in the future, you must give priority to submitting them to Nature!" ”

"Good, good."

The four of them nodded their heads one after another.

只不过投给《自然》这种事情……

他们这些数学专业的还是算了，大概也就袁思平这位数学物理方向的还有机会，毕竟《自然》的读者，一般来说可不喜欢去看那些复杂繁琐的数学推导过程，他们更加在乎的是那些一听就比较劲爆的成果，比如能够让物理学大厦崩塌的劲爆发现，再比如发现了可以解决癌症的东西，亦或者是常温超导体的消息——所以哪怕论文看起来怎么假，实验再怎么难以复现， No matter how obviously exaggerated the data is, there is a high probability that it will be able to appear in such a top journal.

Sending Joss Winston out of the office, Li Mu also turned his head to look at his four students.

Seeing the full of amazement in their eyes, he smiled slightly: "What? Surprised? ”

Anthony Alex began by saying, "Dear Professor, this is of course shocking, it's the editor-in-chief of Nature! ”

Several others nodded their heads in acknowledgment of Alex's amazement.

不过，李牧笑了笑，摆手道：“既然你们觉得这件事情让你们感到震惊，那么你们也就尝试着努力下去，努力到某一天的时候，这样的事情能够发生在你们的身上。 ”

"This ......"

The four of them looked at each other, can such a thing really happen to them in the future?

"Professor, isn't this a little too difficult, Nature generally doesn't accept our pure mathematics papers." Tu Zhizhen's face showed helplessness.

Li Mu smiled: "I didn't say it was "Nature", since it is our mathematics, of course it is a journal like "Annals of Mathematics". ”

Annals of Mathematics......

Ahh

The four looked at each other again.

Is it possible?

It's just that for Li Mu's words, Yuan Siping recalled that many years ago he met Li Mu in the cafeteria, and then witnessed the noon when Li Mu's paper was accepted by the "Annals of Mathematics".

It can be done.

"Of course, it is still difficult for you to achieve this kind of thing now, so let's not talk about this matter for the time being."

"Come here."

Li Mu sat at his desk and beckoned to the four students.

"It's been more than half a year now, and I don't know how you did with the task I left you during the interview."

"As I told you at the beginning, when I enroll, I want to check on your completion."

Hearing the professor's words, the four new graduate students suddenly became highly concentrated.

It's coming, it's time to check the homework.

Although, the four of them have also completed the task assigned to them by Li Mu in the past few months, but now when they really face Li Mu's inspection, they still can't help but feel nervous.

"Let's start with ......" Li Mu's gaze swept over a few people, and then pointed to Anthony Alex: "It's up to you." ”

"You were the first to interview, so now it's up to you to start first."

Anthony Alex immediately straightened up, took a few deep breaths, and then nodded solemnly: "Okay professor." ”

Then he took his bag, took out the paper that had been printed, and handed it to Li Mu.

"I think I've basically finished the task you gave me, but I also want you to check the final conclusion."

Li Mu took the paper and then read it.

Of course, several other people next to him also came up and looked at Anthony's paper.

They all know that Anthony is from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and what kind of level will his thesis be when he comes out of one of the best universities in the world for mathematics?

They're all curious.

Then, take a look at the title of the paper.

Then, take a look at the title of the paper.

Cyclic Class of the Supersingular Trajectories of the Principal Polarized Abelian Variant

The other three immediately gave up.

Well, not in this direction, they still don't torture themselves.

This algebraic geometry is something that they basically don't want to understand if they haven't studied it in depth.

For example, Tu Zhizhen studied the direction of number theory, while Yuan Siping studied mathematical physics, while Brahms Liszt mainly studied the aspect of Langlands's program.

They are all a little different, and probably Brahms Liszt's direction is related to both number theory and algebraic geometry.

所以，他们看了几眼之后，就只能待在旁边，安静的听着李牧和安东尼的讲解。

Li Mu read the paper very quickly, and it didn't take long for him to nod slightly and say, "Roughly there is no big problem, you found the key when g=4." ”

Originally, he left Anthony with the problem of determining the cyclic factor of the supersingular trajectory at g = 4 in the modulo space of the g-dimensional principal polarized Abelian variant.

The difficulty of this topic is naturally needless to say, after all, the value of this paper is enough to post a mathematics area.

Of course, for Anthony, this paper is very difficult to make, but since Li Mu was able to come up with such a question, he naturally knew the answer for a long time.

"Of course, there are still certain flaws in the complete proof process."

Hearing Li Mu's "flaws", Anthony suddenly became nervous.

