My Unexpected Career Journey Chapter 1

Xiaguo, Zhonghu Province, Shaqiu City, April 15, 2022, Zhonghu University, Graduate Dormitory!

A handsome young man about twenty-two years old was sitting at the desk with an open laptop in front of him.

His name is Alex Ye, and he is a first-year graduate student majoring in basic mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at Zhonghu University.

At this moment, he was stunned, as if he had seen something that shattered his worldview.

"Oh my god...what is this?"

【Congratulations on obtaining the Xueba System】

"The Great Country Academic Master System?" Alex Ye's eyes flickered as he looked at the text in front of him: "Do I still need the Academic Master System? I am an academic master myself, okay?"

Zhonghu University is a 211, 985 university, a double first-class university, and one of the top 50 universities in the country.

Whether it is undergraduate or graduate students, students who can be admitted to this university are all academic masters.

Alex Ye received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Zhonghu University.

The key point is that he is a recommended student, commonly known as guaranteed admission to graduate school.

There are more than 300 people in the entire mathematics department, and more than 30 of them are recommended students, and he is one of them.

Only the best students among the best students can become recommended students.

[The following is a brief introduction to this system]

【The Great Country Scholar System is...】

"Hey!" Alex Ye was a little amused: "This system is really useless!"

Alex Ye really thought that this system was useless. He had never seen such a rubbish system.

Although he had not read many online novels, he knew that the systems in online novels could allow the host to go to heaven and earth and be omnipotent.

A grain of dust can fill the ocean, a blade of grass can cut off the sun, moon and stars, and the world can be turned upside down in the blink of an eye.

But this system helps the host to burst out with inspiration by continuously learning and improving knowledge reserves.

The more knowledge you have, the more inspiration you will have.

"What's the use of you if you're so useless?"

[Task: None

Physical fitness:

IQ:

Function: Comprehensive:

grade:

Points: 0]

System tasks, as the name implies, are tasks that the host can create according to its own needs.

The integration of functions means that all the host's knowledge reserves can be integrated, making the application of knowledge more handy.

The higher the level of functionality, the easier it is to apply the knowledge.

After establishing the task, functions can be applied more efficiently, and functions can selectively apply knowledge.

When no task is created, the function is a hexagonal application. After the task is created, it is a single-sided application.

At a low level, the effect of a hexagonal application may not be noticeable, but the effect of a single-sided application will be noticeable.

"It's really simple!" Alex Ye chuckled and shook his head.

"Alex Ye!" A tall and thin young man walked in from outside, sweating profusely. He was Alex Ye's roommate, named Ian Zhuang.

Ian Zhuang said: "Have you received the instructor's message?"

Alex Ye said: "What information? I haven't read it yet!"

As he spoke, he picked up the phone beside him and saw the message from his tutor on WeChat, so he clicked it.

"Thesis!" Ian Zhuang picked up the water cup on the table and gulped it down. After putting the cup down and sitting down, he said, "Our school year is almost over, and our instructor asked us to write a thesis."

"Didn't your advisor tell you that when you were a graduate student?"

"We have to write a paper at the end of our first year of graduate school, one paper per semester in our second year, and a graduation thesis in our third year."

"Oh my god..." Alex Ye shouted while staring at the phone screen.

"What's wrong?" Ian Zhuang looked at Alex Ye in confusion.

Alex Ye looked at Ian Zhuang with a sad face and said, "My advisor said that my thesis must meet the requirements for admission to CSCD."

SCI is the International Science Citation Index, and CSCD is the Chinese Science Citation Index.

Although the paper requirements of CSCD are much lower than those of SCI, it is still difficult for graduate students to submit papers to CSCD.

Generally, graduate students from C9 universities must have a CSCD thesis, and Alex Ye's supervisor required him to be on par with C9 universities.

Ian Zhuang was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Look how good the instructor is to you and how he takes special care of you."

Alex Ye looked depressed: "Do you think he is playing a trick on me?"

Seeing Alex Ye was very depressed, Ian Zhuang did not laugh at him, but comforted him: "Don't worry, you don't know the personality of your advisor. It doesn't matter if you can't get into CSCD. Just say something nice to him, treat him to a meal, and after a few glasses of wine, he will agree to anything you want."

"That's true!" Alex Ye's sadness turned into joy.

They have been with their tutor for nearly a year and they know his personality well.

Sharp tongue but soft heart!

"Where are Mason Zhou and Blake Xu?" Alex Ye asked.

There are four people in the graduate student dormitory, Mason Zhou and Blake Xu are the other two.

"I just saw them." Ian Zhuang had an expression of envy and jealousy on his face: "These two guys are shopping with their girlfriends!"

Alex Ye curled his lips: "They are not focused on their studies, how can they fall in love at school!"

"That's right!" Ian Zhuang said angrily, "With their attitude towards study, I curse them to never be able to write a paper."

