They're already in university, and the primary school system is only just starting out?

Chapter 85 Undergraduate Graduation Thesis

After he finished speaking, he distributed the documents and, together with the two business school graduate students beside him, lowered their heads and began to study and discuss them word by word, occasionally writing and drawing in their notebooks.

The meeting room fell silent for a moment, with only the rustling sound of papers turning.

Principal Chang nodded in satisfaction, then turned to Chen Lin and Huang Yiyi and said with a smile, "Let's not sit idly by, let's fill out those forms first."

"OK."

So, under Huang Yiyi's patient and meticulous guidance, Chen Lin also picked up a pen and began to fill out the forms one by one.

While Chen Lin was busy in the conference room about the birth of his company.

Inside the School of Mathematical Sciences office building, Professor Gu Ming was comfortably leaning back in his office chair, sipping a cup of coffee.

He had just finished an online video conference with an international team to discuss a tricky project problem, and was now about to browse the latest academic journals to relax his tense nerves.

He opened his email and immediately saw an unread message from Chen Lin.

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"Oh? The first draft of the paper has been sent over?"

Gu Ming perked up, quickly put down his teacup, and moved the mouse to click in.

The email body was very simple, containing only one sentence: "Dear Professor Gu, the first draft of the main body of the paper is complete. Please see the attachment for details. Please review it."

Gu Ming's gaze quickly fell on the title of the PDF attachment.

[Slicing-Filtering-Convex Hull Solution of High-Dimensional Monge-Ampere Equations and Its Theoretical Framework for Manifold Boundary Identification in Generative Model Data]

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Even though Chen Lin had already told him about it, Gu Ming's eyes still twitched slightly when he saw the somewhat exaggerated headline again.

If this subject line were sent by an ordinary undergraduate student, Gu Ming wouldn't even bother to open the attachment; he would simply reply with a strongly worded email, telling him to choose a more practical topic.

To pursue scholarship, one must first have a devout heart.

Those who are impatient for quick success and have unrealistic ambitions are destined to go nowhere.

No matter how talented an undergraduate is in mathematics, how could they possibly produce any decent results on a world-class problem like the Monge-Ampère equation?

but----

His attitude towards Chen Lin was ultimately different.

Thinking of those flawless, perfect-score exam papers, and of the on-the-spot problem-solving approach that even moved Academician Liang Tianshi, Gu Ming's doubts began to waver slightly.

Perhaps—he really did, as he said, simply follow the line of thought of his predecessors and push the research on this problem forward by "just a little bit"?

Yes, that's possible.

While Gu Ming was making plans in his mind, he opened the attachment.

However, he was prepared for what to do if, after reading it, he found that Chen Lin's research did not have any substantial value, and how to make him take the paper back to redo it in a relatively gentle way.

We need to make him understand that academic pursuits shouldn't be based on unrealistic expectations, but we also need to avoid damaging his precious self-confidence and interest in scientific research.

With this cautious yet somewhat complex feeling, Gu Ming's gaze fell on the main text of the paper.

Then, the expression on his face began to subtly change.

At first, there was a slight surprise.

He found that the writing style of this paper was indeed very amateurish.

It is filled with colloquial expressions, and the transitions between paragraphs are somewhat abrupt, lacking the rigorous and standardized connections that academic papers should have.

No experienced writer who has written several academic papers would make such a basic mistake.

Seeing this, Gu Ming felt a sense of relief.

At least this proves that Chen Lin did indeed type out this paper word by word, and that it was not copied or pieced together from somewhere else.

But as he continued reading and shifted his attention from the writing style to the core content of the paper, his heart, which had just settled down, suddenly jumped into his throat again.

As he looked at it, his brows furrowed unconsciously, and his expression gradually changed from cautious to solemn, and finally, it turned into deep contemplation.

The paper details everything from the initial setting of the research problem to the construction of the entire research framework, and finally to the construction of the novel mathematical method that Chen Lin named "slicing-filtering-convex hull"—

Any part involving pure mathematical theory is just like the exam papers he graded two weeks ago.

Flawless!

In fact, it could be described as "exceptionally talented"!

If that's all there is to it, then it's not so bad.

After all, having gone through that mind-blowing exam, Gu Ming believed he had a relatively comprehensive understanding of Chen Lin's math skills.

What truly shocked Gu Ming was the realization that, despite his Cambridge PhD and professorship in the Department of Mathematics at Yannan University, he was reading this paper at an unusually slow pace!

Although he could understand every derivation and every calculation in the paper after careful study.

However, after reading a few paragraphs, he had to stop, frown, and think repeatedly, even picking up a pen and working through the calculations on a draft paper to fully confirm the logical chain within.

This feeling —

Gu Ming recalled carefully that the last time he felt this strained was when he was studying for his doctorate at Cambridge, when he first read his supervisor's paper on the Langlands program published in the Annales of Mathematics!

The research progress presented in this paper, as Chen Lin previously stated, is indeed only a "small step" forward from the bottleneck of existing research.

But this small step was precise and crucial, and extremely inspiring!

It is no exaggeration to say that the value of this paper is even greater than all the papers in the field of differential geometry that he has read this year!

"This—how is this possible?"

Gu Ming muttered to himself unconsciously, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Intuitively, he still trusted Chen Lin's character.

Based on his more than 20 years of academic experience, he found it hard to believe that this was a paper written by an undergraduate student.

Even if Chen Lin was incredibly good at solving problems before, in Gu Ming's eyes, that only showed his great potential and his strong ability to master and apply mathematical knowledge and tools.

But this is several levels below being at the forefront of a certain mathematical field and making a contribution that can drive the development of the entire field!

Could it be that he referenced a newly published paper that he hadn't had a chance to see yet?

The thought suddenly popped into Gu Ming's mind, and he immediately grasped at it as if it were a lifeline.

He selected a core passage from the paper and copied and pasted it directly into the search box on the dog search engine.

Press Enter.

The search results that popped up on the screen were varied, but none of them had any connection whatsoever to the content he had copied.

Gu Ming was not giving up and switched to several other professional search engines, but the result was still the same.