A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 78 Despair
It is really too incongruous to have Chengdu No. 2 Middle School mixed in with a number of famous universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University.

"Is there a bug in the system?"

Wang Jianwei subconsciously refreshed the page.

The content of the score sheet has not changed, and Chen Hui's name is still in the eighth place.

Chengdu No. 2 Middle School, Chen Hui!
He happened to know a guy named Chen Hui from Rongcheng No. 2 Middle School.

He believed that there would be no such coincidence in the world. It was impossible for there to be two students named Chen Hui in Rongcheng No. 2 Middle School, and both of them were gifted in mathematics.

So this Chen Hui must be the Chen Hui he knows.

When did he participate in the Barbaria Mathematical Competition?
He is still a child!
Wang Jianwei didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment.

When he was in the first year of high school, he was still in Macabaka, but he was already competing with top students from prestigious universities.

Therefore, first place in the provincial competition is only the upper limit of the provincial competition, not Chen Hui's upper limit.

Ranked 8th in the Barbaria Mathematical Competition preliminaries!

He couldn't imagine how strong that young high school student was.

He had no doubt about this result from the beginning to the end. As long as anyone had met Chen Hui in person and seen his provincial competition test paper, no one would have doubted it.

Sure enough, mathematics is the best stage for geniuses!

"Brother, let's go, let's go to the South Gate Cross-legged Beef Walk!"

Look at the time, it’s one minute past eleven, it’s almost time!
Fang Wen leaned over and said to Wang Jianwei, even though the two brothers hurt each other, their relationship was still very close. Since they were going to celebrate, how could they leave out their own brother?

Wang Jianwei rolled his eyes at his junior fellow apprentice and said, "At your age, how can you even eat?"

“I suggest you check out the competition’s official website!”

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Fang Wen's eyes were full of confusion, and he didn't know what his senior brother meant.

Could it be that he was struck down by himself? His heart of faith was broken?

But he still went to the official website of the Barbaria Mathematical Competition out of curiosity.

When he entered the official website, he naturally saw the eye-catching announcement at a glance and clicked on it out of curiosity.

"Chen Hui?"

As expected, it only took Fang Wen a dozen seconds to see what Wang Jianwei wanted him to see.

"What Chen Hui?"

When the junior sister heard the name, her eyes lit up and she excitedly turned to look at Fang Wen's screen. The image of that handsome guy automatically appeared in her mind.

The next moment, she burst into the same exclamation as Fang Wen, "Chen Hui?!"

The successive exclamations attracted the attention of many people. Everyone gathered around Fang Wen's position curiously, and then there were exclamations one after another.

They couldn't think of anyone other than Chen Hui from Rongcheng No. 2 Middle School, the little guy who had just won the first place in the National Mathematical Advanced Placement Competition not long ago.

"Is he so powerful?"

The eldest sister looked suspicious.

The Barbaria Mathematics Competition is different from the National Mathematical Association. After all, high school knowledge is limited, and problem solving focuses more on logical thinking ability, which tests students' mathematical potential.

She could accept that the little guy was a math genius.

However, the knowledge points involved in the Barbaria Mathematical Competition preliminaries are extremely broad. It is difficult to master all this knowledge without a few years, let alone stand out among the geniuses in the preliminaries.

How old is that little guy?

Sixteen years old!
Did he start learning mathematics since he was in the womb?

"Barbaria has announced the top ten answers!"

At this time, another junior colleague in the laboratory suddenly said that he had an active mind and had opened the social software while everyone was still surprised, and easily found Chen Hui's answer sheet on the hot search.

"Post it in the group, post it in the group."

Wang Jianwei, who had remained calm and hadn't surrounded Fang Wen earlier, couldn't wait to shout. Then everyone went back to their own places, opened WeChat, and clicked on the link shared by the junior.

The first two questions were multiple-choice questions, nothing interesting to look at. The third question itself was not difficult. Everyone in this teaching and research department could quickly understand Chen Hui's answer.

"Fuck me!"

"Can this problem be solved using Lie algebra?"

After seeing the solution to the fourth question, Fang Wen could no longer remain calm.

He could deceive his seniors and juniors, but he couldn't deceive himself. He didn't do the fourth question because he was too lazy to do it. Instead, he became confused and dizzy halfway through the calculation. In the end, he didn't get the answer and had to give up.

He never thought that the fourth question could be solved so easily.

Check out Chen Hui’s solution process!
After establishing the Lie algebra homomorphism, the calculation of the eigenvalue of f is as simple as 1+1=2, and the answer can be easily obtained. The same is true for the next two questions. We only need to use the existing group theory conclusions and properties to derive the dimension formula, and then perform simple deduction to get the answer.

Compared with Chen Hui's solution process, he was like a primitive man chopping down a tree with a stone axe, while Chen Hui was using an electric saw!

When it comes to the use of tools, the two are simply not on the same level.

What made him even more unable to let go was that he himself was studying group theory, and even his graduation thesis was related to group theory.

But when he was solving the problem, he never thought of using Lie algebra. He even felt that even if he had thought of it, he might not be able to construct the Lie algebra isomorphism to solve the problem.

He slumped in the chair helplessly, not even wanting to look at the answer to the next question.

So desperate!
Is this still a high school student?
Wang Jianwei, who was originally preparing to criticize Fang Wen, swallowed the words that were about to come out of his throat when he saw this.

Not to mention Fang Wen, even for himself, it is still unknown whether he can come up with this solution in the exam room.

"Brother, don't you also study group theory?"

But the junior sister didn't have such good eyesight. She looked at Fang Wen with her big eyes blinking.

Fang Wen was about to cry, "Is that what we are learning about group theory?"

"Oh, Boss, you didn't do the fifth question!"

Suddenly, a surprised cheer saved Fang Wen.

She didn't feel any sense of empathy when the big guy solved the problem easily in a clever way, and even felt that the big guy was too far away from her. But when the big guy handed in a blank paper, she could really resonate with it, as she had done this many times.

Suddenly I realized that even big guys sometimes hand in blank papers, and I felt inexplicably familiar with them.

He sat up in shock while dying of illness.

Fang Wen scrolled down the mouse and found that Chen Hui's fifth question was indeed left blank.

See, he said question five was difficult!

However, Chen Hui got all the answers to questions 6 and 7 right. It was just that there were some flaws in the proof process for question 7, so he was deducted two points. His final total score was 98, ranking eighth in the preliminaries!
Heartbroken.

Fang Wen suddenly lost interest in eating the cross-legged beef.

The entire teaching and research department fell silent, and no one was very interested. Although this matter seemed to have nothing to do with them, for some reason, they always felt a little dazed after knowing about it.

Things are always like this, there is no harm without comparison.

"Good guy!"

"Someone revealed that Chen Hui only took four hours to submit the paper!"

The junior brother who sent the link before revealed more shocking information.

beep...

The next moment, there was a screenshot in the group.

[Industry insider, conflict of interest, anonymous]

I have another message for everyone. The person ranked eighth finished his paper in just four hours.

PS: Here's some more data: The 48-hour preliminaries timeframe is based on five years of data validation. The top ten contestants in the past three rounds averaged 19.2 hours, with the fastest time being 13 hours and 47 minutes by an MIT PhD student. Completing all six questions in four hours requires a physical writing speed of 18 valid mathematical symbols per minute. Completing all six questions (including three proof questions) in four hours requires a physical writing speed of 18 valid mathematical symbols per minute, which is close to the threshold for normal writing speed. In other words, that "genius"'s thinking time was no more than half an hour. Think about that.

(End of this chapter)