Although his mood was extremely complicated, after dinner in the cafeteria and walking on campus, Xu Changshu still called Zhang Hongcai back.
"Hey, Xiao Xu, hello, hello."
The politeness that came out of the microphone was inconsistent with the other person's identity, which made Xu Changshu feel a little embarrassed.
"Director Zhang, I'm sorry. I had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Qiao about that matter today, but I didn't ask because of some things."
"oh?"
"The main thing is that I think you may have to come to Xilin again soon. Why don't you talk to Dr. Qiao in person then?"
"What do you mean? What new results has Dr. Qiao achieved?"
"Well, his doctoral thesis is almost finished."
"PhD thesis?"
It’s not a secret that Qiao Ze has officially graduated from the undergraduate program and is preparing to pursue a master’s degree at Xilin University of Technology.
However, he had already decided on the topic for his doctoral thesis but had not publicized it to the outside world. After all, this is not in line with Qiao Ze's temperament. There is no need to talk about the achievements that Huan Mo has made.
Xu Dajiang would not talk about this kind of thing everywhere, and even specifically told everyone that it should not be spread out for the time being.
After all, construction of the school's planned Institute of Mathematics building has just begun, and the foundation is still being dug.
So except for a few people assigned to the research institute, really few people knew about it.
But now that Xu Changshu already knows that Qiao Ze's graduation thesis is about to be completed, he doesn't think it's a secret anymore.
This kind of doctoral thesis has gone beyond the scope of ordinary papers.
If this is verified, if the Fields Medal is not awarded to Qiao Ze at the World Congress of Mathematicians in 2026, theoretical physicists around the world will probably look down on it. After feeding these physicists, why don't we have to feed Qiao Ze?
"What? Are you saying that your college has decided to invite me to participate in Qiao Ze's doctoral thesis defense?"
"No...but I think there may be too many people to invite. You don't know yet, but Qiao Ze's doctoral thesis topic is about proof of quality gaps."
“You mean your graduation thesis solves the quality gap problem?”
"That's right!"
After a simple conversation, there was no sound from the other party. Xu Changshu knew that it was not that the line was disconnected or the signal was poor, but that the other party was too shocked to know what to say.
In fact, so does he.
He still can't figure out how Qiao Ze did it so fast.
From proving the existence of the Yang-Mills equation, to finding a general solution to the equation, and now almost completing the proof of the mass gap hypothesis, it has taken less than four months in total. Even if it takes some time, it will only take four or five months.
By the way, he also proposed two almost completely new mathematical research systems: superspiral space algebra and transcendental geometry.
Anyone else who suddenly heard this news would probably be shocked and speechless.
Unless you don’t understand the difficulty of this proposition at all.
The reaction from the other party even made Xu Changshu feel a little relieved. Because when he first learned the news, he was actually just as hopeless.
Sure enough, after a long while, the other person murmured: "So you said that Dr. Qiao's thesis is almost completed, does it mean that this proposition will end in his hands?"
Xu Changshu hesitated for a moment, then added: "Actually, it's more than that. Today Qiao Ze told me about his general idea of proof. In the paper, he not only wanted to find the possible non-zero minimum energy level, And it also gives formulas that can be adjusted.”
"Hmm...Okay...Dr. Qiao...Forget it, looking back now, the biggest mistake I made last year was when I went to Xilin and didn't kidnap Qiao Ze back to Yanbei. Haha, but who can think of this? Where are you arriving? Right?"
Xu Changshu didn't answer this, mainly because it was obviously gibberish and he couldn't answer it.
"Forget it, there's no point in talking about the past. I understand. Thank you for the news."
"Director Zhang, you're welcome. Should I hang up first?"
"Okay, just go ahead and get in touch. If you have anything else, call me."
"See you."
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After hanging up the phone, Xu Changshu didn't want to go back to the institute for a while, let alone his dormitory.
I don’t even want to think about mathematics in my mind.
This is probably a common problem among all research scholars after being in contact with Qiao Ze for a period of time. Suddenly, they feel that the career they planned to work on for a lifetime seems to be the same with or without me.
This makes you doubt everything you stand for.
At this time, Xu Changshu was probably immersed in this emotion, "Am I too useless?"
In fact, many children who are admitted to Yanbei Mathematics Institute on merit will experience similar confusion.
Surrounding yourself with people who are too good often brings great pressure.
It's a pity that Xu Changshu was once known as the second generation of the golden generation of Yanbei Institute of Mathematics. In the past, he was the only one who brought pressure to others. He really didn't feel how much pressure the classmates around him brought to him, even when he was studying abroad. is also like this.
But now that he finally experienced this feeling, he was really confused for a moment.
Just like this, I walked around the school aimlessly for two times. When I walked to the playground, I suddenly saw a familiar figure walking past him in a hurry.
