Chapter 188 Chapter 188 [Jinjiang Exclusive, Number Theory Defense...
Shortly after Lin Yimu submitted his postgraduate application materials, he received a notice that his application had been approved.
Within two days of receiving the notice, Lin Yimu's thesis defense was about to begin.
Lin Yimu's graduation thesis did not choose a new topic, but rather analyzed previous mathematical conjectures from a new perspective. Even after writing the thesis, Lin Yimu deliberately did a plagiarism check to ensure that it was not highly similar to anyone else's thesis before submitting it.
I originally thought that such a paper would be approved quickly and the defense would start soon, but I ended up waiting for nearly a month.
On the day of the thesis defense, Lin Yimu asked for leave from Professor Shao in advance and went directly to the auditorium of Peking University, because he was not the only one defending his thesis this time.
I heard that there were more than a dozen people together, all of whom were seniors who were about to graduate from their senior year. Among this group of people, only Lin Yimu was a sophomore who had applied for graduation early.
After arriving at the scene, Lin Yimu looked around. There was still no change in the auditorium. Four professors were sitting in specially arranged seats in the front row, occasionally chatting with each other and flipping through the notebooks in their hands from time to time.
Not long after, all the people who were going to participate in the defense today arrived and the defense officially began.
The first person to go up was a senior student who was a student of one of the professors and also a student of Yuanpei College.
The other party's thesis defense went smoothly. Lin Yimu saw the four professors asking questions, and after hearing the other party's answers, they all nodded with satisfaction.
The result was as expected, the other party passed on the spot.
The first defense got off to a good start, and the following seniors also basically passed smoothly. Although the answers they gave were not as perfect as the first one, the professors did not hold back on answering them.
After seven or eight seniors went up one after another, it was finally Lin Yimu's turn.
Lin Yimu took a deep breath to calm himself down, then walked towards the podium. He stood there, waiting for questions from the professors.
One of the old professors looked at the notes in his hand, then looked at Professor Jiang, who was standing one person away from him, and whispered, "Is this your talented student who applied for early graduation? I didn't expect him to be so young. Is he an adult?"
"18, just reached adulthood." Professor Jiang replied casually and continued to look down at the documents in his hand.
The two of them exchanged just these two sentences, and the other two professors had already raised several questions about the content of the paper, which were all answered by Lin Yimu very easily.
After Lin Yimu answered the previous question, the two of them asked their own questions. After Lin Yimu finished answering, everyone discussed it for a while and felt that there was no problem, so they decided to let him pass.
But before the results were announced, the professor who had just spoken to Professor Jiang asked, "Finally, I have a question that is not very relevant to the content of the thesis. Mr. Lin, why did you choose the mathematical conjecture you solved in the past as your final graduation thesis?"
Lin Yimu said: "Hello, professor. The reason why I chose my previous paper as my graduation topic is because I think that although all mathematical conjectures have been solved, their meanings are different. They can even change the teaching methods of our current subjects and bring major reforms to our country's mathematics subjects, and even make us the world's leading mathematical conjectures. Moreover, these mathematical conjectures can often bring unexpected gains when analyzed from another perspective..."
Lin Yi Mu was explaining his views on the stage, while the seniors in the audience were looking at Lin Yi Mu with shining eyes.
Although they were seniors about to graduate, none of them had not heard of the name Lin Yimu. Everything he had done since entering school was astonishing.
During today's graduation thesis defense, they actually knew that Lin Yi Mu would also attend. After all, in terms of time, this graduation defense was the last one before the holiday.
In fact, before the defense started, some people noticed Lin Yimu entering the venue, but because the professors were all sitting upstairs, they didn't dare to go up to him and talk to him. They were even worried in their hearts whether they would pass the defense, so they didn't have much mood to exchange pleasantries.
It is different now. They have long been tempered by the long wait and have the energy to study on their own and observe this influential figure from the University of Tokyo.
While looking at Lin Yimu, they were also listening carefully to Lin Yimu's answers to their thesis.
In order to enable students to study and discuss better, the school even installed a display screen on the podium, and projected Lin Yimu's paper directly onto the screen so that everyone could understand it better.
As Lin Yimu asked and answered questions with the professors, everyone was also reviewing the situation in their minds, and even wondered if they could do better than Lin Yimu.
However, as Lin Yimu and the professors' questions became more and more difficult, the people in the audience gradually could not keep up with their train of thought. They had to give up thinking on their own and follow their train of thought.
Until the end, the professor asked Lin Yimu the last question.
"Mr. Lin, why did you choose the mathematical conjecture you solved in the past as your final graduation thesis?"
Everyone's curiosity was aroused, and they all waited for Lin Yimu's answer.
But following Lin Yimu's answer, everyone began to think whether they should also find a mathematical conjecture or a paper by a big shot to analyze it from the side.
Then they thought that they were thinking too much. Even if they were given a difficult paper now, they would not be able to make such a profound analysis as Lin Yimu's.
Who gave them the courage to compare themselves with a top talent like Lin Yimu?
Thinking of this, everyone felt a little dejected again. It is true that if you compare yourself to others, you will die, and if you compare goods to others, you will throw them away!