"I ...... Is it wrong? ”

Li Mu smiled: "Wrong, it's not wrong, so I hope you can listen to my next story and sum up your experience." ”

He then brought scratch paper from the side and began to explain to Anthony the problems in his paper and teach him better ideas.

Of course, Li Mu will not give the answer directly, but let Anthony think about it himself.

As everyone knows, it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish.

In this way, time passed slowly, and Anthony's expression, also in Li Mu's explanation, gradually changed from confusion to sudden enlightenment, until finally, "I understand!" Thank you, Professor! ”

Subsequently, he took back his paper from Li Mu like a treasure, and on it, there were all kinds of corrections given by Li Mu, which were like magic secrets to him.

Li Mu didn't forget to say to him in the end: "Just talk to me when you send a paper, what journal you want to publish, just look at yourself, I can also recommend it to you." ”

"Okay, thank you, Professor!"

Li Mu's words made Anthony even more moved, he only needed to say a word to the tutor to send a paper, such a degree of freedom, how could students like them not be excited.

This is the experience of a mentor being a great man.

At least you don't need to worry about your paper being snatched away.

In the office, the other three people saw Anthony's happy and excited look, and the tension in their hearts before gradually subsided.

They're a good professor.

"Next, Tu Zhizhen, come on."

"Okay professor!"

Hearing his name called, Tu Zhizhen immediately picked up his paper and walked over.

Until the end, Tu Zhizhen also returned to his position as if he had received a treasure, and then began to absorb what Li Mu told him.

Next, it was Brahms Liszt's turn.

Naturally, it's the same plot.

In this way, all three of them finished speaking, and in the end, Yuan Siping was left.

Li Mu's eyes looked at him, and he didn't need to shout, Yuan Siping immediately picked up the paper.

"Professor, here we are."

He was embarrassed to show others that he and Li Mulao knew each other, and if he didn't say it, others wouldn't know that he was a student of Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Li Mu looked at him, smiled slightly, and then did not show that he knew him, and after taking his paper, he asked, "How are your results?" ”

The question he left for Yuan Siping was the most difficult one in the interview.

So he was also very curious about how far Yuan Siping had completed.

And Yuan Siping scratched his head and said: "That question is a bit difficult, I don't dare to say how far it has been completed, but the only thing I can say is that I am quite satisfied, at least ...... I did the best I could. ”

Li Mu nodded: "Just do what you can." ”

Then he stopped talking nonsense and began to look at the paper.

At the beginning, the problem he left for Yuan Siping was to "demonstrate the role of dimensional forces in the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the Higgs mechanism".

This question is also a relatively hot issue in the physics community, from the beginning when he left this question for Yuan Siping, until now, although the physics community has made certain achievements on this issue, but it has never been conclusive.

"The Higgs mechanism gives mass to elementary particles, and in gauge field theory, in order to satisfy the localized gauge invariance, the mass of the gauge boson must be set to zero. Since the vacuum expectation of the Higgs field is not equal to zero, resulting in a spontaneous symmetry break, the canonical boson gains mass and generates a zero-mass boson, called the Goldstone boson, which is a particle accompanying the Higgs field and is the vibration of the Higgs field. By selecting the appropriate specification, the Goldstone boson is canceled out, leaving only the band-mass Higgs boson and the band-mass spec vector field. ”

"Before the advent of the theory of dimensional forces, there was a mystery that could not be ignored about the fact that the vacuum expectation of the Higgs field was not equal to zero."

"However, with the theory of dimensional forces, this problem has also become traceable."

Li Mu looked at Yuan Siping's paper and stated the relevant theories.

He flipped it very quickly, which made Yuan Siping's heart wonder, is Li Mu really watching such a fast speed?

But soon, I will remember that when I participated in the international college physics competition with Li Mu, Li Mu was famous for his speed.

Forget it, let's not think about it.

He restrained his mind for a moment, and then continued to listen to Li Mu's story seriously.

Soon, Li Mu finished his paper.

For now, his thesis is now only a phased achievement.

不过，李牧还是给予了赞扬，因为对于这个问题，他并没有希望袁思平能够这么快就解决掉。

"It's still good, you got the key, and in the Higgs mechanic, symmetry is the key."

"The Lagrangian function is symmetrical, but the world it describes is not."

"The theory of dimensional forces, on the other hand, gives the possibility of asymmetry."

"If you don't understand what I'm saying, I recommend you check out my recent paper."

"That is, the paper on the conjugate model of weak interaction forces and dimensional forces."

"After reading it, if you understand, I believe you will have a deeper understanding of this issue."

Speaking of this, Li Mu closed the paper, did not give any correction on it, and then handed it back to Yuan Siping in a daze.

"That's it."

This is the end of the first lesson for my students.

(End of chapter)