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Chapter 147 Project Establishment

As we all know, in China's chat software, if you type three question marks at once, it never means just confusion, but a series of emotions that are difficult to describe.

Anyone who has a Ph.D. and is not planning on dawdling around will know that applying for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Youth Science Fund program when you are young does have preferential treatment.

To put it bluntly, when men apply for projects before the age of 35 and women before the age of 40, they compete solely with projects from the pool of their peers.

At this stage, all competitors are still academic newcomers.

Once you exceed the age of academic newcomers and want to apply for these scientific research funds, sorry, at this time the application will be in competition with all scientific research teams in the big pool.

In extreme cases, there may be teams led by former mentors among the competitors.

Therefore, if you generally cannot get a national project in your youth, it will be really difficult to get it in this life.

Although Chen Zhuoyang has given up on doing scientific research, he plans to shine in the field of mathematics education.

But after studying for a Ph.D., can anyone expect to be able to do a project to commemorate their lost youth?

Of course, that doesn't mean that Chen Zhuoyang has never done anything. After all, there are always some benefits to following Director Tian.

When he was studying for his Ph.D., Chen Zhuoyang received a doctoral program fund from the BU in Education, but that was also the highlight of his life.

He originally planned to make this project a success, and then get another general project before graduation, so that he could enter the scientific research world.

It's a pity that after the first project was not perfect, there was no future.

Naturally, it was impossible to do a public project, but another school-level project was accepted.

It was at this stage that Chen Zhuoyang realized that he was actually not suitable for scientific research until graduation.

To be honest, on the day of graduation, Chen Zhuoyang really felt that this was the highlight of his life.

After experiencing a lot of hard work from all aspects after studying for a Ph.D., Chen Zhuoyang has realized that the most powerful person he can have close contact with in his life is probably his mentor.

Of course, there may be an additional junior brother. And Chen Zhuoyang believes that if he encounters any trouble in the future, the help from his junior brother may be greater than that of his mentor.

I'm really not complaining that Tian Yanzhen isn't good enough to him, it's just that Qiao Yu is young.

When you are young, you have unlimited possibilities. This is a fact that no one can deny.

This is also the reason why Chen Zhuoyang has always kept in touch with Qiao Yu. He is afraid that Qiao Yu will forget him.

…

"Hey, senior brother, it's already eleven o'clock, and you haven't gone to bed yet? What are you busy with?"

Qiao Yu ignored the three question marks and asked curiously.

Chen Zhuoyang is now a lecturer at a 985 university. If nothing else happens, he may become an associate professor in four or five years.

Then he got married and had children in college, and devoted his life to China's mathematics education.

But these are not the reasons why Brother Chen is still playing with his mobile phone. Doesn’t the teacher have to teach?

Oh, by the way, I’m still on vacation...

"I'm working on lesson plans and preparing lessons. Next semester, the school has arranged for me to teach differential geometry to juniors in the Department of Mathematics. Alas, teaching is not that simple."

"Senior brother is amazing! You can teach juniors right away. Wouldn't it be no problem to be promoted to associate professor in the future?"

"...These are not important. Tell me, Director Tian helped you apply for a key project. What is the topic?"

Seeing this sentence, Qiao Yu felt that Senior Brother Chen was becoming less and less good at chatting, and he had to correct this wrong thinking.

"It wasn't Director Tian who helped me apply for key projects, it was me who came up with some ideas. Both my supervisor and Grandpa Shi thought this idea was qualified to be included in the national key projects!"

"Ah, yes, yes, that's what I meant. I expressed it wrongly. What do you think? So powerful?"

"A brand new axiom system. Professor Zhang Yuantang's evaluation is that if I can complete this system, the symbol system of mathematical papers will be unified in the future. But in fact, my idea is to use geometric methods to solve number theory problems in the future."

"As expected of you, you are so powerful! Junior brother can do national key projects at the age of sixteen. When you become an academician in the future, you must give senior brother a hand."

"So, do you want to join the team?"

"Can I do that too?"

"You are definitely not good at proving the main framework, but after I proved the main lemmas and theorems, I think those who have studied mathematics will be able to prove the detailed work."

"Really? Is there still room for the research team?"

"The research team hasn't been set up yet, but preparations should start in the next two days. I'm not in a hurry, but Director Tian and Grandpa Shi are anxious, and they're annoying!

