I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

While Shen Qi was recuperating in bed, Professor Muller came to visit, Jonas came to visit, and even Mary came to visit.

"I hope you can get better soon, physically and mentally." Professor Muller said.

"You have to learn to enjoy life, Shen Qi, there are other interesting things in life besides mathematics." Jonas said.

"All in all, health trumps everything," Mary said.

"Thank you, thank you all for your well wishes and concern. I will be fine."

During these few days of convalescence, Shen Qi finally figured it out, determined to go his own way and die.

Unless you have invincible strength in the world, that is, the level set by the system "I am so lonely when I am invincible" and "I am also invincible in non-human fields".

Facts have proved that forcibly deciphering the Riemann conjecture with a mathematics level of 10, only to fall into a passive situation of being surrounded by all sides, and to force oneself out of internal injuries.

Facts have also proved that the Riemann Hypothesis is worthy of being one of the millennium problems.

It is so easy to prove that it is not called the millennium problem.

"Let's be more down-to-earth, do some research on basic topics, and post a few ordinary papers to find out how you feel. Some things are useless to force, just let it happen."

Shen Qi gradually adjusted his mentality, went to class, took a walk, and took the New Jersey driver's license test by the way.

After buying a second-hand Chevrolet, Shen Qi drove around whenever he had something to do. The farthest time he drove was to Connecticut, where he bought a few souvenirs.

During this time, Shen Qi was also reflecting on and summarizing, why did he make himself so hard?

After the age of 17, he has achieved many successes along the way, and the halo of being a top student shines above his head. At the age of 21, he published papers in four major journals and won the Chern Prize in Mathematics.

These four years were the four years of cheating, and Shen Qi received many honors and praises, and was hailed as a rising star in Chinese mathematics.

When a young man acquires something in just a few years that others cannot obtain in a lifetime, his mentality will change.

Shen Qi is trying to adjust his mentality, trying to regain his original intention.

What is the original intention?

Quietly and peacefully, be a top student and respect the objective laws of mathematics.

It seems that Shen Qi has calmed down. Even though his highly anticipated paper "Orbifold Fundamental Groups to Characterize the Simultaneous Orbifold Group Embryos" was returned by "Acta Mathematica Sinica", he was not too crazy.

If the thesis is not well written, it needs to be revised.

If you have a problem, you have to change it.

"I'm not a perfect person, I also have shortcomings, Professor Muller, please help me read these two papers." Shen Qi calmed down and found Mueller with two papers.

One is about the research on the basic fields of high-dimensional Fuchsian groups, and the other is about the research on non-zero elements that can converge to stable homotopy groups.

Both papers are topics related to group theory, which belong to basic research. They are not extremely advanced, but they also have certain research value.

Originally, Shen Qi wanted to make a project, so he wrote and wrote two papers, discussing his views on group theory from two different angles.

"It seems that your self-regulation ability is good. There are no problems in these two papers. It is enough to deal with the details a little bit. Here, and here, the construction method of the basic domain is given for strict parabolic elements and strict hyperbolic elements. It needs to be refined." Professor Muller made a pertinent opinion.

"Okay, modify it immediately." Shen Qi humbly accepts opinions and suggestions.

"I have to say, Shen Qi, you are a mathematical genius, and your writing speed is amazing, even in the recovery stage." Professor Muller said.

Shen Qi said: "Professor Muller, I think it is more reasonable for me to attack some world-class conjectures after I have accumulated enough academic experience."

"Who said no, I told you so long ago!" Professor Muller laughed.

"Thank you, Professor Muller, I have decided to choose you as my supervisor at the doctoral stage."

After revising the manuscript, Shen Qi submitted two papers on group theory to the Pacific Journal of Mathematics and the American Transactions on Mathematics.

Both are mathematics journals in the United States, and their influence is far behind the four major international mathematics journals, but they are among the top 10 journals in the United States.

Life has returned to calm again. Shen Qi was thinking about getting a master's degree in Princeton Mathematics in two semesters. Now he doesn't make such a deliberate effort. Let nature take its course. Why are you so anxious? Don't rush into research.

When a person is very stubborn in doing one thing, he often has more haste than speed.

When he really settles down, it will be a bright future.

Shen Qi is going through a spiritual transformation, which has nothing to do with whether or not to hang up, but only with the string deep in one's heart.

Just at the end of the second semester of graduate school, Shen Qi received good news that he had won the Ford Award.

This award is issued by the American Mathematical Association. It is awarded to scholars who have published high-level papers in the past year, and a selection fee of 20,000 US dollars is required.

Shen Qi had already paid the money a few months ago, allocated funds from Professor Muller's research funding, and signed up for the selection of the Ford Award.

In order to save money, the American Mathematical Association does not organize ceremonial activities such as award ceremonies. The names of the six Ford Prize winners this year are published in the American Mathematical Monthly, a journal sponsored by the American Mathematical Association.

The Ford Award certificate was mailed to the Princeton Department of Mathematics, and Shen Qi was admiring the exquisite certificate.

"The Ford Award certificate is quite beautiful." Shen Qi kept the Ford Award certificate and put it together with the Chern Mathematics Award certificate.

The 20,000 US dollars is not paid by oneself anyway. The Ford Award is an award of its size, but it is not something that no one can win by paying money.

Shen Qi has a Princeton background and has won a Chinese mathematics award. The key is that he has solid goods. His paper on the proof of Walsh’s conjecture was published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

System: "New achievement! The host has won the Ford Award from the American Mathematical Association. The basic award is 350,000 points, multiplied by the master's talent in mathematics 2.0, and the final reward is 700,000 points. The balance is 1,018,810 points, please host confirm."

"This... the Ford Award, which was obtained with money, has a basic reward of 350,000 Xueba points, which is 50,000 points more than the basic reward of the Chern Mathematics Award."

Shen Qi felt that this was a bit unreasonable, but he still accepted the fact.

In any case, the paid Ford Award is an international award, which is awarded to mathematics researchers of any nationality.

The Chern Prize in Mathematics is a domestic award in China, and it is only awarded to mathematics researchers with Chinese nationality.

With 1.2 million Xueba points, you can upgrade Mathematics Level 10 to Level 11 master level.

Having won a Ford Award, plus the little more than 300,000 Xueba points he saved before, Shen Qi found that he was about to upgrade again.

"Professor Muller, are there any international awards like the Ford Award that require payment of selection fees?" After winning the award, Shen Qi invited Professor Muller to dinner to express his heart.

"No, it's the only one in the world. In the past two decades, the American Mathematical Association has been crazy about money, so it set up such a rule. Before 1995, the Ford Award did not need to pay for the election, and each winner could also get A monetary reward of about 10,000 to 20,000 US dollars, this bonus is not taxable, what a naive era.”