Just turned over a new leaf and became a wise and intelligent student

Chapter 383: The Story of an Academic Scumbag

Mr. Qiu's sudden move actually gave Xu Qingshan a strong source of motivation.

But it made Liu Ruochuan suffer.

He was lying on the hospital bed and was being grabbed and pulled by Xu Qingshan. He was being recuperated in the ward and finally his complexion became rosy and his complexion was full of energy.

As a result, he was brought back to his original form.

"Leeks! I am just like a leek. Every time I cut it, it grows back again."

Liu Ruochuan lay helplessly on the hospital bed. Xu Qingshan left the ward contentedly with the notebook full of his achievements, leaving Liu Ruochuan, who looked like he had been severely abused, with his head resting on the pillow and crying.

"Well, at least I'm the first one."

Liu Ruochuan tossed and turned and finally found the answer that comforted himself.

In fact, he himself knew very well that if others had such treatment, let alone Xu Qingshan forcing him to work, as long as he could produce results and be the core author, there would be people lining up to work for him even if he had to work hard all year round.

If I complain about this, it can only be said that I am not grateful for what I have.

As a scientific researcher, and a relatively outstanding one at that, Liu Ruochuan is fully confident in his scientific research abilities.

Moreover, Xu Qingshan's actions in pulling him back were really too cruel.

Not only is he cruel, he's also a bit immoral.

Just now, Xu Qingshan was sitting beside the hospital bed, pressing the joystick to adjust the height of the backrest of Liu Ruchuan's bed.

Whenever Liu Ruochuan became lazy or distracted, he would start shaking.

Under normal circumstances, Liu Ruchuan would not be afraid at all, but at this special moment, his waist felt strange. Once it was suddenly pulled out, he would feel like he was lying on a roller coaster.

Under the dual torture of mental and physical stress, Liu Ruochuan managed to finish the entire article.

Liu Ruochuan didn't have to wait too long for the good news.

Xu Qingshan went to complete the final round of interviews with the students who were admitted to the summer camp. After finalizing the admission list, he did not spend any more energy on that.

After the students are admitted, Jin Jing will provide them with more basic and structured learning based on the "Complete Book of Mathematics" being compiled by Xu Qingshan's team. Even in the first year of graduate and doctoral studies, Xu Qingshan does not need to intervene much.

There are two reliable young bosses, Jin Jing and Zhang Ke, as well as Wang Wei and Xue Xueqing as senior sisters.

He only needs to organize a group meeting every week or even every two weeks to determine the research direction.

Xu Qingshan, who devoted himself to scientific research and even forgot to prepare to return to Heilongjiang, was incredibly efficient.

He not only forced Liu Ruochuan, but also himself.

"Ding."

When Xu Qingshan was working at his desk, an email notification sound suddenly came from his computer.

The email address now hanging on his office computer is the one he uses specifically for submitting manuscripts to journals. If he hears a reply, it basically means there is a result in the submission stage.

Xu Qingshan has submitted quite a few team papers, all of which use his laboratory as the corresponding unit and he himself as the corresponding author.

His original intention was to use his current international fame and influence to attract traffic to other members of his team.

After all, a scholar's reputation in the academic circle, in addition to high-end journal certification, also has a certain significance for mass base.

"congratulations"

As soon as he opened his email, Xu Qingshan saw good news.

After taking a closer look, he even raised his eyebrows.

This is a reply to "The Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture". After minor revisions by Li Guangzhi and Xue Xueqing, this paper was directly accepted by "Annals of Mathematics".

Xu Qingshan did not send the two papers to arXiv for pre-review, but chose to submit them confidently.

Of course, Professor Fefferman did not disappoint Xu Qingshan.

In the final, refined version of his paper, he praised Xu Qingshan with effusive words.

"Dear Xu, the attached letter is accompanied by my best wishes for you. I can hardly think of anyone in the mathematics world today who can be compared with you."

"I thought you would be quiet for a long time after you started working on the Riemann hypothesis, but I didn't expect you to give me another big surprise so soon."

