Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 188 - 101 Crazy Math Novice_5

Xue Song nodded, and to be honest, he had no good way to teach Qiao Yu. When he saw Qiao Yu’s draft paper with self-posed questions and answers, he even began to doubt his ability to be a good mentor for Qiao Yu.

It’s no exaggeration to say that there aren’t many mathematicians in the world who can understand Peter Schultz’s research. After all, this is the most fundamental research in mathematics, aimed at building a bridge between algebraic geometry, number theory, and p-adic analysis.

Qiao Yu seems to have an extremely astounding talent for grasping these complex mathematical ideas. Not only had Xue Song never guided such a student, but he had also never even encountered one, which instantly made him feel immense pressure.

"Don’t think too much about it. Speaking of Peter Schultz, there’s an interesting story. He gave his paper to his advisor Lambert, and after reading it, Lambert told him he could graduate with his PhD. So, real geniuses don’t actually need us to worry much about them."

Tian Yanzhen optimistically added.

Upon hearing this, Xue Song breathed a sigh of relief and couldn’t help asking, "During your time teaching at Princeton, you’ve interacted with a lot of students. Have you ever met anyone with a talent like Qiao Yu’s?"

Tian Yanzhen smiled and said, "You also studied at Princeton School of Mathematics for eight years. You should know your classmates better than I do, right?"

Xue Song shook his head and replied, "There are indeed many geniuses. Among them, I’m just an ordinary one. But to say someone has genuinely made me admire from the bottom of my heart, there hasn’t been one."

"That’s because you are yourself one of the geniuses." Tian Yanzhen sighed, "For students at Princeton to graduate smoothly, compared to ordinary people, they are all geniuses. Not to mention those who can graduate with a PhD, but geniuses in mathematics and theoretical physics still have to be ranked, after all!"

The remark left Xue Song completely uninterested in continuing the conversation.

It’s truly a despairing field, where even geniuses are divided into ranks...

"If Qiao Yu is truly the kind of genius I think he is, I must thank you. If it weren’t for that call, if I had really missed it, I might regret it for life." Tian Yanzhen looked at Xue Song and said earnestly.

"You’re too kind!" Xue Song quickly replied politely.

"Alright then, I’ll head back. You stay busy. Oh, by the way, the joint training program with Yu University has been drafted. I’ve also secured some benefits for your students. If their achievements during the joint training period meet Yanbei University’s standards, they can choose to receive a diploma from either Yujiang University or Yanbei University."

"Oh, thank you so much!"

"Xiao Xue, no need to be so formal!"

Watching as Tian Yanzhen walked into the nearby building, Xue Song stood there contemplating for a moment, then smiled, took out his phone, and while walking out of the research center, he began to type a message.

This news might just boost the morale of his PhD students?! ƒгeewёbnovel.com

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At noon, Qiao Yu went to the cafeteria alone for lunch again. After a quick ten-minute nap, Qiao Yu began searching for Professor Robert’s papers in the background system of Yanbei University’s library and downloaded them.

Listening to what should be listened to is an essential quality for students.

Especially when the mentor has repeatedly emphasized it and even linked it to politeness and respect, it becomes content that must be listened to.

As for the other matters... they can actually be optional.

For those who become significant figures, it’s very unlikely they will sweat the small stuff with students. At least, this is how Qiao Yu interprets it.

For example, Principal Zhang of Xingtie First Middle School.

As long as the grades are achieved as required, Old Zhang is indeed very lenient in other aspects.

Qiao Yu feels that even if he were bored enough to take down a few letters from the Railway First Middle School sign, Old Zhang would probably just laugh and have the school’s logistics department make a new one, and then tell him not to do it again.

In Yanbei University’s library’s paper retrieval system, searching for Robert Green’s name brought up a ton of papers.

It startled Qiao Yu, but he soon realized they were not all by the same person.

It seems many people abroad are named Robert Green.

Although he had encountered a similar problem while searching for Peter Schultz, there was only one interfering result, and that guy was a chemistry researcher. The paper focus was entirely different.

But Robert, this guy, had a lot of math-oriented papers.

Fortunately, Qiao Yu found that the paper retrieval system was very user-friendly, offering rich content and the ability to filter by year, with an advanced search page that even supported searching by author’s institution.

Qiao Yu remembered Old Xue saying this professor was from New York University, which made it much simpler.

Before long, the legitimate papers by Professor Robert were downloaded.

Perhaps due to first studying Peter Schultz’s papers, which seemed to have triggered something in his mind, Qiao Yu found understanding this professor’s papers quite manageable.

Okay, calling it easy might be slightly presumptuous, but at least it’s not difficult.

For example, Qiao Yu honestly found the preconditions of those lemmas and theorems, a series of concepts, and the proof processes all quite easy to understand. It didn’t require too much brainpower to comprehend. However, combining routine work with leisure was quite beneficial.

Yesterday’s reading of Peter Schultz’s papers was indeed mentally taxing, so today’s not-so-difficult papers served as a form of relaxation.

Despite it being relaxing, it was already nine o’clock in the evening after Qiao Yu diligently read through two papers, only pausing for dinner.

Putting down the papers, Qiao Yu habitually began to think and suddenly had an idea in his mind.