In the academic world, there is a very vivid ridicule of theoretical mathematicians and theoretical physicists.

Mathematicians are all veteran drivers with cars, but these people have no direction at all, and they drive blindly when they get into the car, and whether they can reach their desired destination depends on luck.

Physicists have a clear direction, but unfortunately they don't have a car, so they can only walk on their feet, and whether they can get to the ideal holy place depends on their fate.

After a conversation, Li Jiangao understood that Qiao Ze was going to go out of his own way.

The teenager plans to save up a car of his own before the age of twenty-five, and drive straight to his destination after the age of twenty-five.

It's easy to say, but it's for 99.9 percent of the people in this world.

Because the mathematical knowledge related to basic physics is too vast.

For example, quantum physics is the foundation of microphysics, and the major categories of mathematical topics related to quantum physics include linear algebra, calculus, differential geometry, probability theory and statistics...... When it comes to math tools, it's more and more complicated.

What Laplace transforms, Maxwell's equations, Fourier series......

Add to this the more obscure group theory, non-commutative geometry......

Anyone who has studied these things knows how outrageous abstraction they can be.

Something that has never been seen before needs to be imagined out of thin air, and it also needs to cross the shackles of space, and a coordinate axis needs to contain many definitions, plus various vectors that are active in this defined space.

It's true that many people who have studied relevant knowledge can't read the papers of their majors, and it really can't be said that everyone doesn't learn and don't know how to do it.

It's that the ability to think abstractly doesn't meet the minimum requirements required, and it's really impossible to understand and imagine how the defined shapes in space change and change under limited conditions.

It's as if you can't run the latest triple-A games on an older CPU like the Pentium series, and hardware limitations are basically insurmountable obstacles.

But apparently José is not bound by hardware limitations, so everything is possible.

For Li Jiangao, the biggest impact of today's conversation was that when he emailed back to reject the editorial office of the Pure and Applied Mathematics Newsletter, he was not only very calm, but even wanted to mock the editors of the journal who made him feel high, including the editor-in-chief.

"Hello, editors of the editorial office of the Pure and Applied Mathematics Newsletter. After careful consideration with Qiao Ze, the first author of this paper, we decided not to make changes and directly withdraw the manuscript originally scheduled to be published in your journal. At the same time, in view of the concerns about the academic ethics of the reviewers who cooperate with your journal, we will also consider whether to submit a series of papers to your journal in the future before your journal clearly announces the change of reviewers with relevant research directions. Let's find out. ”

"School of Mathematics, Huaxia Xilin University of Technology, Li Jiangao."

After writing this email, Li Jiangao checked the wording again.

In fact, he really wanted to write a sentence "Do you dare to make a bet?" I bet this paper has more than 2,000 citations in three years. But after thinking about it for a while, I gave up.

This looks like a child, too naïve, not as calm as Qiao Ze, and not interesting.

But the meaning is already clear.

I think those editors and even editors-in-chief can already understand it, right?

Otherwise, it is really a poor English comprehension ability!

……

Nine o'clock in the morning.

Jack Loos took his coffee as usual and sat down in his seat.

He liked his workstation because it was next to the window facing south.

When you're tired from work, you just have to turn your head and you'll see the quaint buildings across the street.

Of course, it is more comfortable for him to take a cup of coffee and then stand in front of the workstation, sipping coffee while observing the people passing by in the small square below.

Jack Lossman especially likes to hide behind glass, wantonly observing those young and beautiful schoolgirls and well-dressed urban girls.

Those slender curves can often make him feel the beauty of life.

As long as he doesn't say it, this little hobby is absolutely healthy.

When asked, he would only tell them that he liked to look at the scenery on the street, follow the old man sitting in the square, and then substitute and think about what those old people had experienced.

Look, how healthy.

Of course, early in the morning is not suitable for this.

Because in ten minutes at most, the dear editor-in-chief of the editorial office, Carl Basque, will walk solemnly through here to his editor-in-chief's office.

If you see Jack looking out the window early in the morning, he will complain loudly in his mouth with a thick Boston accent: "Oh, Jack, I wouldn't waste the most sober time in the morning at your age to do something as boring as substituting someone else's life." Of course, if you insist, I'd suggest you quit this boring editing job, and then you can sit in the chair below like them and think about how you will spend the rest of your life! ”

Yes, dear editor-in-chief Carl is so ruthless.

So he had to turn on his computer and process the manuscripts and emails that were distributed to his mailbox through the back-end system to serve the mathematicians who submitted their manuscripts to the editorial office, which was a very boring job. But in fact, any work that has been done for a long time will inevitably make people feel bored.

Fortunately, he was motivated by the weekly salary that was paid on time.

Soon he saw the email from Li Jiangao.

After reading it, he was surprised.

He didn't send an email to Qiao Ze, because he felt that the young man was too angry and didn't understand the rules, and his words of persuasion might be misinterpreted, but would cause complaints.

Not necessarily.

As a journal editor, he can make fun of those great mathematicians in his spare time, but if he has trouble with these mathematicians, he is a pure brain pump.

What I never expected was that the students were just radical in their thinking, and this tutor also had such a character!

How can you say that you are also an associate professor, and you are so strong?

Are these Chinese people crazy?

Fortunately, it's not something he needs to worry about.

Jack skillfully forwarded the email directly to the editor-in-chief's mailbox.

Whether this article is rejected or published is something that the editor-in-chief Carl needs to worry about, and it can't be said to have nothing to do with him, but it really doesn't have much to do with it.

At most, he has a suggestion right.

Of course, Jack doesn't even need the right to suggest.

He doesn't want to have an opinion, he just wants to have fun.

"Haha, you could have won me ten dollars, but unfortunately you didn't take the opportunity."

"Jack, I've been hating Riddler a lot lately."

