Top Student: Wasteland Technology Invasion

The PowerPoint presentation that Lin Chuan had prepared in advance was projected onto the screen.

"I call this model MST-HGN. Simply put, it models the urban road network as a heterogeneous graph, G=(V, E, T), with node types T={road segment, intersection, vehicle}..."

"The model can be divided into three layers. First, let's talk about the first layer, the multi-source data fusion layer..."

As soon as Lin Chuan spoke, Luo Ting and Duan Chengye looked at each other.

No.

What exactly is this guy from the School of Mathematical Sciences talking about?

I don't understand.

Or is this the true strength of the first-year students in the School of Mathematics?

He came up with a bizarre mathematical model after only one day on the team, and the key thing is that it actually sounds quite interesting, like it was tailor-made for a road network project.

The mathematical concepts involved are a bit complex, though.

As third-year students in the School of Information Science and Technology, Luo Ting and Duan Chengye were naturally good at mathematics, but they still couldn't keep up with Lin Chuan's pace.

If this model is actually applied, how will they, as a group, coordinate?

Zeng Na's eyes widened. She didn't look at Lin Chuan, but instead noticed Professor Du sitting to the side.

What she saw... Professor Du was smiling.

Zeng Na has been on set for so long, and she has never seen Professor Du smile.

Even when the professor treated everyone to dinner, he spoke in a very formal and serious manner.

Zeng Na rubbed her eyes and found that Professor Du was still smiling.

Zeng Na didn't listen to Lin Chuan's sharing, or rather, as a sophomore in the School of Information Science, she couldn't understand it at all. But judging from Professor Du's performance, this junior from the School of Mathematics is probably exceptionally strong.

Time ticked by, and finally Lin Chuan finished presenting the content shown on the PPT.

"That concludes my presentation. Professor Du, the code implementation for the model will take a few more days to complete, and some parameters of the model may need to be fine-tuned when updating the noisy data later."

"Clap clap clap".

Du Cheng stood up, smiled, and clapped. "Great! Lin Chuan, the mathematical model you presented is excellent. I believe that with the help of your model, our project will soon achieve a major breakthrough."

"Junior Brother Lin is amazing!" Senior Brother Jiao looked at Lin Chuan in surprise as he walked down from the podium. "You put all this together in just one day? Incredible!"

"I had some prior experience with this, and it just so happened that the inspiration struck," Lin Chuan said with a smile.

He Huaisheng remained silent in the distance.

He could certainly tell that Lin Chuan was using a modeling method that was completely opposite to his own.

Lin Chuan's method solved the biggest problem He Huaisheng faced.

Data sensitive.

Despite his reluctance to admit it, He Huaisheng knew clearly that the freshman from the School of Mathematics in front of him was definitely not simple.

He possesses solid computer skills and exceptional mathematical talent.

Professor Du continued, "Lin Chuan, you can discuss the program implementation with He Huaisheng. Huaisheng is very talented in this area, and I believe you can gain many different understandings through your exchanges."

"Okay, Professor Du."

Upon hearing this, He Huaisheng took off the headphones he had put on at some point, his face calm.

Receiving praise from the professor was perfectly normal for him.

It's a bit of a shame that he didn't get the chance to showcase his impressive programming skills right now.

Lin Chuan's arrival injected vitality into the entire project team, so much so that Professor Du was in a very good mood. After rearranging the work of each team member, he immediately adjourned the meeting.

……

The weekend passed quickly, with Lin Chuan traversing between the two worlds each day to supplement his knowledge in mathematics and computer science.

Meanwhile, while carrying heavy loads, he moved generators to the safe house in the wasteland world in batches.

It's worth mentioning that two days have passed in the real world, and the two sisters still haven't returned.

Lin Chuan decided to wait a few more days and properly implement his fitness plan in the real world.

Every morning, I would get up and run five kilometers around the school playground before starting my day's activities.

Lin Chuan originally wanted to enroll in a shooting training course.

But you won't believe it until you check. Even the most basic shooting group class costs 200 yuan per lesson, and a slightly more expensive private lesson can cost five or six hundred yuan, and that's just for air rifles.

The kind that involves live-fire shooting, a single lesson might cost one or two thousand yuan.

This made Lin Chuan, whose finances were already tight, decide to observe the situation further.

……

on Monday.

A small conference room in Building 2, Hainayuan.

Professor Tang Beichen sat in the main seat next to the rectangular conference table, with a thick notebook in front of him.

Besides him, there was Professor Mao, who was in charge of the course "Mathematical Analysis II", and several other professors who were in charge of various mathematics courses for the Qiushi Class.

Tang Beichen got straight to the point, "Academician Zhu isn't here, so I won't bother with formalities."

"After the National Day holiday, it will be mid-term exam week. This time, all math major courses in the Qiushi Class will have a unified exam, and everyone needs to prepare two sets of papers for the students."

"Two sets?" An elderly professor with gray hair, who was wiping his reading glasses, put them on upon hearing this and asked, "Old Tang, why two sets?"

Tang Beichen didn't keep them in suspense and said directly, "One set is for Xie Zhixing, Lin Chuan, and Ruan Sheng, and the other set is for the other eighteen children."

After a pause, Tang Beichen wanted to hear everyone's opinions, but found that no one stood up to object.

This move surprised Professor Tang somewhat.

"Huh, I was expecting some people to object, but why is nobody saying anything?"

Everyone looked at Professor Mao, who shook his head and explained, "Old Tang, before you came, I shared something with everyone, but I guess you don't know about it yet."

Soon, Professor Mao recounted how he had given the Qiushi Class the exam questions the previous week and agreed that students would only take the "midterm" and "final" exams.

"Ruan Sheng got 96, which is already quite remarkable. I didn't expect Xie Zhixing and Lin Chuan to get full marks! Anyway, I've already informed the three of them that they only need to take the midterm and final exams, and they'll get full marks for their participation." Professor Mao shook his head and sighed, "Actually, if you ask me, even though the Qiushi Class only has about twenty students, there's a huge difference in their abilities. It's not feasible to teach them all at once."

"Who can argue with that!" another professor remarked. "In pure mathematics, only one or two people can succeed; everyone else is just a runner-up."

"Xiao Xie and Xiao Ruan are alright, after all, they participated in the National High School Mathematics League and achieved very good results. But Xiao Lin is really remarkable."

"Yes, Lu Zhiwei said that Xiao Lin secretly published the whole paper and submitted it to the Q2 journal 'Linear Algebra and Its Applications'."

"The younger generation truly surpasses the older; what were we doing when we were eighteen? We can't compare!"

The professors were all discussing it, and Tang Beichen finally understood. It turned out that everyone already knew about Xie Zhixing and the other two's strength. That was good, as he didn't have to waste his breath explaining.

He waved his hand, signaling everyone to be quiet. "So, to avoid putting too much pressure on the other students in the Qiushi Class for this midterm exam, we're going to give Xie Zhixing, Lin Chuan, and Ruan Sheng a separate exam. This exam needs to be difficult, covering topics such as analysis, algebra, and topology. The goal is to cover the knowledge points from the first and second years of university while also taking into account the knowledge points from the third year as much as possible."