There is a very vivid joke about theoretical mathematicians and theoretical physicists in academic circles.
Mathematicians are all experienced drivers with cars, but these people have no direction at all. They just drive blindly after getting in the car. Whether they can reach their desired destination depends entirely on luck.
Physicists all have a clear direction. Unfortunately, they don't have cars and can only walk there on their feet. Whether they can reach the ideal holy place depends on their fate.
After some conversation, Li Jiangao understood that Qiao Ze wanted to go his own way.
This young man plans to save a car of his own before he is twenty-five years old, and then drive straight to his destination.
It sounds simple to say, but to ninety-nine point infinite nine percent of people in this world, this is nonsense.
Because the mathematical knowledge related to basic physics is too vast.
For example, quantum physics is the basis of microphysics. The major categories of mathematical topics related to quantum physics include linear algebra, calculus, differential geometry, probability theory, statistics, etc... If you look at the specific mathematical tools, there are more and more complex ones.
What Laplace transform, Maxwell's equations, Fourier series...
Plus the more obscure group theory, non-commutative geometry...
Anyone who has studied these things knows how absurdly abstract they are.
Things that have never been seen before need to be imagined out of thin air, and they have to cross the shackles of space. A coordinate axis needs to contain many definitions, plus various vectors active in this definition space.
It is true that many people who have studied relevant knowledge cannot understand papers in their majors. It cannot be said that everyone is ignorant.
But if the abstract thinking ability does not meet the minimum requirements, it is really impossible to understand and imagine how the defined graphics in the space change under limited conditions.
This is just like the inability to run the latest AAA games on old CPUs like the Pentium series. Hardware limitations are basically insurmountable obstacles.
But obviously Qiao Ze is not shackles by hardware limitations, so everything is possible.
For Li Jiangao, the biggest impact of today's conversation is that when he replied to the email rejecting the editorial office of "Communications of Pure and Applied Mathematics", he not only felt very peaceful, but even wanted to ridicule the journal editors who made him feel superior. We, of course, include the editor-in-chief.
"Hello, editors of the editorial board of Communications of Pure and Applied Mathematics. After careful consideration by the first author of this paper, Qiao Ze, and I, we decided not to make any revisions and directly withdraw the manuscript originally scheduled for publication in your journal. At the same time, in view of the Regarding the concerns about the academic ethics of the reviewers who cooperate with your journal, we will also consider more carefully whether we will submit a series of papers to your journal in the future before your journal clearly announces the change of reviewers in relevant research directions. . Hope everyone knows.”
"School of Mathematics, Xilin University of Technology, China, Li Jiangao."
After writing this email, Li Jiangao checked the wording again.
In fact, he really wanted to write, "Do you dare to make a bet? I bet that the number of citations of this paper will exceed 2,000 within three years." But after thinking for a moment, he gave up.
This makes him look like a child, too childish, not as calm as Qiao Ze, and not interesting.
But the meaning has been expressed clearly.
I think those editors and even the editor-in-chief can already understand it, right?
Otherwise, it means your English understanding ability is really poor!
…
Nine ten in the morning.
Jack Rossman sat down in his seat with coffee in hand as usual.
He liked his workstation very much because it was right next to the south window.
When you are tired from work, you only need to turn your head to see the quaint building across the street.
Of course, what is more comfortable is that he can take a cup of coffee and stand in front of his work station, sipping the coffee while observing the people passing by in the small square below.
Jack Rossman especially likes to hide behind the glass and observe those young, beautiful and good-looking female students and exquisitely dressed urban beauties.
Those graceful curves often make him feel the beauty of life.
This little hobby is absolutely healthy as long as he doesn't tell anyone about it.
When someone asked him, he would only tell them that he liked to look at the scenery on the street and talk to the old men sitting in the square, and then think about what those old men had experienced.
Look, how healthy.
Of course, early in the morning is not the right time to do this.
