The Journal of Symbolic Logic, as an international authoritative journal in the field of mathematical logic, has an impact factor of only 0.2, but mathematicians from all over the world still submit papers to it.

"Has someone solved the Sitapan conjecture? Liu Yichen? Chinese?" Editor Selina muttered: "I didn't expect that there are also Chinese people studying the Sitapan conjecture. It is quite unpopular."

Selina is a doctoral student in mathematics. She works part-time as an editor here to earn some money to pay for the high tuition.

For an American, education is very expensive. Let’s not talk about middle school, let’s talk about going to college. During her college years, her annual tuition was almost 60,000 US dollars. Plus tuition and fees, it was almost 80,000 US dollars per year. Her family is just an ordinary middle-class family.

, So she applied for a loan, and now, even if she applies for some bonuses every year, Selena is already burdened with a loan debt of 400,000 US dollars.

This was during her undergraduate studies and she continued to work part-time, otherwise her debt would be even greater.

As for why Selena knew about the Sitapan conjecture, it was because she was also studying the Sitapan conjecture and wanted to use it as her doctoral thesis. Unfortunately, Selina has not made any valuable discoveries in the past two years.

"18 years old? A high school student in China?" Selena looked surprised when she saw Liu Yichen's information, "It's unimaginable that a Chinese high school student actually knows the Sitapan conjecture! No wonder the Chinese people have achieved such good results in IMO!"

Selena couldn't help but remember that she didn't come into contact with Thetapan's conjecture until her senior year. After all, Thetapan's conjecture was not a popular mathematical conjecture.

Of course, although the Sitapan conjecture is not a popular mathematical conjecture, some scholars are still studying it. Unfortunately, no one has been able to solve it for more than ten years.

Its difficulty is quite high.

"It's not just random writing, it's not a good thesis, is it?" Selina muttered secretly. She had heard that the academic atmosphere in China is not generally bad. You can write all kinds of papers casually, and you can even pay people to write papers directly.

It was published in a SCI journal, and her professor kept complaining about it.

Selena was also affected and naturally had some prejudices. She felt that an 18-year-old high school student could not have such high mathematical ability.

It stands to reason that Selina would like to reply directly, saying that the paper does not meet the requirements for inclusion in the Journal of Symbolic Logic. After all, such papers are most likely to be junk papers and worthless.

But Selina also thought that since she was studying Sitapan's conjecture, she might as well take a look at it and then give some advice to this Chinese kid so that he should not be affected by the Chinese academic environment and should be down-to-earth and not too ambitious.

Selina downloaded the emails in her mailbox and printed them out. As a doctoral student, Selina was still used to printing out papers and reading them.

"It looks impressive. This paper has 12 pages. It's not easy for a Chinese high school student to write a 12-page paper in English!" Selina muttered, using a stapler to staple the upper left corner of the 12-page paper.

I nailed it and then started from scratch.

As a doctoral student in mathematics, Selena still has basic professional qualities, and her ability to read papers is not a problem.

Gradually, Selena calmed down and read the paper intently. She picked up the pen in her hand, wrote down the calculations one by one, and then verified them. The more she read, the more frightened she became. Two hours later, Selena found herself

I can't find any contradiction.

"No way, such a paper could be written by a Chinese high school student!?" Selina was dumbfounded. The quality of this paper could be used as a doctoral thesis.

"Is it really not wrong? Did he really solve the Sitapan conjecture?" Selena was unwilling to give in. It was really okay if she didn't believe it. Selena started watching it from beginning to end again.

This time, Selena looked more seriously. As an American, English is her mother tongue, and she has a natural advantage in reading English papers. Her attitude was more serious. She could not help but slow down the speed of reading papers. She wanted to ask questions more and more.

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But three hours later, Selena was already in a daze, and she still couldn't find any logical problems in the paper.

"A Chinese high school student actually wrote such a very good paper. This paper should be the best quality among the papers received this month." Selina couldn't believe it: "Is it possible that Chinese people are so powerful?

Are they all as talented as Terry?"

Terry is the English name of Tao Zhexuan, also called terence chi-shen tao!

In 2006, Tao Zhexuan won the Fields Medal at the age of 31 and became the world's top mathematician. He suddenly became the idol and role model of countless people. Because at this age, many people have not even received a doctorate in mathematics.

