The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 14: The Mathematical Demon King?
Qin Song told Liu Bin everything about Xiao Yi's performance in the exam.

Originally, Liu Bin thought that Xiao Yi just did very well in this monthly exam. However, at the beginning, Qin Song told him that Xiao Yi only took 20 minutes to finish the math test. His eyes widened immediately.

The math test was supposed to last 120 minutes, but Xiao Yi finished it in just 20 minutes?

Just a fraction?
Isn’t this a bit outrageous?

There were 12 multiple-choice questions and 4 fill-in-the-blank questions, which made a total of 16 questions. Then there were 5 essay questions, which added up to 21 questions. I finished them in 20 minutes, which means that on average I even answered one question per minute.

Although the difficulty of these questions is indeed not as high as the competition questions, but with 20 minutes, wouldn't it be possible to know how to answer the questions just by looking at them?

I'm afraid it's just a little slower than copying the answers directly.

And this was not the end. Later, when Liu Bin saw the draft paper of Xiao Yi that Qin Song sent to him, his surprise almost turned into shock.

Is he going to bring a math demon to their School of Mathematics at USTC?

The two things, finishing the test in 20 minutes, and the five ways to solve the final question, do seem shocking, but as a mathematics professor, Liu Bin can see something deeper.

The former reflects that Xiao Yi's thinking is very quick. When he gets a question, he can quickly start thinking about it and come up with a solution. Unlike most people, when doing a question, the brain needs to filter out the thinking of the previous question before starting to think about the next question. It is like the brain has a "start-up" process.

The latter is even more amazing. He can come up with five ways to solve a problem, and one way is even simpler than the other. This shows that Xiao Yi's thinking is very independent. He can eliminate all kinds of inertial thinking, thereby changing his thinking angle when solving problems.

This is particularly important for mathematics, or for any science.

Inertial thinking is a good thing for some similar problems in science. It allows people to save a lot of time when solving problems. To some extent, this is also a kind of empirical thinking.

Its biggest problem is that it is not very useful when facing other new problems.

If you want to solve a new problem, you often need to change the direction of thinking, research angle, etc. However, due to the inertia of the brain, when people study new problems, they always habitually use past methods to try to solve them, and it is difficult to get rid of the experience in their minds.

So we can see that many important achievements in history are often derived from the flexible thinking of the creators, while those who fail are defeated by the fixed thinking patterns in their minds.

Especially for mathematics.

Therefore, Liu Bin was very clear about how amazing it was that Xiao Yi could think of multiple solutions to the same problem within just a few dozen minutes.

This shows that his thinking has almost no inertia. As long as he wants, he can break away from inertia and think anytime and anywhere.

No wonder this kid was always able to solve those competition questions he set in an extremely brilliant way.

Liu Bin couldn't help but wonder, will their School of Mathematics at USTC be able to suppress this mathematical genius?
"Hello, Professor Liu? What's wrong?"

Qin Song's voice came from the microphone. He was probably confused by the fact that Liu Bin had no response.

Liu Bin came back to his senses and responded: "Oh, nothing, probably..."

He said helplessly: "It's a bit too surprising."

"Haha, it's good that we can surprise Professor Liu! After Xiao Yi enters the junior class, he will definitely not let USTC's School of Mathematics down!" He won't be disappointed, but maybe he will be desperate?
The despair that ordinary people feel when faced with genius.

Liu Bin shook his head and decided not to think too much about it.

No matter what, Xiao Yi's talent is there, and if he goes to their junior class, he will definitely be able to bring glory to their junior class.

Well... when the time comes, those geniuses in the junior class will have to suffer, and he will have to bear the blame.

Maybe it can even shake up the arrogance of those students in the junior classes.

He couldn't help but start looking forward to what kind of amazing abilities Xiao Yi would be able to demonstrate after he went to the junior class.

Especially the genius thinking that has almost no inertia. Once it starts to study real mathematical topics, it will probably bring surprises to everyone.

Then he said to Qin Song: "Okay, when your monthly exam results are out, send the transcripts to me, and I will submit them to our school. After the review is passed, Xiao Yi will be issued the college entrance examination qualification certificate."

"Okay, then I'll have to thank you, Professor Liu." Qin Song said happily. Now it's settled!

As for the college entrance examination qualification certificate, it can only be issued by colleges and universities that have opened junior classes, because the Ministry of Education stipulates that only senior high school students can take the college entrance examination, and students in other grades cannot take the college entrance examination.

Colleges and universities with junior classes have the "qualification" to open a back door, allowing students who are not in their third year of high school to take the college entrance examination. Students who meet the requirements can then enter the junior class and go to college early.

"Also, I will come to the Affiliated High School next week to meet with Xiao Yi. I will give him some of the competition questions and books that I promised to give him last time."

"Okay." Qin Song replied.
Then they didn't say anything more and hung up the phone.

Putting down his phone, Liu Bin looked down at the books he had sorted out to give to Xiao Yi. He touched his chin and then clapped his hands.

"Let's add books like algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, etc."

……

A few more days passed quietly.

Because the physics, chemistry and biology exams in the second year of high school were still subject-based exams, not comprehensive exams, the exams took a total of three days, starting on Friday and lasting until Sunday.

Students don’t have to worry about resting this weekend, as they will have evening self-study and continue their classes on Sunday night.

Although it is very tiring, after a few years or even more than ten years, such a period of time will probably be regarded as a precious memory of youth, right?
And just like that, the moon set and the sun rose, and the second week, Monday arrived.

During the morning self-study time, unlike the previous morning self-study times when the classroom was full of sleepiness, on this day’s morning self-study, all the students held their heads up and looked energetic.

In fact, the reason why they were so energetic was entirely due to the tension in their hearts.

There is no other reason, because this morning self-study session is when the results of last week’s monthly exam are announced!
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