A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 157 Why Did You Come to My Class?
Your math level has improved from 3 (15%) to 16%.

Your physics rating has increased from level 3 (7%) to 8%.

Only after the dust settled did Chen Hui have time to notice the barrage of comments that had been flashing before his eyes. During that burst of inspiration, his math proficiency increased by 4% and his physics proficiency increased by 6%.

Chen Hui never imagined that conducting experiments could be so helpful for mathematics.

The improvement in proficiency alone made the trip worthwhile for Chen Hui. What's more, there were two papers that Professor Xiao judged to be worthy of being published in the top quartile of SCI journals. If he could gain more free attribute points, the gains from this experiment would be immense.

But clearly, Chen Hui also had some unexpected gains.

The research funding was transferred to the research group's account that afternoon. Generally, the funding for such projects is not paid in full at once. The remaining funds can only be received after progress reports, results reports, and materials are submitted in stages.

But this time, the two million yuan in funding was transferred to the research group's account in one go.

Without saying a word, Xiao Meng first paid everyone their salaries.

Unlike some professors who deposit research funds into students' accounts as salaries and then ask them to transfer the money back to her, she wouldn't do that. It's common in universities for professors to deposit 3,000 and then transfer 2,500 back, and it's also quite common for professors to deposit 3,000 and then transfer 3,000 back.

In addition to his salary of 3,000 yuan, Chen Hui also received a bonus of 50,000 yuan. Professor Xiao also said that there would be an even more generous reward when the project was completed.

If the patent is put into production in the future, Chen Hui will also receive 70% of the profits.

This was something Chen Hui hadn't expected. He could foresee the application prospects of this patent, and if it were ever industrialized, it would probably bring him astonishing wealth.

He was equally shocked by Professor Xiao's generosity. Normally, the laboratory, experimental equipment, and research projects belonged to Professor Xiao. Even though Chen Hui played an important, or even decisive, role, professors would only give him 30% of the profits.

For a fleeting moment, Chen Hui even considered turning back to physics, as the wealth that applied physics could bring was simply incomparable to mathematics.

But Chen Hui quickly abandoned the idea. He had already earned enough wealth to squander, so there was no need for him to rush into fully shifting to applied research. Perhaps that day would come, but at least not now.

Money can be a powerful motivator. Once their salaries arrived, all the graduate students in the lab were energized and full of enthusiasm.

After everyone received their salaries, they didn't celebrate immediately. Instead, they went back to sleep and then excitedly returned to the lab to start the next experiment. By the afternoon of the second day alone, they had broken the record for the highest ZT value. Now, the number has reached 2.67!

Chen Hui couldn't help with the next part of the work. He returned to the library, first sending the completed paper to the submission email address of the Mathematics Yearbook, and then began writing the two papers based on the results of the experiments.

Looking at the computer screen, the experimental data I had been studying over the past few days flooded my mind, formulas naturally emerged, and finally formed a completely new model.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Hui raised his fingers and typed on the keyboard: "A unified model of heat transport based on fractional calculus and fractal topology: from Hausdorff measure to phonon localization".

This paper establishes a novel mathematical framework for heat transport, solving the failure problem of the traditional Debye-Callaway model in fractal media by integrating fractional calculus, geometric measure theory, and non-equilibrium Green's functions. First, we prove that when the Hausdorff dimension D of the material defect satisfies 1.5... (40%). This work provides rigorous mathematical tools for topology defect engineering and opens up a new paradigm for material reverse design based on fractal geometry.

With his thoughts flowing freely, Chen Hui's fingers never stopped, and he completed the paper almost in one go.

"Chen Hui, we've finally found you!"

Just then, a soft voice sounded in Chen Hui's ear. Yin Hao sat down next to him, looking travel-worn, and whispered, "It's been more than a week since school started, and you haven't gone to a single class, bro?"

"Although I've answered all the questions for you, doing it too many times might still be risky. The first class this afternoon is Professor Xie's class. I heard that professor fails a lot of students. Why don't you go to class?"

Chen Hui then remembered that he was still a college student, and college students should be required to attend classes.

You can't blame him. Not to mention that he started not paying attention in class during junior and senior high school, he has been busy with various competitions in the past few months and hasn't attended classes for a long time. As a result, he is still not used to university.

