Great Country Academician

"Teacher, has the screening for the math contest started? Can I apply for this IMO?" In the corridor, Xu Chuan asked softly.

"IMO? Are you going to apply for both exams at the same time? Or are you not going to participate in this competition?"

Tang Gaoyuan frowned and looked at Xu Chuan in surprise.

Although the time for training camps in different countries is different, for example, if they want to participate in these two events, they usually start to select candidates at the end of August and early September, starting from the school screening, to the municipal level, to the provincial level, and finally to the national team. Everyone has their own time.

But in the end, the world-class IMO and IPHO are basically held at the same time, around mid-July every year.

Normally, if you participate in IMO, you will not be able to participate in IPHO, because the schedule will be very tight offline.

Moreover, a teacher had to be allocated to follow the transition. It is estimated that the national teams of both sides will not be very satisfied.

So normally, students participating in IMO will not choose to participate in IPHO at the same time.

However, it is not unheard of to participate in IMO and IPHO at the same time. There have been students who have entered the training team twice at the same time, but there has never been one who won awards at both IMO and IPHO.

"Can you participate in IMO and IPHO at the same time?"

Xu Chuan looked at Mr. Tang in surprise, he really didn't know this well.

Although I have participated in IPHO three times in my previous life, the itinerary and related matters have been handled by someone. Generally speaking, the students who participated in it can only focus on training and studying for the exam.

At least that's how he did it. Except for the things related to the training and exams, he knew very little about other things.

"OK."

Tang Gaoyuan nodded, frowned slightly and continued: "But the time will be very tight, and not every session can participate in the two competitions at the same time. In some years, the time for the number competition and the physical competition is the same. It depends on the competition. examination time."

"However, I still recommend that you only participate in the physical competition. Based on the foundation of last year, I believe that as long as you perform steadily this year, you will definitely win a medal."

Although there are students from Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School who participate in IMO and IPHO competitions every year, there are also those who have reached the World Championship and even won the gold medal.

But a medal in the International Sports Competition is still a very high honor. If you can get a gold medal, this is probably the highest award a high school student can get in high school.

With the medals of IMO or IPHO competitions, even if it is not a gold medal, but a silver medal, a bronze medal, or even a glory award, any university in China will rush to get it.

As his physics teacher, Tang Gaoyuan naturally didn't want Xu Chuan to miss this honor.

In his opinion, Xu Chuan, who has entered the world championship last year and won an individual gold medal, will definitely get better results if he participates in IPHO again this year.

After all, he has seen Xu Chuan's progress in this year. He is a genius. Coupled with hard work, he is sure that his future achievements will not be low.

"Ms. Tang, I want to participate in IMO and IPHO at the same time."

Xu Chuan said, originally he thought he would miss this year's IPHO, but he didn't expect to be able to participate in this operation at the same time.

If he can participate at the same time, he will naturally not quit.

Although it is a little bullying to participate in IPHO with his current knowledge, but the regret of not being able to get the first place in IPHO three times in his previous life, he must make up for it after rebirth.

Tang Gaoyuan frowned again, but then let go again, and said with a smile:

"Okay, I've signed up for you, you go to that old guy Song Kaiji and ask him to sign up for you, so that you can enrich yourself."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment. He thought Teacher Tang would insist on persuading him, and he was ready to continue fighting, but he agreed.

In fact, Tang Gaoyuan didn't think much about it at all. When Xu Chuan proposed to participate in the IMO, he just thought that he wanted to try mathematics.

After all, it would be nice to go to Shujing to enrich his high school career. Anyway, it doesn't matter whether he takes the college entrance examination or not.

If he wanted to, he didn't even need to study in the third year of high school, and he could choose any university in China, and no school would refuse.

And based on this kid's current math level, there is a high probability that he will stop at the provincial team, and he will be overwhelmed after taking the national exam.

Anyway, as long as he doesn't enter the national team or participate in the winter camp training team, for him, it doesn't affect his participation in IPHO.

Supporting him also has this idea in mind.

After being stunned for a moment, Xu Chuan wanted to understand the meaning of Tang Gaoyuan's words, and he couldn't laugh or cry.

He went to IMO with the idea of ​​winning a gold medal, but in Teacher Tang's eyes, he just wanted to have fun and enrich his high school experience.

However, it is normal to have this kind of thinking. After all, he is currently majoring in physics, and the competitions and special training he participated in in the past were also prepared for various physical competitions. Although his math scores are not bad, compared with physics, he must It's a step down.

But this time he is not the original him, he was reborn twenty years later.

Before rebirth, although his math ability was quite different from his physics ability, no matter how big the gap was, he could still kill most math professors in seconds.

After all, there is no distinction between mathematics and physics. In the process of studying physics, various mathematical tools are often used.

Especially when researching and proving the problem of "Yang-Mills existence and quality gap", the mathematical tools used can be said to be the most cutting-edge in the mathematics world.

Although he proved the problem of 'Yang-Mills existence and mass gap' from physics, he also won the Fields Medal after completing the proof of 'Yang-Mills existence and mass gap' .

