"Xiao Chen, I have always felt that young people need to have enough experience to carry the banner. Yes, Nanjing University next door is really good, because we established the school relatively late, and their basic mathematics is better than ours.

So a little.

However, you have to consider that the competition at NTU is also huge. There are more returnee PhDs there, and many of them are working with big names. Will they really take you seriously if you go there?

Yes, you may be able to get the title of associate professor if you go there, and they may have flexible quotas that can be given to you directly. But have you ever thought about what you will do when you want to take a step further?

It's very difficult! Xiao Chen! But we know that your potential is far from being explored, and you are still a little short of a real breakthrough. As long as you persist at Tianjin University and complete the transformation, you will be able to get more than just an associate professor in the future?

Our competition is small. In the future, resources will be tilted toward you. It is possible to apply for general projects, even outstanding youth programs, and Yangtze River projects. It is even impossible to become an academician in the future.

Think about it, is this true? We can gather the efforts of the entire college to promote you, but when it comes to NTU, can they have so many resources to pile on you?"

…

It must be admitted that Vice President Zhang Guohong is definitely not a random person. At least he knows how to do organizational work.

Especially when he first apologized sincerely, he was sincere and at the same time, he also successfully revealed the reason why Chen Zhuoyang was considering terminating the contract, and then the pie-painting mode started.

It can only be said that the cake was big and round, and even the academicians came out, making Chen Zhuoyang feel in a trance.

After all, from a certain perspective, what Dean Zhang said still makes sense.

There is no doubt that the School of Mathematics at NTU is better than that at Tianjin University. But it does mean that the competition at NTU is definitely greater.

Really, if the two sides hadn't been so unhappy when they first came to school, maybe Chen Zhuoyang would have really believed it.

But when he heard Dean Zhang say such things, Chen Zhuoyang felt that he was treating him as a fool who didn't understand anything.

Yes, if Tianjin University really mobilizes the whole school to promote him, there is a high probability that he will be able to climb higher than Nanjing University in the future.

But is this possible?

From his previous treatment, we know that competition for internal resources at Tianjin University may be more intense.

Just listen to what he said by using all the resources of the college to recommend him. It would be too naive to truly believe him.

But what makes Chen Zhuoyang feel most disgusted is that Dean Zhang is not even willing to offer the title of associate professor to retain him like his opponent...

This also made Chen Zhuoyang, who had always had a good temper, feel that he really needed to explode.

"Um... Dean Zhang, let me be honest, the cake can indeed fill you up, but if it is a painted cake, no matter how beautiful it is, you can't even eat it. Are you right?

Besides, all the resources of the college have been pushed to me, what will you do when your future students come? So why not take advantage of the fact that I haven’t used any resources of the school and don’t have any projects at hand, so it’s better to get together and relax. I’m like this

Tubo is not uncommon in our college.

But don’t worry, I will definitely complete the courses this semester with quality and quantity, and I will definitely be responsible for the students. Well... why not let’s leave it like this today? I have to take a rest too.”

Although I said it very politely, it was actually very tough to say it for the sake of saying it instead of thinking about it.

But the biggest confidence is indeed given by Qiao Yu.

After the professor at NTU talked to him, Chen Zhuoyang asked Qiao Yu about this on WeChat.

Qiao Yu's answer was also very direct.

"Isn't it? Are you still asking me? People are willing to give it directly to associate professors. If you don't go, the big guys at Tianjin University will think you are stupid! Then they won't treat you like a fool in the future?

Unless Tianjin University can come up with better conditions, otherwise I have already started to write a resignation application. They give you small shoes, but you still hesitate to run away?

Besides, Director Tian knows that you are unhappy at Tianjin University. It’s probably because you are still there and Director Tian can’t lose his temper. If you leave, you won’t have any worries anymore!

Really, when I was here in Yanbei before, I didn’t think you were so honest! Listen to me and run away. If you are a second late, you will be irresponsible to yourself!"

Yes, Chen Zhuoyang was really moved when he saw this news.

He is also quite old. He can't do scientific research as a sixteen-year-old child. No one sees things clearly.

Damn... what a monster!

…

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Mathematical Society finally came to a perfect conclusion. This meeting also brought many people a lot of emotion.

There is no doubt that Qiao Yu has become the most popular rising star in mathematics at this annual meeting. If you take Qiao Yu's age into account, many people will feel that he is already old despite everything.

Even many people no longer remember the winners of this year's Chen Shengshen Award and Hua Luogeng Award, but they still remember Qiao Yu.

After all, before everyone had much impression of the winner, a group of foreign Philippine Awards bigwigs, as if they had made an appointment, praised his various achievements in public.

In addition, Qiao Yu's memory is too strong. At the age of sixteen, he is still a minor! He has already been on the podium of top conferences twice to give special reports.

And this is a groundbreaking research report.

Moreover, Qiao Yu’s results are quite exciting for the theoretical mathematics community.

After all, this era is actually very impetuous.

In a relatively impetuous social background, most people will pursue subjects that can see immediate benefits.

However, theoretical mathematics is not only far away from practical applications, but also requires years or even decades of painstaking research to produce research results.

