Top Student at Their Peak

No matter whether this application gets approved or not, the courage to write it has already surpassed 99% of mathematicians.

I didn't plan on its approval, so when filling in the team members, I was even more casual. I included everyone who could make a contribution. To be honest, it's not very meaningful, but it can help the rest of the team get familiar.

For example, Xue Song.

Unless you're a mathematician specializing in elementary number theory or specifically in Diophantus, you might not have heard of this name.

But appearing on such application materials can leave some impressions on the panel of experts, and they're very positive ones.

Xue Song appeared in Qiao Yu's application project team before. Last time, I didn't approve Qiao Yu, but the project actually succeeded. Xue Song shouldn't be underestimated.

Then next time Xue Song applies for a project, this name might trigger some memories, and then it might easily get approved...

Of course, this effect could also be negative.

But in Qiao Yu's view, now that Old Xue has the backing of Yanbei University, even a negative effect can be minimized.

After all, our own mentor isn't easy to bully. But what if there's a positive impact? The same goes for Qiao Xi...

In any case, whether it works out or not is another matter; let's first get familiar with some faces.

As for Senior Brother Chen, it's not necessary.

Recently, Senior Brother Chen has already become one of the hot figures in the academic field. He doesn't need any more exposure.

After all, his paper was published in Princeton University Press's "Mathematical Yearbook" at the same time as Qiao Yu's. After seeing Qiao Yu's proof, people would surely want to check out some auxiliary verification processes.

So Qiao Yu directly kicked Chen Zhuoyang out of the Riemann Conjecture research team—let this guy flaunt his romance...

As for the performance required to provide a mathematical calculation platform for the vast laboratory, it was already prepared.

After spending an hour and a half filling out the application for the national base project seriously yet half-heartedly, Qiao Yu sent it along with the requirements to Elder Yuan.

The elderly responded to him on WeChat with a "received." So considerate!

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Using the Public Calendar as a reference standard, when the Lunar New Year is late, the school often starts earlier than usual. Yanbei University is no exception.

The eleventh day of the Lunar New Year, which is February 27, was the start of the semester.

If Spring Festival is in January, you can usually celebrate the Lantern Festival at home before the winter break ends. Of course, that's unavoidable.

After all, the teaching content and quality requirements are set every year. Moreover, the summer vacation is based on the public calendar. It can't be delayed too late.

If the semester starts in March, the teaching tasks will become tight.

As for the talent class students, they officially entered the second semester after the learning process began.

As usual, Qiao Yu applied to take several courses' exams early at the start of the semester. Besides the major courses, he applied for several general courses this time, such as university physics, university English, university Chinese, and ideological politics, etc...

He has pretty much memorized everything that needs to be memorized. In any case, these courses don't require high scores; getting credits is enough.

High GPA or high scores might be useful for other students, especially if they intend to apply to prestigious foreign universities after graduation, requiring a good-looking transcript.

But Qiao Yu has surpassed the stage where he needs exam scores to prove himself. Not to mention he never intended to study abroad, even if he did, no one would care about his transcript.

Famous people ultimately have privileges. It may seem unfair, but it's actually the biggest unfairness in the world.

Letting ordinary people compete with geniuses like Qiao Yu is actually the greatest unfairness. For instance, after Qiao Yu participated in last year's IMO, the IMO committee announced a new rule on their official website this year.

"In principle, students who have won awards in renowned global conferences or have papers published in leading SCI journals after passing the initial exam and review in national math competitions should not participate in the competition again. If they must participate, their scores will not be included in the team's total score."

Obviously, this rule seems unfair to the next genius like Qiao Yu, but most people find it fair.

No choice; for many of last year's IMO participants, the damage caused by Qiao Yu is hard to repair. It's one thing to be outperformed in the competition, but being utterly crushed, who can stand it?

For the committee, issuing such an announcement is also an explanation to the other participating countries.

Before, we didn't anticipate this, so we were taken advantage of; now that we thought of it, we immediately patched it.

In short, the exams arranged specifically for Qiao Yu began and ended quietly, just like last semester.

The results weren't publicly announced, but Qiao Yu was quite satisfied, although some course grades were just passable. However, he got all the credits he needed.

Nobody's perfect. You can't expect him to excel in research and also get high scores in general courses. After all, he barely attended any classes.

Not to mention, two days before the exam, he even went to the computing institute to give a lecture to a group of researchers!

Apart from exams, his complex calculation platform project was also progressing smoothly. Facts prove that as long as the money is in place, this area is indeed very effective.

The knowledgeable teachers at the school directly found a well-known domestic supplier providing comprehensive solutions.

After determining the computer room location and paying the deposit, three engineers were sent over to survey the site, create a design plan, and once the equipment arrived, they worked around the clock to install and debug the equipment...

Honestly, if Qiao Yu hadn't caught a cold, this should've been the perfect start to the new semester.

But these matters aren't subject to human will. The good news is that it wasn't just Qiao Xi who was worried this time, or rather, it didn't even get to the point where Qiao Xi needed to worry.

Qiao Yu just got up late. Old Xue happened to have a question and found that Qiao Yu had a fever, immediately reported the situation to Tian Yanzhen.

Although Qiao Yu repeatedly stated that it was probably just a common cold, most likely due to going out to throw away trash on a whim last night, getting something to eat, and being too lazy to climb the stairs to the third floor, causing a chill; as long as he sleeps well, he will be fine.

But obviously, his explanation was useless. Anyway, in a daze, he was called by his mentor to a car directly to the school hospital and then given a full-body checkup.

Not until it was confirmed that there was no major health issue, just an ordinary bacterial cold, did they feel relieved and take Qiao Yu, along with a bunch of prescriptions from the doctor, directly to Huaqing to stay with Qiao Xi.

No choice, the child needs care, but there's only one room at Yanbei, while Huaqing happens to have a two-bedroom apartment.

The immediate effect was that Qiao Yu didn't need to pretend to be strong this time. After all, his own mother was not only not concerned for him but even had some disdain...

"I was attending class properly, got called back to take care of you, and I thought it was a serious illness! Turns out it was just a small cold? How fragile are you?"

"Do you think I wanted this? I told Director Tian, but he wasn't assured, what could I do? The hospital took several tubes of my blood and even did a brain CT."

Qiao Yu cried out in frustration, but was completely ignored by Qiao Xi.

"Fragile is fragile, nothing to be embarrassed about. Just stay in bed these days, be good."