Chapter 265 Those who can’t do mathematics are all going to Wall Street
“There’s still more than an hour left, you can sleep some more.”
Jiang Huanxi held his numb shoulders and pressed against Xin said.
“No.”
Xu Qingshan wiped Jiang Huanxi’s clothes with some embarrassment, and was a little confused.
“I’ve noticed that you’ve been distracted since you went to bed last night. Are you feeling uncomfortable?”
“No, I’m just a little sleepy.”
Xu Qingshan Shaked his head.
"Yeah, that's good."
Jiang Huanxi relaxed his shoulders with relief and naturally leaned into Xu Qingshan's arms.
Xu Qingshan's eyes were empty, and his mind was thinking about the wonderful numbers he had dreamed about last night.
I feel like I am in an endless digital matrix, like a slow whale, with no end, and a fulfilling sense of addiction.
But if he didn't wake up, he always felt that he would be lost and suffocated in it.
Just like a person suffocating to death by air or a fish drowning in sea water.
Xu Qingshan and Jiang Huanxi did not go to the United States alone. Academician Tian Gang and Professor Zhu Xiaohua also went there together.
The former is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The latter is not bad either. He was born in 1968 and was named an Outstanding Youth in 2004. Before Xu Qingshan, he collaborated with Academician Tian Gang in 2000 to solve the uniqueness problem of Kaehler-Riccii solitons and succeeded. The results were published in the "Journal of Mathematics" among the four major journals.
He is also a young talent who refuses to get more.
Of course, Tian Gang and Zhu Xiaohua both bring assistants to facilitate them to handle some domestic and foreign work matters.
The only ones Princeton officially invited were the two of them and Xu Qingshan, but to be honest, Tian Gang and Zhu Xiaohua were both here to escort Xu Qingshan.
After all, ICML aside, this is the first time Xu Qingshan has participated in a major international academic conference.
Needless to say, Tian Gang was educated abroad.
After Zhu Xiaohua stayed at Peking University as a faculty member after graduation, he also worked as a researcher at the National Australian Mathematics Research Center for two years. He was also invited to give lectures at international academic conferences many times, and he was very popular in the international mathematics community. He is quite prestigious and is often invited to visit major famous schools and mathematics research centers, such as the French Center for Advanced Mathematics, MIT and Berkeley in the United States, Tokyo University in Japan, etc.
The plane landed and walking out of the airport felt like a world away.
Intercontinental flights can destroy a person's faith, especially in economy class.
With two experienced veterans leading the way, Xu Qingshan only needs to be responsible for following.
Princeton can only be regarded as a small city and does not have direct international flights. They need to land at Newark Liberty International Airport first, and then get in two reserved commercial vehicles and go straight to Princeton.
“I remember the last time I came to Princeton was in 2005.”
Zhu Xiaohua sat in front and turned around to talk to Xu Qingshan.
He was very interested in this junior student who made trouble in the school in just a few months during his overseas visit.
"To be honest, the environment at Princeton is much better than ours at Beijing University."
Xu Qingshan did not speak. It was his first time here, what could he say?
“But that’s mainly because we are in the capital, and the climate in the capital is like that.”
“If in the future we could have a research university like Princeton in China, it would have a good environment and academic excellence. The atmosphere is good, I will definitely turn around and go to do research immediately."
Zhu Xiaohua said with a smile.
"That is to say, Tian Yuan is not here, otherwise Tian Yuan will complain about senior brother."
"It's okay, senior brother will definitely sleep like a dead pig now."
Xu Qingshan also smiled.
When they first met at the airport, Tian Gang introduced Zhu Xiaohua to Xu Qingshan. Zhu Xiaohua didn’t want to be polite to Xu Qingshan at all and just called him junior brother.
Although, Zhu Xiaohua’s teacher is Zhang Gongqing, and Xu Qingshan’s teacher should be regarded as Tian Gang to be precise.
Tian Gang’s mentor during his bachelor’s and master’s degrees was also Zhang Gongqing.
So, to be precise, the relationship between the two should be regarded as uncle-nephew.
But at that time Tian Gang just smiled and said that they had their own affairs.
So this strange dialogue logic emerged. The senior brother in Xu Qingshan's mouth was Zhu Xiaohua, and the senior brother in Zhu Xiaohua's mouth was Tian Gang, but Tian Gang's student was Xu Qingshan.
Tian Gang took two assistants in another business car.
Lao Deng couldn’t bear to sit in economy class, so he lay down in the back of the car to catch up on his sleep.
