Super God-Level Top Student
Chapter 1095 - 429: Comparison?

Chapter 1095: Chapter 429: Comparison?

"Are you feeling alright? You seem a bit off with your emotions."

Upon hearing this from Qiao Ze, Su felt very touched. Her man finally knew how to care for people. Su Mucheng tightened her grip on Qiao Ze’s arm and coyly said:

"No, I was just a bit distracted and was thinking about other things. This morning I attended Professor Witten’s lecture, and I was completely confused by his talk about converting higher-order interwoven functions to lower-order ones! And also the metric compatibility theorem you mentioned, it all sounded like gibberish to me."

"Metric compatibility is actually about defining φ as a smooth field on a Riemannian manifold with metric g, and then through the function F(φ,g), one can always find a compensator that is compatible with the metric g, thereby finding a scalar field that satisfies ∫M​φ⋅F(φ,g)⋅Ω(g)dμg​=∫M​φ⋅F(φ,g′)⋅Ω(g′)dμg′​."

Qiao Ze casually explained, then added: "You haven’t studied category theory in depth, so it’s indeed hard to understand; it requires a change of perspective. Compared to set theory, the idea of category theory is that relationships are more important than elements themselves; in other words, connections are more important than entities.

You can think of category theory as a system theory that is precise and operational. The former reveals possibilities, while the latter also provides attainability. Once you have learned and surpassed these, touching on some essential aspects of mathematics, such as all sequences that can conform to causal structures, it won’t be difficult to look back at these."

A very earnest explanation.

Of course, if such explanations could make mathematical complexities easy to understand, guiding doctoral students wouldn’t be so difficult for Qiao Ze.

Moreover, five Ph.D. students still needed Dou Dou’s help to study superspiral algebra geometry...

After all, the updates on the forefront of mathematics at the Xilin Mathematics Research Institute are quite rapid.

"Let’s not talk about me anymore; I feel that Professor Dugan’s mood today is worse than mine." Su Mucheng decisively changed the topic.

Honestly, she wasn’t interested in mathematics anymore. Especially since Su suddenly felt like she had already achieved the goal she set for herself when she chose her major in mathematics three years ago. So it was time to make another choice.

After all, if future married life revolved around just discussing mathematics, it would indeed be quite dull.

Her mission should be to make Qiao Ze more interesting.

With that thought, the world seemed broader.

"Yeah, I talked to him about the deep-sea cluster project, and he’s been down since then," Qiao Ze explained.

"Huh? Isn’t the deep-sea cluster supposed to be classified?"

"I didn’t touch on any classified content."

"Oh." Su Mucheng pouted, still a bit puzzled, unable to empathize completely.

After all, she had always thought the deep-sea cluster was about seabed geological exploration and hadn’t delved into the content explorers captured, so she still couldn’t quite grasp what let Roth Dugan down.

Can’t everything good just appear on the opposite side?

"Actually, if you look into history, you might understand Professor Dugan’s mood," Qiao Ze explained with some sentimentality.

"What do you mean?"

"If you look into Huaxia’s history, you’ll find that the era we’re living in now is better than any period in history. Especially for those born in the fifties to the eighties, when most people compare their current lives to the conditions they remember from childhood, they’ll draw similar conclusions.

Even if they outwardly express dissatisfaction with this era, the thought of returning to past times would largely be unappealing. But Dugan is different. Comparing his country’s past to the present, he would favor the country of his youth more.

If you take the feelings you had watching Chang’e 6 land on the moon and bring them to Apollo’s time, you might understand that experience. The sense of ’they can’t, but I can’ is significant for people like Professor Dugan. Now, it’s become ’I can’t, nor can anyone else’, which naturally leads to disappointment."

Qiao Ze rarely reflected so much, seemingly considering Roth Dugan to be one of those from another era.

If Roth Dugan were beside him, he might also feel that Qiao Ze had insightfully dissected his innermost feelings.

However, it’s not all as straightforward as Qiao Ze describes; more complex emotions include concern.

It’s like someone used to displaying strength having to maintain that strong persona, even more so when feeling weak. Because once any vulnerability appears, those once provoked might fiercely pounce and gnaw away unrelentingly.

It is human nature, and any system comprised of people is much the same. The mentality of ’kick a man when he’s down’ has always been prevalent.

Training humans to be as loyal as dogs is challenging enough, not to mention entities like countries or regions composed of countless individuals. Even if some aspire to be loyal, they would be dragged down by others unwilling to submit.

One can’t be a dog when you’re strong and continue to be one when you’ve weakened; why should the opposite side have weakened for nothing?

Qiao Ze knew this aspect too, but he neither cared about these trivial matters nor wished to discuss them with Su.

During their conversation, the two had already left the restaurant, heading toward the front building, when they suddenly heard a voice from behind: "Professor Qiao, wait for me."

Qiao Ze and Su Mucheng stopped and turned around. Xu Changshu was hurriedly walking toward them.