Top Student at Their Peak

Just by casually thinking, Qiao Yu can come up with a multitude of research directions, and each direction can address an independent problem or tool, all of which are indispensable.

Moreover, he has ample reason to categorize them this way. Because putting all these propositions into a single paper would be too large! It would be less conducive to dissemination.

Separating them would make them appear concise, and other mathematicians could more accurately find the literature they need when using it.

These propositions are enough to feed a large research team. Just like what he said to Old Xue before.

If one day he becomes a leader in the field of mathematics, controlling countless resources, but at the same time having two close people achieving similar success and there's only one position available, what should be done?

Qiao Yu's answer at the time was to make the cake bigger. Big enough so that everyone around feels they can't finish it, such a ridiculous problem wouldn't exist.

Of course, the cake also needs to match one's abilities. In the later stages, it can only be that those with ability can secure the research projects, and upon successful verification, they move up.

If they can't deliver, sorry, they would naturally be eliminated from the research team.

With this vast team conducting complex verifications for his theoretical framework, he can find time to complete the propositions Director Tian asked him to do before graduation.

For example, the Twin Prime Conjecture and the Riemann Conjecture.

Of course, Qiao Yu hasn't publicly revealed these ambitions. He hasn't even mentioned them to Director Tian or Elder Yuan, since the initial workload isn't that heavy and is relatively easy.

Currently, no one thinks this proposition can publish several top journal articles within a year.

In any case, Qiao Yu's plan is like this: the initial workload is smaller, and he can attract the academic community's interest through a few core theories and validation papers.

The subsequent unfolding of complex verification work will gradually let everyone know he intends to build the entire framework into a comprehensive and rigorous research system.

The further it progresses, the more difficult it becomes, but naturally, he will attract more remarkable collaborators. This will be a long-term process and also a process of continuous integration of resources.

He just needs to ensure that the whole process is healthy competition and development.

As for the purpose of making this long-term plan...

Actually, the reason is straightforward. Everyone knows Qiao Yu is a person with extreme talent, but in fact, they don't quite understand that Qiao Yu's talent is not limited to mathematics or even science.

It's more that he excels at observing and summarizing everything in life and has the determination to either not do something or do it to the extreme.

For example, Qiao Yu understands very well that in the mathematics community, what he lacks most now isn't talent, papers, achievements, or even those miscellaneous awards, but qualifications and depth.

After all, he is confident of obtaining other honors while he is still young, but qualifications and depth are different, generally only filled gradually by time.

His mentor Tian Yanzhen, his grand mentor Yuan Zhengxin, and even Lott Degen, the father-in-law of that man, Michael Eis, and those big names, their word is law not just because of their honors.

It's also because their students are spread across universities and research institutes worldwide. Many of their excellent students have also become big names in mathematics...

Journal editors and even chief editors, various awards, members of scientific fund review committees, heads of research teams in universities and research institutes.

It's like a net that consolidates these people into an apparently loose but actually interest-aligned entity. Whenever needed, they can often burst with enormous energy.

Qiao Yu can't wait that long.

Waiting for him to graduate, become a professor, then train students, and then wait for the students he trained to grow...

By then, he would already be old!

Gradually building this theoretical framework, trying to bring a group of people who already have a certain voice in the academic world into his fold, be they domestic or international...

Everyone's core interests are aligned. After all, by leveraging Qiao Yu's topics, their voice becomes stronger.

Next, it's simple. Just a few years, and those around him will all become his amplifiers, and even if he speaks softly, it will be deafening. That's true power.

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Of course, all of the above is just Qiao Yu's long-term vision, and he doesn't need to consider so much at the moment.

At least tending to all the members within the research group would be something he would do at eighteen. It's more than a year away, so he still has plenty of time to learn.

The only thing recently bothering him is that while everyone is busy and fulfilled, Elder Yuan oddly arranged for Qiao Xi to go on a trip during the National Day holiday.

Yes, a trip in the literal sense, and it's a vacation trip, the type that joins the hustle and bustle everywhere.

The reason was the original belief that Qiao Xi's life was too simple and dull, and not very good at communicating with people. More outings and contacting people might improve it.

Qiao Xi actually went...

Well, anyway, considering Qiao Xi hadn't gone out to have fun, life indeed should have a balance of work and rest.

All in all, the National Day holiday passed quickly, and Qiao Yu was called to the office by his mentor again.

"The date for this year's Mathematics Society academic annual meeting is set, from the 2nd to the 6th of next month. You are scheduled to deliver a sixty-minute invited report for the second session on the morning of the 4th, representing Yanbei University."

The indisputable tone directly left Qiao Yu at a loss.

"No, Director Tian, um... what should I talk about in the sixty-minute report?" Qiao Yu asked instinctively.