I don’t know why business class was not arranged for this trip. It is said that it was already full when I bought the ticket.
"Do you believe that if there was one in China, my senior brother would have jumped there first?"
Zhu Xiaohua was very sure.
He had known Tian Gang for a longer time and had collaborated with him. He had heard Tian Gang complain about the weather and dryness in the capital more than once, but this old man complained and never saw him running away. Plan to pass the road.
"Of course, it must be mainly research-oriented. Senior brother has always wanted to build the best mathematics department in the country, but I am not that optimistic."
"How do you say this?"
" Due to the national conditions and our domestic education environment, parents are unlikely to let their children engage in pure mathematics."
Zhu Xiaohua curled his lips helplessly.
“Like the Olympiad, many parents let their children learn Mathematical Olympiad just to get their math scores higher, or to see if there is any shortcut to getting into a good university.”< br>
He doesn’t seem to like this phenomenon in China very much.
“The students trained like that are too craftsmanship.”
Zhu Xiaohua sighed.
“No matter what you do or the solution, you are all rigid. How can you be groundbreaking in this situation?”
“I have read your paper on the general formal verification of the twin prime conjecture. I also read the mathematics part of your newly published paper on Boolean functions on arXiv a few days ago. To be honest, you are not like the students that our domestic exam-oriented education can produce.”
"I mean, you don't look like a regular top scorer in the college entrance examination."
Xu Qingshan smiled and explained simply.
“I learned all my high school knowledge by myself at that time. If I really want to say that I was ready for the exam, it was actually pretty good.” I will think about tracing the origin, seeking the cause and effect."
Xu Qingshan said, Zhu Xiaohua listened and nodded in agreement from time to time.
“In fact, it is essentially doing research. Not only innovation is academic research, but seeking the essence to let yourself master the knowledge that you did not understand before is also doing research.”
Zhu Xiaohua gave Xu Qingshan's behavior was defined, and then the picture was revealed.
"We got along pretty well. How about we talk more when we get back to China? Let's work on a project or something together?"
Zhu Xiaohua looked at Xu Qingshan with bright eyes.
"Of course you can if you have time, but senior brother also knows recently that I am so busy at school that my butt is on fire, and after this meeting is over, I will probably be even busier."
"It's okay. I'll take a number and line up first." Zhu Xiaohua rubbed his hands with a bright smile.
But he soon heard the voiceover of Xu Qingshan’s words.
“What killer move have you prepared for this meeting?”
“Nothing, just show the prepared proofs of Zhou’s conjecture and twin prime conjecture.”
< br>"Huh?"
Zhu Xiaohua's mouth tightened into a line, and he looked at Xu Qingshan with wide eyes.
He is actually a talker.
From the moment he talked to Xu Qingshan, he knew that he had been holding back for a long time along the way. When he turned around several times, he found that Xu Qingshan was sleeping and he was too embarrassed to disturb him.
Just over an hour before landing, I looked back and saw that she was holding her little girlfriend in her arms and talking quietly, and he was too embarrassed to disturb her.
After finally getting into the car, we chatted for less than half an hour.
He tentatively leveled a, but Xu Qingshan backhanded him a king bomb with four 2s.
Xu Qingshan did not continue to speak, just smiled with his eyes narrowed.
Zhu Xiaohua's expression returned to calm, and he slowly turned back, trying to process the information received in his head.
But until the car arrived at Princeton and they were taken to the hotel by student volunteers who were specially responsible for entertaining the scholars for this conference to go through the check-in procedures, Zhu Xiaohua had not yet recovered.
Xu Qingshan did not care about the mental state of Senior Brother Xiao Zhu.
Jiang Huanxi didn't rest all the way. He wanted to accompany Xiao Jiang back to the hotel room to rest first.
Xu Qingshan came out of the hotel only after Xiao Jiang fell asleep peacefully in the room and started to get over the jet lag.
He had just slept long enough on the plane that he was too energetic to sleep now.
Princeton itself is located in a small town. Xu Qingshan noticed the scenery on the campus on the way to the hotel. It is lined with green trees and is evergreen all year round. Ancient trees and modern buildings coexist harmoniously. Showing a unique beauty of fusion of academics and nature.
"Junior brother! Junior brother!"
Zhu Xiaohua, who didn't know when he had recovered, was sitting in the hotel lobby, and asked his assistant to take his luggage back to the room.
"Senior brother, why are you sitting here?"
Xu Qingshan asked.
Didn’t you see that Lao Tian didn’t say a few words just now, and went back to his room to sleep after getting off the car?
