My Unexpected Career Journey Chapter 10

Oliver Lu's office!

After Alex Ye and Oliver Lu sat down, Oliver Lu smiled and said, "I can't believe that you wrote that paper. I and many professors in the college, including the dean, have been looking for Alex Ye. We all thought that Alex Ye was a university professor in his forties."

"We searched all the professors in the college, but we couldn't find Alex Ye."

"I didn't expect that this Alex Ye was actually you."

Alex Ye smiled and said, "Teacher, you asked me some time ago which professor in the college is called Alex Ye. It turns out you were looking for me."

"Haha..." Oliver Lu laughed, feeling that this was really funny.

The person is clearly in the distant mountains and sky, but is right in front of me, but I don’t know that he is right in front of me.

Oliver Lu suddenly said with a serious expression: "Alex Ye, I have something serious to tell you."

"Once your paper is published, the school will publicize it in the next few days. By then, everyone will know your identity and many universities will invite you to study for a doctorate."

"Based on the influence of your paper, I don't know whether the top universities abroad will invite you, but I am sure that Kyoto University and Mizuki, the two top universities in Xia Country, will definitely invite you."

"What do you think about this matter?"

After thinking for a while, Alex Ye said, "Teacher, if I want to study for a doctorate, I'd better go to Zhonghu University!"

Alex Ye felt that he had a system and that he was studying basic mathematics, and that a lot of knowledge could be learned through the Internet and literature.

The gap in university quality is not a gap in knowledge, but a gap in environment.

For example, Huaqing and Shuimu, the two top universities in Xia Country, gather the smartest and most hardworking students in the country, the top scholars from all domestic universities, and the most advanced laboratories.

However, these points have little impact on Alex Ye.

In this case, he would naturally look for a familiar environment when studying for his doctorate, so Zhonghu University is the best choice.

He studied for his undergraduate degree at Zhonghu, his master's degree at Zhonghu, and will also study for his doctorate at Zhonghu.

He has been here for five years. He is familiar with this city, this school, and the teachers here. He also has many classmates and friends here.

He would be very unhappy if he had to go to an unfamiliar environment and familiarize himself with it all over again.

Besides, Zhonghu University is one of the 39 985 universities in the country.

Although it is a low-tier 985 university, its faculty, students, and laboratory quality are among the best in the country.

Oliver Lu advised: "From your perspective, I still advise you to go to Beijing University or Shuimu University."

"No!" Alex Ye shook his head and said, "Teacher, I still want to stay in Zhonghu University."

"Have you thought it through?" Oliver Lu stared at Alex Ye.

"I've thought about it." Alex Ye said.

"Okay!" Oliver Lu said with a smile: "I won't persuade you. In fact, I am reluctant to see you leave Zhonghu University. After all, our school has cultivated a talent with great difficulty, and we don't want to give him to others."

"Since you have made your decision, I will report it to the dean."

"But it takes half a month to create the file. You can regret it during this half month, but you can't regret it after that."

"You want to leave, but the school won't let you go. You want to go to another school, but those schools can't accept you without your file."

Alex Ye said firmly: "I will never regret it."

"Let's talk about the next thing!" Oliver Lu said, "This is my selfish desire. Since you said you want to study for a doctorate at Zhonghu University, I hope you can study for a doctorate under me and study the minimal tower problem with me."

"You know, I have been studying this problem for a long time. The cooperation between you and me as teacher and student will definitely produce results."

Professor Lu has the qualifications. He is a full professor in the college and also a doctoral supervisor.

He now has three doctors under him.

A doctoral supervisor can recruit up to two doctoral students each year. Professor Lu is very busy and usually only recruits one each year.

This year he made an exception and recruited one more person for Alex Ye.

Alex Ye was a little confused. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Teacher, it's no problem for me to study for a doctorate under you, but I haven't finished studying the singular cardinality problem yet."

Alex Ye thought that the instructor would misunderstand and think that he didn't want to cooperate with him, so he said, "It's not that I don't want to cooperate with you, instructor, but before I studied singular cardinal numbers, I made a bet with others that my method was better. Now the time has not come yet, and our bet is still going on."

"We both thought our method was better for studying singular cardinal numbers, so we each spent two months researching our own methods."

"Whoever's method is better, use it."

"After the study of singular cardinal numbers is finished, I will work with you, my mentor, on this research."

Professor Lu is very conflicted. He doesn't know how long he will have to wait for you to finish your research.

Maybe by the time you graduate with your PhD, your research won’t be finished yet.

So when can we work together?

But Alex Ye also has his own reasons, and as a mentor, I can't force Alex Ye!

Moreover, with Alex Ye's current performance, it is impossible to force him even if you want to!

