Free Web NovelChapter 707: Chapter 390: About to shake the world!
The public lecture on particle boundary theory took place the following night. Unlike undergraduate elective courses, this class had no credits or enrollment restrictions. Anyone interested could attend. Given the difficulty the course had been advertised with on the official school website, only a few undergraduates had shown up to join in on the fun. The majority of the attendees were master’s and doctoral students from the School of Sciences.
The large classroom in the graduate building could accommodate four hundred people. With many faculty members from the School of Sciences present, the room was almost full.
The lecture time had arrived.
Zhao Yi pushed open the back door and walked in. The classroom erupted in warm applause.
Those who were taking the class showed strong interest, especially the graduate and doctoral students focused on mathematics and physics. Their knowledge in the field had nearly reached the boundary, and they were curious to know the level of difficulty of the world’s top-tier particle mathematics.
Zhao Yi was not presenting a professional report, or trying to stump the students, he was just offering a public lecture on particle boundary theory.
"Let’s start with a simple understanding of what particle boundary theory is!"
"Remember at the very beginning, when my paper was published, many referred to it as the ’theory of energy’ or ’energy mathematical theory’ since it dealt with energy framework."
"But that’s not the case anymore, as the concept of mass has been introduced it can be called ’mass-energy theory’, of course, in a microscopic sense."
"But we still start with the properties of particles and deduce the energy framework..."
"The most basic is the distribution of prime numbers..."
In the first half of the lecture, he discussed what the particle boundary theory is and what it could help investigate. He then started to introduce the basic energy framework mathematical system. When it came to the mathematical system, things got a little complex. The most basic distribution of prime numbers involved the content of space curve functions. Along with a series of calculations using limits and derivatives, it was somewhat difficult to keep up with his line of thinking.
Comparatively speaking, Zhao Yi was discussing the basic and simpler parts of the overall mathematical framework of the theory. Graduate students who had not conducted in-depth theoretical research found it difficult to follow and understand his line of thought. However, they did understand a part of it and felt like they were on the verge of fully grasping it if they tried a little harder.
This made the students attending the lecture very serious.
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Zhao Yi’s mathematical logic involved in particle theory caused headaches for top mathematicians around the world. If they could understand it by working hard, what was stopping them from doing so?
In fact, what most students didn’t know was that Zhao Yi’s course had a part of the content that was ’simple’ and a part that was ’slightly complex’. His aim was not to get students to fully understand the mathematical framework of the theory, but to guide them to understand a part of it, and kindle their interest.
The level of difficulty was crucial.
The content of the public class had been carefully designed by Hu Zhibin. Despite not having achieved much in his research in mathematical theory, he had published research papers that were like perfunctory work. However, his mathematical ability could not be doubted. He had spent considerable time basically understanding the particle boundary theory. He even understood the subsequent supersymmetry analysis and mass-energy structure theory. More importantly, Hu Zhibin was a highly qualified teacher. He could clearly grasp the knowledge level of the students and knew what level of difficulty was most attractive.
If a class was too difficult and seemed bewildering to the students, they would undoubtedly be discouraged and lose interest.
Neither could it be too easy.
They would find it uninteresting to listen to, which could affect their appraisal of the course.
Of course.
The mathematical system of boundary theory could not possible be simplified to a level where ordinary graduates would find it easy.
Hence, the control over the level of difficulty was the key to the success of a course. With Hu Zhibin as the teaching assistant and responsible for preparing all the content of the course, Zhao Yi felt much more relaxed. Particularly noticing that most of the students below the stage were listening very attentively, he even experienced a sense of achievement in teaching.
Teaching and research, after all, are two different things. It is not necessary for those who understand education to be good at research, and researchers may not necessarily be qualified teachers.
Zhao Yi’s public lecture on boundary theory was a success.
This success made Zhao Yi feel that giving a few more such lectures would be a good idea. It was way better than teaching undergraduates the basic knowledge that easily put them to sleep.
The end of the term approached.
During the last two weeks before the winter holiday, most of the time was dedicated to exams. Zhao Yi also sat for the exams and felt he achieved good results. What relieved him was that since Zhou Zhengbin’s last visit, no one from the School of Sciences came to talk about the particle mathematics research center.
Had they... given up?
...
The School of Sciences had indeed given up.
At least, Dean Zhou Zhengbin had given up. After explaining the situation over a phone call to the relevant department in the Bureau of Science and Technology, he simply gave up worrying about the issue.
The Bureau of Science and Technology didn’t react immediately after receiving the news, but two weeks later, an international news update made them rekindle the idea of a particle mathematics research center.
It was news from Princeton University.
The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton publicly announced the establishment of a dedicated team, called the ’Mass-Energy Structure Theory Research Team’, specifically to research and expand upon the mass-energy structure theory and carry out subsequent research in integrating mass into the particle boundary theory.
The news was not a big deal internationally, but the theoretical department where Li Zhenhua worked was greatly frustrated.
The world’s top mathematics center, comprised of top mathematicians, had specially set up a team to research Zhao Yi’s latest theory. Yet domestically, there seemed to be no relevant support for particle mathematics research?
’Domestically’ referred to them!
The department had another small internal meeting. Li Zhenhua immediately expressed his displeasure, "Even if we want to support particle mathematics, we need a reason. Without Zhao Yi steering efforts, who can we turn to? Even if he specialized in mathematical research, why must he work on biomedical research?"
"Biomedical, what can he research? Does studying medicine mean he could win the Nobel prize?"
Li Zhenhua had barely finished speaking when he heard a commotion at the door. He walked out and asked, "What’s going on? What’s the matter? What are you yelling about?"
"Director Li!"
A young man with glasses excitedly said, "Don’t you know? Our country’s Biomedical Research Institute, the one at Yanhua University, or should I say... Zhao Yi, Zhao Yi, you know him, right?"
"I certainly do."
"Great! Great! His latest medical research results were published, and it’s about AIDS..."
The young man immediately took out an English magazine, flipped to the middle pages and handed it over, "Take a look at this."
"2CV...HIV...?" Li Zhenhua was somewhat puzzled.
"And this one!"
"Mutated...bacteria...Tianqing? This is a pinyin, right? HIV...what? I don’t understand English, just translate it for me!" Li Zhenhua said somewhat angrily.
"AIDS!"
The young man wasn’t bothered by Li Zhenhua’s attitude, he just excitedly shouted, "Zhao Yi’s research has solved AIDS. Just wait, it’s going to shake the world soon!"
