"Teacher, has the selection for the math competition begun? Can I apply for this IMO?" Xu Chuan asked softly in the corridor.
"IMO? Are you planning to apply for both exams at the same time? Or are you not planning to participate in this competition?"
Tang Gaoyuan frowned and looked at Xu Chuan in surprise.
Although the training time of each country is different, for example, if they want to participate in these two events, they usually start selecting people in late August or early September, starting from the school, to the municipal level, to the provincial level, and finally to the national team.
Everyone has their own time.
But in the end, the world-class IMO and IPHO are held at basically the same time, both around mid-July every year.
Normally, if you participate in IMO, you will not be able to participate in IPHO, because your offline schedule will be very tight.
Moreover, a special teacher has to be allocated to accompany him during the transition. It is estimated that both national teams will not be very satisfied.
So normally, students who participate in IMO will not choose to participate in IPHO at the same time.
However, it is not unheard of to participate in IMO and IPHO at the same time. There have been students who have entered the training teams twice at the same time, but there has never been a case where they won awards in IMO and IPHO at the same time.
“Can I participate in IMO and IPHO at the same time?”
Xu Chuan looked at Teacher Tang in surprise, he really didn't know much about this.
Although I participated in IPHO three times in my previous life, the schedule and related matters were all taken care of by someone. Normally, the students who participated would just focus on training and studying for the exam.
At least that's what he did. Apart from things related to the training and exams, he knew very little about other things.
"OK."
Tang Gaoyuan nodded, frowned slightly and continued: "But the time will be very tight, and not every session can participate in both competitions at the same time. In some years, the math competition and the physical competition are at the same time. It depends.
examination time."
"However, I still recommend that you only participate in the physical competition. With the foundation from last year, I believe that as long as you perform stably this year, you will definitely get a medal."
Although students from Star City No. 1 Middle School participate in competitions such as IMO and IPHO every year, there are also students who have reached the World Championships and even won gold medals.
But a medal in an international sports competition is still a high honor. If you can win a gold medal, this is probably the highest award a high school student can get in high school.
If you have medals from IMO or IPHO competitions, even if they are not gold medals, just silver and bronze medals, or even glory awards, any university in the country will rush for them.
As his physics teacher, Tang Gaoyuan naturally did not want Xu Chuan to miss this honor.
In his opinion, Xu Chuan, who already entered the World Championships last year and won an individual gold medal, will definitely achieve better results by participating in the IPHO again this year.
After all, he has seen Xu Chuan's progress in this year. He is a genius, and with hard work, he is sure that his future achievements will not be low.
"Teacher Tang, I want to participate in both IMO and IPHO."
Xu Chuan said that he originally thought he would miss this year's IPHO, but he didn't expect that he could still participate in this operation at the same time.
If he could participate at the same time, he would naturally not quit.
Although it would be a bit of a bully to participate in IPHO with his current knowledge, the regret of not being able to get first place in IPHO three times in his previous life will definitely be made up for after his rebirth.
Tang Gaoyuan frowned again, but then let go and said with a smile:
"Okay, I've signed up the Wu Jing for you. For the Shu Jing, you might as well go find that old guy Song Kaiji and ask him to sign you up to enrich yourself."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment. He thought that Teacher Tang would insist on persuading him, and he was ready to continue fighting for it. Unexpectedly, he agreed.
In fact, Tang Gaoyuan didn't think much about it at all. When Xu Chuan proposed that he wanted to participate in IMO, he just thought he wanted to try mathematics.
After all, it wouldn't be a bad idea to go to Shujing to enrich his high school career. It doesn't matter whether he takes the college entrance examination or not. There are already schools vying for him.
If he wants, he doesn't even need to study in the senior year of high school. He can choose any university in China, and no school will refuse him.
And based on this kid's current level of math, there is a high probability that he will stop at the provincial team. If he takes the national exam, he will be in trouble. He won't be able to get into the national team, so it's almost as good as just playing.
Anyway, as long as he doesn't join the national team or participate in the winter camp training team, it won't have much impact on his future participation in IPHO.
It was with this idea in mind that I supported him to go.
...
After being stunned for a moment, Xu Chuan finally figured out the meaning of Tang Gaoyuan's words, and suddenly felt dumbfounded.
He went to IMO with the idea of winning a gold medal. Unexpectedly, in the eyes of Teacher Tang, he just wanted to go there to have fun and enrich his high school experience.
However, it is indeed normal to have such thoughts. After all, he is currently majoring in physics. The competitions and specialized training he participated in in the past were also prepared for various physical competitions. Although his math scores are not bad, they are definitely inferior to physics.
A big difference.
But he is not the same person now, he was reborn twenty years later.
Before his rebirth, although his math ability was very different from his physics ability, no matter how different the gap was, he could still kill most math professors instantly.
After all, mathematics and physics are not divided into different disciplines. In the process of studying physics, we often need to use a variety of mathematical tools.
Especially when studying the problem of proving the "Yang-Mills existence and mass gap", the mathematical tools used can be said to be the most cutting-edge in the mathematics world.
