Super God-Level Top Student

For instance, Lv Bei is currently sitting in the security room, staring at the quiet internal streets, his mind filled with all sorts of trivial thoughts.

In the small courtyard, four robots lay idly in the corner, too lazy to even roll their wheels around.

In the office on the second floor, several people are either frowning at their screens deep in thought, or busy writing and sketching on draft papers.

After all, no matter how much money Dou Dou has raised, it has little direct relevance to them, especially for the PhD students on the second floor. Graduating is now their foremost priority. First, they register at a temporary station as post-docs, then familiarize themselves with the Mathematics Research Institute, and when a position becomes available, they get transferred in directly — that's the proper way.

As for topics like academic centers and competing with the Nobel Prize...

For those in this building, there's simply no need to argue about such things.

They have witnessed how miraculous Qiao Ze can be and naturally do not doubt that the Qiaoze Natural Science Award could completely surpass the Nobel Prize.

Princeton, Berkeley, Juxier... ultimately, they are all destined to be surpassed by the Xilin Mathematics Research Institute.

This isn't blind confidence, but rather the content of the research series has proven that the person locked on the third floor every day possesses the capacity to push the entire discipline forward.

As for what that person upstairs is doing every day, no one asks and no one cares.

It's not that they aren't curious, but they really don't want to humiliate themselves again.

Even professors specializing in Qiao's Algebraic Geometry from the building half a kilometer away are visiting less and less, definitely not because they wouldn't want to communicate with the inventor of the whole theory.

Quoting Director Li Jiangao: "Currently, there are probably no more than ten people in the whole world who can understand what Qiao Ze is researching."

But everyone thinks that Director Li's assessment is still too conservative.

Being able to find five people who understand what Qiao Ze is researching would already be quite an achievement.

This world doesn't have that many geniuses. Just being able to advance Qiao's Algebraic Geometry a little further in their lifetime is enough for them to take pride in.

As for using these theories to solve a series of new problems, that's not something they are capable of doing.

At this moment, on the third floor, Li Jiangao is sitting face to face with Qiao Ze.

Of course, they are not discussing academic issues.

In fact, since Qiao Ze graduated with his PhD, Li Jiangao hasn't discussed any academic issues with him, nor even asked about which papers Qiao Ze might be publishing.

Even last time, when helping Qiao Ze convert his handwritten manuscript on the Goldbach conjecture into a paper, Li Jiangao did not seek to have a face-to-face academic discussion with Qiao Ze.

They are not on the same level; communication in this aspect is difficult.

For instance, when Qiao Ze mentions a theorem, it could take him hours to understand altogether how the theorem works, and even hours might not be enough; such discussions are neither efficient nor meaningful.

Just understanding a theorem doesn't allow one to grasp the entire framework of knowledge anyway.

Li Jiangao really doesn't want Qiao Ze to assign him a hundred papers to study again.

His current research work is progressing quite smoothly and he does not want to be discouraged.

However, apart from academic issues, there are also some other matters in the institute that need to be discussed with Qiao Ze. Li usually handles the minor issues himself, but if there's a decision he can't make, he will turn to Qiao Ze.

A lot has been happening in the outside world lately. Since the official announcement of the Crafoord Prize at the end of last month, Li Jiangao has been following the developments, the twists and turns of which even made this gentle, kind professor feel frightened at times.

In a series of actions, a senior academician across the ocean, a newly appointed Langley director, and reportedly multiple senior academicians from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences were threatened. Additionally, the stepping down of the previous Langley director was supposedly due to Dou Dou.

Everyone is into academia, how did it come to a bloody and violent situation?!

Honestly, Li Jiangao doesn't hope for Qiao Ze to get involved in these messy matters. Not just for safety reasons, but also because he doesn't want Qiao Ze to waste his energy on these trivial matters.

However, considering Dou Dou handles these external affairs, these worries are just suppressed in his heart.

The main issue they were discussing today concerns planning to establish a Supercomputing Center at the Mathematics Research Institute.

The Xilin Mathematics Research Institute is developing quickly, so quickly that the institute's professors are no longer satisfied with sharing the school's supercomputing center with other departments, laboratories, and research centers.

Pure mathematical theoretical research indeed doesn't require much supercomputing support, but after half a year of adjustment, those professors and PhD students at the Xilin Mathematics Research Institute have already tacitly chosen their interested directions.

Naturally, some have resolutely headed towards the application research of Qiao's Algebraic Geometry.

A very realistic choice.

Whether it is building various models and algorithms based on the foundational theories of Qiao's Algebraic Geometry or using them for simulation and emulation research, they are major consumers of computational power. Although the school has already given many preferential policies to these researchers at the Xilin Mathematics Research Institute, it clearly isn't enough to satisfy everyone.

But speaking of which, the school's supercomputing center is already running at overcapacity. Especially those key material laboratories have their computational power fully scheduled.

As for renting elsewhere...

Ever since the development of material models and Dou Dou, computational power nationwide has been very tight. A bunch of material laboratories need to conduct various experiments, consuming a significant portion of the computational power, in addition to developing open intelligence platforms and virtual worlds—all requiring a considerable amount of computational power.

The price has also been pushed to a quite exaggerated extent.

What's more infuriating is, it's not even a matter of having the money to rent sufficient computational power. External supercomputing centers prefer lending their computational power to users who use it on a long-term, stable basis.

For these researchers at the Xilin Mathematics Research Institute, when they need computational power, they often need it urgently, but once they get the results, they might not need it for a while, making them not the target customers.

Therefore, building a supercomputing center belonging to the institute is imperative.