Zhang Anshi was about to announce the next topic when his cell phone rang. He took it out and saw that it was Duan Chun, his junior fellow student when he was studying for a Ph.D. The two had not contacted each other for some days and heard that the other party went to Princeton as a visiting scholar. He hesitated for a moment.

I went out and answered the phone.

After a few words of greeting, Duan Chun suddenly asked: "Brother, is there someone named 'Xu Shengzhou' or 'Xu Shengzhou' in your courtyard?"

Zhang Anshi's heart suddenly thumped, and he had an ominous premonition: It's bad! It can't be good, but it's not working. The student named Xu Shengzhou really plagiarized and was caught doing it, right? Otherwise, why would he be so far away?

Do all the juniors at Princeton know his name? Although Xu Shengzhou is not from the School of Mathematical Sciences, he is still a student of this school. If a scandal breaks out, the whole school will suffer losses, and the School of Mathematical Sciences will not be able to escape alone!

He calmed down: "Did something happen?"

"It's not a bad thing." Duan Chun understood Zhang Anshi's worry, "When we were chatting just now, Professor Andrei Okunkov accidentally mentioned that someone from your school submitted a manuscript to "Invent. Math." It is said that in geometry

Important progress has been made in Hodge's theory, and an unexpected result was obtained, which surprised him very much. So I called you to ask when you introduced such an outstanding talent. When you were in China before

Why haven’t you heard of it?”

"Invent. Math."?

"Invent. Math.", one of the four great journals?

That Xu Shengzhou actually dared to contribute to "Invent. Math."?

The key is, it sounds like it’s very likely to be accepted!!

The School of Mathematics at Beijing Normal University has published several papers in the four major journals over the years, but Zhang Anshi knew that they were all specially appointed lecture professors of the school. They only used their names when publishing papers. The real purpose was to make extra money.

, the school is also happy to pat itself on the back, but actually it has little to do with the School of Mathematics. If Xu Shengzhou’s paper can be published, it should be regarded as the school’s first legitimate paper in the four major journals, right?

It's a pity that he is from the Institute of Science and Technology, and he doesn't seem to have a great relationship with the Institute of Science and Technology.

In just a few seconds, Zhang Anshi was shocked and surprised. His little heart couldn't bear it. He tried to calm down: "To bring in talents, of course, we must quietly enter the village, and we don't want those who shoot guns. You TOP2 look too ugly.

You are so quick to pick the point, but if there is any leakage, you will stop it?——By the way, has that paper been accepted?"

"It's not that fast! The manuscript I just received a few days ago should have passed Initial Editorial Screening and is ready for Under Review. But from what they said, there shouldn't be a big problem in receiving it, and it will only be minor repairs at most. As far as I know, this is a domestic

Congratulations to you for publishing the first paper on arithmetic geometry in a top international journal in the field of mathematics. You have opened up a new research direction without any fanfare and made such big news!"

"Haha, we have accumulated a lot of experience!" In fact, Zhang Anshi was already confused. After a few perfunctory words, he hung up the phone impatiently. He quickly returned to the conference room and asked Heng Ping at the beginning: "Mr. Heng, do you know where Xu Shengzhou has been recently?"

What to study?”

That's right, he used "research".

Hengping didn't know what Zhang Anshi meant, so he replied cautiously: "He is reading something about algebraic number theory."

"Are you studying p-adic Hodge theory?"

Zhang Jianzhi answered for Hengping: "It should be. Last time when Teacher Heng and I went to visit him in the dormitory, we saw a few pages of draft paper, which were about the Hodge theory. What, did something happen?"
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Zhang Anshi took a deep breath: "I just received a call from a friend, saying that Xiao Xu contributed a manuscript to "Invent. Math." about p-adic Hodge theory."

Everyone present obviously knows what kind of publication "Invent. Math." is, so the conference room was quiet for a few seconds, and then quickly exploded: "Young people really don't know how high the sky is! I posted a few Chinese core articles, and then

I thought I was invincible, but I dared to submit an article to "Invent. Math." How many dishes did I drink like this?"

"As long as there are peanuts, I won't be so drunk. Do you think this will be the biggest joke in the industry this year?"

"It has to be said that people are proceeding step by step, first with the Chinese core, then with foreign SCI, and now with the top journals. Young people, after all, have some unrealistic good wishes, which is understandable. Hahahaha!"