So although his math ability is not as good as physics, it will definitely not be too bad.

Of course, compared with those top mathematicians who purely study mathematics, such as Andrew Wiles, Pierre Deligne, G. Faltins and other super giants in the mathematics world, his mathematics is still not as good. Less.

However, it is definitely enough to participate in a competition for high school students like IMO. Maybe some basic high school mathematics is not very deep in his memory now, but it is enough for him to read these things again.

"Great Cai, what about you? Do you want to go to IMO too?"

After agreeing with Xu Chuan to go to IMO, Tang Gaoyuan looked at Cao Weicai standing aside with a smile.

Although this kid is not as good as Xu Chuan, he is still a physics genius, but if he also wants to participate in the math competition, let's see how he cleans up Song Kaiji's old things when he goes back. The two best physics seedlings in the class are taken away to learn Is it good at math?

"No, no, Brother Chuan has the strength and can participate at the same time. It's enough for a little Kami like me to participate in the competition honestly."

Seeing Mr. Tang staring at him with a smile on his face, Cao Weicai felt like he was on his back, and quickly waved his hands back.

His math skills are mediocre, so he couldn't get into the provincial math competition.

"Go back and prepare well, and try to get a medal from IPHO next year."

Hearing this, Tang Gaoyuan smiled, turned around and entered the classroom to invigilate the exam.

Tang Gaoyuan left, and Xu Chuan was about to return to the classroom, when Cao Weicai's voice of resentment came from behind him.

"Brother Chuan, what should I do after you went to participate in the IMO? You agreed to stay and fly with me, why did you run away alone?"

As soon as these words came out, Xu Chuan staggered and almost fell to the ground with his left foot mixed with his right foot.

This is really a treasure, why, he went to participate in the mathematics competition, so it is impossible to participate in the physical competition?

Ignoring Cao Weicai, Xu Chuan continued to walk towards the classroom. The moment he stepped into the classroom, an idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Maybe I should change my major in this life."

In his previous life, he has almost reached the limit on the road of physics, but this limit is his own, not physics.

Because of mathematics and some reasons, when faced with certain physical problems, it is often difficult to solve or even make progress.

Just like before rebirth, after he developed superconducting materials, he studied controllable nuclear fusion technology for a period of time.

In theory, with superconducting materials, it should be possible to push the magnetic confinement effect of controllable nuclear fusion reactors to a higher level.

But he has done experiments, and after replacing the magnetic confinement mirror hoop made of superconducting material, the effect of magnetic confinement has indeed improved a lot compared to before, but it has not improved to the level he predicted.

Magnetic mirrors made of superconducting materials are not perfect for controlling the ultra-high temperature plasma in the reaction chamber.

Later, through the analysis of experimental data, this should be related to the control system of ultra-high temperature plasma.

The so-called control system is based on an ultra-high temperature plasma mathematical model.

Although the ultra-high temperature plasma in the controllable nuclear fusion reaction chamber is theoretically a matter of physics, in fact, you have to find a corresponding mathematical model to realize its control.

Building a mathematical model for ultra-hot plasmas has not been done even after two decades.

Because this is the hardest part of mathematics, turbulence modeling.

Turbulent flow is a well-known chaotic system in mathematics. It is already difficult to establish a mathematical model for ordinary turbulent flow, not to mention the tens of millions of degrees of high-temperature plasma in the controllable nuclear fusion reactor chamber.

In order to solve this problem, he found cooperation with other mathematicians, such as the Fields Medal winner Charles Louis Feynman (Professor Fefferman), who also taught at Princeton University.

But the results are obviously not so good.

In many cases, he can propose some physically feasible theories, but perhaps Professor Fefferman's physical ability is not enough, and some theories or problems cannot be described in mathematical language.

After all, there are very few people who can be top-notch in both mathematics and physics. His tutor Edward Witten should be counted as one. After all, this is the first physicist in history to win the Fields Medal.

But unfortunately, his mathematical research direction is not in the turbulent flow.

Xu Chuan suddenly felt that his research direction should be changed in this life.

In my previous life, I majored in physics, but in this life, I should probably change my major to mathematics.

There is no doubt that mathematics is the foundation of all subjects.

After all, the nature of science is induction and deduction, and mathematics is a tool for induction and deduction.

If a subject can be called a science, it must be able to express it mathematically.

As long as you can use mathematics to build models and perform induction and deduction, you will eventually be able to find certain internal laws for human use.

That is why it can be the basis of all natural sciences.

If he majored in mathematics in this life, even if he could not achieve the achievements in physics in his previous life, in terms of his talent, he would definitely not be too bad.

When the mathematical ability is sufficient, it may be able to drive the physical ability that has almost stopped before rebirth, and take another step forward.

As for the minor, the material is still a good choice.

Even though he developed top-level materials such as superconducting materials and biological nanomaterials through material physics and biophysics in his previous life, compared to the future that materials can show, this is just a drop in the bucket.