Even if he said sothing, no one paid attention.
It’s really not Qiao Yu being petty, deliberately retaliating or anything. It’s mainly because at his current status, he hasn’t bothered with these trivial matters, and yet they get handled proactively.
The truth is Qiao Yu genuinely doesn’t care about people making a fuss about him online.
People might question other twenty-six-year-old doctoral advisors, after all, most researchers at twenty-six are still in the stage of outsmarting their ntors.
But no one questions Qiao Yu becoming a doctoral advisor at twenty-four.
Fields dal recipient, Nobel Prize recipient, though he never went to collect them. And also a recipient of the Clay Prize, Ramanujan Prize, and Gauss Prize.
The Arican Mathematical Society even awarded Qiao Yu with a mathematical research contribution award, while other minor awards are countless.
There are still so lifeti awards in the scientific community he hasn’t received, mainly because he’s still too young.
Even Huaxia has delayed giving him the highest science and technology award, everyone’s worry is the sa — what if he achieves more and there are no awards left to give?
The International Mathematical Union is even considering establishing a Qiao Yu Prize in the future, to be awarded to potential future mathematics stars.
Of course, this requires so financial backing, but Qiao Yu is currently uninterested in considering these things; he seeks enjoynt.
After all, at twenty-sothing, if you don’t hurry up and enjoy life, when you’re old, all you can do is nurture your body and spirit, enjoying becos difficult.
What’s unfortunate is, today Elder Yuan’s mory is surprisingly good. After teasing little Zisheng for a while, he gestured for Xia Keke to hold the child aside, and then his gaze naturally fell on the reading Qiao Yu.
"Ahem..." The elder cleared his throat.
Qiao Yu was already reading half-heartedly, imdiately put down the book, and looked towards Elder Yuan.
"Grandmaster, what guidance do you have?"
"I wouldn’t dare to instruct you! Qiao Yu, now that I think about it, you were truly well-behaved as a child. At that ti, no one needed to say anything, you diligently studied every day.
No matter what you did outside, the next day you’d rember to actively report to . Whenever you had so ideas, you’d co to discuss them with imdiately.
I’ve only just realized that even back then, you weren’t purely eager to learn, it was simply because your wings weren’t fully grown yet, right?"
Despite Qiao Yu’s thick skin, these words were a bit too much, and he imdiately protested: "No, Grandmaster, you misunderstand ! I’ve never thought of it like that!"
"Oh? Then I ask you, how long has it been since you did research in the field of mathematics? How many propositions have you considered over the years? What achievents have you made?
I won’t even talk about the research direction, just tell , since becoming a doctoral advisor, how many students have you recruited? How much effort have you put into nurturing students?
Yan Zhen is so frustrated with you that she ca to to complain! And you still have the nerve to say we misunderstand you? I ask you, where is your original intention? Has your pursuit of mathematics just stopped?!"
Alright, Qiao Yu could tell, the old man was really angry.
Angry to the point where even little Zisheng being nearby didn’t hold him back. Of course, Qiao Yu wasn’t scared, mainly worried the old man would hurt himself...
So Qiao Yu imdiately protested loudly: "Who said that? Grandmaster, Director Tian has no idea what I’ve been up to lately! He says I’m the chief commander of moon landings, but I’ve been constantly thinking about mathematics problems! Frankly, lately I’ve been researching turbulence."
"Oh?" Yuan Zhengxin glanced at Qiao Yu skeptically.
Qiao Yu argued confidently.
This was definitely not the ti to show weakness; everyone thought he had helpful patrons aiding him since youth, soaring upward all the way.
But these people surely don’t know, patrons aren’t easily fooled.
Whether it’s Elder Yuan, or Director Tian, both possess the ability to see through the essence at a glance. His little tricks could easily be exposed. One can only say no one succeeds casually; it’s never easy for anyone.
"Of course it’s true! You know, I’m now passionate about aerospace! The Navier-Stokes Equations are at the core of fluid dynamics!
Now, why can’t we prove the existence and smoothness of the Navier-Stokes Equations? Is it not because we don’t yet understand the essence of turbulence?
Once abstract mathematical problems are solved, they often have unexpected applications! I firmly believe this. I believe if this problem is solved, it would surely revolutionize the entire aerospace engineering!
So I’ve actually been thinking about this issue! But you also know, the turbulence problem is extrely challenging! Especially in three-dinsional space, vortex stretching allows vortex intensity to infinitely increase with fluid movent.
This could lead to energy accumulating at small scales, causing singularities. Plus, the nonlinear term in three-dinsional space might cause the derivatives of the solution to tend to infinity within finite ti, leading to singularities again, disrupting smoothness!
As you know my character, I never like to flaunt without achievents! So if Director Tian and you think I’ve been slack recently, it’s truly a misunderstanding!"
Qiao Yu stated righteously.
"Pfft..."
If Xia Keke beside them hadn’t been unable to restrain a laugh, Qiao Yu felt he had perford quite perfectly.
Seeing Qiao Yu and the elder turn their gaze towards her, Xia Keke, embarrassed, lifted the bubble-blowing little Zisheng in her arms slightly, alleviating the awkwardness.
Fortunately, the elder’s mood noticeably improved.
Smiling, he looked at Qiao Yu and said: "Oh? So you’re not slacking? Yan Zhen’s misunderstanding you?"
Qiao Yu nodded with integrity, answering: "Yes, Grandmaster! Just like you said, I’ve never forgotten my original intention!"
Yuan Zhengxin laughed even more joyfully: "That’s excellent! This topic is good! The Millennium Problems have been there for so many years, apart from the Poincaré Conjecture and the Riemann Conjecture, the other five problems still haven’t been solved.
It’s comndable that you set your sights on turbulence! That’s indeed a good issue with significant practical implications. Just as you said, the reason we can’t solve this problem is because we haven’t understood the essence of turbulence.
In fact, we don’t even understand the essence of nonlinear equations! The existence and smoothness of solutions, the scarcity of analytical solutions, the lack of theoretical tools, all constrain our research on this type of problem.
So it’s great that you’ve focused on the turbulence problem! I’m gratified! Now the manned moon landing plan is more or less successful, there’s little engineering work you can interfere with, take advantage of your free ti to do more research.
Thus, let’s keep it as before. Send a weekly report of your research to both and Yan Zhen. Or insights after thinking are also welco, now that I’ve retired, free every day."
The elder, changing his previous stern attitude, spoke kindly.
He didn’t even glance at the book by P.A. Davidson — "Navier-Stokes Equations and Turbulence" — that Qiao Yu had flipped through.
Everyone’s a sharp one here; the elder was not interested in exposing Qiao Yu’s ridiculous claims, rather satisfied that the kid managed to weave himself out of trouble. This saved him a lot of talk.
No choice, the child’s grown and not listening! Can’t really spank him, can you?
"Um..." Qiao Yu pondered seriously how to decline this, but the elder gave him no chance.
"Alright, there’s nothing else. If you’re busy, go ahead with your tasks! Keke and Zisheng can stay and keep company. If you like that book, take it, consider it a gift."
Mr. Yuan said heartily.
Qiao Yu thought for a mont, then honestly tucked the book under his arm and left.
When the elder decides to corner soone, resistance is futile, better to enjoy it.
Speaking again, mathematics is a wonderful subject, truly diving into it is indeed interesting...
Okay, since things have already been said to this point, he can only comfort himself like this.
The only thing that annoyed him was that the issue he picked seed a bit too difficult!
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