A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 200 Do you still remember me?
After agreeing on the collaboration with Teacher Xiao, Teacher Xiao busied himself arranging the work. Chen Hui went to the cafeteria for a meal, and shortly after returning to the office, Wang Qiming sent him an interview invitation.

When Wang Qiming brought the student over, he only glanced at Chen Hui's office before taking the student to his own office.

Wang Qiming asked the other party to wait in the office before coming over again.

"Has the school arranged a classroom and dormitory for you?"

Looking at the small office, Wang Qiming was both amused and exasperated. "This doesn't look like an office; it looks more like a dormitory. If outsiders saw this, they'd think we were abusing a math genius."

"The teachers' dormitory is too far away, and it's a waste of time to go back and forth."

Chen Hui didn't mind; he thought the environment here was quite good, both for working and resting.

“The school’s dormitory area is indeed a bit tight. After a while, I’ll arrange a room for you in the dormitory building next door and also assign you a meeting room. You’ll be leading students in the future.”

Wang Qiming already had a plan in mind. It wasn't that he didn't care about some things, but rather that their School of Mathematics was too weak, and many resources were not available to them.

If it weren't for Chen Hui and Yuan Xinyi, the situation would have been even more serious.

However, I doubt anyone at the school would object to securing a meeting room for Chen Hui.

Following Wang Qiming to his office, Chen Hui saw the brown-haired girl sitting there waiting.

"It's you?"

He was somewhat surprised, not expecting it to be an acquaintance.

It turned out to be Chloe, the girl I met at Saclay University last year.

"Do you remember me?"

Chloe's eyes lit up as she happily remarked that in just six months, her Chinese had become quite fluent.

"Are you here for an interview too?"

Chloe was excited, which meant that the two of them could become fellow disciples in the future, which was fantastic!

Chen Hui hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Although it might be a little different from what Chloe thought, he was indeed there for an interview.

"Do you know?"

Wang Qiming gave the two of them a sizable look.

"I met her when I participated in the IMO last year. She is a student at Saclay University."

Chen Hui nodded. He had a very good impression of Saclay University. The presence of professors like Taragran and Arancone was enough to demonstrate the school's character.

He remembered that the other party said they were coming to Jiangcheng University, but he didn't expect them to actually come.

"Then, is an interview still necessary?"

Wang Qiming wasn't worried about avoiding suspicion. This student had already passed the interview and been admitted to Jiangcheng University. It was just that due to the personal reasons of the teacher who admitted her, she needed to be interviewed again.

This student's level is beyond doubt.

"of course."

Chen Hui gave an affirmative answer, took out a few sheets of A4 paper, and handed them to Chloe, saying, "You have two hours. Do as much as you can."

"?"

Chloe stared blankly at the folded A4 paper, then looked at Chen Hui and Wang Qiming.

"This is the teacher who interviewed you, Chen Hui, a professor we just hired this year at Jiangcheng University!"

Wang Qiming raised his hand to introduce.

"professor?"

"He's already a professor?"

Chloe paused for a moment, then her eyes began to sparkle.

She had heard a lot about Chen Hui over the past few months, and his appointment as a professor was well-deserved. She just hadn't expected that universities in China would be so bold.

"You've already wasted a minute."

Chen Hui checked the time and reminded him.

He cherishes his time.

Chloe didn't say much. She took the A4 paper, sat down in her original seat, and immersed herself in the exam paper without any distractions.

Chen Hui sat down on the other side, took out a stack of papers, and began to study them carefully.

Wang Qiming looked at Chen Hui, then at Chloe, and suddenly felt that the two were simply a match made in heaven.

Without disturbing the two of them, he turned and left the office.

Two hours passed in the blink of an eye. When Chen Hui stood up, Chloe's face turned a little pale, but she still stopped writing, tidied up the A4 paper, and handed it to Chen Hui.

There were ten questions on the folded A4 paper, but she only solved five. She knew that according to Chinese rules, at least six questions had to be solved to pass.

"not bad!"

After reviewing the answer sheet, Chen Hui nodded in satisfaction. Chloe had answered all five questions without any major problems.

He had given this test paper to Li Zehan, and that guy only managed to solve five questions in two hours, which was enough to show that Chloe's math foundation was quite good.

"Ok?"

Chloe thought she was hallucinating and was momentarily confused.

"Welcome to be my first student!"

Chen Hui smiled and reached out his hand.

