My Unexpected Career Journey Chapter 8

After Alex Ye finished writing the paper, he spent another three days checking and revising it before posting it on Arxiv.

He then continued to revise the paper and posted it on Arxiv, just to prevent others from plagiarizing his paper. He could continue to revise it after posting it.

This is just a first draft, and it will be the final draft after many revisions.

With the experience of writing a paper last time, Alex Ye had a preliminary understanding of his own abilities, so this time he did not need the guidance of his tutor and wrote and published it by himself.

Of course, he is still a graduate student, and according to convention, the corresponding author must be his supervisor.

Only after he graduates and completes the paper on his own, can he be the corresponding author.

...

Nolan Gao clicked it and started watching from beginning to end.

Logan left quietly so as not to disturb Nolan Gao's studies.

The paper has a total of thirty pages and more than 40,000 words.

Nolan Gao first read it carefully, and after finishing the paper, he took out paper and did some calculations.

Science is different from other subjects. You can roughly understand what it means after reading it once.

Science subjects require detailed and precise calculations, especially mathematics.

But there are too many big names in the academic world, and there are also many people studying set theory, and someone has already calculated it ahead of Nolan Gao.

Three days later, someone posted the paper on StackExchange and commented on it.

"After sixty hours of calculations day and night, I found that the paper is generally correct."

"This is just my personal opinion, and it does not prove that this paper is completely correct. If you have any objections, please feel free to communicate. Below is my detailed explanation of this paper."

"The proof method of this paper is very novel. It uses the independent and identically distributed method and randomly extracts variables, which is a combination of the two methods."

"Using the combination of these two methods, the limiting law and the related attraction field are derived..."

"That's my detailed explanation."

In just one day, this post became the most popular post in the mathematics section.

Hilbert's 23 problems were proposed by Hilbert at the World Congress of Mathematicians in 1900.

For 122 years, these 23 problems have remained popular in the mathematics community.

In particular, Hilbert's first problem, the continuum hypothesis, is a difficult problem in set theory.

Singular cardinal numbers are also a problem in set theory, which appeared earlier than the continuum hypothesis.

Of course, the continuum hypothesis is much more important than singular cardinal numbers.

Otherwise, Hilbert's 23 problems would not be without singular cardinal numbers.

But proving singular cardinals helps in proving the continuum hypothesis.

Now, the limiting distribution of the variable terms in the singular cardinality is the basis for proving the singular cardinality.

Only with a foundation can we better prove singular cardinal numbers.

Naturally, this paper attracted many people to study, learn and read.

At the same time, a man named Alex Ye from the School of Mathematics at Zhonghu University became famous.

It is summer vacation now, but many university professors are not idle.

For professors at prestigious universities, teaching is a part-time job and doing scientific research is their main job.

Therefore, many professors did not travel during the summer vacation, or rested at home.

Early in the morning, the Dean of the School of Mathematics entered Oliver Lu's office.

"Dean, why are you here?" Oliver Lu greeted him with a smile.

"Professor Lu, you are really good at teaching students!"

The dean saw that the corresponding author of the paper was Oliver Lu and the first author was Alex Ye.

After investigation, he found out that one of Oliver Lu’s students was named Alex Ye.

"Huh?" Oliver Lu looked at the dean with a puzzled look on his face.

"You don't know yet?" The dean looked at Oliver Lu with a puzzled look on his face: "You study set theory. Don't you know that your student Alex Ye wrote a paper on set theory and posted it on Arxiv, which had a huge impact?"

"Alex Ye?" Oliver Lu was even more puzzled: "What paper did he write?"

The dean said helplessly: "It seems that you really don't know. You haven't been on Arxiv recently!"

"No." Oliver Lu said, "I've been too busy lately and forgot to check out Arxiv."

"That makes sense." The dean said, "I'll pass it on to you later. Take a look at this paper!"

"You are a really amazing student. You are only in your first year of graduate school, but you have written such a profound paper."

Shortly after the dean left, Oliver Lu received a link from the dean on WeChat. After clicking on it, he saw Alex Ye's paper posted on Arxiv.

"Limiting distribution of terms in singular cardinals?"

He muttered to himself and continued reading.

Soon, he said excitedly: "It can be proved in this way, using a non-degenerate distribution function, that a and b are two strings of real numbers."

"If this proof is correct, it will greatly advance the proof of singular cardinal numbers, and it will also be of great help to my proof of the minimal tower."

"The key point now is that this paper has not been published yet. Only when it is published can we be sure that this proof is correct."

Posting on Arxiv does not mean that the paper is published. The paper is sent to the journal, and the journal editor will ask well-known mathematicians in the mathematics community to review it. Only after the review is passed, the paper is considered correct.

After that, the journal will be printed, which is considered as the publication of the paper.

After a long time, Oliver Lu finished reading the paper and was confused.

"Is this written by Alex Ye?"

"How can it be?"

As Alex Ye's mentor, Oliver Lu is very clear about Alex Ye's abilities.

But precisely because it was so clear, he felt it was unreal.

Even for him, it was difficult to write such a profound paper.

Not to mention Alex Ye.

He reached out and pinched his thigh hard. He frowned slightly, it hurt.

