From small town scholar to chief scientist

Chapter 4 Completing a Mission

Just after Zhou Yi submitted all the information and registration fee, he found a message from his teammates,
"Senior, what do we need to do? Although we are from the Faculty of Arts, we also learned about the process of mathematical modeling on the Internet. Although we are not familiar with the two processes of modeling and programming, writing is our strong point. , our Chinese in the college entrance examination is 130+, and we may have a certain level of writing.”

After reading it, Zhou Yi replied:

"You don't need to worry about writing. I will be responsible for it all. You just need to attend on time. Well, bring your laptop."

"Oh, okay, then work hard, senior~."

Xia Xue replied.

Are you kidding me, freshmen use LaTeX to edit math formulas?Will typesetting?Can do all kinds of complex data tables, various data graphics processing, and professional mathematical terms?

None of these.

Even some sophomore mathematics students may not necessarily be able to.

I can't understand the models and programs, and I can't get a paper if I want to.

Think writing about mathematical modeling is easy?
No, in some respects, it's precisely the three positions that matter the most.

Not only must you have a very deep understanding of the mathematical models made by the modeling students, but you must also have a clear understanding of the programs written by the programming students.

Finally, combine these things to complete a thesis.

In the mathematical modeling competition, there has been a saying that if you want to win the national award, you need strength, but to win the city (provincial) award, you need to write papers.

Let them bring a computer because Zhouyi computer is a desktop computer assembled with more than 1000 pieces. It may not be easy to operate in the computer room at that time. It is better to have a laptop with better performance to run the program.

Zhou Yi thought about it for a while, and decided to recruit a group of three, at least in a decent way.

As for the instructor, Zhou Yi already has an idea, just find the teacher who counts three times, and the name left by Teacher Tang is also his.

But the former teacher knew that he brought two junior girls from the liberal arts school who didn't understand anything, so he didn't know if he would kill him.

But this matter has to be notified to Mr. Ma, otherwise there will be enough teachers to guide, and it will be miserable without a tutor.

Not long after, Zhou Yi sent the situation of his team to the past.

After a while, Teacher Ma replied: "..., what do you think?"

For Zhou Yi, a student, he likes him very much, he is down-to-earth, diligent, inquisitive, without the impetuous atmosphere of the post-zero generation.
He is a very motivated student.

But now he actually brings two liberal arts students who don't know anything.

"My former teammates abandoned me,"

After Zhou Yi told the story in detail, Mr. Ma replied:
"Okay, this time it's just a practice session. Let's find teammates next year. Winning an award next year won't affect your research. It can be regarded as accumulating some experience for the US competition."

Obviously, Mr. Ma is not optimistic about Zhouyi.

"Yeah, thank you, Teacher Ma."

After replying, Zhou Yi dropped a big stone in his heart.

There are teammates, there are instructors, and everything is done.

Now it's just a matter of reading the book.

Win the national award, complete the tasks of the system, and win the rewards from the school by the way.

Country 8000 3000, Country [-] [-];

Divided into the hands of everyone, but a lot of money.

Zhou Yi opened the information about LaTeX from a certain group, a copy of "LaTeX Introduction" written by Liu Haiyang,
One is a document called "lshort-zh-cn",

"lshort-zh-cn" is the answer to some simplifications and after-school exercises of "Introduction to LaTeX" written by Mr. Liu Haiyang.

It is written by some people who specialize in LaTeX research and development, and the materials are all free and genuine.

Zhou Yi quickly calmed down,
Focus on "lshort-zh-cn",
"lshort-zh-cn" has a total of eight chapters and two appendices. Since Zhouyi awakened to the system, he comprehended some basic knowledge very quickly.
Chapter 1 is about the source of LaTeX, the basic structure of the source code, and how to compile the source code to generate documents.

and the editor's choice,

There are many kinds of LaTeX editors, roughly divided into: LyX, TeXworks, TexStudio, WinEdt, Emacs, Sublime Text, Atom, Visual Studio Code and Overleaf.

Zhou Yi learned about TexStudio from the beginning, and he was ready to use this editor, but he can also use Overleaf when the time comes.

Online editing, no download required.

TexStudio integrates editing and preview, which is more convenient to use.But the visual effect on Windows is not as good as that on Linux.

And WinEdt, which comes with CTeX, has relatively complete functions. You can download CTeX or install it separately.

However, Zhouyi seems to have heard from his teammates that the WinEdt forums are closed.

Fortunately, LaTeX is free software, and so is the editor, otherwise Zhou Yi might choose Word directly.

In mathematics departments, or even science majors, writing papers using Word is generally at the bottom of the chain of contempt.

Zhou Yi saw very quickly,
It is almost one page per minute, and it is easy to understand at a glance, as if it should be so.

The writing of various programs, the reference of macro packages, and the environment in LaTeX are used to make some effects take effect locally, or to generate special document elements, almost at a glance.

Before I knew it, an hour and a half had passed,
Zhou Yi also browsed to the bottom of the file, and still felt that there was more to say.

"lshort-zh-cn" is indeed only suitable for beginners. After reading it, not only is it enough to write ordinary mathematical and analog papers, but with a special template, it is enough to write a master's degree thesis.

If you need to learn more, you need to visit the (CTAN) site, and various macro packages can also be obtained from the website and various mirror sites around the world.

Zhou Yi thought about the system in his heart,

"System. Submit subtask one of task two."

"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing task two and sub-task one. Congratulations to the host for gaining 100 mathematics subject experience, ten focus capsules, and twenty points."

"Would you like to extract ten focused capsules?"

Zhou Yi looked at Yang Shuai who was typing on the keyboard, and the monitor who was dealing with various things, and found that they hadn't noticed him, so he replied,

"extract."

Not long after, Zhou Yi had an extra delicate medicine in his hand, a round bottle with a radius of 3 cm, which contained ten crystal clear pills, a bit like Wangzai QQ candy.

"Ding, there is still half an hour left in the two hours of concentration time given by the system, please use the time reasonably, the host, do you want to suspend it?"

Zhou Yi secretly thought, no wonder he was able to get started with LaTeX so quickly, and his comprehension was greatly enhanced. He thought it was a benefit brought by the system, but it turned out that the system gave him two hours of focus time.

"pause."

Without thinking about it, Zhou Yi replied directly.

How could such precious time be wasted like this.

A second wasted is a waste.

In the state of concentration, the speed of the brain is simply increased geometrically.

The understanding of various codes is simply terrifying.

Now, for the digital-analog competition, Zhouyi only needs to specialize in programming, and he can lead the second pit by himself.

Zhou Yi looked at it, his current mathematical experience,
Mathematics: LV0, 150/1000; (Work hard to raise the math level to LV1, maybe you will discover a new world.)
Points: 20, (Points can be exchanged for some key knowledge and technologies, blueprints, and focus capsules.)
(End of this chapter)