"Add me one." Alex Ye said.

Two single guys... Ian Zhuang turned around and opened his computer: "Let's start preparing for the paper and think about the topic. We also need to report it to our supervisor!"

Before choosing the topic of the paper, they should report it to their supervisor, who will guide them on how to write it.

Alex Ye opened Arxiv: "Let me take a look too."

Open Arxiv and search for mathematics and basic mathematics by category.

Arxiv is a global open website that stores preprint papers from all over the world, covering multiple fields such as computer science, mathematics, and physics.

In order to prevent plagiarism, many scholars post their papers on this website before submitting them to academic journals.

After it is posted, anyone can view it. During this period, the scholars who published the paper can modify or delete it at will.

Therefore, Arxiv is also known as the site-occupying artifact.

"Weak set theory, new operations on set-theoretic algebra, a set theory in weak predicate logic..."

Countless papers are published on Arxiv every day, and many people's papers may be deleted after being posted for a period of time.

The main reasons are that errors were discovered in the paper, the research was interrupted, or it failed to pass the review of the academic journal.

Alex Ye is now reading a paper on set theory. His supervisor studies set theory, so naturally his subordinates also study set theory.

There were many scholars in the Xia Dynasty who studied set theory, but very few of them had made great achievements, no more than twenty people in the country, and his mentor was one of them.

Set theory belongs to mathematical logic, and the most famous one is Hilbert's first problem.

Cantor conjectured that there is no other cardinality between the cardinality of countable sets and the cardinality of real numbers, which is the famous continuum hypothesis.

In 1938, Gödel proved the consistency of the continuum hypothesis and the world-recognized Zermelo-Frenkel set theory axiom system, and published it in 1940.

In 1963, Paul Cohen, a mathematician from the United States, used the forcing method to prove that the continuum hypothesis cannot be derived from Zermelo-Frankel set theory (whether or not it contains the axiom of choice).

It has been 84 years, and no one has been able to completely solve this problem.

After reading four or five papers, Alex Ye felt a little tired and had no inspiration for writing a paper.

"Do you want to try the system?"

After that, he created a task in the system.

【Task: Publish a CSCD mathematics paper

Details: The paper is required to be on set theory

schedule:

Reward: 5 points]

A few minutes later!

"Some new axioms of set theory?"

"This solution doesn't work!"

"Your solution cannot solve the axiom of weaker separation!"

"We must introduce a substitution axiom to solve this problem!"

"Also, your Axiom 2 does not contain a predicate variable!"

...

Alex Ye's mind seemed to be enlightened, all his knowledge seemed to be burning, and ideas came to him one after another.

"Fcuk..." he suddenly screamed in amazement.

"What's wrong?" Ian Zhuang looked at Alex Ye in confusion.

"It's okay!" Alex Ye shook his head, surprised: "What did I just do?"

He checked the author of the paper and found that it was a doctoral student at the University of Tokyo.

"Oh my god, I'm actually supervising a doctoral student's thesis at the University of Tokyo."

"this..."

At this moment, he felt that many mathematical ideas appeared in his mind, as if his eight extraordinary meridians had opened up, and many things that he did not understand in the past, he now understood.

It’s not that he has acquired more knowledge, but that he didn’t know how to apply the knowledge he already knew, let alone how to combine knowledge with other knowledge.

It was as if he held the wood in his left hand and the lit match in his right hand.

In the past, he only knew that one of them was wood and the other was a match.

But he didn't know how to use it, and he didn't know that if the two came into contact, they could ignite the firewood.

Now, he knew it all.

Then he looked at the system.

【Task: Publish a CSCD mathematics paper

Details: The paper is required to be on set theory

schedule:

Reward: 5 points]

Alex Ye was shocked: "This system is really awesome!

"If that's the case, I might actually be able to write a CSCD paper."

Thinking of this, Alex Ye took a deep breath.

He looked at Ian Zhuang and said with a smile: "Ian Zhuang, I'll give you a second author position for this CSCD paper. Do you want it?"

He is no longer worried about CSCD. With his current abilities, he should, maybe, be able to write a CSCD paper.

A paper has a first author, second author, third author, fourth author, fifth author and corresponding author. Generally, the corresponding author is responsible for guiding the writing of the paper, the first author is responsible for writing the paper, and the other second, third, fourth and fifth authors are just nominal authors.

Therefore, in a paper, the first author is the most important, followed by the corresponding author. The second, third, fourth, and fifth authors are not very important.

Of course, the quality of the paper also depends on it. If it is a paper on the eight conjectures of mathematics, even if you are just named on it, it is a great honor and countless people will know you.

Ian Zhuang smiled and said, "You should enjoy it yourself. I am not lucky enough to enjoy a CSCD paper."

He thought Alex Ye was joking, so he joked along too.

Alex Ye shook his head and thought: "I really want to take you flying."