Everyone is making fun of Xu Shengzhou's ignorance, but no one calls him plagiarism anymore, because no one with a normal IQ can do this. - If the article is really plagiarized, it is not a submission, it is suicide, and it is self-destruction in public.

That kind of thing. In the midst of the laughter, only Zhang Jianzhi kept his expression unchanged and asked calmly: "What then?"

Zhang Anshi took a deep look at the participants: "According to my friend at Princeton, the paper has made important progress in the geometric relative p-adic Hodge theory, and obtained an unexpected result, which has made famous people in the field of algebraic geometry

Mathematician, Princeton professor, and 2006 Fields Medal winner Andrei Okunkov was very surprised. At present, the paper has passed the editorial preliminary selection and entered the expert review stage. It is expected that the probability of being accepted will be very high!"

The conference room suddenly became quiet. The people who were chatting and laughing just now suddenly opened their mouths wide and became as quiet as chickens. Then they looked at each other: Who am I? Where am I? What did I do just now? Oh, I just insulted someone.

An undergraduate student who is able to publish four major journals is said to be unrealistic and ignorant. It seems that we have denied his qualifications for special recruitment? We are really amazing!

Zhang Jianzhi finally couldn't help complaining: "I think that during the next subject evaluation, we can write a sentence in the report: on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, after research by the Faculty Council, if you reject an undergraduate, you will be awarded the top four majors.

The students of the journal are exempted from postgraduate qualifications. By then, the judges will definitely look at us with admiration and feel that our first-class discipline construction has reached the international leading level, no, it is leading the international level, because I really can’t think of any school that would reject such an outstanding student.

student."

"His paper has just passed the preliminary review. It's still unclear whether it will be accepted or not!" Someone defended in a low voice.

Zhang Jianzhi sneered: "Yes, we have just passed the preliminary evaluation. Then let's all vote for "Invent. Math."!"

The other party was left speechless because he really had nothing to say.

Every one of the attendees today, ask yourself, who has the courage to submit for "Invent. Math."? Of course, if you submit, you will submit. Even if you are a mess, you can submit for "Invent. Math.". After all, submission is the author's right.

It is not illegal to submit a bad manuscript. The key is, after submitting the manuscript, can it pass the editorial preliminary selection? Can it be recognized by the Fields Medal winner?

Ma Pingchuan was also dumbfounded: "No wonder I asked him if he wanted to go to graduate school, and he said he had no plans for the time being. He doesn't like us at all emotionally."

Many people nodded silently after listening.

The most powerful mathematics subjects at Beijing Normal University are probability theory and mathematical statistics. As for the direction of number theory, it is so weak that it is hardly worth mentioning. Why did he go to the Institute of Mathematics to study for graduate school? Do you want to watch a bunch of noobs pecking each other? Can he submit an article for "Invent. Math"

.", and has been recognized by the Fields Medal winner, which fully shows that his research on a certain issue in algebraic number theory is already at the world's leading level. If he has a temper, he can throw the paper in the faces of those doctoral and master's degree supervisors: I am not

Who am I targeting? I mean, everyone here is rubbish!

Zhang Anshi said: "Whether he can like us or not is his business, but we have to express an attitude. Still on the topic just now, who has any objection to the exceptional recommendation of student Xu Shengzhou?"

Participants were silent.

After all, a slap in the face is very painful, and no one wants to get hit a second time, especially if it’s a slap in the face.

Zhang Anshi nodded and told the director of the hospital office: "Since everyone has no objections, I will change the meeting minutes later and say that everyone unanimously agreed to make an exception for the research. And my friends all know the news. It is estimated that Beijing will be clear soon."

I know that once we find out that Xiao Xu is still an undergraduate, we will definitely find ways to get to their school, so we have to hurry up. After the meeting, Mr. Zhang, please go and communicate with Xiao Xu, and explain it with emotion and reason.

The attitude of our college is to try to keep him in our school for graduate school. I will also make a special trip to report to Academicians Yan and Cheng, and ask them to greet the school and strive to handle special matters, and we will finalize the matter in the next two days."

Zhang Jianzhi had Xu Shengzhou's mobile phone number. As soon as the meeting ended, he immediately called him: "Where are you now?"

"I'm in the lab."

"What are you doing in the laboratory?" Zhang Jiazhi really couldn't figure out what a person who does basic mathematics needs to do experiments.

