Chapter 475: Admit a few students

Chapter 475
The next day.
With Professor Fang's matchmaking bridge, Cheng Nuo met Zhang Wei in a coffee shop near the school.
, Zhang Wei wore a simple plaid shirt.
Cheng Nuo shook hands with Zhang Wei cordially.
"Senior Brother Zhang, hello."
"Cheng Nuo, it's an honor to meet you."
Cheng Nuo asked the waiter to serve two cups of coffee, and the two of them drank and talked.
After a few simple greetings, he went straight to the topic straightforwardly.
"Cheng Nuo, I heard from Professor Fang, you want to study the BSD conjecture?"
Zhang Wei had long learned from Professor Fang that Cheng Nuo had asked him to meet him, and the tone of his speech was still slightly shocked.
but……
That's BSD guess!
To prove the BSD conjecture, Zhang Wei just thinks about it in his spare time, but he really puts it into practice.
To be honest, Zhang Wei does not have the courage, nor the confidence!
"Well, my goal for the next stage is the BSD guess!" Cheng Nuo smiled bitterly and shook his head, "This is also one of my obsessions. I won't be reconciled if I don't try it."
Cheng Nuo looked at Zhang Wei with Chen Ken, "So, I hope my senior can come and help me."
Zhang Wei was silent for a few seconds before asking, "How sure are you?"
"50%, at least 50%!"
"Okay, I'll join!"
This time Zhang Wei did not hesitate.
Fifty percent confidence is enough!
Many of the scientific research projects he had done before, before the real topic was actually opened, were not even sure, and they did not stumble down.
By comparison, the possibility of 50% is worth his fight.
Once the BSD conjecture proves to be successful, not only will Cheng Nuo benefit, but his status in the Chinese mathematics world will also increase.
If you fail, you will only lose some time.
"Then brother, happy cooperation!"
"Happy cooperation!"
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Pulling brother Zhang Wei to help out made Cheng Nuo a lot easier.
After the interview with Zhang Wei in the afternoon, Cheng Nuo went directly to the Institute of Mathematics under Tsinghua University.
There are about 30 resident researchers in the Institute of Mathematics each year.
Together with some associate researchers and research assistants, the number will reach more than one hundred.
The institute is composed of one director and three deputy directors.
It just so happened that this year a deputy director retired, and Cheng Nuo directly airborne to fill the position.
Without much fanfare, Cheng Nuo went straight to his office under the leadership of a research assistant in the institute.
In the afternoon, Cheng Nuo was writing the project application report.
Because it was just a formality, Cheng Nuo quickly settled it, and then submitted it to the National Natural Science Foundation as the deputy director of his research institute to apply for project approval and research funding.
The approval process will take a few days, and Cheng Nuo is not in a hurry.
Taking advantage of this time, Cheng Nuo can choose the doctoral students he wants to take.
Up to now, Cheng Nuo has received more than one hundred emails from students.
The purpose is also very clear, is to let Cheng Nuo accept them, and in the next period of time under Cheng Nuo's Ph.D.
Cheng Nuo has just obtained the qualification of doctoral supervisor this year.
According to common sense, most doctoral students will not appear so enthusiastic for such professors who have obtained the qualification of doctoral supervisor in the first year.
Generally speaking, there are only three or two big cats and kittens who are willing to apply for his doctoral candidates.
This situation will not improve until two or three years.
But Cheng Nuo is different!
Apart from anything else, a Veblen Prize winner alone is enough to allow Cheng Nuo to crush 99% of the PhD supervisors in China.
What's more, apart from those academicians who disdain to serve as doctoral tutors, in terms of geometry, no one in China can beat Cheng Nuo.
Moreover, I heard that Cheng Nuo has also made extraordinary achievements in other fields of mathematics.
If you become a doctoral student under Cheng Nuo, you will not only receive the personal teaching of the Veblen Prize boss, but also with Cheng Nuo's position in the international mathematics circle, the opportunity to broaden your horizons abroad is easy to encounter.
After reading a few resumes, Cheng Nuo had no patience to continue reading.
What a waste of time!
And the content on the resume is similar, but with this, Cheng Nuo can't judge the specific math level of a certain student.
Interviews one by one would be even more troublesome. BSD guessed that after the project process was completed, Cheng Nuo was ready to put most of his energy into it, and there was no such free time.
Ask the question!
After thinking about it for a long time, Cheng Nuo decided to use the simplest and rude way.
After more than ten minutes, Cheng Nuo produced a set of test questions and emailed them to more than 100 students.
Five topics, ranging in difficulty from graduate level to doctoral level.
The content of the investigation covers various fields of mathematics, but in Cheng Nuo's view, they are all very basic topics, and the degree of difficulty is not large.
One of the prerequisites for being a PhD student is to do all these five questions correctly.
As a result, when many graduate students received Cheng Nuo's email, they thought that Cheng Nuo had agreed to accept him as a student, but after opening the email, their smiles solidified on their faces.
After that, he hurriedly turned out the paper and pen, lowered his head and worked hard to write.
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Unlike Cheng Nuo, where there is so much excitement, the situation where most students must be screened out through rough means like tests.
On the other hand, many doctoral supervisors at Tsinghua University are very puzzled.
This year...something is wrong!
Professor Qi Feng is one of them.
In previous years, during the period before the start of Ph.D. students, there were about a dozen students who sent him application intentions via email.
But this year, he received only three emails in total!
This made Professor Qi puzzled and even doubted his life.
He began to reflect on himself.
Is the news that you are too strict with your students spread?
Or is he looking a little too vicious?
Ding Ding Ding Ding~~
Just when Professor Qi doubted his life, the phone rang a few ding-dings.
Turning on the phone, Professor Qi found a few more emails in his mailbox.
The emails are all sent by graduate students who are about to enroll in a few days. As for the content, I sincerely hope that Professor Qi can serve as their doctoral supervisor.
One, two, three,...Eleven!
Professor Qi held his mobile phone and counted the eleven emails ~EbookFREE.me~, plus the first three, the total is fourteen.
"The results are good, it seems that I am still quite popular among students!" Professor Qi let go of the worry in his heart, and the previous depression was wiped out.
However, what made him wonder is why the next eleven emails were sent almost at the same time, and they were delayed until now.
What are these students doing before this?
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"Oh, it's been brushed off! The problem is too difficult. It seems that I have no chance with Professor Cheng, so I can only switch to Professor Qi's arms!" A boy said with a bitter face, full of depression, pressing a button , Send the edited email half a month ago to Professor Qi Feng’s mailbox.
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