Chapter 459: Chapter 150: See, posting articles isn’t much harder than drinking water!
Although Qiao Yu has never experienced what Senior Brother Chen is going through, he can understand Senior Brother Chen’s feelings.
It’s probably like being treated as a punching bag at his most insecure moments.
In fact, Qiao Yu has also been used as a punching bag, but his temperament is different from Senior Brother Chen’s. If he has a grudge, he’ll smile and pretend he doesn’t care, then turn around and think of ways to make himself feel better.
Compromising himself to let others vent their emotions is certainly not something that works for Qiao Yu. So wherever he goes, he first makes sure to get along well with the majority of people.
As for Chen Zhuoyang...
It’s nothing more than cooperating with the young junior brother. Even if it seems a bit sycophantic, what bad intentions could a sixteen-year-old kid have?
He just wants to have the authority of being responsible like an adult.
Not to mention, following the young junior brother, even if there’s a top journal publication, there’s no compensation for putting up with the school pressure.
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Of course, what Senior Brother Chen needs to do is simple. Qiao Yu just has to consider what type of paper can get published in a top journal.
From Qiao Yu’s perspective, publishing in a top journal is really not that hard.
Especially after Qiao Yu has seen a lot of articles over the years, even those in top journals, he inevitably finds some that seem quite unimpressive to him at a glance.
Certainly, from Qiao Yu’s point of view, a paper that fails to raise new questions or provide new tools is categorized as mediocre.
Then he dismisses Chinese journals.
It’s not that Qiao Yu thinks poorly of Chinese journals, but after understanding Mathematics, he inadvertently saw a paper on an "infinite series that is both divergent and convergent" that ended up getting five citations, and it just felt a bit too much to bear.
This also made Qiao Yu start to understand the logic behind journal publications in mathematics. There’s no fabrication, but as long as the journal reviewers are lax, any conclusion can be irresponsibly thrown out there.
Used to pollute the mathematics database.
The biggest feature of math papers is that it’s very hard to provide correct proofs, but understanding the proof process is much simpler than the proving itself, as long as there aren’t too many obvious...
As a reviewer, even if there are quite a few obvious points in the paper, you can still ask the author to supplement the entire process.
However, as far as Qiao Yu is concerned, the main problem with getting Senior Brother Chen to publish in a top journal is ensuring academic rigor while still making Senior Brother Chen the first author.
Yes, it must be a paper where he is the first author. Because in Huaxia, all kinds of reviews, whether within research institutions or at higher levels, generally only recognize the first author.
So the paper can’t be written by Qiao Yu. He can only give Senior Brother Chen a direction, then find him some materials. Then try to get a publishing opportunity for Senior Brother Chen...
Well, honestly, this is something that only a mentor would consider. And to get the mentor to consider such a matter, you have to be their most favored student.
But there’s no choice, from Qiao Yu’s perspective, Senior Brother Chen is an excellent collaborator in many ways.
His foundation in mathematical theory is very solid, and this is not just Qiao Yu’s assessment but also Elder Yuan’s and Tian Yan’s evaluation.
He always steadfastly supports your side, willing to contribute for free even if there’s no money. The key is he’s very diligent.
Frankly speaking, Qiao Yu feels that people like Senior Brother Chen are indispensable everywhere.
Whether it’s a university, an institute, or various enterprises and companies. In contrast, not every unit needs a genius like Qiao Yu, but a backbone like Senior Brother Chen is absolutely essential.
Especially if you look beyond the realm of pure math research, this is even more true. Examples of this are everywhere.
Qiao Yu has read complaints on the school’s internal forum; many renowned professors’ feedback on undergraduate lectures is not as good as imagined.
Especially when they inadvertently delve into cutting-edge theoretical concepts and use some specialized jargon and complex ideas, apart from a few students, many are complaining they don’t understand.
It’s not even remotely related to dropping a pen; even if you concentrate throughout the lecture, it’s the same.
So Qiao Yu feels it’s necessary for Senior Brother Chen to experience some perks, allowing him to have a better experience at Jinzhou University, with less trouble, and even freeing up more time to contribute to the research group.
The ironic thing is, Qiao Yu is quite resourceful, and now he also has his own connections.
After talking with Senior Brother Chen and pondering for a while, he sent an email to Lott Degen.
"Editor Degen: Hello. I am writing to inquire about the feasibility of publishing two closely related yet independent papers in your esteemed journal.
Recently, I’ve been contemplating a new mathematical framework—a generalized mode number theory system. The goal is to geometrize classical number theory problems, thus providing new perspectives and analytical tools for a series of number theory issues.
During the current research process, I’ve found that related studies can naturally be divided into two independent yet closely related parts. The first involves the construction of the theory, including the theoretical basis, axiom system, and potential applications.
The second part is the mathematical verification related to the axiom system, such as verifying the geometrical properties of the framework to test its applicability. My team has different collaborators working on both parts.
So I’m very keen to know if Ann.Math accepts submissions in parts. Do you think it’s better to publish the two papers in the same issue of the journal, submit them to different journals, or do you have any other submission suggestions?
You know, I’m still in the exploration stage of publishing papers. So I’d love to receive your guidance and response. I’ll also adjust my research work and writing plans based on your suggestions. Looking forward to your reply. Qiao Yu."