Ultimate Scholar.

Chapter 147

Peng Chuan graduated from the School of Mathematics of Shanghai Jiaotong University in the 90s. With excellent grades, he went to the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University to study abroad. At that time, he became a student of Lian Zhengxing, who was teaching at Princeton University.

After graduating with a Ph.D., he returned to teach at Shanghai Jiaotong University.

However, during his teaching period, he was criticized by the then dean Wang Shuo, that is, the retired former dean of the Academy of Sciences, Academician Wang, because of his education for graduate students.

The main reason is that he squeezed the graduate students too much.

He supervised graduate students for about seven years. During the period, he snatched more than a dozen papers from his students and asked his students to do various chores, so that the delayed graduation rate of his students was the highest in the whole school.

Of course, the graduation delay rate is not the main problem. The main problem is that he squeezed the students, which caused at least five students to suffer from depression, and one of them almost committed suicide.

The student emailed his best friend before committing suicide.

Because he revealed obvious inclinations between the lines, his friends came to look for him by train overnight, and finally found him with his wrists cut in his dormitory.

Fortunately, the student hesitated for a day and a night before cutting his wrist. At the same time, the artery was not cut, and the bleeding rate was relatively slow. When his friend arrived, although the condition was serious, it was still in time for treatment. , so it survived in the end.

At that time, the Internet was not as convenient as it is now, so public opinion did not spread. Shanghai Jiaotong University quickly suppressed the matter, appeased the student and his family, made sufficient compensation, and carried out the investigation. In order to change the tutor, of course, all the other students of Peng Chuan also expressed strong dissatisfaction in this incident.

As a result, Peng Chuan was revoked as a postgraduate tutor, and all other students were able to change their tutors.

The dean at that time, Wang Shuo, naturally expressed his dissatisfaction with Peng Chuan, talked to him many times, and criticized him severely.

The most important thing is that Peng Chuan is an outstanding student who graduated from them, and Wang Shuo even served as Peng Chuan's teacher back then.

So no matter how harshly he criticizes, he still hates iron.

But also because of this, Peng Chuan felt dissatisfied, and then secretly contacted Lian Zhengxing, his mentor at Princeton University, hoping that Lian Zhengxing would help him to go to Peking University to take up a post.

At that time, Lian Zhengxing had returned from Princeton University to the School of Mathematics of Shangjing University and served as the deputy dean, so he still had this power.

In addition, Shanghai Jiaotong University also knew that family ugliness should not be publicized, so no one revealed this matter.

Therefore, Lian Zhengxing didn't know what his student had done. Later, he checked and found that this student had been back to SJTU for several years without any slack at all. He had published so many papers, many of which were The quality is pretty good.

In addition, Peng Chuan performed well when he was a student at Princeton University, which left a good impression on him, so he worked a little bit and let Peng Chuan come to Peking University as an assistant professor.

Of course, Shanghai Jiaotong University didn't keep him at all, and sent him away like a plague god.

After coming to Peking University, Peng Chuan restrained himself a lot and began to study academically with an open mind. In this way, he changed from an assistant professor to an associate professor, and was finally promoted to a full professor.

Of course, the things that happened back then could not be covered by paper after all. A few years later, the leaders of Peking University would also know about it. I begged, and Peng Chuan, who came to Peking University, performed well. He was not very good academically, but he still had some achievements, so he thought that he had changed his ways, so he was only fined three glasses of wine, and then punished symbolically. For a moment, leave it alone.

In this way, Peng Chuan, who had just changed and became a professor at Peking University, felt his heart swell again. He looked down on Shanghai Jiaotong University, and at the same time, he also harbored resentment for what happened back then.

"I am now a full professor at the School of Mathematics of Shangjing University, Huaguo No. [-] School of Mathematics. You Shanghai Jiaotong University didn't even say a word back then and let me go."

And seeing a talent like Li Mu appearing in Shanghai Jiaotong University now made him feel even more upset.
Of course, if he bears a grudge, he has no way to retaliate against the Mathematics Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University. After all, he is also a Shanghai Jiaotong University, so he is not so easy to mess with.

To this day, after listening to Li Mu's report, and seeing this person who should be his junior, he proved the twin prime number conjecture. He congratulates the mathematics community, but his heart is also crawling in the dark, hoping that Li Mu's proof will be found to be wrong.

Especially knowing that the Beijing University of Mathematics offered him an enviable condition to keep Li Mu, but Li Mu actually refused, which not only made him feel ashamed, but also hated Yu Xu even more.

But still the same sentence, he himself has no ability to retaliate, because he has no reason.

However, he did not expect to hear Fan Pairen's words by accident.

Although he didn't think that Fan Pairen was really only one step away from proving the twin prime number conjecture, but seeing what he said in a serious manner, he said that many mathematicians in the car had heard it, and it was he who first told Li Mu to use the round method. combined with finite fields.

Fan Pairen even listed some mathematical formulas for him on the spot, saying that he had a definite purpose.

When Peng Chuan saw these formulas, they still had some logic, which made him officially believe in Fan Pairen in his heart.

"Very good, very good, I can see that Professor Fan, you do have such a talent for mathematics."

After handing back the draft paper Fan Pairen gave him, Peng Chuan said with a smile: "I will definitely help you get what you deserve, and I will need your cooperation next. I will contact my reporter friend to interview You, only in this way can we let the public know about this matter."

"Okay! Thank you, Professor Peng, you are still the best, at least you are the best of all the professors at Beijing University I know."

Fan Pairen took back those draft papers.

His heart was also pounding at this moment—because he didn't tell Peng Chuan that [-] to [-]% of the formulas on the draft paper came from the content of Li Mu's report, and then he changed it slightly, so it was done. Let these formulas appear to have a certain logic.

However, he didn't feel any guilt about it, because now even he believed that the basis of Li Mu's proof came from the direction he provided.
So even if he uses the contents of Li Mu's report now, he still feels that he is using his own.

Just use it.

But Peng Chuan was completely unaware of what Fan Pairen was hiding.

It was like what he had concealed from Peking University when he first entered Shangjing University.

He stood up with a smile, and stretched out his hand to Fan Pairen: "Whether I am good or not is secondary. The most important thing is that a talented mathematician like you should not be buried."

Fan Pairen also had a bright smile on his face: "Then I will trouble Professor Peng, and I will thank you very much when it is done."

"I don't dare to hope for the Fields Award, but if I can come to Peking University to teach, it can be regarded as my lifelong wish."

"no problem."

Peng Chuan drew a big cake.

(End of this chapter)