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No matter from any angle, this wave of operations by the Western media is really not following the routine.

In fact, it is rare for Western countries, which control the world's latest scientific discourse, to praise a paper from another country to this extent. After all, it is scientists from developed countries in Europe and the United States who publish the most papers in these top journals. It is also their people who have won the most various top scientific awards in the world. Therefore, it is rare to see Western media reporting on the results of scientists from other countries, let alone the results of Chinese scientists.

Of course, for many people in Western countries, the goal has been achieved. Ning Wei’s previous illustrious reputation in Western academic circles has been replaced by March. Young people are always attracted by people or things that are full of mystery, and Professor March has met almost all the expectations of many young people.

Because of his sharp academic rhetoric, everyone received mixed reviews. The academic level of the papers he published was extremely high and widely praised. According to rumors, he published them under a pseudonym and was unwilling to reveal his true identity...

All of this has cast a veil of mystery over the professor in March.

Ning Wei’s academic contribution is also great, and he is extremely young, but at least he has appeared in the public eye, and information is everywhere on the Internet. But Professor March is different. Almost no words about her can be found online. , there are only a variety of sharp-tongued comments circulating that are not true or false, coupled with the encouragement of many professors and the pursuit of the media, there is no reason why it should not be popular.

But when this extremely abnormal behavior falls into the eyes of ordinary Chinese people, they can only make a simple judgment, that is, Professor March's paper is really too powerful, and artificial intelligence in the future will probably not be able to bypass this paper. , so even if they hold their noses, the Western media cannot ignore the contribution of this Chinese mathematics professor to this field.

So it is natural that the codename Professor March became popular in China. After all, there are many Chinese scientists who publish papers in top journals, but there are not many professors who are so sought after and reported by Western media.

Curiosity is always common, especially since March is a Huaxia professor after all, so when the news came back to China, everyone's curiosity became more intense.

Although Western media and scientists deliberately ignored his workplace and relationship with Ning Wei when talking about Professor March, Professor March’s paper was posted on the official website of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society after all, so when everyone When I went to learn about this paper, I naturally found out that Professor March’s workplace is at Jiangsu University.

For many people, the first reaction when seeing Jiangcheng University is to log on to the official website of Jiangcheng University and look for the introduction of Professor March. After all, we need to satisfy everyone’s curiosity and introduce this person who has been praised abroad. To introduce the professor, you must first have the most basic understanding of the professor.

However, when everyone logged on to Jiangda’s official website, they were shocked to find that Jiangda seemed not to know about this matter. There was no information about Professor March at all. There was not even the fact that Professor March’s paper was published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society. Special copywriting for promotion.

This is indeed a very strange thing. A professor from Huaxia Jiangcheng University is about to be famous in the Western world, but the school where he works has not made any noise. He didn't even mention who he was and what kind of commendation he wanted to give. So what the hell is this? What exactly is Jiang Da going to do?

It is not an exaggeration to say that these days, the leaders of the school and the School of Mathematics are being harassed by all kinds of phone calls from top to bottom. Some people are asking about Professor March’s true identity, and some media are hoping to come for an interview. In short, the whole holiday Everyone was busy answering the phone, and even those who chose to travel during the National Day could not avoid being harassed.

It’s not that no one doubts Ning Wei, and the more professors at Jiangsu University are, the more suspicious and even certain that March is most likely Ning Wei’s pseudonym. After all, there are not many mathematicians studying this direction in the world, let alone in China, but When they communicated with their Western counterparts, the information they received back made them doubt their own judgment.

For example, recently, including during the Chinese National Day, March has been maintaining frequent academic exchanges with many mathematicians around the world via email almost around the clock, which is obviously something Ningwei cannot do. As we all know, this young mathematician is busy making people angry on Weibo and dating. At least during the National Day, Ning Wei has not done anything serious. If he can still maintain high-frequency academic exchanges , unless Ning Wei really knows the clone technique.

