A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 87 Do you want to study for a doctorate?

In the end, Fang Wen did not immediately invite his senior brothers, sisters, and junior brothers and sisters to eat roasted food.

After sending the email and the excitement wore off, he felt overwhelmed by fatigue. His eyelids felt like they were filled with lead and he couldn't open them at all. He didn't even have time to go back to the dormitory, so he just lay down on the camp bed in the teaching and research office and fell asleep.

He didn't know how long he slept, but he felt that he had not slept so soundly since he became a graduate student. It seemed that the camp bed in the teaching and research office was more comfortable than the wooden bed in the dormitory.

He stretched and groaned, turned over, and was about to continue sleeping when he remembered that he was on a camp bed, not the bed with guardrails in the dormitory.

The moment I turned over, I felt a sense of being suspended in the air, followed by the feeling of weightlessness of free fall.

With his adrenaline rushing, Fang Wen frantically tried to grab something, but in the end, he came up empty-handed in his panic.

Snapped!
However, the expected pain did not appear, and Fang Wen felt that he had landed on something soft.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying on a soft pink blanket with a cute little bear pattern on it.

It was clearly not his own blanket.

Fang Wen was startled and stood up quickly.

"Brother is awake?!"

The junior sister's crisp voice sounded behind him, and Fang Wen realized that the teaching and research office was empty except for the two of them.

I looked at the time and it was already 11:17 PM.

"Thanks!"

Looking at the junior sister who was packing the blanket, it was obvious who the owner of the blanket was. Fang Wen thanked her sincerely. If it weren't for this blanket, he might have suffered a lot.

"Don't thank me. Director Liu asked me to wait for you here so you can go find him when you wake up."

The little junior sister stood up holding a blanket, looking at Fang Wen with her big eyes blinking, and found that this senior brother seemed a little different.

"The director is looking for me?"

"Why didn't you just wake me up?"

Fang Wen was a little nervous, wondering if there was something wrong with his paper.

"Director Liu told us not to wake you up so you can get some rest."

The little junior sister pouted and said that the teacher's gentleness is not something you can see easily.

She also read Fang Wen's paper, but she had just started school and didn't quite understand a lot of things. She didn't realize how impressive this paper was.

But she could tell from the reactions of her senior brother and mentor that Senior Brother Fang Wen must have achieved some remarkable results.

Fang Wen didn't know what his junior sister was thinking, so he quickly ran to Liu Hongtao's office. The graduation thesis was a big deal and could not tolerate any negligence.

The door of Liu Hongtao's office was not closed and the light was still on. Fang Wen looked inside and found that Liu Hongtao was staring at the computer screen intently.

"wake up?"

Liu Hongtao naturally noticed Fang Wen as well. He looked towards the door and smiled, a rare sight. "Come in and have a seat."

He used to think that the students he accepted were all funny.

But after reading Fang Wen's paper today, he realized that he had misjudged them before. There are still some promising talents among this group of funny people.

Liu Hongtao waited until Fang Wen sat down across from him at the desk before asking, "Have you ever thought about getting a doctorate?"

"what?"

Fang Wen opened his mouth wide.

He had imagined many possibilities, but he never thought that Lao Liu would ask such a question after he sat down.

"Well, Director, you know my level. I'm planning to get a teaching certificate after I finish my graduation thesis and become a middle school teacher."

Although he didn't know why the teacher said this, he didn't dare to agree casually. Studying for a doctorate is fun for a while, but graduation is a crematorium. The experiences of his seniors are a lesson for him. Fang Wen still has this self-awareness.

Liu Hongtao frowned slightly. "Don't underestimate yourself. You're quite capable. This paper is a very good one." He raised a stack of printed A4 papers beside him. "The logic is rigorous, the technical approach is clear, and the results not only fill the theoretical gaps in the Blackburn classification framework, but also provide efficient new tools for computational group theory. It's already high-quality research in the field of basic group theory!"

"?"