"Hello teacher!"

A smile bloomed on Chloe's face, her blue pupils shining brightly like crystals. She reached out and grasped Chen Hui's hand, speaking clearly and articulately.

"Take a look at this paper first. If there's anything you don't understand, you can come to my office at 3 pm every day to ask me."

Chen Hui handed over a stack of papers, including his own "Geometry of Number Theory," as well as his unpublished work that he had been working on these past few days.

The Yang-Mills equations and Navier-Stokes equations consumed a lot of his energy, and Professor Xiao Meng's lab also needed someone with a solid mathematical foundation to help out, so Chloe was undoubtedly a good candidate.

"Don't worry, teacher, I will try my best!"

"come on!"

Chen Hui offered his encouragement.

Chloe, however, was already beaming with joy.

At that moment, she felt as if all the flowers in the world had bloomed.

He cheered me on!
Chen Hui sent a WeChat message to Wang Qiming, asking Chloe to continue reading the paper in Wang Qiming's office, and then returned to his own office.

Not long after I got back, a fat man peeked out from the doorway.

"Good afternoon, boss."

After being discovered, Li Zehan stopped hiding and walked into Chen Hui's office with a grin.

"What's the matter? Tell me."

"Hey, didn't you teach a course on functional analysis?"

"Classes haven't even started yet, and you already want me to give you special treatment?"

"How could that be? Do you think I need you to pull strings for me?"

Li Zehan jumped three feet high and denied it repeatedly, "It's just that I didn't get into your class. Can you add me, Yin Hao, Zhang Xia, and Ling'er to the list?"

Chen Hui thought it was something important and readily agreed. Then, looking at Li Zehan, he suddenly asked, "Young man, would you be interested in studying for your master's degree with me?"

He didn't make this decision on a whim. He knew about Li Zehan's talent. If he and Chloe helped, he wouldn't need to go to Professor Xiao Meng's lab much; he could just point out the direction, which would save him a lot of time.

"That depends on your performance."

Li Zehan hesitated for only a moment before speaking, "I was originally planning to go to Princeton to find a Phil Fellowship professor, but you're still quite lacking."

"Of course, if you can win the Philippine Award, I'll still consider it for the sake of our many years of friendship."

"But you'd better hurry, I plan to finish all my credits this semester, so you don't have much time left."

"Oh, is it so?"

Chen Hui smiled slightly, "Didn't you just report on my functional analysis?"

"If I fail a course, I probably won't be able to apply to Princeton, right?"

"Fuck me!"

Li Zehan suddenly realized, "I regret it. Can you remove my name from your list?"

There's no going back in this world.

Chen Hui said with a smile, "Of course, if you can do me a favor, I might consider giving you a good score."

He knew Li Zehan's abilities; getting a perfect score might be difficult, but a high score would be a piece of cake. He only needed to give him a normal grade.

"Tell me, what are you busy with?"

Li Zehan rolled his small eyes warily.

"I have a project that requires manpower."

"That's it?"

"Of course, what else did you think it was?"

"Since you've asked so sincerely, I'll be merciful and help you this once."

Li Zehan said smugly.

"Very good, very energetic."

"Take the folded paper back and read it first."

Chen Hui, who had been prepared, threw a pile of papers at Li Zehan, saying, "Every afternoon at three o'clock, your nephew will come to me to ask me questions. You can come over and give her some pointers."

"With so many papers, are you trying to change the world?"

Li Zehan let out a wail, knowing that his time would be compressed to the extreme in the future.

"You never know!"

Chen Hui was indeed confident in this.

Li Zehan felt a chill run down his spine, and his attitude towards the stack of papers in his hand subtly changed.

"Those two guys, Yin Hao and Zhang Xia, absolutely have to treat me to some barbecue!"

Li Zehan left the office grumbling, already thinking about how to get Chen Ling'er to come and help him as well.

Chen Hui sat down at his desk, opened the window, looked at the scenery outside, and felt happy.

He knew that Li Zehan was also ambitious and aspiring; both were IMO gold medalists, and both were considered child prodigies.

Perhaps he sees himself as the target to be caught up with, so naturally he is unwilling to become his student.

This kind of cooperation is actually a good option.

……

Wednesday, during the first two periods in the afternoon.
Yin Hao and Zhang Xia arrived at the classroom early and secured the best learning spots. Functional analysis was not simple to begin with, and since it was a class taught by Chen Hui, they were even more serious about it.