Especially Director Tian, ​​he asked me to fill in all the parts of these forms except team members tomorrow. Otherwise, why do you think I’m still up so late?”

"Junior brother, you must leave a place for me! Senior brother, don't worry about what you do. As long as it's not a proposition that you don't understand at all, I promise to complete it with all my heart."

"Okay. But it will be very hard, and you will often have to work late at night. For example, today you have to write a resume as soon as possible and be as detailed as possible. You can't fool me with your previous template."

"No problem, but I don't have enough time today. It will be past midnight to start preparations now. How about I finish it and send it to your email directly?"

"Well, okay, you go and write it quickly."

"Copy that, thank you so much, little junior brother."

…

Seeing the smiling face that Senior Brother Chen sent at the end, Qiao Yu was quite satisfied.

Thinking that someone would stay up late with him tonight, Qiao Yu felt much better.

…

Almost all official application materials have the same problem, that is, when ordinary people come into contact with them for the first time, they can easily become afraid of those very standardized terms.

Because I don’t know how to fill in many things at all.

But for Qiao Yu, this problem obviously does not exist.

After all, Tian Yanzhen explained it to him personally. Perhaps Tian Yanzhen has not had many opportunities to fill in such application materials personally in recent years, but as a member of the fund's review committee, he has had many opportunities to review these materials.

In fact, it didn't take long for Qiao Yu to fill in the information. Especially his resume was actually very simple.

So far, all he can produce is that he has published three papers and was invited to give a report at the World Congress on Algebraic Geometry.

But if you consider that two of the three papers were published in the top four journals, and he gave a 60-minute opening report, the relatively simple resume is still very convincing.

Especially in China, unlike abroad, when doing various projects or applying for projects, the review committee will only recognize the first author in most cases.

Coincidentally, he is the first author of all these papers published by Qiao Yu.

So even though his resume seems quite small, it only takes one-third of a page to write it.

But in terms of quality, it can be said that more than 95% of the professors who have written a few pages or even dozens of pages on their resumes have been compared to others.

After all, mathematics is different from computers. There are not many world-class conferences with enough influence. Only one person can be invited to give the opening report at each conference...

China's current development stage happens to be a big country in mathematics, not a powerful country in mathematics.

Domestic pure mathematics research is indeed lagging behind compared to the world. So many people have been criticizing why China’s IMO scores have always been very good every year, but world-class mathematics awards are always missed by Chinese people...

Such as the Fields Medal.

So far, no local mathematician has received this honor.

In fact, this question is also very simple. At present, the policy guidance of mathematics research is still oriented towards application...

Encouraging directions and various scientific research hats are more inclined to projects that can be implemented in practical application scenarios immediately.

It’s not that there is no long-term concern, but that China really has immediate concerns.

No matter what the situation is now in that once arrogant country on the other side of the ocean, at least from the 1940s and 1950s to now, it has really had a completely carefree time of seventy or eighty years.

Especially since the 1990s, it has become outstanding at all levels. At that time, China's development had not even started.

Even now, I am still chasing...

As we all know, the Fields Medal prefers to recognize researchers who have made major breakthroughs in the field of theoretical mathematics.

Coincidentally, progress in the field of theoretical mathematics is actually difficult to realize directly. It often takes dozens or even hundreds of years for people to find suitable application directions from basic mathematical theoretical research...

An obvious example is that it has taken a full century since Fourier analysis was proposed and widely used.

In 1807, Fourier proposed the concept of decomposing functions into sine and cosine waves when he was studying the problem of heat conduction. In his paper "Analytical Theory of Heat", he directly established the preliminary theory of Fourier series and Fourier transform.

It was already in the early twentieth century when people discovered that the propagation and modulation and demodulation of radio waves required the use of Fourier series to describe frequencies and waveforms.

By the mid-20th century, Fourier transform had become a core tool in engineering fields such as communication engineering, acoustics, and image processing, and it remains until now.

This is a very helpless and helpless thing. Many mathematicians eventually choose to go abroad, which actually has something to do with their orientation.

It’s not that I don’t pay attention to theory, it’s that I really don’t have the qualifications to put mathematical theory in the most important position for the time being.

This has always been a problem that worries Tian Yanzhen.

Coincidentally, in this era when China was gradually becoming stronger, sixteen-year-old Qiao Yu suddenly appeared.

…

Early the next morning, Qiao Yu had already completed all the information required for the Youth Fund.
To be continued...