From failed candidate to chief scientist

Chapter 57 Plagiarism
"A little bit more..."

"Where is the problem?"

Lin Mo muttered to himself.

More than a week has passed since Fang Boliang left.

After communicating with Fang Boliang, a domestic expert in topology, he benefited a lot and gained a lot of ideas.

During this week, Lin Mo has been deriving and verifying these ideas and ideas, which has made great progress in his research progress.

Lin Mo felt that he was only one step away from proving Kratz's conjecture, but it was this last step that stuck Lin Mo and made him unable to make any progress.

"what happened?"

After hearing Lin Mo talking to himself, Zhang Qihua asked aloud.

"As for the last point of the proof, there is still a difficulty that has not yet been solved, and I can't find any ideas for the time being."

Zhang Qihua leaned his head over.

Lin Mo took advantage of the situation to explain to Zhang Qihua, and clearly introduced the step-by-step process and derivation of his proof to Zhang Qihua.

Zhang Qihua listened and understood, and then there was nothing more.

"Are you about to complete the proof of Kratz's conjecture?"

Zhang Qihua felt a little incredible, and his whole mind was buzzing.

What kind of evil student did he accept?
"No, no, there is still one key issue left. If this issue is not solved, it will not be considered proof."

Zhang Qihua didn't know what to say. After thinking about it, he decided to focus on helping Lin Mo solve his problem.

"How about I call Professor Fang? Can you discuss it with him?"

Lin Mo shook his head. Professor Fang made it very clear before. On this issue, he taught him everything he could.

Lin Mo glanced at his panel.

Subject bubble: 99.

It seems that we have to find a way to collect bubbles.

"Teacher Zhang, are there any lectures or reports at school recently? Especially on topology or number theory."

"Wait a moment, I'll check it for you."

After a while, Zhang Qihua came back with a piece of printing paper.

"There was a lecture recently, but..."

Seeing Zhang Qihua's slightly unhappy expression, Lin Mo felt a little strange and took the printing paper and took a look.

The above lists some recent lectures and report information from the school. Among them, there is only one related to mathematics, "Innovation and Thoughts on Topology Theory".

It was a report on topology. The content met Lin Mo's requirements. But when he saw the speaker's name, Lin Mo smiled. He knew why Zhang Qihua had that expression.

Because the speaker’s name is Liu Qin.

The time is this afternoon.

"That's it, Teacher Zhang, I'm going to listen to this report."

"But……"

"It's okay, Teacher Zhang, academic research, no personal grudges. Besides, I'm just going to attend a lecture."

"This... okay, then I'll go with you in the afternoon."

……

Two o'clock in the afternoon, small lecture hall in the school auditorium.

Lin Mo and Zhang Qihua walked in.

The lecture hall is not big, and it can accommodate about 50 to [-] people. At this time, there are not many people in the lecture hall, and it is not full. It is only about half of the seats, so it looks sparse.

Most of the people who came were graduate students from the Department of Mathematics. Some of them knew Zhang Qihua, and when they saw Zhang Qihua coming in, they quickly greeted him.

"Teacher Zhang, why are you here to listen to the report?"

"I'm here to learn."

Zhang Qihua was polite to the students.

After a while, Liu Qin walked in.He first glanced at the audience, and when his eyes passed over Lin Mo and Zhang Qihua, his expression changed slightly, but he quickly calmed down, snorted coldly, and stopped looking at Lin Mo and Zhang Qihua.

"Everyone, welcome to listen to my report."

"You are very lucky to be able to hear my latest research results..."

"I'd like to tell you some good news. The report you heard today is the content of a paper I will publish soon. This paper has been included in "New Advances in Mathematics" and will be published in next month's journal!"

After hearing "New Advances in Mathematics", the students in the audience all cried out in surprise.

"New Advances in Mathematics" is also recognized as one of the top journals in the academic community and one of the four major journals in mathematics. It is very difficult to publish papers in it.

Although it is not as influential as Acta Mathematica Sinica, it is still a top-ranked paper, which is very difficult.

Lin Mo was a little surprised and sat up straight, ready to listen to what Liu Qin's paper was about. Maybe it might be helpful to him?

"You are fortunate to be able to hear some of the content of this paper in advance today, and I hope it can be helpful and inspiring to you."

"Then I officially started giving a report. The content of my report was about innovation and thinking about topology theory..."

With that said, Liu Qin began his report.

"My idea is this. I try to combine topology and number theory to innovate new mathematical methods..."

"In this, I used..."

"My innovative method can solve..."

The more Zhang Qihua listened, the more familiar he felt, and the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong.

Zhang Qihua's brows gradually wrinkled.

Can you not be familiar with it?
Isn't this what Lin Mo said when he discussed with Liu Qin before?
Zhang Qihua reacted instantly.

"Shameless!"

Zhang Qihua was angry. This Liu Qin was so shameless. He actually plagiarized Lin Mo's ideas!
Zhang Qihua couldn't help it at that moment, and he slapped the case directly, interrupting Liu Qin's speech.

"Liu Qin, you are so mean! You actually plagiarized other people's work! Are you still shameless? Do you still have any sense of shame?"

"Zhang Qihua, don't talk nonsense! Where did I plagiarize? You have to provide evidence. Otherwise, I will sue you for libel!"

"Also, this is my report meeting. Please don't disturb the order of the meeting. If you make trouble again, please get out!"

"How dare you say that you are not plagiarizing? The thoughts and ideas you just mentioned were all mentioned by Lin Mo when he discussed with you that day!"

"What a joke! He is a graduate student who has not yet entered school. What qualifications does he have to discuss with me? He has just learned all the basics? Does he understand what I said? I, a great professor, plagiarized from a graduate student who has not yet entered school? Tell me. Don’t you think it’s ridiculous?”

"Plagiarism? Please find a good reason next time. Your outrageous reasons make people laugh for no reason, hahaha!"

"you!"

"What? Are you still not convinced? If you don't believe it, ask the students sitting here, do they believe it?"

Zhang Qihua looked at the other students.

The other students looked confused and looked away when Zhang Qihua looked over.

"Li Hua, tell me, do you believe what I just said?"

Zhang Qihua directly named a classmate he knew and asked.

"This...Teacher Zhang..."

Li Hua had a look of embarrassment on his face.

"Teacher Zhang, I don't know what misunderstanding there is between you and Professor Liu Qin, but Professor Liu has been deeply involved in the field of topology, and Lin Mo is just a newly enrolled graduate student. This, this..."

Zhang Qihua already understood what the other party meant without him finishing.

He looked at the others reluctantly.

"You all think so too?"

The others looked away from Zhang Qihua, whose meaning was unclear.

"you!"

"How's it going? Zhang Qihua, you have to find a good reason to slander me. I'm a generous person, so let's forget it this time. If there is a next time, hum!"

Liu Qin looked proud and arrogant.

(End of this chapter)