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Chapter 366 - 132 I Want to Thank Every Person in My Life Who Deserves Thanks!

Chapter 366: Chapter 132 I Want to Thank Every Person in My Life Who Deserves Thanks!

Schulz was indeed sincerely praising Qiao Yu.

In fact, whether this sentence is a compliment or a regret, it depends on the age group.

If Qiao Yu were already a young man in his twenties, then Schulz might have regretted that Qiao Yu wasted too much time, resulting in an unstable foundation. This would make him struggle greatly in independently researching some fundamental problems or developing a new mathematical framework, possibly leading to efforts ending in failure.

But Qiao Yu is only sixteen years old.

This means that Qiao Yu still has plenty of time to learn and make up for his weak foundation, allowing him in the future to tackle world-class problems, or even create his own mathematics. Just like what he is currently doing.

The terror of age advantage lies here; Schulz even feels that it doesn’t matter if Qiao Yu wastes another two years, since he’s still so young.

Qiao Yu just feels very ashamed.

He more or less understands why he doesn’t like to communicate with those mathematicians who leave emails for him. It’s simply a weak foundation, too inexperienced.

Without those godsend flashes of inspiration, he would probably be nothing...

Thinking about the reading list Director Tian planned for him, he has only read a small portion of it, which makes Qiao Yu feel very ashamed. He even has the audacity to rush to the School of Philosophy to attend classes across disciplines, truly ignorant and fearless. After all, only those who’ve been through it know where he’s most lacking.

After returning, he must not wander aimlessly and flaunt his knowledge everywhere, Qiao Yu silently warned himself.

He even ordered a banner from Taobao that says "Study for the Rise of Huaxia Mathematics," though it’s just for show, but since he’s put it up, he doesn’t want his mentor or Elder Yuan to laugh at him in the future.

After all, he does have ambitions for the future.

To put it this way, studying mathematics is his primary job, and becoming a billionaire who can develop a major community is his life goal.

If a person can’t even do their primary job well, on what basis can they achieve their life goals?

Just like when Qiao Yu previously wanted to become a professional gamer.

If he became a professional player but couldn’t even play well in competitive games, always falling just short in matches, yet his goal was to be world number one and enjoy the admiration of thousands... that would clearly be impossible.

To not be scolded, he might as well burn high incense, and if people say "practice more since you’re inexperienced," that’s considered gentle.

So, to achieve his goals, he must first become truly outstanding in his industry.

Yes, after talking to Peter Schultz, Qiao Yu set new goals for himself in his heart. Over the next year, he plans to complete all undergraduate courses at Yanbei University’s School of Mathematics to solidify his foundations.

If Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin knew about Qiao Yu’s current thoughts, they would probably be very relieved.

Of course, at this time, no one has made these demands of Qiao Yu.

Whether it’s Huaqing or Yanbei or other professors in Huaxia, upon learning that this year’s opening report at the World Algebraic Geometry Conference would be given by the sixteen-year-old Qiao Yu, aside from a few, most people would probably feel excited.

After all, if Qiao Yu’s report is sufficiently outstanding this time, it would invisibly enhance Huaxia’s mathematical community’s influence. Even beyond the field of Algebraic Geometry, when interacting with colleagues in the future, these will become prime bragging material.

The professors might not even need to mention it, as someone might chase after them asking: "Hey, Professor XXX, I heard a young man named Qiao Yu delivered a sixty-minute opening report at the World Algebraic Geometry Conference? My god, is that true?"

Many times, this so-called sense of collective pride probably comes from this.

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Of course, those feeling excited at this moment are not just the visiting professors at the conference.

In fact, many Huaxia media outlets that had not planned on covering this conference have started to move upon receiving the news.

Especially some Huaxia media with permanent institutions in Paris.

Of course, this is understandable.

If one carefully examines some major media, they would realize that people generally are not keen on reporting academic matters, especially in mathematics.

One reason is probably that the general public is simply not interested.

Except for the two months when the Nobel Prize is announced each year, there might be a trend in increased traffic for some science popularization bloggers, but even that’s quite scarce. Not many people truly care about which scientists have won this year or the reasons for their awards.

It’s not that people don’t respect knowledge, but they simply don’t understand.

Even if the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded last year was closely related to current technological trends, not many people would know.

Indeed, whether in Huaxia or anywhere else in the world, fewer than ten percent of people would know that the 2024 Nobel Prize winners were John Hopfield from Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Even though the former’s research resulted in developing an associative memory model capable of storing and reconstructing information, simulating the workings of human brain neurons, and the latter was once hailed as the father of artificial intelligence, having invented the Boltzmann machine.

Really, even if someone was talking at length about artificial intelligence in front of you, if you countered by asking if he knew the 2024 Nobel Prize winners, he would probably look blankly at you.

People can understand what physics research is about, so don’t even mention mathematics.

Even if the Fields Medal is awarded only once every four years, and even in the award years of the World Congress of Mathematicians, not many media in Huaxia would genuinely pay attention or report on these things. Because those in the news industry know that besides people in the mathematical circle, nobody will care much about these things.