A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 36: What's so strange about getting a perfect score? (Thanks to "鈡銘" for the reward and support)

Chengdu Mathematical Society,
Vice President's Office, 3rd Floor, Administration Building,

After a good rest, Ma Jingtang and Yang Han returned to their desks. Ma Jingtang looked at the paper in his hand, frowning slightly. "Your idea is very good, but it requires calculating the orbits of the elements in the set X and the elements in the stable subgroup. The permutation group and set order you chose are too high, and there are too many elements, so the computing power consumption is too high..."

"There's nothing we can do about it. We have to ensure the group has sufficient order to have sufficient complexity and security, and the set has enough elements to have enough key space."

Yang Han was also somewhat helpless. "Didn't I recently apply for a batch of supercomputer computing power? I think it can be used for my project. Once it is realized, the value will be immeasurable."

Ma Jingtang did not agree immediately, but fell into deep thought as he looked at the paper in his hand.

Today, the times have changed. Even mathematical research requires a lot of resources, especially computing power, which is extremely valuable to mathematicians and can be used to quickly verify some of their ideas.

If they had infinite computing power, they could verify their ideas as quickly as possible, and then constantly try and error, and keep moving forward, instead of holding a piece of draft paper and racking their brains to try and error through logical reasoning.

A mathematician's time is precious!
"We do have some computing power resources, but..."

After pondering for a long while, Ma Jingtang spoke again.

However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a rapid ring of the phone.

Ma Jingtang frowned and turned to look at the mobile phone on the table. He hated being disturbed when he was thinking about something.

The caller ID shows Yan Zhenhua.

Ma Jingtang knew this person, who was an executive of the Mathematical Society.

Finally, he answered the phone, his tone neither good nor bad, "What's the matter?"

Yang Han knew that when the teacher spoke in this tone, it meant he was angry.

"President, there's a perfect score on the provincial competition paper!"

Yan Zhenhua's excited voice came from the microphone. Obviously, he was not very familiar with the president's temper.

"What's so strange about getting a perfect score?"

Ma Jingtang's tone remained unchanged, but his expression became increasingly gloomy.

The exam hasn’t even ended yet, so where does the perfect score test paper come from?
The provincial competition is a very important exam. If these guys mess around, even he will be implicated.

"This isn't an ordinary perfect-score test paper. You'll see from the photo I sent you on WeChat."

Yan Zhenhua continued, this is the disadvantage of making a phone call. You can't see the other person's expression and you can't realize the emotion behind the other person's words.

"Ah."

Ma Jingtang hummed and hung up the phone, already thinking about how to fire this troublemaker.

So what if the test papers are full marks? There are so many full marks test papers in the provincial competitions in recent years. Does he have to review them one by one?

Even though the questions this year were a bit more difficult and getting full marks was not easy, Chengdu is not a weak province in competitions, so it is normal to get a few full marks.

Of course, what annoyed him even more was that these guys checked the test papers of the candidates before the exam was over.

But after changing his mind, he opened WeChat.

As expected, Yan Zhenhua had already sent him two photos.

Ma Jingtang skipped over the first fill-in-the-blank question and looked at the big question on the second page.

Seeing this, his anger subsided a little. Seeing a test paper filled with neatly written answers really makes people feel good.

He didn't look at the first two questions carefully. He believed that since Yan Zhenhua said it was full marks, there should be no problem with the answers to this test paper.

He wanted to see what was in this test paper that made Yan Zhenhua make such a fuss.

The third question was a question that Ma Jingtang had set himself. After seeing Chen Hui's rigorous and neat proof, Ma Jingtang nodded secretly and developed a good impression of this candidate whom he had never met before.

The handwriting reflects the character of the writer, and the same is true for mathematical proofs.

Then, he looked at the last big question. "Hmm?"

Soon, his eyes widened and he stared at his phone in a daze.

It’s not that the proof of this question is so complicated that it takes him a lot of time to understand it.

On the contrary, the proof process given on this test paper is too simple, so simple that you can tell it is correct at a glance.

For a final number theory question, this is abnormal!
How can this problem be solved so easily?!

"Teacher, what's wrong?"

Yang Han also noticed something was wrong and asked.

Ma Jingtang woke up from his trance and handed the phone to Yang Han, "Take a look at it too."

"Just look at the last question."

He was responsible for screening the questions this time, especially the last question, which he put there on purpose.

He had naturally thought about the solution to this problem, but he never thought it could be solved so easily. How strong a mathematical intuition does it take to do that?

"This...this little guy is a talent!"

Yang Han naturally reacted immediately. He raised his head and looked at Ma Jingtang with a burning gaze, suggesting, "Perhaps we can try to recruit him to Rongcheng University."

Ma Jingtang pondered.

After a moment, he shook his head and said, "This is indeed a good seedling, but a provincial first is not enough to get into Rongcheng University."

"Teacher, I don't agree with you."

Yang Han was very confident. "If he participates in the CMO and wins the gold medal, there will be no future for us at Rongcheng University."

Chengdu University is also a very good comprehensive 985 university. For other majors, the students enrolled are also quite good, but for the Department of Mathematics, it is neither good nor bad.

As we all know, only the top talents in the world are qualified to study mathematics.

But since they are all the top people, even if they do not go to famous universities such as Princeton and École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and stay in China, they will choose Tsinghua University and Yanbei University, and will never consider Chengdu University.

Therefore, if Chengdu University wants to recruit good seedlings, the only possibility is to move the good seedlings to its own yard and plant them before they grow into big trees and are discovered.

If Rongcheng University can produce an influential mathematician, then Rongcheng University will naturally have more say in resource allocation in the future. At that time, even if it gives him some benefits, it will be enough for him to benefit endlessly.

He was not sure whether the owner of this test paper could become an influential mathematician, but this was indeed a good seedling. Regardless of whether he could become a top mathematician or not, he might as well try his best. Anyway, it was not his resources that were wasted.

What if it works!
"gold medal?"

"You seem to have a lot of confidence in him."

Ma Jingtang looked at Yang Han, and he clearly understood what his student was thinking.

He agreed, but he still shook his head helplessly, "He's just a provincial No. 1, and we can't recruit him to Rongcheng University."

Now the disciplines in all aspects are very strict, and he feels helpless.

The top student in the province definitely cannot enter Chengdu University, but if someone wins the CMO gold medal, why should he come to Chengdu University?

No solution.

"I can send this test paper to that person. If he likes this kid, as long as his grades are not too bad and he can get into a key university, he should have a chance to be directly recruited into Rongcheng University."

But this time he was not really helpless. Thinking of the big guy who asked this question, Ma Jingtang took back his phone without hesitation, selected the two photos, clicked merge and forwarded them.

As he forwarded the message, he thought for a moment before typing in the input box, "Brother Xiaoshan, I'm grateful for setting the questions for this provincial competition. During this provincial competition, I found a very interesting answer sheet while grading. Brother Xiaoshan, you might want to take a look at it."

(End of this chapter)