“It’s just that what you mentioned in the abstract, ‘By decomposing the denominator into exponential levels and controlling their interactions, we proved the necessary and sufficient nature of the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture,’ is too simple and low-key. Perhaps you are also very clear about what your work represents, but as the editor-in-chief of Annals of Mathematics, I need to publicly analyze and evaluate the contribution and role of your article. I hope you can forgive my gaffe and shock.”

“The work done in The Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture can definitely mark a new milestone in the integration of classical problems and innovative methods in modern number theory!”

Fefman's admiration for Xu Qingshan could not be expressed simply by the words in the email.

The paper submitted by Xu Qingshan has a total of 45 pages.

However, the email that Fefman sent to Xu Qingshan, which was full of praise and analysis of the paper, was 70 pages long.

"You have proved that this conjecture holds in a wider range of situations by introducing quantitative recursive theory of dynamical systems and measure rigidity tools. This not only solves a long-standing unsolved problem, but also deepens our understanding of the distribution of points on manifolds."

"At the same time, you have also achieved methodological innovation, which directly promoted how to use homogeneous dynamical systems to study Diophantine problems. You used the orbital distribution of analytic lattices in homogeneous space to transform Diophantine properties into the ergodicity of dynamical systems. This idea is simply a stroke of genius! I can't imagine under what circumstances you thought of using Margulis's measure classification theorem to prove the zero measure property of exceptional sets. At the same time, you can also introduce quantitative non-divergence estimates, so as to successfully deal with extreme cases that are difficult to capture with traditional methods."

"Believe me, your methodological innovation will provide new tools for dealing with high-dimensional and nonlinear approximation problems. In time, your method will be popular in the entire mathematics community."

"In addition to the methodological achievements, you have also achieved the ultimate in the detailed characterization of high-dimensional and non-homogeneous cases. In the classic Dirichlet theorem, the results of homogeneous approximation have been widely studied. The complexity of the non-homogeneous case where the approximation target is an arbitrary real number is higher, but you have made breakthroughs in both, proving that the Hausdorff dimension of the non-homogeneous Badly Approximable set is consistent with that of the homogeneous case, correcting the previous speculation about their differences. In multiple approximations, you give the optimal estimate of the fractal dimension of the exceptional set, revealing the hierarchical structure of the approximation properties in the parameter space."

"The content of this attached letter is not the limit of my mood, but the limit of my need to reply to you as soon as possible. I hope you will like the front page I got for you. By the way, I asked someone to send you two more copies. Please sign one of them and send it back to me."

“This is the most significant development that Diophantus has made in the 21st century. If I may say so, I think it is very necessary to treasure it.”

If other contributors read Fefman's cover letter, they would probably be completely devastated.

You should know that in most of the replies to Annals of Mathematics submissions, Fefman always had only one extremely formulaic and indifferent response.

Only truly brilliant articles could elicit his detailed response.

But it is absolutely unique for someone like Xu Qingshan to receive a 70-page long letter from Fefferman that includes evaluation, analysis, praise, and casual conversation.

It’s not that Fefferman has never seen the world.

It was just that he really found it hard to imagine what kind of genius Xu Qingshan was. What kind of God-given talent did he have to be able to achieve such significant academic achievements in such a short period of time.

Moreover, compared with the proof of the twin prime conjecture, which focuses more on the vertical direction, Fefman obviously prefers the hidden meaning revealed in "The Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture".

The achievement of this paper in Diophantine approximation is not only reflected in solving specific conjectures, but also in the fact that Xu Qingshan has created a new paradigm of deep integration of dynamical systems and classical number theory.

His work has advanced the field with profound insights and technical originality, and provided a methodological paradigm for related interdisciplinary disciplines.

This research direction will continue to influence future explorations of the intersection of number theory and dynamical systems.

This means.

Xu Qingshan not only possesses strong mathematical talent and analytical thinking, but also has even stronger creative thinking and the potential to lead the mathematics community to complete new methodological reforms.

If it weren't for the Pacific Ocean between them, Fefferman would have wanted to write a letter in blood to the president, asking him to recruit Xu Qingshan to Princeton.

Only the great Princeton is worthy of having a super genius like Xu Qingshan who is destined to become a legend of the era and a historical giant!

Charles Fefferman, who was far away on the other side of the ocean, might never have imagined that as the editor-in-chief of four top journals, one day he would squat in front of the computer and anxiously wait for other people's replies after sending emails.