Not to mention the risk of being solved by others first, and then finding that your research has gone astray, and you will achieve nothing in your life.

For example, what happened to Sam and Frank not long ago is an example. They worked hard for several years, but in the end they got nothing. They were directly picked as peaches.

Under this circumstance, Qiao Yu's system of generalized modal axioms is nothing less than a shot in the arm for many mathematicians who still insist on theoretical research.

Since this system can solve the upper bound problem of prime number intervals, it can naturally also be used to solve other number theory problems.

So the meeting is over, but the more difficult situation for Qiao Yu is that he has received many cooperation invitations.

For example, when studying the periodic structure represented by continued fractions, the cooperation was well-planned and even directly asked a thought-provoking question. Currently, this framework has included rational numbers. What about irrational numbers?

Therefore, with periodic mode points, can we construct a geometric representation of the period of continued fractions and use it to classify the special properties of algebraic numbers?

To be honest, Qiao Yu doesn't know how to answer this question now. He has never thought about it at all.

As for other topics, there are more.

For example, the problem of pseudo-prime numbers similar to prime numbers; the geometric representation of the distribution of highly composite numbers; the gap problem of the remaining sequence; the geometric analysis of the sequence sum difference law; the diffusion of prime numbers; the modal embedding of geometric manifolds; the orbital distribution of geometric group effects...

Domestic, foreign, number theory, geometry, algebra... the influx of cooperation applications has almost filled Qiao Yu's work inbox.

Really, in two days, more than 800 emails asking for cooperation made Qiao Yu speechless.

He only found out about many propositions after reading emails. Oh, there are still mathematicians in this world studying these crappy things...

It felt like he suddenly stood at the center of the world's academic community. Even if he solved the geometric Langlands conjecture last time, he was not as valued as this time.

But Tian Yanzhen was very confident about this situation. After everyone returned to Yanbei, he didn't let Qiao Yu go to rest and directly called him to his office for class.

…

"Okay, you don't have to be too arrogant. This is because your system of generalized modal axioms has been widely recognized, especially those Fields Medal winners who are helping you promote it.

So everyone thought that there might be another way to complete the proposition, and then just sent an email to give it a try. Most of them just wanted to give it a try, what if it succeeded?

Anyway, they don’t have to pay anything. When publishing an article, there are just multiple co-authors. So you don’t have to be complacent. Instead, you can enjoy Academician Zhang’s collaborative project.”

Before leaving, at Tian Yanzhen's suggestion, Qiao Yu had signed a cooperation agreement with Zhang Yuanling's team.

"Well... Director Tian, ​​can you ask why you want to cooperate with Academician Zhang's team? Is it just because you can get half of the R&D funds?"

Tian Yanzhen shook his head and said: "This is partly because Zhang Yuanling's most important achievement when he became an academician was to solve the base ring conjecture problem of the bilateral cell cavity of the affine A-type Weyl group.

Similarly, the problem of the affine B-type Weyl group has greater influence in the mathematical community. If you can completely solve this problem, it will be of great benefit to the promotion of generalized modal theory in the future.

But the most important thing is that Lao Zhang is better at it now, and his teacher... forget it, you don't need to know this. Anyway, as long as you make results, you can share them. In short, this cooperation will be of great benefit to you in the future.

Big."

Qiao Yu nodded.

Although Tian Yanzhen didn't speak so transparently, he actually understood it. It was nothing more than messy things like inheritance and factions in Chinese academic circles.

After all, the mathematics major of Shuangdan University is still very strong, and it was once considered to be the second best in China. As for the first place, naturally it is the School of Mathematics of Yanbei University, which is completely unshakable.

Especially after the mathematics department led by two big-name academicians of Yujiang University was merged into Shuangdan University, the mathematics major of Shuangdan University developed extremely well.

There are even mathematics academicians from Shuangdan University who have won China's highest technology award.

Anyway, these Qiao Yu can understand that human beings are so sophisticated that it is definitely impossible to avoid being contaminated at all.

"By the way, Director Tian, ​​the American Mathematical Society has extended an invitation to me, saying that I can become their senior member. Do you want to agree to this?"

After solving the problem, Qiao Yu asked again.

"AMS has sent you an invitation?" Tian Yanzhen was a little surprised and confirmed.

"Um... I guess so. Anyway, I looked at the email and the domain name of the email is @. I checked it and it seems to be their official domain name."

"I'll look at the email after I find it, and I'll use my computer." Tian Yanzhen said.

Qiao Yu walked over, logged into his mailbox, and quickly found the email.

"Well, it is indeed an official invitation from AMS. You should join quickly. There is no need to think about it."

Tian Yanzhen took a quick glance and immediately gave suggestions.

Qiao Yu said: "No, doesn't it mean that you have to pay the membership fee? It doesn't feel cheap, so I was wondering if I should join? Will it waste time to go to the United States..."

"Membership fee? What kind of money are you short of? Forget it, the membership fee goes directly to the project fund! And if you pay the money, you may lose money, so what does it mean if you pay this little money?"
To be continued...