Chapter 324 - 124: Is Mathematics Just Going Around in Circles?!_6

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Chapter 324: Chapter 124: Is Mathematics Just Going Around in Circles?!_6"Okay." ... After chatting casually for a while, Qiao Yu got to the point: "By the way, Senior Brother, I heard today that the chemistry department gives cash rewards for publishing papers? A hundred thousand for an SCI Area I paper, is that true? Do we have similar rewards at our Math Research Center?" Chen Zhuoyang didn’t think too much and directly replied: "Of course, there are. For example, your paper will earn at least a two-hundred-thousand reward once it’s published in Ann.Math. If Director Tian were to help you apply for more, it might even be three hundred thousand. Sigh, it’s just that you didn’t catch the good times. Ten years ago, publishing one in Ann.Math had a minimum reward of five hundred thousand. Now, they’re not allowing such high rewards anymore, which is a pity." Chen Zhuoyang’s casual remark immediately excited Qiao Yu, who instinctively asked: "That much? Does the school have that much bonus money to give?" Chen Zhuoyang smirked and said: "Seriously, are you worrying about the school? Other schools might not have the money, but our school? Our Math Research Center? Besides, it’s not entirely the school’s bonus, you know? The school gives a part, and our Math Research Center also has rewards. As long as you publish two papers, they don’t even have to be top-notch like Ann.Math. At the end of the year, you can apply for an Academic Innovation Award, grab all the scholarships - national scholarship, president’s scholarship, college scholarship, dean’s scholarship... Within a year, tens of thousands to a million in bonuses are easy peasy. Right, remember, all the scholarships above can be applied for multiple times with other scholarships; only a few require a teaching assistant, and you’re definitely qualified! Just help the teacher with a few classes! In short, if you’re excellent enough, don’t be stingy with our school. Rather than worrying about insufficient scholarships, our school is more concerned about not having many qualified outstanding students to claim these scholarships! Especially with the paper rewards, the school gives them gladly! The papers you publish on SCI are credited to Yanbei University; do you understand what this means for the school’s reputation? Not to mention, you’re publishing in Ann.Math; how many of the top four journals does Yanbei University publish in a year?" The promise of a two hundred thousand reward for winning a gold medal in the IMO from his high school alma mater suddenly seemed less appealing. Qiao Yu even felt a bit excessive about himself. Compared to Yanbei University’s financial prowess, how could his own Xingtie First Middle School even compare? How could he set his sights so low on those meager rewards from his high school alma mater? The value suggested by Old Xue was still rapidly increasing... Yanbei University is not just reliable, but financially generous too! Of course, Huaqing University on the other side is the same, being one of the top two universities in Huaxia, they’re not short of money. For sure, if Yanbei University is so generous, Huaqing University can’t be stingy in this regard. That being said, if publishing two papers in a year could earn him hundreds of thousands from the school, then if he publishes ten papers in a year, wouldn’t that mean at least millions? And the school would be happy to give? A definite win-win? Qiao Yu felt as if a new world was slowly opening its doors to him; he had been too narrow-minded before. The most crucial point was that Qiao Yu felt once he mastered the knack of writing papers, it wasn’t that hard. As long as he identified the hot topics currently concerning the mathematical world, even publishing in top journals wouldn’t be too difficult. Moreover, once he completed the tasks assigned by his advisor... no, as long as he kept producing results, would his advisor even remember what tasks there were? He might as well spend more time discussing with Old Xue. "Sure enough! Senior Brother Chen, I knew I just needed to ask you if I didn’t understand something. You really are the Mr. All-Knowing of our Math Research Center!" Thinking of these things, Qiao Yu sincerely thanked him. Chen Zhuoyang was stunned for a moment and suddenly didn’t feel like speaking. No help for it, every time Qiao Yu thanked him, he felt like Qiao Yu was cursing him, and in a particularly dirty way too. He’s a proper Ph.D. at the Math Research Center, how did he become Mr. All-Knowing? As if he doesn’t do any serious work every day and only gossips... Of course, if he really made some remarkable achievements, he probably wouldn’t feel anything, but the key is, he hasn’t. In this world, the truth always makes one defenseless. Tonight, he definitely plans to eat two more chicken legs... ... Generously treating Senior Brother Chen to a meal, he then returned to his room and spread out the draft paper to start thinking about the topic his mentor had forcibly assigned to him. Prove that on a given commutative stack, all global functions can be described by the automorphism of the Whitaker Layer, and these automorphisms have a direct relationship with the representation of algebraic groups... Hmm, a bit difficult... but solving it won’t prevent him from making money... In fact, this could also make him money... He’s been busy lately, with a conference to attend next month and the IMO in July; there’s not much time to get things done. He can’t let this collaborative topic take up too much of his time. Sitting in his seat, he had no ideas for two hours, and Qiao Yu felt a bit frustrated. He simply threw the problem aside, opened the software, and began to write a paper. If he can’t solve this problem, he might as well outline the paper on Qiao Dian first. Starting with an analysis of the local structure of singular points, followed by the construction of homology maps, discussing the influence of non-linear homology maps, defining the singular points of such spine structures, and local coordinate rings Ox produce infinite levels of high-order perturbations... Hmm... Wait, as he was still thinking about writing this paper, a flash of inspiration struck him... The representations of algebraic groups can all be characterized through different levels of function behavior, and the automorphisms of the Whitaker Layer precisely maintain consistency with the representation of algebraic groups in a certain sense. So if he used concepts from group representation theory to reconstruct the automorphism structure of the Whitaker Layer, it seems he could also apply this to the reconstruction process around singular points. Because if he could prove that on a specific commutative stack, the automorphism of the Whitaker Layer could not only locally describe functions but also be established globally throughout the geometric space through some global extension method, wouldn’t these automorphisms be the bridge he was looking for? This bridge is ensured locally by the properties of the Whitaker Layer and globally reconstructs a complete function space. If this idea is feasible, then wouldn’t he have resolved the issue he picked out from the Geometric Langlands Conjecture? What kind of math is this called? Circular math? He initially wanted to think about the two-dimensional extension of Huaqing’s Chevalley’s theorem, but not getting anywhere, he thought to outline the paper on the singular point he discovered. The outline wasn’t even halfway when inspiration directly pointed to solving the Geometric Langlands Conjecture? Was he fulfilling the boast he made in the lecture yesterday? Then wouldn’t he be even a bit more impressive than Fermat? Speaking of which... should he give Professor Pan a call?

Chapter 324 - 124: Is Mathematics Just Going Around in Circles?!_6

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