[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-technology-invades-the-modern-world":3,"chapter-technology-invades-the-modern-world-technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-39":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Technology Invades the Modern World",{"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},2269523,4430,"Chapter 39","technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-39",39,"\u003Cp>\"Everyone, we've covered the basic knowledge thoroughly; now we'll move on to genuinely challenging material.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That concludes today’s lecture; feel free to ask any questions anytime.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ran entrusted the full recording of \"Bishanguan\" to Meng Xiaodong; despite her repeated refusal of payment, he insisted on giving it to her, and the next day he continued teaching the Hong Kong University students as usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The large lecture hall now held only eight people; six more left gradually afterward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the eight remaining, those who stayed did so either because they had some mathematical talent or because they hoped to gain something from Lin Ran.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them was Chen Jingrun from China, as well as students representing England.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond this motive, some hoped to continue their studies in mathematics, aiming to complete Lin Ran’s seminar over the summer and earn his favor to pursue a Ph.D. under him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or to obtain a letter of recommendation from Lin Ran.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Hong Kong, a mathematical desert at the time, possessing Lin Ran’s recommendation letter meant being able to apply to top-tier universities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shaoyuan, a scion of a Hong Kong wealthy family, didn’t care about Lin Ran’s recommendation; they could secure letters from Justices of the Peace or even English nobility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for students from middle-class or even ordinary affluent families, Lin Ran was the best connection they could access.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ran’s recommendation letter was useful not only in mathematics but also in hot fields like economics and finance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of those present, Chen Jingrun was perhaps the only one truly concerned with mathematics itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet after the past few days’ upheavals, Chen Jingrun had become distracted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At dawn yesterday, while he slept soundly in his tin-roofed shack in Sham Shui Po, a knock came at the door:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Open up! I’m your father!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jingrun was momentarily dazed, thinking his lack of rest over these days had finally broken his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When had he even acquired a father?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But moments later he realized—the voice outside matched the most unlikely scenario from the training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jingrun quickly rose and opened the door; as he suspected, standing outside was Section Chief Zhang, who looked ten years older than when he’d seen him in Yangcheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Father...\" Chen Jingrun’s voice was dry, \"what are you doing here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I had no choice—I had to come work. Work’s hard to find in Tung Chung; the factory shut down and the dorm kicked me out, so I walked here overnight. No work means no food.\" Zhang gestured for him to let him inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bishanguan\" had been sent back by Zhang Shizhao, including the plan to play the song during Lin Ran’s interview on Hong Kong Radio, making the other side realize they could not possibly persuade Lin Ran to return to China.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire strategy had to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang’s arrival was the most direct manifestation of that change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the surface, they discussed his job-hunting in Hong Kong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sham Shui Po and Tung Chung have far more plastic and textile factories now—they’re all hiring. Father, you should try there...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, they communicated with pen and paper:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your mission has changed. Your task now is to see if you can stay by Lin’s side and become his student.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If not, aim for the next best thing: enroll in the mathematics Ph.D. program at Columbia University.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What if that fails too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If that fails, wait for another opportunity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Also, continue deciphering Lin’s mathematical models. Here are some materials related to missiles—they may help you. Study them quickly; after reading, destroy them completely.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Afterward, just hand over whatever you’ve gathered to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jingrun, who had originally been scheduled to return to work after training in Hong Kong, now found not only his mission altered but his entire life turned 180 degrees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jingrun, who had stayed up all night studying documents and suddenly gained a father, was already remarkable for not collapsing on his desk and managing to keep up with Lin Ran’s lecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Professor Lin, regarding how harmonic analysis connects with...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Professor Lin, your stricter spectral conditions for densely defined closed operators...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jingrun held on until the end, finally gaining the only opportunity since joining Lin Ran’s seminar to speak with him privately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What you’re asking about concerns the definition of holomorphic semigroups—it’s among the most advanced topics. Recently, Langlands systematically analyzed its generation and analytic properties in his paper titled 'Some Holomorphic Semi-Groups.' \"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A holomorphic semigroup can be viewed as a mapping from an open domain in the complex plane to a Banach algebra, satisfying two key properties: semigroup structure and holomorphicity,\" Lin Ran said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the other students left—this content was incomprehensible to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for the English students, staying alone in the classroom would have seemed too conspicuous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Near the end, seeing Lin Ran didn’t initiate further talk, Chen Jingrun assumed today’s exchange was purely academic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But today’s meeting was far from over—Lin Ran pulled a thick stack of journals from his briefcase:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dehui, these are the past five years of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics published by the American Mathematical Society. Take them; I think they’ll help you understand these concepts better.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the true core of today’s encounter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After handing over the journals, Chen Jingrun felt the weight pull his hand down, and then Lin Ran whispered sharply into his ear:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Remember! Papers 56-6-12, 58-10-3, 59-1-3—combine them with your own work, and you can derive the Monte Carlo method!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ran then resumed his seated posture, smiling at the podium: \"Dehui, any other questions?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jingrun was dazed: \"No... no more.\" His mind was fully focused on memorizing what had just been said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Correct—Lin Ran’s purpose in coming to Hong Kong was never merely to solve one or two problems; he aimed to leave behind a spark, however small, for China.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, China’s academic exchanges with the outside world would cease entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This stagnation wouldn’t just halt personal contact—it would halt academic journals too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>France barred overseas Chinese from shipping Nature and Science magazines to China.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Hong Kong alone, over 13,000 academic journals were blocked from entering China in 1963.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the first five years of the 1960s, 42 overseas Chinese were prosecuted for transmitting technical materials to East China.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This year, the Soviet Union’s International Scientific Abstracts would cease supply, cutting China’s final systematic pathway to Western frontier science.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>External factors might raise the difficulty of access, but internal factors truly caused people to stop seeking it themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also this year, the Foreign Language Translation Bureau was dissolved; only seven people remained to translate English scientific articles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Lin Ran sought to leave even a single spark.\u003C\u002Fp>",1109,"2026-06-19T21:37:46.551Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1ce65fd64600958fa3bb28eef998b1c9338456cd7343fd91a8f4d800bbb19a5d","technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-40","technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-38",162,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ftechnology-invades-the-modern-world-cover.jpg"]