Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 474: Chapter 286: Hasn’t It Just Started?

Science Academy.

Institute of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Institute of Applied Mathematics.

Liu Tong’en has got together several academicians and professors in the field of mathematics to study and understand the theoretical project submitted by Zhao Yi, but their collective progress is not as they had hoped.

Initially, Liu Tong’en thought that it had something to do with the fact that the personnel were hastily assembled.

It couldn’t be helped.

The national positioning system is a monumental project, with plans to launch dozens to hundreds of satellites, a task that would certainly take more than ten years.

The country has been consistently investing, striving for perfection.

During the project development, there’s bound to be certain subprojects, ’Information Compression Technology Theoretical Research’ project, which was only proposed in February this year. It mainly arose from the observation that the satellite positioning and imaging transmission algorithms were dragging down the overall performance of the satellites.

"If we could improve the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of digital compression technology, it would surely greatly enhance the performance of positioning and image transmission."

Once this point was raised, it immediately caught the attention of the higher authorities.

Just because it was taken seriously by the superiors doesn’t mean it can be achieved. The problem of academic imbalances in our country becomes evident. Finding experts in applied mathematics

is easy, but finding those who can complete a mathematical theory is very difficult.

Such a mathematical theory project also poses challenges for a specialized project team to accomplish.

The higher-ups decided to find specific individuals to work on it. Whether they could pull it off was one thing; all they could do was to try their best. If they could make a small difference, that alone would be worthwhile.

Liu Tong’en is the Deputy Designer and he has brought on board two people in a row.

One of them is Professor Chen Enping from Jiaotong University, an expert in theoretical mathematics, who has achieved notable results. He also holds a doctorate in computer science and works on the side at a software center. Around forty, he still has the energy to complete a theoretical research project.

The other one is Zhao Yi.

From the time the project was proposed by the superiors to the present, only half a year has passed. For a project that may take several years, half a year’s time is simply too short. So short that Liu Tong’en hasn’t even assembled the team, let alone establish a dedicated study group.

Therefore, upon seeing the project report submitted by Zhao Yi, Liu Tong’en must report to his superiors, find someone to study and review the project specially, and the institute has also been assembled on a temporary basis. All of its members are researchers from the Institute of Mathematics at the Science Academy.

Included are one academician, two researchers, and five associate researchers. For any of them to serve as a regular-position researcher at the Institute of Mathematics, they would certainly have to be competent. However, their group research progress is slow, despite their understanding of the project report. And very quickly, they found the reason - specialty mismatch and excessive complexity.

"We should look for people from the software field, and those who research pure mathematics."

"A lot of it involves theoretical calculation and application. I research in complex mathematics, I haven’t studied the theoretical framework of applied mathematics."

"Right, we need to cooperate with experts in computers for joint research. Otherwise, we will make no progress."

"Will Zhao Yi be here soon?"

Several people all looked at Liu Tong’en.

Liu Tong’en, on the other hand, felt embarrassed. They were all experts from the Science Academy. Each individual was top-class in academia.

And yet, they were collectively struggling to understand a mathematical theory project report completed by someone else, which even contained numerous annotations.

If word got out, people probably wouldn’t believe it.

In fairness, they couldn’t help it; they all studied complex mathematics and applied mathematics, finding experts in mathematical theory was no walk in the park.

Even at the Institute of Mathematics at the Science Academy, those who researched pure mathematics, number theory, and applied mathematics theory were in the minority.

The country’s academic establishment tends to put emphasis on real-world achievements.

For fields like number theory, pure mathematics, system theory of applied mathematics, etc., it is extremely hard to produce results. For someone who only researches these fields, it would be nearly impossible to produce results in a short time. Without results, it’s even hard to hold down a job, let alone to have a stable research post. Without a stable research job, how could they continue their research?

Now, most of the people doing research in mathematical theory are over fifty, almost all are professors who can be said to have no desire for personal gain, or even old academicians.

However, the truth is, the age bracket of 25 to 40 is when it is easiest for scientific research to yield results. For people over 50 to research and produce achievements is an extremely challenging task. Their innovation capacity is far from that of the younger generation because they are old.

Innovative ability is precisely what cutting-edge scientific research calls for.

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Zhao Yi is also about to leave for Sanhe City. He has stayed home for two days, partly because he hoped to rest a bit more.

Also, he was waiting for the robot core components to arrive, which Xu Chao helped transport by air. freewebnoveℓ.com

Before, Professor Liu Hemin had invited him to the Science Academy and even offered to help install the latest evolutionary algorithm program onto his robot. Zhao Yi hadn’t found the time to go yet.

Now the time has come.

Since he is heading to the Science Academy, it makes sense to upgrade the robot and learn about the evolutionary algorithm while he’s at it.

It will most likely only have basic functions, considering it’s a program that the Software Institute of the Science Academy can install, with many areas still not perfect.

However, that’s not a problem.

Once the program is installed, he can gradually modify and optimize it. When that time comes, the robot will become even more intelligent, capable of handling even more tasks.

Three days later.

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The sun at one o’clock is scorching..