"What's wrong with the middle school teachers?" Xu Shengzhou asked back: "Most prime ministers are from the state department, and fierce generals are mostly from the ranks. There are also hidden dragons and crouching tigers among the middle school teachers. Not to mention, Mr. Lu from Baotou No. 9 Middle School, who studies the Steiner series and

The Corkerman series of questions won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award. My mentor, Academician Cheng Deru, also worked as a teacher in a middle school. As for the famous Mr. Hua, he was not a middle school teacher, but a clerk in the middle school. He published this during his work

The paper became famous in one fell swoop. What happened to the middle school teacher?"

Wu Yilin's eyes glowed a bit, and his tone of voice was much softer: "Those you mentioned are all unparalleled geniuses, how can I compare with them? But it's okay to talk, but -" He was a little embarrassed, obviously

You cannot entertain guests if the house is dirty and messy.

Xu Shengzhou didn't dare to go in, for fear of being fumed and vomiting, which would make the already smelly dormitory worse: "I'll wait for you downstairs."

He waited downstairs for five or six minutes before Wu Yilin walked down quickly. He changed into slightly clean clothes and seemed to have washed his face, which was rare. He avoided Xu Shengzhou's looking eyes, a little uncomfortable.

Asked politely: "What do you want to talk about?"

Xu Shengzhou asked: "What have you done in the years since you graduated?"

"I just teach students and prepare for postgraduate entrance examinations after class."

"Besides attending classes and taking postgraduate exams, you don't do anything else?"

Wu Yilin scratched his head, and suddenly the dandruff scattered in the sunlight: "What else? Eat, sleep?"

Xu Shengzhou subconsciously took half a step back: "I mean, you haven't done any research on mathematics? After all, for those who engage in mathematics, their twenties are the golden age for scientific research, and the original intention of graduate students is to do research.

Student, since you are preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, you must be rushing to do research. It is impossible to spend all your time studying English and politics in the past few years, right?"

"Oh, I can read mathematics books and do exercises! I also subscribe to several domestic core journals such as "Journal of Mathematics", "Progress in Mathematics" and "Mathematics Monthly", and I will read every issue carefully."

No wonder he has heard of his own name, it turns out that the origin is here! However, as far as Xu Shengzhou knows, although these magazines are known as "Chinese core journals", they are actually "paying homage to the Buddha in a place where there is no Buddha".

It is not enough to be seen internationally. Xu Shengzhou asked again: "Can you understand it? Do you have any thoughts?"

Wu Yilin scratched his head again: "I can't understand many of them. After reading them, I roughly know what professors from which schools are studying what."

"That's normal. There are so many sub-disciplines in mathematics now, and the research directions are so narrow. Not only you, but also outstanding students and academicians can't say that they can understand all the articles in a comprehensive journal. The key is

You still have to look at the direction of your own research and the most significant achievements in recent academic circles." Xu Shengzhou changed the subject and asked the question he wanted to ask the most, "Of course doing research is not just about reading books, doing questions, flipping through journals, and like discussions.

Listening to lectures, writing papers, and attending conferences are equally important. Especially when writing papers, don’t write half-empty sentences. Have you written any papers in the past few years?"

Unexpectedly, Wu Yilin nodded firmly: "I wrote a little bit, but it's not as good as yours."

Xu Shengzhou laughed secretly and said: If you could have published the "Big Four" like me, you would have been exempted from the admission requirements! But he soon realized that what Wu Yilin said should specifically refer to the three articles he published in "Mathematics Monthly"

Papers. Due to limited English proficiency, Wu Yilin is unlikely to come into contact with the papers he published on the "Big Four", and secondly, even if he was exposed to them, he would be unlikely to understand them.

"Then can I read it?" Xu Shengzhou asked politely.

"Okay, I'll go up and get it."

Wu Yilin quickly went upstairs, and ran down again panting a few minutes later, holding several colorful magazines and more than a dozen pages of printing paper in his hands: "These are what I published in the journal, but they are not in Chinese.

In the core journals, the places where my papers are included are all folded up. These printed papers were written by me recently. Some of them have been submitted but have not yet received feedback, and some have not yet had time to submit. Please take a look!"

Xu Shengzhou took it and looked at the magazines first. Except for one "Research on College Mathematics Teaching" which looked decent, the rest were publications that existed for middle school teachers to evaluate professional titles and could not be published at all. Of course, magazines are not the same as papers.

Poor, for example, Mr. Tu Youyou’s Nobel Prize-winning papers and Mr. Zhang Tingdong’s Nobel Prize-level achievements were published in relatively general journals.

He turned to the folded page again.

Nowadays, many papers are written, and people of all ages read them. Although the judgment of the value of the paper is not as good as that of Heng Ping, it can be regarded as a glimpse. When you get a paper in hand, you can already get a rough idea of ​​whether it is real or not.

In several of Wu Yilin's papers, in addition to discussing the generalization of a certain inequality in the textbook, the interesting application of a certain theorem, and the multiple solutions to a certain question, it can be seen that he has a thorough understanding of the textbook, but that's all.

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Xu Shengzhou looked at the dozen or so pages of printed paper again, and found that it was basically the same routine.

From a purely academic point of view, these papers have no value and are all worthless garbage. Writing such papers should be a pastime after dinner, rather than an all-out scientific research. He suspected that those from the Mathematics Department of Jiangbei Normal University

The gangsters either played the same tricks as Wu Yilin and wrote the same rubbish papers, so they thought Wu Yilin had scientific research potential; or they saw that Wu Yilin had a thorough understanding of the textbooks, so they made this joke, but did not expect Wu Yilin to take it seriously.