The most confusing thing is that Western colleagues have also confirmed that March’s gender is female, but few lecturers at Jiangsu University are female. There are only two professorial titles, one associate professor and two lecturers. Moreover, the research direction does not point to the isomorphism method.

This is really confusing, so who is March? Fortunately, the school has completely given up on finding this Professor in March. Love him.

But in the end, under various pressures, Jiangsu University still issued a notice, to the effect that the school respects Professor March's unwillingness to appear in public, will not publicize it in a big way, and hopes that the outside world can give the school's professors a quiet research environment, and do not want to Looking for the root cause.

This statement once again aroused the enthusiasm of countless people, and countless people on the Internet began to speculate on the true identity of Professor March. The popularity of "Who is Professor March" has even directly surpassed Ning Wei's previous popularity. Even the Nobel Prizes in various fields that will be announced soon cannot compare with the popularity of asking about Professor March's identity at this time. This is definitely the previous one Something no one thought of.

The pace of this wave of Western media is so impressive. Of course, it also seems to confirm from the side that the Western media’s right to speak is indeed far superior to that of other regions.

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As the initiator of the whole thing, Ning Wei did not expect that Western professors, scientists and media would hype March so crazily that he felt confused by the online situation in the past two days.

How should I put it? His plan is to gradually make March famous in a subtle way. Starting from reviewing manuscripts, on the one hand, he will conduct an alternative Turing test, and on the other hand, he will make March’s image known in Western academic circles. Gradually plump.

Then slowly began to publish papers, one, two, three...

In short, March will slowly accumulate academic fans in this way, attracting more people to study this field, and finally let March win various mathematics awards, and then use March’s mysterious identity and appeal, relying on the Beijing International Mathematics Research Center, Borrowing the identity of March, he began to prepare and launch the world's top mathematics conference in the field of artificial intelligence, and simultaneously established the world's top mathematics journals belonging to China and journals specializing in artificial intelligence algorithms.

Finally, when the time is right, he can reveal the identity of March to the world at the conference, and take this opportunity to directly launch the "March Science Award", a world-class top science and technology award similar to the Fields and Nobel Prizes. ".

Yes, it has always been Ningwei's hope that foreign scientists can come to China to participate in top conferences willingly, take pride in being able to give reports at top world-class conferences held in China, and publish papers in top journals founded by themselves. Goals to strive for.

Because only taking this step can truly mean that China can become one of the world's science and technology centers. Only in this way can more high-tech talents be attracted to China for development, and more high-tech companies with independent intellectual property rights can truly be hatched. enterprise.

During this process, Ning Wei felt that it was worthwhile to tell harmless lies, even if these lies would cause a lot of trouble to the professors at Jiang University and even his own mentor. After all, that sense of mystery is always the only way to get the biggest gimmick.

He could even imagine how much shock it would bring to the world when March's true identity was revealed. At that time, everything will become logical. China will become the center of the development of the world's artificial intelligence field. The various algorithms that make up the main body of March will become the most basic patents of artificial intelligence in the future. Regardless of whether Western countries hold a leading position in other aspects, unless Find another way, otherwise if you want to develop artificial intelligence, you will not be able to bypass the shelf he has put up.

In the future, the March Artificial Intelligence Conference, which will be held annually in the future, will be held in turns in many provinces in China. This can be regarded as completing the awesomeness he boasted when he first went to the US Embassy to apply for a visa. More importantly, countless basic patents can also provide Huaxia brings high profits from patent licensing, supports a number of top domestic high-tech companies, and realizes various ambitions he has set by relying on the output of high-tech added value.

The idea is excellent and the plan is perfect, but Ning Wei never expected that the entire academia and media in the West would not follow the routine, and a random paper would directly make March famous. With such a field, how can we play next? After all, the accumulation in March was far from enough. At least Ningwei thought it was not up to the standard that could shock the world, so he was directly pushed to his current status.

He is a Chinese mathematician. Don’t you really feel that your conscience will hurt when these Western media boast about it so fiercely? Speaking of which, he really didn’t spend money to buy heat. What does this tap water mean?