While everyone was thinking about it, Lin Yi Mu finished answering the last question, and Lin Yi Mu's answer was so obvious that the professor who asked the question was very satisfied. He then gave the result of the previous discussion among everyone, which was passed and did not need to be revised again.
After Lin Yimu got the passing answer, his originally serious expression relaxed for a moment. After politely bowing to thank the professors, he walked off the stage with brisk steps.
After finishing his thesis defense, Lin Yimu did not stay at the scene for long. Like several senior students before him, he left directly after the defense.
After walking out of the auditorium, Lin Yimu finally relaxed. His graduation thesis defense was successfully completed, and the next step was to receive his diploma.
But because Lin Yimu has applied for a joint master's and doctoral program and even applied to change his major, there is no need to rush to get his diploma.
The normal application for a diploma would take at least three months, but since Lin Yimu was directly admitted by Professor Shao, and even his application for graduate studies was through a backdoor arrangement by Professor Shao, he can directly get a graduate, master's or doctoral diploma.
It was because the school management was lax in the past few years that his application was approved without any hesitation.
In fact, when it comes down to it, it is easier to get things done if you have someone above you.
Lin Yimu sighed in his heart, then went back to Professor Shao’s office to cancel his vacation and continue to study with Professor Shao.
During the study period, Professor Shao did not forget to assign homework to Lin Yimu. In addition to some more complicated problems occasionally encountered in experiments, there were also some less common experimental problems that she occasionally talked about in class, as well as some theoretical problems with more traps.
Each of these problems was enough to keep Lin Yimu busy for a while, but as Lin Yimu absorbed the knowledge in his mind faster, his ideas and speed in solving problems became more and more novel and fast to Professor Shao.
By the time the school was on winter vacation, Lin Yimu was able to complete the answers to the questions on the same day that Professor Shao gave him them.
Of course, these are all theoretical. As for topics that require experiments, Lin Yimu still maintains a rigorous scientific attitude and will give the final answer only after completing the experiment.
That's all, and it's enough to make Professor Shao happy. After all, the doctoral students who have been studying under her don't have such a gratifying learning progress as Lin Yimu.
Finally, Professor Shao considered it and decided to let Lin Yimu enter the doctoral stage directly and not continue the postgraduate education process, otherwise it would likely delay Lin Yimu's growth.
Professor Shao originally planned to have Lin Yimu study graduate courses under him for a period of time, and then transfer him to a master's program when he had enough knowledge.
As a result, Lin Yimu was able to catch up with the doctoral student who had studied with her for five years in just less than two months. This shocked her, and she decided to let him directly become a doctoral student.
So when the school was about to go on holiday, he went straight to Lin Yimu and said, "Xiaomu, I think you should know your learning progress, so I plan to let you enter the doctoral study stage directly. What do you think?"
"I have no objection to the tutor's suggestion." Then he said a little embarrassedly: "It's just that the news came suddenly, and I haven't prepared the relevant materials yet."
Professor Shao couldn't help but laugh when he heard this and said, "Don't worry, as your advisor, I can directly recommend you for the doctoral program. You don't need to prepare anything. And since you are doing your doctorate directly with me, you can skip the cumbersome procedures."
"Okay, professor. Thank you for your recognition." Lin Yimu thanked politely.
Professor Shao waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, don't be so polite. You are my student, and I recommend you to pursue a doctorate directly because you have the ability. As a mentor to a talented student like you, I also feel very accomplished. Okay, go back if you have nothing to do. The school will be closed soon. You can come to me to pick up the books when school starts."
"Good mentor."
After saying goodbye to his mentor, Lin Yimu went straight home.
He has been very busy lately, as if he was wound up and never stops. Except for the time to rest at night, he has no time to spend with He Xiuji.
He Xiuji also seemed to be very busy. Apart from breakfast and calling to remind him to eat lunch, he also went out early and came back late like him. Sometimes he even came back later than him, which made Lin Yimu worry that He Xiuji would ruin his health.
One time, Lin Yimu couldn't help asking, but He Xiuji said mysteriously, "I can't tell you about this for now. I'll take you there after I've arranged everything. Let me keep it a secret for now, okay?"
Lin Yimu was fascinated by the beauty at the time and didn't have the energy to dwell on this matter, so he let it go.
Now that Lin Yimu was finally free, her curiosity was aroused again. She thought that she must find out the secret tonight and not be fooled by his beauty again.
Thinking of this, Lin Yimu returned home full of confidence. As luck would have it, He Xiuji also came back early today.
After seeing Lin Yimu coming in, his eyes were gentle with a hint of joy.
"Xiao Mu, your school should be on vacation soon, right?" He Xiuji walked up to him and asked as he walked into the house.
Lin Yimu followed the force and nodded as he walked: "Yes, I will probably have a holiday the day after tomorrow. My mentor's laboratory also said that I don't need to go there for the time being. For now, I just need to focus on my own experiments."
Hearing Lin Yimu's answer, He Xiuji's eyes flashed with a smile, and he said, "Since we are not busy anymore, should we also put our engagement ceremony on the agenda?"
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