Fang Wen was a little confused and didn't know what the teacher meant.

It was clear that a month ago, my paper was a poor-quality product that didn't even meet the standards of a graduate thesis. How come it became high-quality research in the blink of an eye?

Is it just because of the changes made last night?

Is it really such a big improvement?

"Director, well, I still think that studying for a doctorate is a bit difficult for me, you see..."

But Fang Wen was not blinded by these sweet words, and he did not forget his original intention that he was a waste.

Liu Hongtao sighed. In addition to talent, self-confidence is also very important in mathematical research!
"You don't have to make a decision so quickly. You're only in your second year of graduate school. You can go back and think about it carefully. Come back to me when you've figured it out."

"Okay, Director!"

Fang Wen readily agreed, nodding like a chick pecking at rice, then looked at the stack of A4 papers in Liu Hongtao's hand, "Then my graduation thesis..."

Liu Hongtao handed the A4 paper to Fang Wen, "Here, take it. I've written a few suggestions on it. Please revise it according to the suggestions."

Fang Wen suddenly felt discouraged. He thought everything was fine, but he didn't expect it to have to be changed!
"After revising it, translate it into English and try submitting it to the Journal of Algebara or the Journal of Group Theory."

"Ok?"

Fang Wen looked at the paper in his hand as if he had seen a ghost.

Of course he knew what Journal of Algebara and Journal of Group Theory were. These two journals are high-standard and influential journals in the field of group theory.

Although mathematics journals have relatively low impact factors due to their particularity, these two journals are only SCI Zone II journals.

But even if it is a Zone II journal, it is already very impressive!
A PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at Chengdu University meets the graduation requirements as long as he or she can publish a paper in SCI Zone 2.

How could his master's thesis be published in an SCI Zone II journal?

Moreover, the influence of these two journals in the field of mathematics is much higher than that of normal SCI Zone 2 journals.

I glanced at the teacher's suggestions. 1. It is recommended to add example codes for p=5, 7 (as an appendix or supplementary material) to enhance the reproducibility of the results.

2. A comparative analysis of classic literature on p-group automorphism groups from the 1930s to the 1960s (e.g., Higman and Gaschütz) could be added to further highlight the inheritance and breakthroughs of this work.

3. Some proof details (such as the bijective construction of Hom groups and homomorphic kernels) can be moved to the appendix to improve the fluency of the main text.

None of these involve changes to the main body of the paper. In other words, the teacher has approved his paper and only needs to make some minor optimizations to publish it in SCI Zone 2!
"Any questions?"

Liu Hongtao asked kindly, "Don't worry about the quality. Please write me as the corresponding author and I can provide academic guarantee for your paper."

"Whether you plan to pursue a doctorate or not, I suggest you continue this line of research. The methodology of your paper has significant implications for adjacent fields, such as modular Lie algebras and p-adic group representations in arithmetic geometry. You can explore cross-applications with representation theory later."

Fang Wen was a little dazed.

But he was also sure of one thing - his paper was really at the level of SCI Zone 2, and his supervisor was willing to give him an academic guarantee!
Recalling the WeChat conversation with Chen Hui last night, he suddenly realized that even he himself did not realize how valuable the advice, or to put it bluntly, guidance, Chen Hui gave him was!
"If I submit to a journal, can I write about someone else as the second author?"

Generally speaking, for a paper completed under the guidance of a teacher, the second author must write the teacher as the credited author. However, Fang Wen, who knew how much advantage he had taken, did not become ungrateful. Even at the risk of being accused of academic misconduct, he decided to reveal the person's name.

“Who do you want to write about?”

Liu Hongtao doesn't mind not having a second author. It has little impact on his prestige in the mathematics community. Having a corresponding author will give him some bragging rights in the education community.

"Chen Hui!"

"Who?"

Liu Hongtao leaned forward, wondering if he was hallucinating.

He still remembered the name, but what did this name have to do with Fang Wen and this paper?
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