He laughed and said, "It's true."

He took out his cell phone to contact Alex Ye.

Oliver Lu: "Alex Ye, come to my office."

Alex Ye: "What's the matter?"

Oliver Lu: "There must be something wrong. Come quickly."

Alex Ye: "Okay."

At this time, Alex Ye had just woken up. He had been revising his thesis recently and was busy until very late every night and got up very late the next day.

Twenty minutes later, Alex Ye arrived slowly.

After entering Oliver Lu's office, Alex Ye sat down and said, "Teacher, what's the matter?"

Oliver Lu moved the laptop computer in front of Alex Ye, which showed Alex Ye's paper, and said with a smile: "You wrote this paper very well."

Alex Ye took a look and asked in confusion: "Huh? How do you know about my paper?"

He didn't tell anyone about this paper, so his supervisor should not know about it.

Oliver Lu said with a smile: "Your paper has become popular, and even the dean knows about it. It would be difficult for me not to know about it!"

"What?" Alex Ye was surprised.

I just wrote a paper, but I didn't expect it to become so popular.

Oliver Lu asked: "Which journal are you going to submit to?"

Alex Ye shook his head: "I haven't decided yet. I need to revise it for a while."

"Yes!" Oliver Lu nodded: "When you have revised it, show it to me and then submit it."

"Yes, Master!"

After Alex Ye left, Oliver Lu laughed like a fool: "Haha..."

He was very excited to have trained a student like Alex Ye who could write such a paper in his first year of graduate school.

And Alex Ye is still so young, which means that Alex Ye still has a lot of room for improvement in the future.

If students achieve great success in the future, the teachers will also benefit from it.

Oliver Lu said: "This is much better than what I did back then."

At this moment, many teachers in the school knew that one of Oliver Lu’s students had written a very influential paper.

Many teachers are envious and jealous.

Another week has passed!

Alex Ye revised his paper three more times and saw that many people were discussing his paper on StackExchange.

He thought to himself: "It seems that my paper is very popular!"

"This is the foundation of singular cardinal numbers. Only with this foundation can we better deduce singular cardinal numbers."

"That's why it's so popular."

"Given the quality of my paper, I can try submitting it to SCI Zone 1 with an impact factor of more than 10."

As mentioned earlier, SCI papers are divided into four areas based on their impact factors.

District 1 is the best and District 4 is the worst.

CSCDA area is equivalent to SCI areas 1 and 2, area B is equivalent to area 3, and area 4 is the weakest and is not included.

At the same time, District 4 is the least valued, and capable people generally vote for District 1.

The world's three top journals, CNS, Cell, Nature and Science, are in Zone 1.

Alex Ye felt that the quality of his paper was high enough to be ranked in Zone 1.

Zone 1 is also divided into high, medium and low levels based on the impact factor.

The lowest impact factor is 0.9 and the highest is 187.

Among the three top journals, Cell is 30.4, Nature is 40.1, and Science is 37.2.

The highest one, 187, is medical journals, and the impact factors of medical journals in SCI are very high.

Because in academia, many medical students write papers, and since many papers are written, naturally many papers are cited, so the impact factor of medical papers is very high.

The impact factor of mathematics journals is only medium.

Among mathematics journals, those with an impact factor of more than ten are very difficult to review and are extremely difficult to pass.

The reason why Alex Ye wanted to submit to SCI is that only SCI papers can get school rewards, but CSCD cannot.

"But I don't know if I can pass it. After all, the impact factor is more than 10, which is quite difficult."

This is Alex Ye's first time submitting to SCI Zone 1, and the impact factor is above ten, so he doesn’t know whether it will be approved.

"It doesn't matter if you don't pass, it doesn't cost money, you will only be paid if you pass."

"If I pass, I will ask the school to reimburse me. I think the school will definitely agree."

It’s easy to guess that the school would be delighted by such good news. It’s just a publishing fee of around 10,000 yuan, so they have no shortage of money.

"Hmm?" Alex Ye said, "I'll send the paper to my supervisor first, and ask him which journals I can submit it to, and how to get the page fee reimbursed."

After that, he sent the paper to his tutor.

Half a day later, the tutor sent a message saying, "The paper is very good, without any flaws. You can submit it to a journal. Which journal do you plan to submit it to?"

"I don't know which journal to submit to, can you give me some advice?"

Oliver Lu said: "My suggestion is International Journal of Mathematical Analysis, which is a zone 1 journal. If you submit your paper there, the chances of it being accepted are quite high."

"Okay, then let's go to International Mathematical Analysis." Alex Ye said, "But mentor, as for the publication fee, as you know, the SCI publication fee is very high. Do you think the school can reimburse it?"

Oliver Lu said: "Don't worry about this. After you get the email that you have passed the review, go to the Academic Affairs Office to claim reimbursement."

"OK."

Alex Ye happily put down his phone, used his computer to access Web Of Science, and searched for the International Journal of Mathematical Analysis.

The review period of the International Journal of Mathematical Analysis is fifteen days, the impact factor is 13, and the review is extremely difficult.

Soon, he sent the paper to the email address of the International Mathematical Analysis Review Editor.