I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 776 The Struck Professor Martins, with the new Scientific Breakthrough Conference
When Professor Martins returned to the hotel, he was still in a state of absence.

He couldn't believe what Professor Campbell had told him about the flight.

At the juncture of life and death, but still calmly relying on mental calculations, in a very short period of time, he completed the complicated mathematical calculations that originally required more than ten minutes of calculations with pen and paper?
How can this be!Unless it is a humanoid computer or a superpower, it is impossible to do it!

But Professor Martins couldn't ignore Campbell's teaching.Professor Campbell has always been known for his pragmatism. It is impossible to lie to his old friend for the sake of Qin Ke who is unfamiliar. This is meaningless at all.It is precisely because Professor Campbell is such a person that his suggestion gave Professor Martins a particularly headache.

You must know that favors, even if you pay money, will only be used once. If there is no chance this time, it will be useless even if he asks for connections everywhere. On the contrary, it will only waste favors and money, and it will also make scientific breakthroughs next year difficult. Prizes and Nobel Prizes are even more difficult.

But he is not willing to let Professor Martins give up like this. After all, he has invested a lot of time, energy and money to dredge the relationship before coming to Paris. Fight back?
When Professor Martins returned to the room, he basically had a decision.He asked the waiter to print out the photo in his mobile phone - this photo was taken from Professor Campo. The calculation process that Qin Ke wrote down on the plane was later given to Campo as a gift. Professor Er, and Professor Martins took a picture of it.

He took the printed A4 paper and knocked on the door of Professor Gordon Matheson from the Physics Department of the same school who came to the conference.

Gordon Matheson is also a professor of the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago. He is best at atmospheric and ocean sciences. He is also well-versed in fluid mechanics and NS equations. He is one of the few at the University of Chicago who is proficient in both mathematics and physics. senior professor.

Usually, Professor Martins doesn't have much contact with him, because this Professor Matheson is rather aloof, and he is the unpleasant type of "you are not qualified to talk to me if you are not good enough".

Professor Martins is also an arrogant person, so naturally he has no friendship with Professor Matheson.

However, at this time, Professor Martins could not find a more suitable candidate, so he could only turn to Professor Matheson for help.After he explained his purpose, Professor Matheson frowned: "Are you asking me to see if the calculations related to NS equations are correct?"

Professor Martins smiled and said: "Yes, I got these materials by accident, but I am not good at NS equations and fluid mechanics, so I can't fully understand them. If you want to come to our school, only Professor Matheson can understand them. .”

His low profile made Professor Matheson very satisfied, but also a little curious.

After receiving a few sheets of A4 paper, Professor Matheson went back to the table and sat down, looking at it slowly.

He didn't let Professor Martins sit down, and Professor Martins couldn't sit down, so he had to follow in and stand a few steps away.

He noticed that Professor Matheson had some disapproval on his face at first, but slowly his waist straightened up, and his expression became extremely serious and solemn.

Just as Professor Martins was getting more and more anxious, Professor Matheson's brows suddenly frowned, as if seeing something incomprehensible, and muttered in his mouth: "The kinematic viscosity coefficient of the turbulent Prandtl number How can you handle it like this? No..."

Professor Martins was overjoyed. Did Qin Ke make a mistake in writing it?

Although he felt that the possibility was not high, Professor Martins' heartbeat was still accelerating, and his confidence and joy were surging upwards.

However, Professor Matheson took out a piece of paper and a pen to write and calculate. It took nearly 5 minutes before he put down the pen. There seemed to be some kind of light in his eyes. He turned to Professor Martins and asked, "These materials Where did it come from?"

Professor Martins swallowed, and said dryly, "I got it from a friend of mine. Is there any problem with these materials, Professor Matheson?"

"Problems? From a certain point of view, there are indeed some problems."

Before Professor Martins asked what the question was in surprise, Professor Matheson's usually cold and arrogant face suddenly twisted a little, and his voice was a little weird: "Professor Martins, sit down."

He actually pulled a chair over to let Professor Martins sit down, and the muscles on his face became even more eerie and weird: "Professor Martins, can you introduce me to your friend? I have something I want to ask him for advice."

"Ask me? Didn't you say there is a problem?" Professor Martins' heart sank just now.

"If it's a problem if it's too subtle and a little hard to understand, then there is a problem with this data, and it's a serious problem. It uses several subtle methods that I've never seen before in dealing with high-altitude chaotic turbulence. It took me a while to realize that these methods are really great and inspired me a lot! Your friend is very good at the level of mathematical partial differential equations, fluid mechanics, and turbulent flow. You are really a great genius! I can't wait now I want to have a good communication with this genius!"