"Do you remember the article written by the Chinese? It's "A Mathematical Framework for Self supervised Learning Based on Group Theory". The tutor of the first work applied for rejection again, and he didn't even care if we blacklisted them or not. Even if I have already hinted at it, it only takes a slight revision of the paper and a few citations to get published. ”

"Oh?! That's pretty unusual. Anyway, I'm interested in that paper. The first thing to do is to rule out a wrong option, not that the student doesn't know how to cite literature...... Well, that's self-confidence, inexplicably self-confidence. ”

So they're going to switch to the Annals of Mathematics in Princeton? Or the Duke Math Journal? ”

"Who knows? But the editor-in-chief Karl will probably be very unhappy. So I suggest you work hard. ”

……

Obviously, the editors in the editorial room did not have any major problems judging the personality of the editor-in-chief.

Not long after Carl Basque walked into the office, he stood in front of the office door and locked his eyes on Jack Loosman, who was sitting at his desk.

"Jack, come in."

"Okay, Editor-in-Chief Carl."

……

In his office, Carl Basque pointed to his computer screen and asked, "Jack, how did you reply?" ”

Jack Looth shrugged his shoulders and said, "Like you said, imply that they can add some citations and this paper will be published in the next issue." ”

Karl Basque frowned and said, "Are you clear enough?" ”

Jack Looth raised his hands and said with a slight exaggeration: "God, if you want to make it clearer, it is directly explicit." I can't say, hey bro, just add a link to the literature so we can achieve a win-win situation, right? My exact point is that there is a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Bonn who is doing similar research, and maybe you can refer to his previous paper and make some small changes to the paper to meet the publication criteria. God, don't you think that's implicating enough? ”

Karl Basque was silent.

Yes, the damn hint is obvious enough.

In fact, Carl Basque himself was originally inclined to publish this paper.

After all, academic journals like theirs also pursue impact factors, and the ranking databases of major journals will update the data every once in a while, recalculate the impact factors of major journals and then determine new rankings. It just so happens that one of the most important dimensions in the algorithm to calculate the journal impact factor is the number of citations of the paper.

The more specific calculation principle is the ratio of the number of papers published by a journal in the previous two years cited by all source journals in the current year to the number of all source papers published in the previous two years.

To put it simply, the more citations a paper published in a journal, the higher the impact factor of that journal. If the published paper has few citations, the impact factor will plummet.

In fact, there is a very strange phenomenon in the number of citations of mathematical papers, the higher the research direction, the fewer citations tend to be.

For example, in the case of research such as the Langlands Program, which attempts to establish connections between different fields, if you do not understand the trigonometric category and the T-structure on it, and if you do not have a deep knowledge of algebra, representation theory, and geometry, even if those experts in the industry prove extremely beautiful results, ordinary mathematicians cannot even understand the paper, let alone cite it.

And the paper by Li Jiangao and Qiao Zetou happens to be the hottest mathematical principle paper on artificial intelligence large models at the moment.

Once this kind of paper is accepted by the academic community, the number of citations is generally not too small, not to mention that the paper also has a positive opinion from the reviewers.

But the influence of the team at Cohen University is huge. In addition, the relationship between countries is already in a sensitive period, which makes people head up.

This is also the reason why Karl Basque has been stuck with this paper, neither publishing nor allowing rejection.

It's just that the professors and students who submitted the paper this time are different from the Chinese scholars they have contacted in the past.

Carl Basque has communicated with many Chinese professors who have come to the United States for further study, and he knows very well how much the Chinese academic community recognizes them for a world-class top journal. It is said that this is directly related to the title, income, and the selection of various Chinese domestic honors.

Some Huaxia professors, who are well-known in the international mathematics community, will think of various ways to publish articles in world-class core journals. Not to mention being respectful to the editors, but this kind of request, which is hardly a requirement, will definitely not choose to carry it.

But obviously, the two corresponding authors of this paper, Li Jiangao and QiaoZe, are not the same as other Chinese teacher-student combinations that he knows.

It's okay for students to be young and vigorous, and as a professor, they are so willful, is this trying to challenge their right to speak?

After pondering for a long time, Karl Basque asked, "So, didn't you tell them that if they have to apply for rejection, we may no longer accept any manuscripts from them in the future?" ”

Jack Looth shook his head and said, "On the contrary, I made it clear. Well...... I think you can take a look at the email I replied to. If they couldn't understand what I meant, they wouldn't be able to write such a smooth paper. ”

"Hah...... Looks like we're hitting a hard stubble...... Okay, Jack, so as the editor in charge of this paper, do you think we should publish this paper directly, or simply reject it? I'd love to hear from you. Karl Basque asked casually.

Jack Looth thought for a moment and replied cleverly, "If you're going to ask my opinion, Carl, I think it's best if I decide to publish it, before I reply to that email as you want." As for ...... now"

There is room for words.

Of course, anyone can understand it, and this involves a matter of face.

If it is pinched this time and spreads, it will not only be a very embarrassing thing.

What's more, next time you want to pinch people, it's not so easy.

"Then don't rush to reply to the Chinese people, you send an email to the German, and make an appointment for a manuscript. See what he has to say, and I'll make a decision. I heard that his research group was working on a project on the construction of self-supervised 3D point cloud prediction based on group theory, and asked them if their current results could be published in a paper. ”

"Yes, Editor-in-Chief. Then I'll go first. Jack Looth replied casually, and after Carl Basque waved his hand, he walked out of the editor-in-chief's room with a relaxed face.

So a lot of times it's good to be a small editor, and you don't need to think about so many annoying things.

Still, Jack Losman felt he had learned something from the editor-in-chief.

For example, when you encounter this kind of competition between the two sides, you can't be led by the nose by either side, you have to take care of something.

The ginger is still old and spicy.