At 1:55, students began to enter the classroom one after another, and more and more students joined in. Soon the classroom was full, and more students kept coming in.

Clearly, not all of these people were students who had chosen Chen Hui's course; many were not even from the School of Mathematics. Looking at their excited expressions, they seemed more like fans than students attending a class.

When Chen Hui walked into the classroom, he was also startled, thinking he had gone to the wrong classroom. He remembered that his class was a small class of 40 students, but there were probably no less than 100 people in this classroom.

Jingle bell bell bell…

Chen Hui walked up to the podium empty-handed, inserted the USB drive into the computer used for teaching, and stood quietly behind the podium, waiting for the bell to ring.

"You are welcome to attend my class."

Chen Hui spoke calmly, but his inner thoughts were not as undisturbed as he appeared.

The transition from student to teacher was a wonderful experience for him, but as images of Teacher An, Teacher Yuan, and Grandpa Tianyang appeared in his mind, his eyes became firm.

"I hope everyone can gain something from my class."

After speaking, Chen Hui clicked the mouse to open the PowerPoint presentation.

As Chen Hui made his move, a faint chirping of crickets filled the classroom.

"Holy crap, our boss is so cool! He came to class without even bringing his books?"

Li Zehan thought to himself, feeling that his boss was indeed his role model. He still had a lot to learn from him when it came to showing off.

"No way, is he planning to teach us using only PowerPoint slides?"

Zeng Yiyuan whispered to Yin Piao beside him.

Mathematics is different from Chinese class. In Chinese class, you can talk about anything and everything based on your knowledge reserves, but in mathematics, you need to pay attention to the structure, formulas and derivations.

Functional analysis itself is quite difficult; how could he possibly memorize the entire textbook?
Yin Piao didn't speak, but just stared at the blackboard. Clearly, he also had some doubts. He wanted to see how Chen Hui was going to teach them.

The other students were quite excited. They hadn't come to listen to the lecture in the first place, so this would undoubtedly be a good opportunity to share their experiences.

"Before class begins, I'd like to clarify a few things with you,"

Although he felt that attending classes might take up his time, Chen Hui still made thorough preparations since he had agreed.

"First of all, I hope you will take the initiative to ask questions and dare to question. There are no 'taken-for-granted' conclusions in functional analysis. If the proof of a certain theorem confuses you, please feel free to interrupt me to ask a question. Vague understanding is more dangerous than wrong conclusions!"

"I hope you will value intuition, but don't stop at intuition. I will use geometric examples, such as Fourier series and probability spaces, to help you build intuition, but ultimately you should be able to move beyond specific examples and deduce logical chains from abstract symbols."

"Finally, the rigor of mathematics requires that every step of reasoning be rigorous and can withstand scrutiny, but this does not mean that you can fully master it on your first encounter. Allow yourself to make mistakes, but be sure to correct them through exercises and discussions."

After Chen Hui finished speaking, he paused for a moment, glanced around the classroom, and seeing that no one had any questions, began today's lesson.

"Okay, let's begin the lesson!"

Chen Hui was unaware of his classmates' doubts. The textbook on functional analysis was already in his mind, so he naturally didn't need to bring the book.

"The essence of mathematics is abstraction and unity. When we study calculus, we study functions and limits; when we study linear algebra, we focus on vector spaces and linear transformations."

"Functional analysis, on the other hand, serves as a bridge to elevate these concepts to a higher level—it no longer studies simple numbers or functions, but rather 'functions of functions,' or more broadly, 'spaces' and 'mappings.'"

Functional analysis provides a unified framework for both Hilbert spaces in quantum mechanics and infinite-dimensional optimization problems in data science.

It can be said that it is the link between pure mathematics and applied mathematics, and even more so, one of the languages ​​of modern science!

"Now turn to the first chapter, Distance Space and Paradigm Space..."

The functional analysis course at Jiangcheng University uses the textbook "Functional Analysis (Second Edition)" published by Jiangcheng University.

"Distance space, also known as metric space, refers to a non-empty set X, in which a distance function d(x, y) is defined, satisfying the following three conditions..."

As Chen Hui spoke, he turned around and wrote on the blackboard. There were no textbooks on the teacher's desk, but he seemed to be able to see them and knew them like the back of his hand.

The students who had initially been skeptical began to look serious.

(End of this chapter)