So many years.

At this moment, he could finally empathize with the scholars who submitted their papers to him.

He is like a little loser waiting for the goddess's favor.

In that 70-page cover letter, it was impossible for him to only give praise and analysis. Instead, between the lines he revealed Princeton's advantages in all aspects, and that research at Xu Qingshan's level could get better treatment and higher efficiency at Princeton, and so on and so forth.

His little thoughts were obvious.

What he is most worried about now is that Xu Qingshan will directly reject his invitation, and he will have no chance to make another invitation.

"Ding!"

After receiving the email in the mailbox, Professor Fefman did not open it immediately. Instead, he pointed at his shoulder blades and forehead in front of the computer, closed his eyes, moved his lips, and silently said "god bless me", and then opened the email.

It was indeed a reply from Xu Qingshan.

He read the reply nervously, word by word, afraid that he would miss any key words.

But the more he looked at it, the colder his heart became.

Xu Qingshan expressed his gratitude for the obviously above-standard evaluation and treatment, but did not mention a word about Professor Fefferman's invitation.

It was as if he was blind and didn't understand what Professor Fefferman meant at all.

only.

Fefferman breathed a sigh of relief at the end because Xu Qingshan expressed his longing and love for Princeton in the last paragraph, including his memories of attending a previous conference in Princeton.

have to say.

Xu Qingshan knew what it meant to lay a nest. He said nothing in just a few words, yet it seemed as if he had said everything.

Professor Fefferman's mood, which was as turbulent as a roller coaster, was calmed down, and he was also able to catch a black carp.

"If possible, I hope Mr. Fefman can help me pay attention to another paper on the Wirsing-Schmidt conjecture. If possible, I can contact you in real time to complete the revision of this paper. Whether the two papers are published at the same time or in the same issue, they may bring us more attention."

Since it is called "making a nest", it means that bait will be thrown.

As soon as the bait was thrown, Professor Fefferman rushed to look through the other paper that Xu Qingshan mentioned.

I guess the only person who can use one paper to push the editors of the four top journals to speed up the review of another paper is Xu Qingshan.

"If nothing goes wrong, we'll get it. When Fefferman returns my second article, I'll give him my senior's paper. If we keep this pace, our team will be the sole publisher of this year's Annals of Mathematics."

Xu Qingshan pondered and talked to himself.

"I just don't believe it. If our team can really speed up every article and dominate the list of Mathematical Annals, can I still keep my voice down in front of Mr. Qiu?"

Xu Qingshan held his breath.

He hadn't felt this way in a long time, and he wanted to prove his feelings.

Moreover, Xu Qingshan's behavior of targeting Professor Fefferman in fishing for black carp was actually intentional.

Although he had already asked Jiang Daohua to start planning the construction of the school, which meant that he would be stationed in his own school in the future, this did not mean that he would not maintain an ambiguous relationship with major well-known universities in the world.

Just having Jingcheng University and Huaqing University is not enough.

Just like this time.

Because of Mr. Qiu's sudden idea, the top leaders of Beijing University and Huaqing University were busy and anxious.

But what if the connection you have is in the global mathematics community?
Who knows, by then the title of "Emperor of Mathematics" may fall on me.

The emperor takes turns and comes to my house next year.

From Xu Qingshan's own perspective, Mr. Qiu's achievements are indeed great, but much of his halo and reputation are also created by his connections in the circle.

Given Mr. Qiu’s attitude towards Huaqing, doesn’t he make him an academic scumbag?

Since they are all academic scumbags, he wants to be a bigger and stronger academic scumbag.

As long as I am a scumbag enough, I will have fans in scientific research institutions all over the world. Then, won’t I be able to become the emperor of mathematics carried by everyone in a fancy sedan?
Before, Xu Qingshan did not have such a strong desire for these titles. He valued the actual things he got more.

But now he understands.

These titles and halos can sometimes directly affect what you get.

However, Xu Qingshan was quickly pulled out of this state of immersion in imagining the future.

I saw Jiang Huanxi standing beside me with a frown on his face.

"Student Xu Qingshan, do you want to check it out? You haven't been home for a few days?"

(End of this chapter)