Because in ten minutes at most, the dear editor-in-chief Carl Basker in the editorial office will seriously walk through here to his editor's office.
If you see Jack looking out the window early in the morning, he will complain loudly with his thick Boston accent: "Oh, Jack, at your age, I will never waste the most awake time in the morning to do substitutions." Such boring things in other people's lives. Of course, if you insist on doing this, I would suggest that you quit this boring editing job, and then you can sit on the chair below like them and think about how to spend the rest of your life. Got it!"
Yes, Dear Editor Carl is so ruthless.
So he could only turn on his computer and process the manuscripts and emails distributed to his mailbox through the backend system to serve the mathematicians who submitted manuscripts to the editorial office. This was a very boring job. But in fact, any job will inevitably feel boring after a long time.
Fortunately, the wages paid on time every week can provide him with motivation.
Soon he saw the email sent by Li Jiangao.
After reading it, he was surprised.
He specifically didn't send an email to Qiao Ze because he felt that the young man was too angry and didn't know the rules. His words of advice might be misinterpreted and instead cause complaints.
No need.
As a journal editor, he can make fun of those great mathematicians in his spare time, but to have trouble with these mathematicians is just out of his mind.
What I never expected was that even if the students had radical ideas, the tutor would also have such a character!
How can he be so strong despite being an associate professor?
Are these Chinese people crazy?
Fortunately, this is not something he needs to worry about.
Jack very skillfully forwarded this email directly to the editor-in-chief's mailbox.
Whether this article will be rejected or published is something that Editor Carl needs to worry about. It cannot be said that it has nothing to do with him at all, but it really has little to do with it.
At most, he only has the right to make suggestions.
Of course Jack doesn't even need the right to advise.
He didn't want an opinion, he just wanted to have fun.
"Haha, you all could have won ten dollars from me, but it's a pity that you didn't seize this opportunity."
"Jack, I really hate the Riddler lately."
"Remember that article written by a Chinese person? It was that article "A Mathematical Framework for Self-supervised Learning Based on Group Theory". The tutor of the first article applied for rejection again, and he didn't even care if we blacklisted them. List. Even though I’ve already hinted at the obvious, the paper only needs a few minor revisions and a few citations, and it can be published smoothly.”
"Oh?! That's really weird. It makes me interested in that paper. First of all, we have to eliminate one wrong option. It's not that the student doesn't know how to cite literature...well, that's self-confidence. Inexplicable confidence.”
"So are they planning to switch to the Princeton Mathematics Journal? Or the Duke Mathematics Journal?"
"Who knows? But Editor-in-Chief Carl will probably be very unhappy. So I suggest you work hard as soon as possible."
…
Apparently the editors in the newsroom had no big problem with their judgment of the editor-in-chief's character.
Not long after Karl Basque walked into the office, he stood in front of the office door and locked eyes with Jack Rossman who was sitting at his desk.
"Jack, come in."
"Okay, Editor Carl."
…
In the office, Carl Basker pointed at his computer screen and asked: "Jack, how did you reply to the letter?"
Jack Los shrugged and said: "Just like you said, suggesting that they can add some citation materials, this paper can be published in the next issue smoothly."
Karl Basker frowned and said, "Did you make it clear enough?"
Jack Rossman raised his hands and said slightly exaggeratedly: "Oh my god, if I want to make it clearer, it would be direct. I can't say, hey brother, just add a reference link to the literature, so that we can A win-win situation, right? My original words are that a professor from the School of Mathematics at the University of Bonn is also doing similar research. Maybe you can refer to his previous related papers and make some minor modifications to the paper to meet the standards for publication. Oh my god. , don’t you think this hint is obvious enough?”
Karl Basker said nothing.
Yes, the damn hint is obvious enough.
In fact, Karl Basque himself was initially inclined to publish this paper.