But can he say that?

In an ordinary middle school in a small county town, once many teachers join the staff, they basically have two things left in their lives. One is to do their job of teaching and educating people and strive to obtain senior professional titles as soon as possible;

Enjoy your little life and academic research? This kind of luxury is like blockchain technology and old ladies in the country. People in our small places cannot afford it!

In this environment, Wu Yilin, who was thinking about the postgraduate entrance examination and writing papers every day, was no different from a green lotus in the mud, a sober person at a carnival table, so unique and out of place, and so lonely that he went crazy in a small county town.

Unfortunately, he failed all four attempts to take the postgraduate entrance examination, failed to achieve success in work and marriage, and was under great mental pressure. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have stayed away from home during the Spring Festival!

Although Xu Shengzhou is only a graduate student, in the eyes of the other party, he has the golden label of being from a prestigious school and an academician disciple. He has also published three papers in a row in core Chinese journals. He is definitely a calf in the academic world. The academic calf has never met him before.

Niu's sudden visit undoubtedly brought a glimmer of light to his gloomy life, just like when the famous celebrity in the world, Beihai Prefect Kong Rong sent Taishi Ci to ask Liu Bei for help, Liu Bei exclaimed happily: "Does Kong Beihai know that there is Liu Bei in the world?"

Wu Yilin must have thought the same way: An academician and disciple who came from a prestigious school and published many excellent essays also know that I am an ordinary middle school teacher who has repeatedly failed the exam?! If Xu Shengzhou said frankly at this time, "With all due respect, you have wasted four years of your life."

"Time, these things written are all rubbish, and even whether he has mathematical talent is still unknown." How much harm will it cause to the other party? It will not only destroy his hope and persistence, but also destroy his life!
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Wu Yilin was still looking at Xu Shengzhou with hopeful eyes, like a child who had done something good and was waiting for praise from the teacher.

Xu Shengzhou briefly flipped through the paper again, and then carefully thought out every word he wanted to say. He could neither give people wrong guidance nor extinguish other people's hopes: "It can be seen from what you wrote that you have a good grasp of the teaching materials."

I have to be more thorough, I have done more after-school exercises, I am relatively familiar with the knowledge points, and I am able to use my brain to think about some problems, which is already rare among ordinary college students. However, in order to concentrate on the postgraduate entrance examination, these things can be temporarily ignored.

Write."

——Yes, there is no need to write it, because there is no point in writing it.

Wu Yilin seemed not to hear what Xu Shengzhou meant, and asked cautiously: "What if I fail to pass the postgraduate entrance examination, can I continue to engage in academic research?" He then added: "Although the main force in scientific research in the past was college students, and even some

There are junior high school students like Mr. Hua and technical secondary school students like Mr. Chen (Xuegeng), but things are different now. It seems that there are many graduate students."

Xu Shengzhou said: "For scientific research work, academic qualifications are an important condition, sometimes a sufficient condition, but definitely not a necessary condition. However, if you want to do scientific research well, there are two things that are indispensable. One is a solid knowledge reserve, which you

Well done. The second is the correct direction of scientific research. There is a saying on the Internet, "Direction is more important than hard work." Whether you go to college or graduate school, it is just for these two. Especially the direction, why is the graduate student so good?

Teachers are sometimes called 'graduate advisors'? Because after one or twenty years of systematic school education, knowledge can often be learned by oneself, except for the research direction. People who have just embarked on scientific research are often at a loss and must have someone to guide them. Of course.

, It’s not impossible to explore by yourself, but it’s easy to go astray, and the cost of trial and error is too high. For example, those who studied perpetual motion machines and proved Goldbach’s conjecture.”

No matter how stupid Wu Yilin was, he still understood what Xu Shengzhou wanted to express: "You mean, I went astray?"

"It's not that I went astray, I just did some work of little significance. The so-called scientific research should be based on the work of predecessors, and then push forward to create new knowledge." Xu Shengzhou was afraid that he would not understand.

He gave an example, "For example, you are now teaching students the determination theorem of congruent triangles. This is knowledge. After learning the knowledge, you need to do questions and try to apply them in various situations. Some questions are simpler and some are more difficult.

If you do more questions and you can do them well, you will have a firmer grasp of the knowledge points. But we generally don’t call this process of doing questions scientific research. Do you understand why? Because it does not create new knowledge."
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Wu Yilin's complexion suddenly turned darker.

Xu Shengzhou quickly comforted: "But fortunately, you are still young and are still laying the foundation. Doing more questions and trying more applications will only have advantages and no disadvantages. The key is that you must first be admitted to graduate school and find out the direction of your efforts.

The accumulation now will become the source of your strength."

Wu Yilin was silent for a long time before speaking: "Thank you for your advice, otherwise I would still be doing these meaningless things. I will work hard to take the postgraduate entrance examination!"

From Wu Yilin's expression and words, Xu Shengzhou seemed to have found the root cause of his failure in all four postgraduate entrance examinations.

Wu Yilin was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of Jiangbei Normal University and won the favor of the department head. He also published several articles, which showed that he had no problem with his IQ and no problems in mathematics courses. The environment he worked in the school was better than those who worked in 996 every day after graduation.

People who want to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination are much better. He has an English teacher for tutoring, and he is more determined and self-disciplined than ordinary people. Why can English and politics stop him for four years? The biggest possibility is that he spends too much time on his own

He thought he was doing "scientific research" questions, but he didn't study English and politics attentively, so the roadblocks were never removed and became an obstacle on his way to the postgraduate entrance examination.
Chapter completed!