Therefore, although his mathematical ability is not as good as physics, it is definitely not too bad.
Of course, compared with those top mathematicians who purely study mathematics, such as Andrew Wiles, Pierre Deligne, G. Faltings and other super big names in mathematics, his mathematics is still not that bad.
Less.
However, it is definitely enough to participate in high school competitions like IMO. Maybe some basic high school and college mathematics are not very deep in memory now, but it is enough for him to watch these things again.
...
"Weicai, what about you? Do you also want to go to IMO?"
After agreeing with Xu Chuan to go to IMO, Tang Gaoyuan looked at Cao Weicai standing aside with a smile.
Although this kid is not as good as Xu Chuan, he is still a physics genius. But if he also wants to participate in the math competition, let’s see how he will deal with Song Kaiji’s old thing after he returns. The two best physics talents in the class have been led away to learn
How good is it in mathematics?
"No, no, Brother Chuan has the strength and can participate at the same time. A little kami like me can just participate in the animal competition honestly."
Seeing Teacher Tang staring at him with a smile, Cao Weicai felt like a light on his back and quickly waved his hand and replied.
His math skills are average and he couldn't even get into the provincial math team.
"Go back and prepare well, and try to come back with a medal from IPHO next year."
Hearing this, Tang Gaoyuan smiled, turned around and entered the classroom to invigilate the exam.
...
Tang Gaoyuan left, and Xu Chuan was about to return to the classroom when Cao Weicai's somewhat resentful voice came from behind.
"Brother Chuan, what should I do if you go to IMO? You agreed to stay and fly together with me, but why did you run away alone?"
As soon as these words came out, Xu Chuan staggered and almost fell to the ground without his left foot and right foot.
This is really a living treasure. Why, he went to participate in the math competition. Is it possible that he can’t participate in the physical competition?
Ignoring Cao Weicai, Xu Chuan continued walking towards the classroom. The moment he stepped into the classroom, an idea suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Maybe I should change my major subjects in this life."
In his previous life, he had almost reached the limit on the path of physics, but this limit was his own, not physical.
Because of mathematics and some reasons, when facing certain physical problems, we often fall into situations that are difficult to solve or even make progress.
Just like before his rebirth, after he developed superconducting materials, he studied controllable nuclear fusion technology for a period of time.
Theoretically, with the availability of superconducting materials, it should be possible to advance the magnetic confinement effect of controllable nuclear fusion reactors to a higher level.
But he has done experiments and found that after replacing the magnetic confinement mirror hoop made of superconducting material, the magnetic confinement effect has indeed improved a lot compared to before, but it has not improved to the level he predicted.
Magnetic mirrors made of superconducting materials cannot achieve perfect control of ultra-high temperature plasma in the reaction chamber.
Through the analysis of experimental data later, this should be related to the control system of ultra-high temperature plasma.
The so-called control system is based on a mathematical model of ultra-high temperature plasma.
Although ultra-high temperature plasma in a controllable nuclear fusion reaction chamber is theoretically a matter of physics, in fact you have to find a corresponding mathematical model to control it.
It was possible to establish a mathematical model for ultra-high temperature plasma, something no one had done even twenty years later.
Because this is one of the hardest parts of mathematics, the turbulence model.
Turbulence is a well-known chaotic system in mathematics. It is already difficult to establish a mathematical model for ordinary turbulence, let alone the tens of millions of degrees high temperature plasma in the controllable nuclear fusion reactor chamber.
In order to solve this problem, he sought cooperation with other mathematicians, such as Fields Medal winner Charles Louis Fefferman (Professor Fefferman) who also taught at Princeton University.
But the result is obviously not that good.
Many times, he can put forward some physically feasible theories, but perhaps Professor Fefferman's physical ability is not enough, and some theories or problems cannot be described in mathematical language.
After all, there are very few people who can be top-notch in mathematics and physics at the same time. His mentor Edward Witten should be one of them. After all, he is the first physicist in history to win the Fields Medal.
But unfortunately, his mathematical research direction is not in the field of turbulence.
Xu Chuan suddenly felt that his research direction should be changed in this life.
I majored in physics in my previous life, so maybe I should change my major to mathematics in this life.
There is no doubt that mathematics is the foundation of all subjects.
After all, the nature of science is induction and deduction, and mathematics is the tool of induction and deduction.
If a subject can be called science, it must be expressed using mathematics.
As long as you can use mathematics to build models, conduct induction and deduction, you will eventually be able to find certain internal laws for human use.
It can become the basis of all natural sciences, and this is why.
If he majored in mathematics in this life, even if he could not reach the achievements in physics in his previous life, considering his talent, he would definitely not be too bad.
When the mathematical ability is sufficient, it may be possible to take the physical ability that has almost stopped before rebirth and take another step forward.
As for the minor, materials are still a good choice.
Even though he developed top-notch materials such as superconducting materials and biological nanomaterials through materials physics and biophysics in his previous life, this is just a drop in the bucket compared to the future that materials can show.