"it is good."

Chen Hui nodded. He decided to go and listen to a university class that afternoon to see what it was like. When he was in high school, Teacher An had given him a lot of inspiration, which triggered several moments of enlightenment and greatly improved his math skills. He figured that university professors must be even better, and listening to their lectures would be much better than trying to figure it out on his own.
Even if the teacher's lectures weren't very good, he could still learn on his own in class, since he was already familiar with it.

Yin Hao smiled happily. As the class monitor, being able to persuade a prodigal son to turn over a new leaf and contribute to the class's development brought him a great sense of accomplishment.

After closing their laptops and putting them in their bags, the two went to the cafeteria for lunch. Yin Hao went back to his dorm for a nap, while Chen Hui went straight to the classroom where he would have his afternoon class. He found the last row, sat down, turned on his laptop, and continued writing his physics-related paper.

After a moment's thought, Chen Hui typed the title in the WPS document: "Breakthrough in Phonon Localization Induced by Fractal Defects in the Golden Ratio: Realizing CuSe-based Thermoelectric Materials with ZT=2.1".

This paper discovers a novel mechanism for significantly improving thermoelectric performance through controllable fractal defect engineering in copper selenide thin films synthesized by vapor deposition…

Unlike the Langlands program paper, which was still in the process of thinking about the problem it was trying to solve, the writing was naturally slow and took about a month to complete.

But all the preparations for these two papers had already been completed. Now it was just a matter of summarizing these inspirations and practices. Writing the papers was naturally very fast. Chen Hui's thoughts flowed like a spring, his fingers never stopping, and words appeared on the blank screen, then changed to new blank page numbers...

Before we knew it, the classroom was getting fuller.

Many people already knew Chen Hui, and were quite surprised to see this expert attending class for the first time.

But no one sat down next to Chen Hui. After all, they had just entered university and still had some interest in studying. Many of them even went to sit in the front row. If they didn't reserve a seat in advance, they wouldn't be able to sit in the front row.

Even those who aren't particularly interested in studying just sit in the back, the very last row, because it's too conspicuous.

Yin Piao sat in the third row, the best study spot, and looked back at Chen Hui, her eyes filled with fighting spirit.

He also found a teacher to guide his research, and he began to study seriously. He believed that as long as he was serious, he could reach that guy's level, or even be stronger!

As class time approached, the classroom quieted down a bit, and everyone eagerly awaited the teacher's arrival. At that moment, Yin Hao arrived late with his roommates.

"Is this where the big boss sits?"

Yin Hao frowned slightly as he looked at Chen Hui's seat. He didn't want to be so conspicuous, but he eventually sat down next to Chen Hui.

"The boss has finally decided to come to class?"

Li Zehan plopped down next to Chen Hui without any hesitation. "I heard that this Professor Xie is quite capable. I didn't expect even the boss to be alarmed. I'd better listen carefully."

Zhang Xia was speechless. This was an overstatement, as if it was an honor for Professor Xie that Chen Hui attended Professor Xie's class.

Jingle bell bell bell…

As the school bell rang, a middle-aged man with sparse hair on his forehead and hair combed forward in the middle of his head, obscuring his smooth forehead, walked into the classroom.

When the bell rang, Professor Xie did not start the class immediately. Instead, he placed the textbook on the podium and walked straight towards Chen Hui and the others.

Oops!

Yin Hao had a bad feeling.

He knew he couldn't sit in such a conspicuous spot. Mathematics Analysis was a large class, with three classes taking it together, so the classroom was naturally quite large, easily accommodating over a hundred people. This resulted in the first few rows of the last row being empty.

So, those of them sitting in the last row were indeed quite conspicuous.

Why are you here in my class?

Professor Xie stopped in front of Chen Hui, and his first words were full of hostility.

Feeling uneasy, Yin Hao quickly explained, "Professor Xie, we will listen attentively even if we sit in the last row."

Xie Zheng glanced at Yin Hao, somewhat puzzled, then continued to Chen Hui, "I've read your paper, it's very well written!"

"Go do your own thing. You don't need to come to my classes anymore. You won't learn anything from these classes. As long as you get a perfect score on the final exam, that's fine."