"I was thinking that you slept all the way. You will definitely not be able to sleep when you go back to the room. Can I accompany you for a walk?"
Xu Qingshan saw that Zhu Xiaohua's expression returned to normal, and it seemed that he was receptive. It was quite strong, so he nodded.
"It's my first time to come to Princeton. Sorry, senior brother."
"It's a small matter."
Zhu Xiaohua stood up, rubbed his face, and took Xu Qingshan out.
Although it is already spring, the air on campus is still filled with a light woody fragrance, mixed with some floral fragrance, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
The lake in the distance is sparkling, and there are some swans swimming in it.
It’s just that the temperature is not very high, so I can’t stand it without wearing two more layers.
"Brother, will it snow in Princeton?"
Xu Qingshan breathed a sigh of relief. The two of them, two yellow-skinned and black-haired people, were actually quite conspicuous when walking under the shade of the school trees. From time to time There will be young students who boldly come over to take a look to see if they are Asian friends they know.
"Yes, the timing of our meeting is quite coincidental. It may snow in a few days."
The two of them were chatting aimlessly in Princeton. walking.
It is hard to imagine that a world-renowned top university is located in this small town with only more than 30,000 people living there.
And classic Gothic buildings can be seen everywhere on both sides of the road, classical and solemn. Each building seems to carry rich historical and cultural heritage.
Even the inscriptions and lines on the wall have an otherworldly Neo-Confucian beauty.
Every time he went to a garden or path, as long as Zhu Xiaohua knew about it, he would give Xu Qingshan a brief introduction. After all, he didn't come very often, so he couldn't possibly understand everything.
“That is Carnegie Lake. The path over there where many students are walking is called Tiger Path. Many universities in the United States like to use animals as mascots. If you are If you watch the NBA, the Chicago Bulls, Atlanta Hawks, and New Orleans Hornets are like this, as are Princeton, whose mascot is the tiger."
Zhu Xiaohua shows off his knowledge.
Xu Qingshan pointed to the luxury cars parked on the roadside in front, as well as the business elites in suits and ties standing by the lake chatting.
"Brother, what I'm more curious about is, why are there so many successful people in Princeton?"
"Oh, you mean them?"
Zhu Xiaohua took a look , said without surprise.
“Those are all financial tycoons from Wall Street. Although Princeton is famous for its academics, many wealthy people in New York will come here to buy a house and come here to relax when they have time. Of course, most of these rich people come from Princeton."
Xu Qingshan raised his eyebrows.
“Isn’t Harvard the best business school in the world?”
"It's true that it's Harvard, but all the fund and securities companies in the world will not reject top students from the Princeton Department of Mathematics."
When Zhu Xiaohua said this, his eyebrows were flying.
“Just like in our country, if we, a top student in the Department of Mathematics at Peking University, go to any securities company, will they reject you?”
“But.”
Xu Qingshan wanted to ask something else, but was interrupted by Zhu Xiaohua.
"There is a saying that is very good. It is much easier to explain a financial concept to a mathematician than to explain a financial model to a financial scientist."
"Harvard Business schools in China produce more management talents. Those people go to the Fortune Global 500 and are less likely to go to Wall Street. But if we really talk about Wall Street, the content of mathematical talents there is much higher."
"In the top Ivy League schools, those who can't do math all go to Wall Street."
Zhu Xiaohua said half-jokingly.
Xu Qingshan thought for a while and nodded in approval.
"Yes, theoretically speaking, mathematics is a universal subject."
"Opposite."
Although Zhu Xiaohua is 40 this year, he speaks very interestingly and is not behind young people at all. .
Xu Qingshan suddenly felt that most people engaged in mathematics should be very interesting. Lao Chen is a wonderful person, Brother Xiao Zhu is a talkative, the two students he has in his hands are also abstract, and Lao Zong is even more capable. Live a serious life.
I don’t know if Tianyuan has any hidden attributes that I haven’t developed yet?
Zhu Xiaohua took Xu Qingshan in the direction of Nassau Hall. He did not expect that the junior brother next to him was now thinking about developing his own senior brother.
If he knew it, he would definitely praise him as "rebelling against Tiangang".
“No, that’s Nassau Hall, the administrative center of Princeton. Let’s go there and take a look. Many bigwigs should have come over, and some of them will have gatherings there.”
Sure enough.
As soon as the two of them stepped into Nassau Hall, they attracted a lot of attention.
To be precise, it was Xu Qingshan who attracted a lot of attention.
(End of this chapter)