[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-scholar-s-advanced-technological-system":3,"chapter-scholar-s-advanced-technological-system-scholar-s-advanced-technological-system-chapter-312":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Scholar's Advanced Technological System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1330084,1769,"Chapter 312 - Old Opponent","scholar-s-advanced-technological-system-chapter-312",312,"\u003Cp>Translator:Henyee TranslationsEditor:Henyee Translations\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the interviews, Lu Zhou was busy working at the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials. Therefore, he didn’t pay much attention to every interviewee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, seeing someone in real life was completely different than seeing them through a camera.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou didn’t know why, but this student looked familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he couldn’t remember where exactly he met this guy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Wen replied awkwardly, “We met during the interview... and the mathematical modeling competition.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course they met during the interview.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the second part...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the final stage of the competition, Wei Wen arrogantly walked up to Lu Zhou and said, “Your thesis wasn’t bad, but the championship is mine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Lu Zhou was the one that won the Higher Education Society Cup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since then, Wei Wen had been trying to catch up to Lu Zhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the difference between them only became bigger and bigger; Wei Wen couldn’t even see God Lu’s taillights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Wei Wen attended the conference at Beijing Normal University, he saw Lu Zhou winning the Shiing-Shen Chern Mathematics Award. Wei Wen wanted to jump off a bridge, but he still aimed to catch up to Lu Zhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, even though Wei Wen set an unrealistic goal, he was still able to accomplish many achievements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Wen received his bachelor’s and an offer from Professor Lu at Princeton. He was a god among his peers and a “model child” among his family friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Wei Wen was still far from where he wanted to be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was actually his decision to choose Lu Zhou as his supervisor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple; Wei Wen wanted to improve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou didn’t really know the personalities of his two students yet, so he didn’t assign them any work. He only gave them each a textbook and told them to write notes on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fundamental studies would start from the textbooks. In order to find an interesting topic to conduct research on, one needed a comprehensive understanding of that field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that was more advanced studying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To really dive into a certain topic, advanced studying would require reading theses and documents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if someone used these theses as resources and made a millimeter of progress, it would still be worthy of a graduation thesis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two master’s students were still far from publishing any theses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, they had to build up their fundamental knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no shortcut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time Lu Zhou got back, his office laboratory had returned to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the energetic Hardy had calmed down and was quietly doing his research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time flew by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around six o’clock, some of the students left the office and went downstairs to eat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only two people in the office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vera looked around the office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She made sure that there was no one else in the office before she picked up the first draft of her thesis and walked to Lu Zhou’s desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou looked up at Vera and remembered her emails. He then placed down his pen and asked, “Do you plan on telling me about your discovery?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vera looked embarrassed as she handed out her thesis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“... Please look at it for me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou took the thesis and flipped through the pages. After a while, he nodded his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among his three students, Vera was the only one that had a true understanding of the Group Structure Method. She was the only one that could integrate it into her own research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that, but her thought process was similar to Lu Zhou’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strictly speaking, the Collatz conjecture was an additive number theory problem, but it looked like a complex analysis problem as well. However, it wasn’t fully compatible with the Group Structure Method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Vera did was to convert the Group Structure Method to be compatible with all natural numbers instead of only using prime numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this was no easy task. She only did a specific analysis of a specific problem, and the flaws in her work were obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou looked at the thesis and drew two question marks on it. He then said, “I have a few questions.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vera said, “Please go ahead, professor.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou: “13th line, fourth page. I noticed that you set the mapping K: →△ equals to πog = f, can you tell me what this part means?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vera looked at the thesis and explained: “K(x) is a bounded holomorphic function on the complex plane. Using Liu Wei’s theorem, we prove that Q(x) is the value function, then we can prove that equation (7) holds.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This step is fine.” Lu Zhou was impressed at Vera’s logical reasoning, and he said, “But on line 11, page seven, I noticed that you are using equations (7) and (8). Your conclusion was that each branch of D of Φ(g) containing a positive integer has z0∈D, but this step is wrong.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vera looked at the thesis for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a little embarrassed, and she lowered her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re right... I’ll rethink it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t be discouraged, your work was good,” Lu Zhou said. He continued, “If you solve the problems, this thesis would be an outstanding achievement.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vera bit her lip and shook her head; her blonde hair gently swayed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But I was still wrong.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou looked at his student and thought for a moment before he said, “I have my first number theory class on Wednesday, you should come.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou: “Although undergrad classes aren’t that useful for you, you’re still my assistant. You need to cover for me when I’m busy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vera suddenly looked nervous, and she asked, “Do I have to lecture?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course, lecturing is part of being an assistant, I told you this before.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou smiled and continued, “Also, occasionally thinking about obvious problems will be very helpful for your research. It might inspire you. When I was solving Goldbach’s conjecture, I was inspired by Fefferman’s number theory class even though his class had nothing to do with Goldbach’s conjecture.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vera opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but Lu Zhou patted her back and interrupted her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Relax, you already did the Berkeley report, so why are you still scared of a Princeton lecture?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vera blushed and lowered her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Okay.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou was jetlagged, and therefore, he wasn’t that hungry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked Vera to bring a bacon sandwich for him. He then stopped working and started to sort through his mail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was gone for a month, and his drawer was filled with mail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of them were contracts sent by White.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the bottom of the pile of mail, Lu Zhou pulled out a surprisingly well-packaged letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the sender’s name and was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“American Chemistry Society?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou opened the envelope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dear, Professor Lu, I am the president of the American Chemical Society...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhou skipped the middle and read the last line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From his experience, the important part of the letter was always at the bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>",1174,"2026-06-05T19:44:39.213Z",1,"novelbin.me","da07719117aa22789a2ebc9b3acf3aea7057f10774aa2450bd0d91aa60a0712a","scholar-s-advanced-technological-system-chapter-313","scholar-s-advanced-technological-system-chapter-311",1683,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fscholar-s-advanced-technological-system-cover.jpg"]