From university academician to chief academician

As soon as he entered Professor Lu Yishan's office, Lu Yishan waved with a smile on his face and said, "Ye Fei, sit down quickly."

Ye Fei was surprised, why was the instructor so happy? Got a salary increase?

After Ye Fei sat down, Lu Yishan said: "The dean just told me that he wants to report you to the Executive Committee of the Zhong Jiaqing Mathematics Award Fund to see if you can win the Zhong Jiaqing Mathematics Award."

"Zhong Jiaqing Mathematics Award?" Ye Fei was surprised: "Is it one of the three major mathematics awards in Xia Guo?"

"Yes!" Professor Lu nodded: "That's the award."

People in academic circles usually engage in scientific research to gain status, knowledge and money.

Awards are the best proof of one’s own scientific research.

It's like a student getting a certificate.

No one can refuse an award, the more the merrier!

The more important the award, the better. The three major Xia Guo mathematics awards, Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award, Chen Shengshen Award and Zhong Jiaqing Mathematics Award, are coveted by countless people.

Among these three major awards, only the Zhong Jiaqing Mathematics Award rewards Xia Guo’s most outstanding master’s and doctoral students in mathematics.

If you have graduated with a doctorate for more than three years, you will not have the opportunity to participate in the selection of the Zhong Jiaqing Mathematics Award.

"Tutor, although I have solved two world problems, you also know that they belong to set theory, which is very unpopular and not very helpful to mathematics."

“Is there any confidence in this assessment?”

Ye Fei has some concerns. As far as he knows, to win all mathematics awards in the world, scholars must have research results that have a huge promotion effect on mathematics.

The two major world problems he proved did not have much promotion effect on mathematics.

"Don't worry!" Professor Lu said with a smile: "The college has asked someone about this. If you are not sure, the college will not help you report it."

"Huh..." Ye Fei took a long breath, his heart beating rapidly with excitement.

He had never thought about the Chung Jiaqing Mathematics Prize before, but now he seems to be able to think about it.

"You can wait with peace of mind now. The results will be available by the end of this month." Professor Lu said: "Of course, competing for awards is like guessing a blind box. No one knows the result until the end."

"Don't worry too much about this award. Even if you don't get it, with your ability, you will get it sooner or later."

"After all, you can be evaluated within three years of graduating with a Ph.D. degree."

"Actually, most people are evaluated after graduation, and PhD students are rarely evaluated."

Professor Lu believes in Ye Fei's ability. Even if he doesn't make it this time, he will definitely make it within three years.

"Yes!" Ye Fei nodded, but he was still full of expectations, hoping that he could be judged this time.

He didn't want to be selected multiple times and only be selected after falling out many times.

That feeling of tension and excitement is very uncomfortable.

"That's right!" Professor Lu said: "You have solved the minimal tower problem, what do you want to do next?"

Ye Feidao: "Of course I'll continue doing scientific research."

"You can't do scientific research all the time. Take a proper rest."

"You need to take a break, but you can't rest for too long. A few days of rest is enough."

"Then what kind of scientific research do you want to do?"

"I'm thinking!" Ye Fei shook his head: "I still do scientific research on set theory, but there are several unsolved problems in set theory. I'm hesitating, which one should I do?"

Professor Lu looked confused, "Why, a set theory problem is stuck in your mind, and you can solve it if you say it can be solved!"

But think about it, Ye Fei has solved two problems in set theory.

It was also easy to resolve, and no problem lasted more than three months.

It seems that solving set theory problems is very easy for him.

Professor Lu seemed to feel the strong atmosphere of Versailles.

Professor Lu said: "How about you solve the Turing equivalence problem?"

"Turing equivalent?" Ye Feidao said: "But I don't understand computers. To solve this problem, we need to cooperate with people who understand computers."

Mathematics is the basis of all natural subjects, and computers also use a lot of mathematics.

There is a man in history named Alan Turing, who is the father of computers and the father of artificial intelligence.

The Turing machine model proposed by Turing laid the foundation for the way modern computers work logically.

It can be said that without Turing, there would be no computers today.