However, Tao Zhexuan already received a doctorate from Princeton University at the age of 21, and became a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles at the age of 24. When he was less than 30 years old, he already received the highest salary for a mathematician in the United States, with a salary of US$600,000 a year! At the age of 31, he got it

When it came to the Fields Medal, it was as if they were still struggling to get a doctorate in mathematics, while Tao Zhexuan had already reached the pinnacle of his life, looking down at them from the top of the mountain.

At this time, Selena felt like she was living like a dog. She was still thinking about how to graduate with a Ph.D. at the age of 30. Sitapan, who was chosen by her as her doctoral thesis, guessed that she had been researching it for two years.

I couldn't figure out anything at all, but a Chinese high school student actually solved it.

"Hello, Liu, we have received your paper, please wait patiently!" Selena replied to Liu Yichen's email. She knew the paper and could review it.

If she can't find the problem, it's possible that her level is limited. However, the Journal of Symbolic Logic, as a journal of the University of Chicago, still invites well-known mathematics professors as reviewers, and the reviewers will review the papers.

Comments will be put forward for revision. If there is no opinion, whether to agree to publish the paper as a journal will be decided by the editor-in-chief.

"Selena, it's so late, it's already off work time, aren't you going to go back?" came a voice.

"Professor Hans Jefford, I found a very good paper about the Sitapan conjecture." Selina stood up and said: "Although this paper was written by a Chinese high school student, the level is very high.

I think this is an important result and promotes research in inverse mathematics and computational theory!"

Dennis Hans-Gefford is a well-known international expert in logic, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Symbolic Logic.

Of course, Denis Hans-Gefford is also Selena's mentor. It is because of this relationship that Selena can work in the "Journal of Symbolic Logic" and have a pretty good job. After all, the job is

The salary is still good.

Professor Hans Jefford frowned slightly: "Selena, I told you a long time ago that there are certain problems with the academic atmosphere in China. Their academics always write papers for the sake of papers.

It doesn’t matter whether the paper is valuable or not!”

"A high school student, do you think he understands functions?" Professor Hans Jefferd shook his head: "There is only one Terry in the world, he is unique, and Terry studied at a university in the United States and received the best

Regarding mathematics education, do you think anyone in China can teach such students? Maybe China also has mathematical geniuses. After all, they achieve impressive results in IMO every year, but mathematical geniuses also need a good environment to thrive.

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"But Professor Hans Jefferd, I spent 5 hours reading the paper twice, and I think he really solved the Sitapan conjecture." Selina frowned slightly. If she were in China, students would never dare to

Talking to her boss or mentor like this is not uncommon in the United States. Selina said: "You know, I am also studying the Sitapan conjecture, and I still have some attainments in it. I think I am

If you have some say, this paper is indeed very high-level.”

Professor Hans Jefferd showed hesitation. Selena is his doctoral student. He naturally knows Selena and her abilities. Selena is only short of getting a doctorate. She only needs a quality article.

thesis.

Don’t think that doctors in China need to graduate, the same is true in the United States.

"Okay, show me the paper." Professor Hans Jefford said.

Selina gave the paper she printed to Professor Hans Jefferd. Professor Hans Jefferd pulled up a chair and started reading.

An hour later, Professor Hans Jefferd put down the paper and three pieces of paper filled with symbols and equations, and then said: "Selena, I have to take back what I just said. I wore colored glasses. This is indeed an article."

It’s a pretty good paper, I will arrange reviewers for it next.”

"I never expected that there is such a high school student in China with such an outstanding mathematical talent. If there are indeed no problems with his paper, then I think the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago will be a good fit for him. We will not hesitate to provide a Chinese student with a

Acceptance letter!" said Professor Hans Jefferd.

The University of Chicago was founded by oil magnate John Rockefeller in 1890. It is located in Chicago, the financial center of the United States. It is a private research university that has consistently ranked among the top ten in many world university rankings.

Although its mathematics department is not as famous as MIT, Princeton University, Stanford University, Harvard University, and UCLA, it is also ranked among the top ten among American universities.

Professor Hans Jefford believes that such talented students should be transferred to the University of Chicago before Princeton University and others discover it. Otherwise, good mathematical geniuses will be monopolized by Princeton and other universities. The University of Chicago will also

How to develop.
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