After all, academic journals like them also have to pursue impact factors. The major journal ranking databases will update data every once in a while, recalculate the impact factors of major journals and determine new rankings. It happens that one of the most important dimensions in the algorithm for calculating the impact factor of a journal is the number of citations of the paper.
The more specific calculation principle is the ratio of the number of times a journal was cited by all source publications in the current year for papers published in the journal in the previous two years, to the number of all source papers published by the journal in the previous two years.
Simply put, the more citations a journal publishes, the higher its impact factor. If a published paper has few citations, the impact factor will plummet.
There is actually a very strange phenomenon in the number of citations of mathematics papers. The higher the qualifications of the research direction, the fewer the number of citations.
For example, for research like the Langlands Program, which attempts to establish connections between different fields, if one does not understand the trigonometric category and its T structure, and does not have a profound knowledge of algebra, representation theory, and geometry, even if those industry experts prove it Extremely beautiful results were produced, but ordinary mathematicians could not even understand the paper, let alone cite it.
This paper by Li Jiangao and Qiao Zetou happens to be the hottest mathematical principle paper on large artificial intelligence models at the moment.
Once this kind of paper is accepted by the academic community, the number of citations will generally not be too few, not to mention that this paper also has reviewers who hold positive opinions.
But the influence of the Cohn University team was indeed great. In addition, relations between countries are currently in a sensitive period, which is a headache.
This is also the reason why Carl Basker has been stuck on this paper, neither publishing it nor allowing it to be withdrawn.
It's just that the professors and students who submitted this article are different from the Chinese scholars they have contacted in the past.
Carl Basker has communicated with many Chinese professors who came to the United States for further study, and he knows very well how much the Chinese academic community recognizes world-class journals like theirs. It is said that this is directly linked to professional titles, income, and the selection of various Chinese domestic honors.
Some Chinese professors who are well-known in the international mathematics community will think of various ways to publish articles in world-class core journals. Not to mention being respectful to the editors, but this kind of request is hardly a request, and I will never choose to shoulder it.
But obviously, the teacher-student pair of LiJiangao and QiaoZe, the dual corresponding authors of this paper, were different from other Chinese teacher-student combinations he knew.
It doesn’t matter that the students are young and energetic, but the professor is also so willful. Do you want to challenge their right to speak?
After pondering for a long time, Carl Basker asked: "So, you didn't tell them that if they must apply for rejection, we may no longer accept any manuscripts submitted by them in the future?"
Jack Ross shook his head and said: "On the contrary, I expressed it very clearly. Well... I think you can read the email I replied to. If they can't understand what I mean, they can't write it so smoothly. Thesis.”
"Ha...it seems that we have encountered a difficult situation...Okay, Jack, as the editor responsible for this paper, do you think we should publish this paper directly, or simply reject it? I hope you can listen Let me hear your opinion." Carl Basker asked casually.
Jack Ross thought about it for a while and replied tactfully: "If you want to ask my opinion, Carl, I think if I decide to publish it, it is best before I reply to the email as you want. Choice. As for now..."
There is room for words.
Of course anyone can understand it, this involves a face issue.
If it was found out this time and spread, it would be quite embarrassing.
What's more important is that next time you want to take advantage of someone, it won't be that easy.
"Then don't rush to reply to the Chinese people. Send an email to the German and arrange a manuscript. Let's see how he answers before I make a decision. I heard before that his research group is doing a project on the construction of group theory. Supervise the topic of 3D point cloud prediction and ask them if their current results can be published in papers."
"Okay, editor-in-chief. I'll go first then." Jack Ross responded casually, and after Carl Basque waved his hand, he walked out of the editor's office with a relaxed look.
So many times it's good to be a small editor, and you don't need to think about so many annoying things.
However, Jack Rossman still felt that he learned something from the editor-in-chief.
For example, when encountering something like this where the two sides are competing against each other, you can't let either side lead you by the nose. You have to figure something out.
Sure enough, ginger is still spicy.