Xu Shengzhou also felt that Zhang Jianzhi's question was strange: "Prepare your graduation thesis! It's already April, and I have to defend my thesis soon. The teacher asked me to familiarize myself with the defense process and make a PPT."

Only then did Zhang Jianzhi remember that Xu Shengzhou was still an undergraduate majoring in computer science and still needed to worry about his graduation defense. He smiled self-consciously: "When are you free and can you come to my office? - Forget it, where are you?

?I’ll go directly to you.”

Of course Xu Shengzhou couldn't let him come over. After asking for leave from the devil, he ran to his office and asked breathlessly: "Teacher Zhang, what do you want to see me for?"

Zhang Jianzhi was not in a hurry now. He asked Xu Shengzhou to sit down and take a breath, then stood up and poured a cup of tea: "Have you come up with any new ideas recently? Have you written another paper?"

Xu Shengzhou scratched his head: "I haven't decided what to write yet."

Xu Shengzhou told the truth. After submitting the intermediate paper, he had a few empty periods, and he felt empty in his heart, always thinking about doing something. What's more, the 200 points per day for smart time (permanent solidification) is prepaid.

, it seems that after buying a ticket and entering the cafeteria, he always feels like he is at a huge loss if he doesn’t eat something. But he hasn’t decided yet whether to continue to exchange for junior papers and try to win by quantity, or to work hard and strive for another big one.

News. So he has been hesitating these past few days and looking through the mathematics textbooks at hand.

Zhang Jianzhi said: "Haha, why haven't you thought about what to write? Didn't you submit a paper to "Invent. Math."?"

Xu Shengzhou was quite surprised because he never told anyone about his submission, fearing that if he was rejected, he would make a joke: "How did you know? Could it be that "Invent. Math." invited you to be a review expert?"

Zhang Jianzhi shook his head: "First of all, my level is far from enough to be a review expert for "Invent. Math." Secondly, even if my level is enough, they will not invite me, because I study probability theory, and your

This paper is in the direction of algebraic number theory. Third, even if I study algebraic number theory, I may not know that you wrote that paper. It is very simple. "Invent. Math." also implements anonymous review."

"Then how do you know?"

"It's a coincidence that our dean has a friend from Princeton who mentioned that your paper was well written during the chat, and then spread it to ten people and hundreds of people, and it became a well-known secret."

Xu Shengzhou quickly asked: "Then his friend didn't say whether he could publish it?"

"He didn't say exactly what it was, but the fact that it's getting out means that there's still a lot of hope for it to be published."

Xu Shengzhou suddenly became a little excited: "If I publish, can I also become a professor directly?"

Zhang Jianzhi said: Young man, your thinking is very strange! I came to talk to you about postgraduate study, but you want to become a professor directly. Is it you who are distracted, or am I unable to carry the knife?

Of course, Zhang Jianzhi doesn’t think Xu Shengzhou’s idea is whimsical, because there is precedent for it. Just like an undergraduate from a prestigious university in central China, he independently solved a conjecture proposed by Sitapan, a British mathematical logic scholar, in his junior year, and was reported to three academicians by three academicians.

The State Education Commission wrote a letter recommending that he be admitted as a graduate student under special circumstances, and suggested that the relevant departments immediately take special measures to strengthen his academic training. Soon afterwards, he was hired as a full professor-level researcher under special circumstances, making him the youngest professor in China.

record.

Xu Shengzhou has 3 Chinese core papers, 1 SCI, and a masterpiece that is expected to be published in "Invent. Math.", which is not inferior to him. In this case, why can others be a professor, but I can't? Could it be that?

Do you think the four major journals are not as good as "Symbolic Logic"? Or do you think Sitapan's conjecture is more important than Hodge's theory?

Zhang Jianzhi said: "It's not impossible to be a professor, but I suggest you study for a graduate degree before becoming a professor. I don't deny that you have profound insights on certain issues, but as a self-study, your professional foundation is

Weakness is also obvious, which will increasingly limit your development in the future. And when you become a teacher, you will find that the postgraduate period is the period when you are most concentrated and your knowledge is the fastest. You are not old now, so you will miss it.

It’s a pity at this stage!”

Xu Shengzhou admitted that Zhang Jianzhi's advice was sincere, valuable and of universal significance, but unfortunately, he never expected that Xu Shengzhou was just a wall-hanger, and the kind who didn't take the usual path. What's the professional foundation? What's the future development? Count it.
To be continued...