Today's computers and artificial intelligence were all proposed by Turing.

Turing equivalence is an equivalence relationship between sets of natural numbers that is naturally induced by Turing machines in computing theory.

Studying Turing equivalence will help improve the computing speed of computers.

The so-called computing speed means that, for example, computer A and computer B have the same hardware. A uses Turing equivalent, but B does not.

But A runs faster than B.

"This is exactly what I want to tell you." Professor Lu said: "I have a friend who is the head of the Computer Computing Laboratory of Zhonghu University. I want you to cooperate with him."

"Computing power laboratory?" Ye Feidao: "Is that the local laboratory?"

All major universities have many laboratories or institutes, and they are also hierarchical.

Among them, local laboratories have the lowest level and receive the least attention, while national key laboratories have the highest level and receive the most attention.

Zhonghu University has two national key laboratories and fifteen local laboratories.

Generally, local laboratories are assigned a professor to take care of them, with five or six graduate students under their supervision, and each year they allocate about one million yuan.

Moreover, scientific research projects are not taken seriously, and funding is often not provided.

Many times, the person in charge has to solicit funds from outside and cooperate with companies on the market.

But if you want to cooperate with enterprises and get money from them, how easy is it?

"It's that laboratory!" Professor Lu said: "You might think it's a local laboratory, but the person in charge is still capable. He is a full professor at the School of Computer Science, at the same level as me."

"He has studied Turing's algorithm for more than ten years and has in-depth research."

Ye Fei smiled and said: "Since it was recommended by your tutor, it is certainly good. Then let me meet this professor. I want to talk to him."

"Okay!" Professor Lu nodded: "I'll call him now."

With that said, he took out his phone and made a call.

This man was actually friends with Professor Lu. Ye Fei thought of his friend when he started a new scientific research project.

Ye Fei needs the other party's computer ability, and the other party needs Ye Fei's scientific research ability on Turing equivalence.

It’s a win-win situation that benefits both parties.

Soon, the other party came.

This is a tall, thin, middle-aged man with dark skin, wearing glasses and thin hair.

Ye Fei looked at the top of the other person's head and nodded secretly. It seemed that he was really capable, otherwise his hair wouldn't be so sparse.

In the computer industry, even if you have thin hair, you will feel that the other person is unprofessional.

"Lao Lu!" The middle-aged man walked in, glanced at Ye Fei, and said, "Is this your student?"

"Yes!" Lu Yishan nodded: "Ye Fei, let me introduce to you, Zhou Kang, full professor of the School of Computer Science."

"Hello, Professor Zhou!" Ye Fei stretched out his hand.

"Hello!" Professor Zhou shook hands with Ye Fei, and then found a place to sit down.

"Ye Fei, I have heard of you too, but there is a big difference between mathematics and computers. If you are good at mathematics, you may not be good at computers."

"Of course, there's a lot of math involved in computer algorithms."

"But I have to make it clear that algorithms are computer science after all. It relies on mathematics, but only a small part of it. Most of it still requires computer knowledge."

"So, you cooperate with me and I want to investigate."

"If you are not capable, I don't want to waste time and replace you immediately."

Ye Fei was surprised that he still had to look at the opponent's abilities!

That's good. I haven't said anything about inspecting the other party, but the other party wants to inspect me.

Ye Feidao: "This is natural, but Professor Zhou, let me make it clear that if your ability is not good, I will not cooperate with you."

The other party said it was so straightforward, so he stopped beating around the bush.

Professor Zhou stared at Ye Fei, who looked at him without blinking.

Professor Lu was watching the show and did not interrupt them.

Professor Zhou is very capable, but he speaks too directly and easily offends people.

Ye Fei is also capable. If these two talented people meet together, they will definitely be able to cooperate well.

After a long while, Professor Zhou nodded and said: "Okay, if you don't have the ability, I will let you go. If I don't have the ability, you can replace him immediately. I will never pester you."

"Okay!" Ye Fei nodded.

Saying that, create a task in the system.

[Task: Turing Equivalence Problem

Details: Seeking breakthroughs in computability theory

Reward: 100 points]

"Another 100 points?"