From failed candidate to chief scientist

Chapter 115 You call this a mid-term project?

at the same time.

On the other side, Marina had no choice but to chat with Bill Carr because she couldn't understand Xia Mandarin.

"Oh, Coucher, I heard that you and Lin proved Kakeya's conjecture together, is that true?"

"Well, having said that, it is actually more of Lin's credit. I just provided some opinions and ideas from the side."

Marina was stunned for a moment.

If Lu Xiaoyan had said this alone before, Marina would have thought that Lu Xiaoyan said this out of the unique modesty of Xia people.

But now that Bill Carr has said so, it’s worth thinking about.

Birkar is not from Xia country.

"Kaucher, are you serious?"

Birkar nodded.

"Yes, you don't know what it's like to do research with Lin. It feels like..."

Bill Carr thought for a while, trying hard to find words that could describe that feeling.

"You may not know that working with him feels like working with some famous mathematicians. No, it's even more exaggerated than that."

"Generally, mathematicians have areas of specialization, and areas where they are not good at and have shortcomings, but Lin Mo does not. Working with him, you can't feel his blind spots in knowledge at all. He has profound knowledge in any direction. understand and can carry out in-depth research.”

"When doing research with him, he always seems to be able to grasp the right research direction. You only need to think along his direction without worrying about taking the wrong path. He can always find the right path first and unravel everything. problems and solve all the problems.”

Looking at Marina's obviously unconvincing gaze, Birkar spoke again.

"Do you know how long it took me and her to study Kakeya's conjecture?"

"for how long?"

Birkar raised his finger and made a two-digit gesture.

"Two years?"

Birkar shook his head.

"Two months?"

Bill Carr shook his head again, directly revealing the answer.

"No, two weeks."

"What? It's impossible!"

Marina was shocked. Kakeya's conjecture was not a three-year college entrance examination and a five-year simulation. It was a problem that had existed for hundreds of years. How could it be solved in two weeks of research?

But looking at Bill Carr's serious expression, Marina understood that Bill Carr could not lie to her.

"how can that be?"

Marina couldn't believe it, and turned to look at Lin Mo involuntarily.

Can anyone really be so talented?

"Didn't you say that you can't find a research direction and don't know what to study next? Let me give you a suggestion."

"Follow Lin Mo and see what research he does, maybe you can get inspiration from it."

Birkar pointed at Lin Mo and gave Marina a suggestion.

"Ok?"

"Don't look at me like that. This is my personal experience. After studying the Kakeya conjecture with Lin Mo, I feel that he has opened up my mind. I have some new ideas on geometric topology. I plan to Let’s try this next.”

"so smart?"

Marina looked at Lin Mo and fell into deep thought.

Lin Mo knew nothing about the conversation between Birkar and Marina. At this time, he was really chatting with Qiu Chengdong and others.

"Xiao Lin, what kind of research are you planning to do in the future? Are you going to continue to delve into the elliptic curve?" Chen Shangyuan opened his mouth.

The reason why he asked this was because Lin Mo solved a problem in Masur's torsion at Masur's report meeting, and also proposed a Lin Mo hypothesis. This is about the research on elliptic curves, and Chen Shangyuan's own The main research direction is the study of elliptic curves.

Jiang Fanjun suddenly became nervous.

Boss, are you trying to steal business?No!Lin Mo promised me first!
But Jiang Fanjun didn't dare to say this, he could only stare at Lin Mo nervously.

Lin Mo shook his head.

"I don't have any ideas in this regard at the moment. I set up a mid-term project before. The progress of the project has been a bit slow so far and it has been delayed for a long time. I want to seize the time to tackle the problem and hope it can be completed as soon as possible."

Lu Xiaoyan on the side was stunned for a moment and suddenly opened his mouth.

"Lin Mo, are you talking about..."

Seeing Lu Xiaoyan's expression, everyone present was a little confused. Why did Lu Xiaoyan have this expression?

"Lin Mo, what is your mid-term project? Has there been no progress? Tell us and we will give you the details."

"Well, I just want to ask everyone for advice. My mid-term project is about the existence and smoothness of NS equation solutions. I am..."

"Um……"

Everyone nodded while listening, but...

"Wait, what did you say your mid-term project is?"

"NS equation?"

"You call this a mid-term project?"

Everyone present, including Qiu Chengtong, opened their mouths wide, and their faces were full of surprise for a while. Bilcar and Marina, who were chatting, were also attracted by the situation at this time, and looked at Lin Mo in the same surprise.

"Yes, I originally wanted to use Fourier transform to solve the approximate solution of the NS equation. However, due to the limitations of Fourier transform, I had to solve this problem first, so I set up a short-term small project. .”

"Now that the Fourier transform problem is solved, I decided to start solving the NS equation."

Do you think the Fourier transform restriction problem is a small project?Short term project?

Everyone at the table was numb.

Especially Marina, she has been studying Fourier transform for several years, but in Lin Mo's eyes, this is just a short-term small project. The key is that she hasn't brag yet, she has indeed solved it, and even her own The research topics are all gone.

"You...Lin, how much time have you spent on the Fourier transform restriction problem?"

Marina asked with a trembling voice.

Lin Mo thought for a while, as if reminiscing.

"A week?"

boom!
Marina felt something explode in her head.

It took me several years to conduct research, but others only spent a week?
Is this the real genius?
Am I too stupid?Am I not worthy of being a mathematician?
Fields Medal?No, I don't deserve it!

Marina's eyes were empty, as if she were mourning her concubine.

Except for Lu Xiaoyan, who was personally involved, Zhang Qihua, who watched Lin Mo do research from beginning to end, and Bill Carr, who had spent two weeks making Kakeya's conjecture, everyone else present had their mouths opened and could not close their mouths for a long time.

Chen Shangyuan looked at Lu Xiaoyan in disbelief, asking for confirmation.

"Xiaoyan, is this... true?"

Although Lu Xiaoyan didn't want to admit it, the facts were before her eyes, and she was no less shocked then than she is now.

Seeing everyone's expressions at this time, I felt a little happy for some reason.

Lu Xiaoyan nodded.

"Yes, teacher, if you don't believe it, you can call Shan Gang, she was there at the time."

Chen Shangyuan waved his hand. Naturally, he would not doubt Lu Xiaoyan's words, but... this was still too unacceptable.

(End of this chapter)