More importantly, Ning Wei was also under great pressure at this time. For example, he and Lu Dongyi were summoned to the office by Director Tian and began to be interrogated.

"Ning Wei, tell me the truth, who is this Professor in March?" He and Lu Dongyi had just entered the door, but before they could sit down, Tian Yanzhen stared at his beloved disciple and asked seriously .

Ning Wei paused, and Lu Dongyi walked past Ning Wei without changing his expression and sat on the sofa where the guests were.

"Director Tian, ​​didn't I talk to you last time? I really can't talk about this. After all, we have to respect Professor March's ideas, right?" Ning Wei still decided to resist.

After hearing this, Lu Dongyi lowered his head silently and said nothing.

It's not that Ning Wei doesn't want a showdown, the key is that this time is not right. And if Tian Yan really knows this, it means countless people know it. At least at this time, March's true identity cannot be exposed.

"Haha, I analyzed it carefully. Let me explain it to you. It was not long after you came back from Montreal. Oh, by the way, it was that time Professor Tan asked you for help. You asked their paper to be published as a second author. Give it to March, because Professor March provided them with great help, and then you introduced Professor March to many journal editors. Before that, the academic world had never heard of this name."

"Then she started to review the manuscript. Through the review process, the public felt that Professor March's research scope was very broad, and the review comments were very sharp. Now the paper published by Professor March overlaps with your research direction, and the unit is in Jiang Da is still a woman. I am sure that a female professor who meets all the above conditions cannot be found not only at Jiang University, but even if you look at universities across the country. Ning Wei, Ning Wei, to be honest, isn’t this The trick you played with Lu Dongyi?"

As he spoke, Tian Yanzhen glanced at Lu Dongyi.

Lu Dongyi raised his head and looked at Tian Yanzhen sincerely, and then said: "I can guarantee this, I did not fool around with my junior brother."

"Oh? Not you? Who reviewed those papers?"

Seeing the question, Lu Dongyi shook his head without changing his expression: "I don't know either. I also asked my junior brother, but he refused to tell me."

Tian Yan couldn't help but be stunned.

How should I put it? Although Tian Yanzhen doesn't believe Ning Wei's excuses now, he still believes Lu Dongyi's words because he knows his student very well. Even if he tells a white lie, he can't be so calm. .

He thought he had figured everything out, but looking at Lu Dongyi's performance, it seemed that he really didn't know anything about the whole thing.

"You really haven't been reviewing manuscripts every day lately?" Tian Yan asked again, unwilling to give up.

"No!" Lu Dongyi shook his head and replied confidently.

"Then why did you tell me last time that you gave up on your previous topic selection?"

"Junior brother persuaded me to study the basics of artificial intelligence number theory with him. I think he is right. Recently, I have been studying content related to thinking calculations. If you don't believe me, you can check out my research materials." Lu Dongyi looked on. Said as usual.

"So you really don't know who Professor March is?"

"Yes, Director Tian."

Tian Yanzhen stared at Lu Dongyi, and after being 100% sure that his beloved disciple was not lying, he became less confident again.

Originally, he really thought that Professor March was a stunt created by Ning Wei and Lu Dongyi. It seemed that there was really another person involved, because he was also sure that Ning Wei definitely didn't have the time to do it in such a short period of time. After reviewing so many mathematics papers, I can still provide pertinent opinions...

What Tian Yanzhen didn’t know was that he asked the wrong question. If he directly asked Lu Dongyi if he knew who published the paper, his disciple would probably reveal his clues and let him know the clues. , but his questions all revolved around who the reviewer and Professor March were. Lu Dongyi really didn’t know these things!

Naturally, Tian Yanzhen looked at Ning Wei again, and Ning Wei also learned to answer quickly. He directly spread his hands and said innocently: "Director Tian, ​​you agreed not to force me. This involves people who do not want to reveal their identity. Third person, what do you want me to say? If I tell you, it means telling many people, and I can’t hide their identity. How can I explain to them? "