Hearing the fanaticism and admiration in Professor Matheson's tone, Professor Martins felt cold.Only then did he realize that Professor Matheson's distorted and weird face in front of him was actually trying to squeeze out a friendly smile-God knows how long it has been since Professor Matheson with his eyes above the top has smiled!

Looking at Professor Matheson's distorted face, Professor Martins said bitterly: "He...his name is Qin Ke. He is from Xia Guo."

"Is that the Xia State scientist Academician Qin Ke who found the general solution of the NS equation? It's amazing! I should have thought it was him. Besides him, who else could write such an exquisite mathematical formula?"

Professor Martins' face was gray, and he hissed in a voice almost desperate: "Professor Matheson, do you think...it is possible to complete these calculations in less than a minute, purely by mental arithmetic?"

Professor Mai Xisen vigorously shook his head and said: "Mental arithmetic? Oh NO, my God, this is impossible! And within 1 minute? This is absolutely impossible! Even Academician Qin Ke can't do it! "

There was a little light in Professor Martins' eyes: "Absolutely impossible?"

"Well... Anyway, in my opinion, no one in today's world can do it. If someone can do it..." Professor Matheson thought for a moment, and then said in a firm tone: "Then he should surpass The god of mathematics of all predecessors!"

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The academic report of the Scientific Breakthrough Conference will start as scheduled, and it will be as exciting as previous sessions. Basically, those who can come to give reports are newcomers in the industry or high-level scholars who have recently emerged, making each report extremely attractive.

Professor Martins was absent from the audience, and only repeated the words of Professor Matheson from time to time in his mind, "Anyway, in my opinion, no one in the world can do it. If anyone can do it...then he He should be the God of Mathematics surpassing all predecessors!"

It is true that Qin Ke won the Fields Medal and many awards, solved many world-class mathematical problems, and achieved incredible academic achievements, but Qin Ke can compete with Gauss, Euler, Riemann and other mathematical masters. God?Let alone surpassing these math gods.

Moreover, this mental calculation is only a one-sided statement by Professor Campbell. If Professor Martins does not see it with his own eyes, it will be difficult for him to completely give up and give up the idea of ​​competing for supremacy.

Besides, he also wanted to see with his own eyes whether this Qin Ke's performance on the podium was really that supernatural.If Qin Ke’s performance on the stage is not as expected, he will try his best at any cost—a senior professor like him who has studied physics for decades, the biggest advantage is probably facing difficulties and setbacks, then It's an indomitable perseverance.

In the blink of an eye, it came to the second day of the Scientific Breakthrough Awards Symposium. Professor Martins didn't sleep well last night and couldn't help yawning when he walked into the venue. There were many outsiders, and many of them had pens and notebooks in their hands, obviously preparing to record the meeting requirements.

This kind of scene happened yesterday, but the proportion is far less exaggerated. Looking around, at least half of the participants have prepared paper and pens, and they are all very formal notebooks. This proves that they are not pretending, but Really want to capture the gist of the report.

Often, only when the participants think that the next report will be very valuable will they make such preparations—even if the report of the reporter after the event will be recorded in the form of meeting minutes, as long as the application can be obtained, the vast majority of scholars Or trust your notes more.

Professor Martins could completely imagine his own report meeting, and it was extremely difficult to see such a scene, and this thought made him even more depressed.

At nine o'clock in the morning, a young man from Xia Guo in a black dress strode up to the podium with a smile: "Hello everyone, I am Qin Ke from Qingmu University in Xia Guo. The topic of my report today is-"How to apply the general solution of NS equation In Fluid Mechanics', as for the 'extended application of the optimized NS equation under special conditions' that everyone is very concerned about, I will report in the second session, and my partner and my wife Professor Ning Qingyun will give a report to you... ..."

Professor Martins stared closely at the young man from the Xia Kingdom on the stage. He had already seen this young man on the Internet and in newspapers. At the Scientific Breakthrough Conference three years ago, he had also witnessed this young man holding his wife's arm. ——Oh, they should still be girlfriends at that time—and stood on the podium together to accept the award of the Mathematical Breakthrough Award.

Three years have passed in the blink of an eye, and this young Xia Guo scholar once again stood on the stage of the Science Breakthrough Award, this time not as a mathematician, but as a physicist...