Professor Lu said: "Okay, then you should do it as soon as possible."

"Okay." Alex Ye said.

After the paper was approved, Alex Ye began to carry out the following research and had already thought out the topic.

Prove singular cardinals using partial differential equations.

Some time ago, he saw a paper on Arxiv that used partial differential equations to formally solve singular cardinalities.

He thought the paper was very interesting, so he did some research and posted some of the questions on Stage, where he got a lot of inspiration.

Monday, July 4th.

The new issue of the journal "International Mathematical Analysis" is on sale worldwide, and Alex Ye's paper is on it.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of that day, the official website of Zhonghu University released a message, which attracted the attention of many teachers in the university's college of mathematics!

[Congratulations to Alex Ye, a first-year graduate student in the School of Mathematics of our university, for having his paper published in International Journal of Mathematical Analysis]

Below is a screenshot of the limiting distribution of the term variable in the singular cardinality of the paper.

Many people who followed this paper were surprised.

I didn't expect that the paper was written by a first-year graduate student.

Soon, all the 985 universities in the country invited Alex Ye to study for a doctorate.

They naturally welcome such talented students.

Zhonghu University is just a low-tier 985 university. Those universities that are stronger than Zhonghu University think that Alex Ye will gladly accept their invitation.

After all, people go to high places and water flows to low places. This is human nature.

Yamashiro University!

...

Jinling University!

Zhejiang University!

Kyoto University!

Mizuki University!

Not only did these universities allow Alex Ye to study for a doctorate without taking exams, but except for Kyoto and Mizuki, the other universities also offered many good conditions.

For example, the cost of studying for a doctorate is completely free, he receives a certain amount of scholarship each year, and a certain academician serves as his doctoral supervisor. These are all basic operations.

The differences in conditions among universities are all in the scholarships, some are high and some are low.

The worse the quality of the university, the higher the scholarship it gives. The highest is 50,000 yuan per year and the lowest is 30,000 yuan per year.

Alex Ye put down his phone and sighed helplessly.

Since the school released the information, he has received more than a dozen calls every day from major 985 universities across the country, asking him whether he would go to their school to study for a doctorate.

The conditions offered were better than each other, except for handing the money to him.

As long as Alex Ye agrees to study for a Ph.D. at their school, the money and conditions will belong to Alex Ye.

This reminded Alex Ye of the top scorers in the college entrance examination every year. Those universities all offer very good conditions.

His achievements were limited back then, so he didn’t realize it, but now he realizes it.

The feeling is pain, happiness, and pleasure.

The universities that were out of his reach before are now eager to invite him to study at their schools.

director's office!

The dean and Professor Lu sat together, and the dean said, "I have received a lot of news recently. 39 985 universities in the country have invited Alex Ye to study for a doctorate, and the conditions are very good."

The dean said worriedly: "You said Alex Ye wouldn't be tempted, so go to these universities!"

"I don't know that either!" Professor Lu said, "How about I go and ask?"

"Don't ask." The dean shook his head and said, "It's no use asking. If they can make conditions, we can make conditions too."

"Tell Alex Ye that as long as he stays in our school to study for a doctorate, his tuition will be waived and he will receive a scholarship of 50,000 yuan per year."

"He has an academician as his mentor."

"And he can take a special training program to study for a doctorate and complete it in one year."

"During his time at school, the college reimbursed the publishing fees for all the papers he published."

"If he performs well during his doctoral studies, the college will recommend him to the staff committee and recommend him to stay on to teach at the school."

Professor Lu smacked his lips, these conditions were too good.

Things like no exams required for PhD studies, full tuition waiver, a scholarship of 50,000 yuan, and one year to complete the PhD, with all publication charges reimbursed by the college, are all understandable.

The most valuable thing is the recommendation to stay on to teach at the school.

Zhonghu University is a 985 university, and countless people across the country want to become teachers at Zhonghu University.

University teachers have a stable job, high status, high income and a decent work.

A teacher at a 985 university wouldn’t change his job even if his annual salary was 500,000 yuan.

Moreover, if a graduate of Zhonghu University becomes a teacher at Zhonghu University, there is a great convenience, which is very easy for future promotion.

In any university, teachers who graduated from the same school are given priority for promotion.

Professor Lu said, "Forget about the mentor. Alex Ye and I have already agreed that I will still be his doctoral supervisor."

The dean looked at Professor Lu and said with a smile, "You really know how to get there first. If you do this, you will attract the jealousy of many people in the college."

"I'm jealous if I want to!" Professor Lu said indifferently, "They also trained a student like this!"

At this time, the dean's cell phone rang and he answered it.

"What?" The dean stood up in shock and shouted, "MIT and Princeton also sent invitations?"