From failed candidate to chief scientist

Chapter 81 Do you call this a small study?
"Here... you might want to consider this..."

"Well, I also think we can start from this aspect..."

"If you put these two..."

"Convert again..."

Birkar arrived in the evening. Since picking up Birkar, Lin Mo and him started discussing as if no one else was there. Lin Mo also brought some of his previous drafts.

The two of them discussed the draft while looking at it.

Poor Zhang Qihua had no choice but to act as the driver.

Even back at school, Zhang Qihua was going to invite Birkar to have a good meal, but Birkar refused, and asked Zhang Qihua to go to the cafeteria to pack two lunch boxes, and then followed Lin Mo to the office of the Mathematics Research Center to continue the heated discussion stand up.

The two of them continued their discussion until late at night, until Birkar couldn't hold on any longer and was sent back to a hotel near the school by Zhang Qihua.

……

Early the next morning.

Gangzi came to the Mathematics Research Center yawning. She had been struggling all night.

She felt that this mathematics research center was likely to rely on large projects to apply for funding and research small projects, as she had guessed.Therefore, the research on NS equations that she was looking forward to would most likely be impossible, which made her a little disappointed.

Especially when she stayed in the center these days, she didn't see any research on NS equations carried out in the center at all. She stayed in the mathematics research center and seemed to have nothing to do, not knowing what she should do.

Before, she believed that the mathematics research center had sufficient funds and could carry out research better without having to worry about funds. However, when she came here, she realized that she seemed to have thought wrong. The mathematics research center had sufficient funds, but it was of no use. in research.

Look at this office environment that is a few blocks away from the physics teaching and research office.

There is an entire floor, a large flat floor of more than [-] square meters, which is already several times the size of the physics teaching and research room.

The office is spacious and bright, with a new decoration. The per capita office area even exceeds 200 square meters. The high-end office desks and chairs are equipped with complete office and living facilities. Although it is not luxurious, the supporting facilities alone give people the feeling that they are here It doesn't feel like you're at work, but like you're on vacation.

After discussing with Tian Fangyi, Zhang Qihua put a lot of effort into the decoration of the Mathematics Research Center. He referred to large domestic and foreign Internet companies and implemented the concept of creating an IKEA office environment that is livable, comfortable and convenient, and transformed the Mathematics Research Center into The decoration is low-key and comfortable.

Shan Gang used to think that the office environment was really good, but now in her opinion, these must be spent on research funds, which made Shan Gang even more convinced that the Mathematics Research Center did not spend the funds on the right path and was doing research on research. A huge waste of funds.

On this point, Shan Gang was indeed right. The money for the decoration was indeed paid for from the project funds.

There was no way. The center had previously established the Kratz Conjecture project, and with Tian Fangyi's efforts, it had received a large amount of funding. However, now that the project is about to end, not a penny of the project funding has been spent.

This is not acceptable.

In this way, subsequent projects will not be able to apply for more funds.

Therefore, for future projects and the development of the center, all these funds must be spent.

There was no other way. In the end, Zhang Qihua and Tian Fangyi communicated for a long time before they came up with a way to spend the funds without breaking the rules.

Qi Gang now feels that there is no point in staying in this mathematics research center any longer, so he might as well go back and do his own research.

It’s this office environment that is really too hard to leave.

Lu Xun once said: If life is too comfortable, work will be burdened by life.

After struggling all night, Qi Gang finally made up his mind.

She planned to explain to Zhang Qihua today that she wanted to leave the Mathematics Research Center.

But when she opened the door and walked into the Mathematics Research Center, she saw a foreigner and Lin Mo gathering together, discussing something.

Is the center recruiting new people again?
Why did you recruit a foreigner?
Hey, wait, why does this person look so familiar?

Qi Gang searched in his mind for a long time, and suddenly remembered who this person was.

Kouchel Birkar?
Isn't he at Shuimu University?How would it appear here?

Could it be that he also...

Shan Gang was filled with doubts.

Just at this time, Zhang Qihua walked in with breakfast. "Come on, come on, Lin Mo, Kaocher, let's talk while eating."

After delivering breakfast to the two of them, Zhang Qihua turned to look at Shan Gang.

"Gangzi, have you eaten?"

As he said this, Zhang Qihua handed Shan Gang a breakfast.

"Mr. Zhang, this is..."

"You mean Kauchel? Lin Mo encountered a small problem in his research and wanted to discuss it with Kaucher. Unexpectedly, Kauchel thought that the phone communication was not smooth, so he simply ran over."

small issue?
What kind of small issue needs to be discussed with a Fields winner, and the Fields winner is asked to rush over overnight.

Shan Gang couldn't understand Lin Mo.

"What exactly is Lin Mo studying?"

"Ok?"

Zhang Qihua was stunned for a moment.

"You do not know?"

It has been two or three days since Shan Gang came to the Mathematics Research Center. Zhang Qihua thought that Shan Gang had already understood the situation of the center and knew about the center's research projects, but now...

"I remember I told you that before?"

said?

Shan Gang looked confused.

"Yes, what they are discussing now is a short-term project established by our center. It is a small research project on the limitations of Fourier transform."

A restricted study of Fourier transform?
Shan Gang became even more confused.

Do you think I have never studied mathematics?Although I am a teacher in the physics department, I have a master's degree in mathematics. Fourier transform is a problem of partial differential equations, but look at this wall...

I saw various shapes painted on the wall, with different shapes. Which one can be seen to be related to the equation?

Can you come up with a better project title when editing?
Looking at Shan Gang's expression, Zhang Qihua knew that Shan Gang did not react.

"Kakeya's conjecture."

"what?"

Shan Gang was stunned for a moment.

"Wait, you mean they are discussing the Kakeya conjecture?"

Shan Gang naturally knew Kakeya's conjecture and finally reacted.

A breakthrough in the restricted research of Fourier transform is to solve the problem of Kakeya conjecture.

After coming to his senses, Shan Gang was shocked.

You call Kakeya’s conjecture a small study?

Is this a short term project?

Kakutani’s conjecture is a century-old mathematical problem, longer than the history of Kakutani’s conjecture (also known as Kratz’s conjecture).

What can you solve in the short term that others have not solved for a hundred years?

So how short is your short term? 100 years?
So what is a long-term project?
Oh, NS equation, Shan just remembered it.

Do you think Kakeya’s conjecture is simpler than the NS equation?
What a joke!
Shan Gang will no longer be able to do it in an instant.

(End of this chapter)