"Professor Li?"
Li Jiangao stopped subconsciously, looked at the sound, then smiled and said, "Professor Xu, I'm sorry, I just didn't pay attention."
"It's okay, it's okay." Xu Changshu said quickly.
Speaking of which, he didn't have the confidence to show off his superiority in front of this professor.
In fact, there are probably few people in the entire academy who can show off in front of Li Jiangao.
But what makes Xu Changshu sigh is that even though he has become the most fragrant piece of steamed bun in the college, Li Jiangao's attitude towards others is still similar to that of an ordinary professor. Just the opposite of Qiao Ze, he can make people feel like a spring breeze.
"Just finished a meal?"
"Yes." Li Jiangao smiled and raised the lunch box in his hand.
Xu Changshu hesitated and said, "Well, are you busy? If not, let's have a casual chat?"
"Okay. What's the matter? Is the research institute encountering a problem?"
Although Li Jiangao was a little surprised, he nodded in agreement, and then walked together with Xu Changshu.
"It's okay. By the way, did Qiao Ze tell you? His graduation thesis is almost finished?"
"Well, I mentioned it on WeChat." Li Jiangao nodded.
In fact, Qiao Ze had no intention of mentioning this matter to Li Jiangao before the thesis was completed, but Li Jiangao made sure to tell Qiao Ze when he changed his WeChat account. After receiving Li Jiangao's WeChat account, Qiao Ze simply reported the progress of the paper.
After answering, Li Jiangao suddenly realized the reason why Xu Changshu beside him was not very interested at this time.
He seemed to have experienced this kind of emotion back then. He was so anxious that he couldn't sleep all night long. He couldn't help but laugh again, so he took the initiative to say: "Do you also think that Qiao Ze did this topic too quickly? We haven't done it yet. When you react, he’s done?”
"Well, I even doubt whether Qiao Ze's brain has been enlightened." Xu Changshu replied.
"Actually, we can't say that Qiao Ze did it quickly. The main reason is that he accumulated more." Li Jiangao thought for a while and then comforted: "Let's put it this way, the day Qiao Ze and I first met, he told me that he We’ve been thinking about the quality gap issue for seven or eight years. So don’t be too discouraged.”
From Li Jiangao's point of view, he really didn't hope that a professor like Xu Changshu, who was obviously very talented in number theory, would be knocked to his knees by Qiao Ze.
"He has been thinking about this problem for so long?" Xu Changshu said in surprise.
"Right? You don't know. He told me that day that he had almost thought of the answer to this question and it would not take long to solve it. At that time, I thought it was amazing. I thought it would take some time. Who would have thought it would happen so quickly? But to put it bluntly, it’s just the accumulation of time.”
Li Jiangao smiled and patted Xu Changshu on the shoulder.
I'm used to patting Qiao Ze on the shoulder, but recently I feel embarrassed to encourage Qiao Ze like this. Now I saw that Xu Changshu's mood was not right, so I subconsciously patted Qiao Ze again.
However, Xu Changshu seemed unaware and just asked in confusion: "Doesn't that mean that when Qiao Ze was ten years old, he could already understand Yang-Mills theory and started to study it? I remember that when I was ten years old, I just entered the sixth grade of elementary school. Only then did I understand calculus.”
"Huh?" Li Jiangao pursed his lips.
Well, ten years old and already in sixth grade? Shouldn't it be fourth grade? Did you even understand calculus in elementary school?
Of course, these are not the main points.
Mainly because of this enterprise-level understanding, his well-intentioned persuasion seemed to have the opposite effect.
Well, you can't blame him. It seems that everyone has to go through the hurdle in their heart eventually.
But then again, a guy who can understand calculus at the age of ten should be able to figure it out, right?
So for the rest of the company, Li Jiangao talked a lot less, until finally the two of them looked at each other and said goodbye in a tacit understanding.
Less than two minutes after they separated from Xu Changshu, Li Jiangao's new number rang.
Taking out his phone and taking a look at it, Li Jiangao felt a little surprised.
I just changed my number, why are there unknown calls coming in? Or a landline?
Forget it...just take it.
"Hello, are you Professor Li Jiangao from Xilin University of Technology?"
"Well, I am, may I ask you?"
"Hello, Professor Li Jiangao. My surname is Bi, and my name is Bi Yuefeng. I am the director of the Office of Science and Technology and Quality Department of GF Science and Industry Bureau. I have something to tell you first. Is it convenient for you now?"
"ah?……"
…
On the third floor, when Qiao Ze decided to stop working for the day, Doudou suddenly pushed him a special invitation from the mailbox.
Qiao Ze glanced through the email roughly once.
The sender appears to be from the Science and Technology Commission.
I hope to invite Qiao Ze to work with Li Jiangao to help design a multi-modal sensing system for a large group of UAV array projects called "Man's Sky".