Under the gaze of Professor Martins who was complicated, anxious, nervous, and restless, Qin Ke started his report.

With a confident and unrestrained look, free and easy movements, and extremely innovative content, Qin Ke stood on the stage, shining brightly, with his presentation from the shallower to the deeper, his quick and open thinking, his rigorous and self-consistent logic, his The interlocking speech skills made the meeting place quiet, and almost everyone was engrossed in his report. Occasionally, there was a sound, which was the rustling sound of paper and pen rubbing against each other.

Professor Martins has participated in quite a few academic lectures, but there are only a handful of occasions where the audience is so focused.

Moreover, Professor Martins scanned the audience deliberately, and there was not even a single audience who showed disdain or contempt. Everyone was immersed in Qin Ke's blueprint for the application of the general solution of NS equations in fluid mechanics.

Even if he doesn't specialize in fluid mechanics, Professor Martins has to lament that Qin Ke's words are so contagious that people can't wait to throw everything away and devote themselves to the applied research on the general solution of NS equations to jointly promote progress of human civilization.

When it came to the question and answer session, Qin Ke answered all the questions in seconds. Many of them were not only related to the field of fluid mechanics, but even related to climatology, aerodynamics, heat transfer, and hydraulic mechanics. The Chinese scholar has shown amazing profound knowledge, and even some tricky questions cannot delay his answering speed.

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought that the two parties had already rehearsed countless live performances.

Seeing that the question-and-answer session came to an end, and Qin Ke's wonderful performance won warm applause several times. Professor Martins felt gloomy and almost completely desperate.

Impeccable performance!
He stayed where he was, his face turned from white to gray, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

After Qin Ke finished his report and walked off the stage amidst thunderous applause, Professor Martins suddenly gritted his teeth, walked quickly from the seat, stopped Qin Ke and said:

"Academician Qin, hello, I'm Milorad Martins, the head of Fermilab and a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, Academician Qin, I heard that your mental arithmetic ability is unparalleled in the world, I have a question here, I don't know Can you please calculate the answer in 1 minute?"

Professor Martins handed Qin Ke the A4 paper he had prepared in his hand—he was still unwilling to see Qin Ke’s mental arithmetic ability with his own eyes—he asked Professor Matheson to write it out on the A4 paper The application formula of the NS equation variable range is extremely complicated. Professor Matheson said that even if you use a pen and paper and a calculator, you can't figure it out without spending 15 minutes.

Qin Ke was stunned. He had heard the name of Professor Martins before. After all, Fermilab was one of the "opponents" he valued very much before. He just didn't expect that Professor Martins didn't ask questions during the question session. Instead, he used two The short five-minute break between presentations to stop myself from making such outlandish requests.

The dozen or so scholars who came around and planned to greet Qin Ke also showed surprise expressions, especially after recognizing Professor Martins, they couldn't help whispering. Only Professor Matheson, who came trotting over, showed excitement and anticipation in his eyes. look.

"Is this a challenge?"

"No, this is a request." Professor Martins looked at Qin Ke seriously, trying to make his voice friendly and fully express his sincerity: "Academician Qin, you can read the topic before deciding whether to accept this request, but if you I can really figure out this topic today, and as a member of the Marcel Grossmann Committee, I would like to recommend you as a candidate for the Marcel Grossman Award this year, together with two other committee members!"

The Marcel Grossmann Award is an international physics award established to commemorate Grossman's contribution to physics. It is selected every three years and is selected by the Marcel Grossmann Committee through a collective meeting. To be a candidate, three committee members must be nominated.

The Marcel Grossmann Award is very well-known in the physics community, basically at the same level as the "Einstein World Science Award" and the "Physics Breakthrough Award".At present, there is no physicist in the Xia Kingdom who can win this award. Only the physicists Mr. Yang and Mr. Li who are descended from Xia, and the mathematician Mr. Qiu have won this honor.

Scholars around four weeks ago thought that Professor Martins was deliberately making things difficult for others, but after hearing him throw out this bait, many people were subconsciously moved.

The difficulty of the Nobel Prize in Physics is too high, and the next best thing is to win the "Marcel Grossmann Award" is enough to establish a master status in the international physics community.

What kind of problem would make Professor Martins make such a solemn promise?

Everyone couldn't help but look curiously at the A4 paper in Professor Martins' hand. When they saw the NS equation derivative variant equations written on it, they all gasped.

(End of this chapter)