Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 556: 327

Zhao Yi really had the intention of reducing the budget for applying for mathematics projects, mainly because he thought the funding side was too enthusiastic, making him feel somewhat embarrassed.

Mathematics projects don’t require much budget. He rarely attends large academic conferences and thus doesn’t even have expenses for flight tickets or hotels. The highest expense would probably be for subscribing to a few math journals? And the meal expenses during his serious thinking process?

These should also be considered as costs, right...

Anyway, in the process of carrying out the project, there were not many places where a lot of money was spent. An application for tens of thousands of budget was sufficient, most of which went into his own pockets. The million from Fermat’s Last Theorem last time just sat in his bank account, and not a cent was used.

Of course.

If you measure the value of mathematical achievements, they definitely far exceed the budget. But the attitude of the funding side has always been good. They have always approved quickly, and the budget is only ever increased, not reduced, so there’s no need to keep asking for a higher budget.

In fact, five hundred thousand isn’t much to Zhao Yi, as he has several sources of personal income.

For example, the most basic salary. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

Being a second-level professor at the School of Sciences and a researcher at the Biomedical Research Institute, he gets paid two salaries, both of which are lucrative. His monthly income is approximately 40,000, but the advantage of the state job is that the benefits are very good. Just the ’gold’ in ’insurance and pension’, if taken out separately, would be considered a ’high salary’.

Besides the basic salary, high-level research personnel also have bonuses. Bonuses are often tied to project results. For example, in work at the Biomedical Research Institute, the more project outcomes, the higher the bonus will be. The amount of bonuses he received was even higher than his salary. Taking into account only the basic salary and bonuses, he was already making over a million a year.

In addition, he had several project funds that were directly left over. The redundant funds can be said to be his.

Moreover, he also has some other income, such as patent royalties from the digital transmission technology he developed in collaboration with Terence Tao. This part of the income is also quite high and easily exceeds the combined total of salary and bonuses.

He also has hefty book royalty income. "Zhao’s Screening Method" sold very well, arguably reaching the pinnacle for technical books, and was used as teaching material by some universities and even world-famous schools. Both domestic and overseas book royalty income is very considerable.

What Zhao Yi is thinking about now is the last source of income, writing a book not only gained worldwide recognition but also brought continuous copyright income, which is a quite fulfilling thing.

Of course.

Writing a book is very difficult and bothersome.

Now Zhao Yi is experiencing the difficulties and troubles of writing a book. He repeatedly explained to Qian Hong the mathematical logic of the ’Boundary Theory’, especially the parts that are not easy to understand in the middle. He talked about it several times.

He talked until he was hoarse.

Qian Hong indeed is a doctoral student, but she is working towards a computer science PhD. She probably has never thought deeply about mathematics. The lack of basic knowledge makes it hard for her to understand complex analyses.

Zhao Yi finds this very frustrating. He stares at Qian Hong, deep in thought, and is suddenly reminded of a phrase that is really accurate...

The scope, it’s really big!

"Ahem!"

"What are you doing!" Qian Hong looked up and noticed Zhao Yi’s expression, and said angrily, "keep talking! Keep talking!"

"I’ve already explained it several times, this little thing, you..."

"I didn’t ask you to continue explaining that, and I don’t need to understand it. Didn’t you write down the process? That’s good enough. Just add some detailed notes. You do this yourself!"

"... Okay."

Zhao Yi felt helpless. He regretted giving up on Qian Hong and sighed, "Writing a book is so hard!"

Upon hearing this, Qian Hong grinded her teeth and retorted, "It’s me who’s writing the book, not you. What’s so difficult for you? What’s so difficult?" She was really angry, mainly because she didn’t understand after listening several times. She felt her intelligence was belittled.

But what could she do?

Compared to the freak before her, even a professor from the School of Sciences would feel belittled to death.

...

After simplifying Fermat’s Last Theorem, Zhao Yi didn’t focus on Fermat’s Last Theorem as the outside world predicted, but put it aside for the time being.

First, he had no clear approach. Inspiration was more important in problem-solving, and finding an approach through deep thought was very, very difficult.

Second, he also wanted to take a break and enjoy a normal campus life, rather than researching the next subject immediately after completing one.

Zhao Yi didn’t want to define himself as a ’workhorse.’ He preferred a more relaxed lifestyle, doing research only when he felt like it, instead of forcing himself to carry out one research after another.

In the entire month of March, he didn’t think about Fermat’s Last Theorem. Ideas about particles, space, M Theory, and other physics were completely put aside by him. Even the assigned ’Performance Sharing Theory’ was selectively forgotten. He just organized the data and put it on his computer desktop to remind himself that he still had this task.

The only thing he did was biomedical research, that is, studying the molecular process of the AIDS virus’s toxic gene Vif hijacking the protein that functions inside the body.

Ai Lixin and Zhang Wei were the main force in this experiment. Yan Yi also played a small role. Her main job was to calculate data.