Just looking at the requirements, there are quite a lot.
In addition to the most basic stability, easy maintenance, and extremely high reliability, it also needs to be able to independently correct possible attacks or deceptions on the drone sensors, so that the system has the ability to resist attacks and interference.
The most important thing is that this system must be able to control and command a cluster of thousands or more drones at the same time.
It is said that this is an important scientific project because the Science and Technology Commission has noticed the abilities of Qiao Ze and Li Jiangao in artificial intelligence system design, so it hopes that the two can independently design the system.
If the system is finally designed and adopted, not only will all research expenses be reimbursed, but the title of China's Outstanding Contribution Scientist will also be awarded.
Well, if you didn't trust Doudou's Internet judgment, this letter was indeed sent from the official mailbox. Just looking at the content, I feel a bit like a liar.
When Qiao Ze was still thinking about how to reply to the letter, Li Jiangao called.
"Qiao Ze, have you received the email from the Bureau of Science and Industry?"
"Um."
"I just got a call too."
"oh."
"What do you think about this?"
"It's not interesting. Is Uncle Li interested?"
"Well, how do you say this? From what I heard on the phone, if you agree, someone will come to talk to us about this matter, and there will also be professional engineers to cooperate. But I think although they are asking us to do this project together, in fact I still want you to take charge. So my opinion doesn’t matter, what do you think?”
"I think we can talk about it, but not about this system."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"The swarm UAV multi-modal system is not interesting, but it can be a challenge to design a deep-sea swarm multi-modal sensing unmanned operating system."
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"Underwater unmanned swarm? Isn't this too difficult? Do you need to lurk for a long time to perform tasks in the deep sea? How to replenish energy during this period? Isn't the underwater communication problem difficult to solve? How to deal with the navigation problem?"
"There are many problems, but most of them can be solved. Most problems can be solved by making good use of sensors. Cluster collaboration can be solved through artificial intelligence technology, and individuals have higher autonomous decision-making capabilities. It just requires high-intensity simulation training of underwater multi-modal models. As for other issues such as energy and materials, they are not something we consider.”
"you mean?"
"If they are willing to invest more in building an underwater unmanned swarm, I am willing to help design this multi-modal system. The swarm unmanned aerial vehicle system is not challenging."
"That's it...then you have to figure it out."
"Yes. Uncle Li, has Dean Xu contacted you today?"
"no, what happened?"
"Tomorrow around two o'clock in the afternoon, two-digit academicians will come to visit from the capital. Will you come?"
"Well... I'd better not go, right?"
"Oh well."
…
After hanging up the phone with Li Jiangao, Qiao Ze began to reply and soon sent his thoughts.
He even helped think of the code name for this project - "Deep Sea Ghost Group".
This time it was really not fast, mainly because he had really thought about this issue recently.
After all, if you study some geological features in your spare time, you will always gain something.
A large-scale underwater unmanned swarm, in addition to completing functions such as reconnaissance, mapping, positioning, etc., if coupled with a warhead, might one day be able to help my father-in-law fulfill his wish.
This is just one of the plans conceived by Qiao Ze.
Coincidentally, someone came to my door just in time to give it a try.
Even if it is not adopted, it doesn't matter. There is no loss anyway. It is just that both parties tentatively drew a big pie for the other party.
It sounds like the timing is perfect.
Because after completing his doctoral thesis, Qiao Ze originally planned to take a break.
If the other party is really willing to invest, he can just use this transition time to build this system.
This can probably be considered a win-win, right?
…
Something happened, and when Qiao Ze called Su Mucheng, who was downstairs, to go out an hour later than usual.
But ten o'clock in the evening is when the school becomes lively at night.
It's not the exam season yet, but those who are studying for self-study are already coming out of the teaching building, and those who want to have late-night snacks are also going out to hang out with friends at this time.
As soon as she reached the Engineering 2 teaching building with bright street lights, a gust of cold wind blew, causing Su Mucheng to shrink her neck subconsciously.
Xilin is still very cold in February. Although the weather is not bad during the day, at night the temperature is still in single digits.
"Hey, Brother Qiao, this weather..."
As Su Mucheng was talking, she suddenly noticed that Qiao Ze stopped and looked across the road, wondering what he was thinking.
"...It's quite cold. Do you need a scarf?"
"Well, no need. Just wait here."
"Oh, what do you want to do?"
"It's a little trivial."
With that said, Qiao Ze walked directly towards the opposite side.
…
Across the road in front of the teaching building, two men were walking side by side.
"Lao Lu, that guy seems to be walking towards us?"
"No matter, don't look, just go straight over."
"Um."
There was nothing wrong with the hasty response plan, but Qiao Ze still stopped directly opposite the two of them.
This is somewhat surprising.
"Is something wrong?" the younger-looking handsome guy asked in surprise.
