Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 134 - 86: The First Paper Is Finally Published

What is it like to have a completely personal free study room at school?

While taking a break, Qiao Yu searched this question on Weibo and Zhihu, but unfortunately, no one had asked a similar question. It was a bit awkward, and this meant he couldn’t share this experience with everyone.

Actually, he could have used a self Q&A, or a small account to ask and a main account to answer, to share this joy with everyone.

But in the end, he felt it was too boring and gave up.

People’s joys and sorrows are ultimately not interconnected.

Just like when he searched this question on Weibo and Zhihu and was taking a break to watch short videos, he often saw videos of college students arguing over using books to save seats in the study room.

See, this is why they’re not outstanding enough.

They’ve already gotten into college, yet after years, they still haven’t managed to earn the privilege of having a personal study room in school, and have to fight with fellow students over study room seats. It’s like going to this lousy university was for nothing.

However, this made Qiao Yu more enthusiastic about writing his paper.

It’s not to appear more outstanding to repay his alma mater. Mainly, Qiao Yu had some awareness in his mind.

If he wanted Huaqing and Yanbei to treat him as well as Principal Zhang did, his current achievements were indeed not enough.

As Xue Song said, unless he was willing to consider schools other than Huaqing and Yanbei, maybe he could still negotiate some conditions, but in these two universities, they really don’t lack various competition experts.

For example, the only full score gold medalist in the algebra and number theory group of last year’s Little Alibaba International Mathematics Competition was from Yanbei University’s math talent class, and last year he was only seventeen, just two and a half years older than Qiao Yu.

And he was also the only full score gold medalist globally in the 61st IMO.

So, to enjoy preferential treatment at Huaxia’s top universities, he must demonstrate his unique value. Or rather, he needs to show that he has abilities that other similarly outstanding students do not possess, so that the professors at these elite universities can see his potential.

In this regard, Qiao Yu had also done self-analysis in his spare time and had summarized some points by integrating the views of the good guy and Old Xue toward him.

For instance, he has a super strong self-learning ability and an extraordinary ability in mathematical derivation.

In layman’s terms, it’s imagination.

Just like when he was solving the equation Old Xue posted on the forum, he used some methods that had actually been proven in previous papers.

Even though Qiao Yu had not read those papers at the time, he just relied on those scattered information he found in online videos to piece things together. He managed to prove those theories himself, applied them flexibly to the example, and then solved the equation.

There were some ingenious parts that even Old Xue admitted he hadn’t thought of using those known mathematical tools in such a way.

Additionally, he’s extremely creative.

This is Old Xue’s evaluation, and it is also the aspect that Old Xue appreciates the most in Qiao Yu!

According to this Yujiang University professor, what Qiao Yu lacks now is sufficiently in-depth and systematic learning of those specialized knowledge.

Once he makes up for this shortcoming, given his mathematical insight and creative mathematical thinking model, he might create many new mathematical tools to solve numerous pending number theory problems in the current mathematical world.

This evaluation is undoubtedly extremely high.

Because when Xue Song was talking to him, he prefaced it with: "Not afraid of you becoming arrogant to say..."

Also, because of this sentence from Xue Song, Qiao Yu specifically went to look up what it meant to create new mathematical tools. Then he understood...

For example, Gaussian elimination method, Newton’s method, Leibniz Integration Method, Laplace Transform, Fourier Transform... and so on. In short, these methods were discovered by these super-genius mathematicians, and before they were discovered, no one had thought that mathematics could be played with like that.

This indeed is not fearing his arrogance.

Old Xue’s implication might be that his name will be written in textbooks in the future.

Alright, in fact, Old Xue didn’t mean it that way. After all, some new methods are not named after people, but Qiao Yu is a newbie in mathematics. As everyone knows, novices in any trade often have blind confidence, and some novices even have inexplicable good luck.

Qiao Yu is probably that type of newcomer.

Having become determined to make a stunning debut, Qiao Yu has been truly working hard during this period.

He worked so hard that when the gold medal prize from the Little Alibaba Mathematics Competition came into his account, he didn’t have time to celebrate, let alone to squander it. He even directly refused the special invitation from Little Alibaba to attend the award ceremony.

The person notifying him over the phone said that this opportunity was rare, not only to see the world in Xiao Zhou but also to have a prominent figure present the award in person. They also mentioned that it only took up the weekend, and if there were make-up classes at school, they could request leave for Qiao Yu in Little Alibaba’s name.

But after Qiao Yu asked in the three-person friend group and found out that Yu Yongjun and Yu Wei had also been invited, he felt that this opportunity didn’t seem so rare anymore and decided it would be better to stay at school in his exclusive study room and continue working on his paper.

So he made up his mind not to go.

After Yu Wei learned that he wasn’t going, he also directly refused Little Alibaba’s invitation.

Little Fatty was initially thinking of taking this opportunity to visit Xiao Zhou again.

But after finding out that Qiao Yu and Yu Wei were not going, he abandoned this shameful idea, deciding to stay at school to continue practicing problems to prepare for the national competition just in case.