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Yin Hao stood there, stunned, unsure of what to say.

Chen Hui was also a little surprised, but he quickly started packing his things. Since the teacher said so, he would definitely choose to believe the teacher's judgment.

Seeing Chen Hui packing his things, Xie Zheng smiled happily. It felt good to be trusted. He himself was not a gifted mathematician. He had only published a few SCI papers in Q1 journals in his entire life, and had wasted his life.

Therefore, he was particularly lenient with gifted students.

As someone once said, ordinary mathematicians like them work hard their whole lives, only to save geniuses an afternoon.

Now, what he saved for Chen Hui was not just an afternoon, but a full 272 class hours!
Mathematical analysis is one of the most important foundational courses for undergraduate mathematics majors, including calculus, limit theory, and real number theory, spanning three semesters and six class hours per week...

By this calculation, his contributions far exceed those of ordinary mathematicians.

Hearing what the teacher said, Li Zehan also started packing his things. He felt that getting a perfect score on the final exam didn't seem too difficult.

Chen Ling'er, who was standing next to her, followed suit, and in the blink of an eye, the three of them walked out of the classroom.

Xie Zheng didn't stop him. Taking attendance in class was only for students who didn't study hard. For students like Chen Hui, their initiative in learning no longer required such methods.

Hopefully, these little guys will be able to achieve something in the future, so that all his hard work won't be in vain!

Then his gaze fell on Yin Hao and Zhang Xia, "What, you two also got full marks on the final exam?"

"what?"

Yin Hao was shocked.

"Ah for what?"

"Why aren't you sitting in the front? What kind of class are you going to have in the last row?"

"There are two seats left in the first row, so you can sit there."

Xie Zheng gave a reprimand and turned back to the podium.

Yin Hao and Zhang Xia looked miserable, but they couldn't disobey the teacher's instructions. They picked up their books and schoolbags and walked to the first row.

During class, the classroom is usually very quiet. Although they didn't deliberately raise their voices, quite a few students still heard them.

"paper?"

"What paper?"

Many students were destined not to pay attention in this class and began to search for Chen Hui's name intensively online.

They soon made their discovery. This wasn't exactly a secret, and it was even heavily promoted by Jiangcheng University, with announcements on the university's official website and various social media accounts. It's just that people don't usually pay attention to it.

"Holy crap, they started publishing papers in their freshman year? Is this what a genius is like?"

"Holy crap!"

"Wait, the Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics? I feel like I've heard of that journal before."

"Holy crap! This is a Zone 1 journal!"

Soon, some students found out the journal's section, and they all stood there dumbfounded, not really wanting to say anything.

They strongly suspected it was fake news; that guy was only a freshman who had just started college!

We're all freshmen, so why is there such a big difference between us?

However, these messages were released on the official website of Jiangcheng University, and some students also went to the official website of the Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics and saw Chen Hui's paper, leaving no room for doubt.

Yin Piao looked at the blackboard, his eyes already unfocused.

Is it a Q1 SCI journal?
He believes that as long as he works hard, given another six months, he can also make a fortune!

Yin Hao thought for a moment and then forwarded the message to his girlfriend, Liang Xuefei.

School of Foreign Languages, Introduction to Literature Course
The scenery here is completely different from that in the math analysis classroom. If the math analysis classroom is a tranquil lake, then this place is a colorful oil painting, full of birdsong and fragrant aromas that can be smelled just by looking at it from outside.

Among the girls, Liang Xuefei and her three roommates sat in the fourth row of the classroom. Girls always tend to be more studious, and no matter how well they study, their attitude is much more upright than that of the boys. They arrived early and secured a very advantageous position.

Suddenly, Liang Xuefei picked up her phone. Young couples who have just fallen in love are always eager to hear news from their other half.

Upon clicking the link sent by Yin Hao, Liang Xuefei's mouth quickly dropped open.

They have no interest in or understanding of solutions to cubic Diophantine equations, but they understand the value of a Q1 SCI paper.

If they remembered correctly, Chen Yu's boyfriend published a Q2 SCI paper during his sophomore year.

After thinking it over, Liang Xuefei ultimately decided not to pass the message on to her roommate.

Sometimes ignorance is not necessarily a bad thing.

(End of this chapter)