Zhou Shun felt that he was very adaptable to emergencies, and at least he asked questions naturally.
Then the young guy on the opposite side let him break his defense with just one sentence.
"Protect or monitor?"
Look at the question, it not only omits the subject, but also doesn’t give them any more choices.
Fortunately, the guy next to me who was not good at words picked up the topic.
"what do you mean?"
Well, Zhou Shun discovered that Lu Nan was actually better at acting than him, and the shock on his face was just right.
"There are three groups of people on a daily basis, two by two, very regular. Today you work the evening shift. No accident, tomorrow the morning shift will be the group with a mole on the right corner of the mouth, thick eyebrows and a deep nose bridge, and the evening shift will be a pair at this time A couple group. There should be three other people who have appeared and had contact with you. Right?"
Zhou Shun and Lu Nan looked at each other.
For a moment, both of them had no idea.
This is not a good place for a stalemate, with people coming and going around. Wait, that innocent girl seems to be planning to come over too.
Qiao Ze waited for a moment and said, "I'll ask someone else in three seconds."
"The main thing is to protect and make sure there are no suspicious people." Lu Nan said quickly.
"Oh." Qiao Ze immediately asked, "Is it necessary here too?"
"We are just working. Whether it is necessary or not is not our decision."
Qiao Ze asked quickly, and Lu Nan responded quickly.
"Oh." Qiao Ze nodded and accepted the explanation.
"How did you find out?" Zhou Shun couldn't help but ask.
"Normal observation, statistics and probability, plus logical deduction." Qiao Zeyan explained briefly and concisely: "It's okay, I just want to make sure, you guys can get busy."
After saying that, Qiao Ze nodded at the two of them, then turned and walked away, just in time to meet Su Mucheng who was walking over.
Then a few words of conversation drifted in the wind.
"Brother Qiao, who are they?"
"do not know."
"Ah? Then you..."
"Something to be sure about, but it's okay now. Do you want to go back to the dormitory?"
"Better go home."
"good."
…
"Lao Lu, what's going on?"
"What do you think? Aren't you bored? Isn't it interesting now?"
"No, why are you all recognized? We've only been following him for a few days?"
"It's the thirteenth day."
"What should we do now?"
"Huh..." Lu Nan glanced at the young couple who had walked more than thirty meters, and said with a sigh of relief: "Follow me, the mission must be completed."
As he spoke, he moved directly.
Fortunately, this young man was not as difficult to deal with as expected, and he was very straightforward. At least he didn't tell them to get out directly, and it wasn't too difficult to follow him.
"Lao Lu, how did he figure it out? Probability and statistics? What do you mean?"
"I don't know. Anyway, it's definitely not about hooking three strings, four strings and five strings." Lu Nan replied angrily.
"What do you mean? Pythagorean theorem?" Zhou Shun was stunned and asked.
"Otherwise? This is all I remember about mathematical theorems."
"Then...I still remember that a negative makes a positive."
"Very good, you will report tonight. You should also write the report by the way. After all, you know more than me."
"...Old Lu, that Su Mucheng is looking back at us."
"Just watch, what else can I do?"
"I've never been this embarrassed on my first mission."
"At least you're not complaining about being bored."
…
"Brother Qiao, were those two people still following you just now?"
"Deep Sea Shadow?"
When a printed letter or a complete feasibility report is placed in front of the old man, people can't help but ask in surprise.
"Qiao Ze hopes to design an underwater, um... According to what he wrote, it should be a deep-sea multi-modal unmanned swarm system. Of course, the premise is that we must first agree to continue to invest in this project... But what he wrote This report is actually quite comprehensive, and it also designed the appearance of several small deep-sea unmanned devices.
By the way, if the performance he predicts is followed, in the future this simulation system will be able to support a cluster of underwater individuals of the order of more than 100,000 to perform a variety of tasks. Most of the comrades in the Analysis Department feel that this design is too advanced and requires a lot of investment, so it is not very feasible. "
"Is this kid so capable?"
"Not only can he toss around, but there is also a report saying that he has basically completed the proof of the quality gap problem. And it is said that the proof method is very advanced, but in what aspects of being ahead of the curve, front-line comrades don't quite understand. There is also something behind this report .”
"Okay, let's wait until I finish reading it and then see if we need to convene an expert meeting to discuss it."
"Okay, Mr. Qian."
…
Another department.
"All nine people were recognized?"
"Well, this is the report submitted by Tinder today."
"Ha...Have you read it? Look at this conversation. You actually have the nerve to ask others how they found out? I'm starting to doubt the professionalism of these guys."
"This... you know, the Fire Team is already one of the most professional teams. Then... how about replacing them?"
"Forget it, is there any point? If it doesn't work, you might as well go and explain it. Then call the school and let Principal Chen make arrangements."
"OK."
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