ccnovels Chapter 254 A Desperate Night Battle!
Chapter 254 A Desperate Night Battle!
Late at night, in a dormitory of Jinling Institute of Technology.
A large group of boys gathered in the room, each with thicker glasses than the next. They were all sitting on small stools with pens and paper textbooks on their legs.
There were so many people that they overflowed from the house and there was a long line of people sitting in the corridor!
At the door of the dormitory, the short Kong Gaojie sat like a door god, his expression serious as never before!
He was busy writing notes. Every time he finished writing a piece of paper, a hand quickly took it away. Then there were several boys in the corner starting to work, frantically flipping through books and doing calculations based on the notes!
The sound of rustling writing and turning pages was continuous, like a large group of small animals crawling around in the dry leaves, it was very lively!
In the corridor, a trendy man from the art school passed by and was startled by the formation.
"Brothers, what are you doing?" The fashionable man curiously poked his head into the notebooks of the students in the corridor. He was surprised when he saw that they were full of dazzling formulas. "Are you going to build an atomic bomb?"
The math students laughed for a while, and someone replied, "Mathematical conjecture competition! If you lose during the day, you will have a night battle at night!"
"Lost?" The trendy man was even more curious, "Who was your opponent?"
"A master from Jinghai University." someone answered.
"A master?" Chao Nan was surprised, "You mobilized an army just to beat one person on the other side?"
The math students' smiles faded, and they suddenly felt their faces were gone. A few of them raised their heads and glared at the trendy man.
The trendy man became nervous for a moment, then realized that Zui Piao had said the wrong thing, so he said "Come on, you guys", turned around and left in a hurry.
The math students continued to work with their heads down, but the calculations on their hands worked even harder!
In addition to the old-school paper-and-pencil calculations, more than half of the students used high technology, ranging from simple tapping on mobile calculators to more complex ones using laptops to construct topological spaces using professional drawing software.
The atmosphere was hot and anxious, and Kong Gaojie set a goal for everyone: stay up all night tonight, and the market will open at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. We must regain the advantage, or at least narrow the gap!
Being defeated by a mere Jinghai University is intolerable!
If there is a gap of several tens of points in the number of students and twice the number of students, if this can all be lost, doesn't it mean that the teaching quality of Jinling Institute of Technology is far inferior to that of Jinghai University? Once word of this gets out, will the Mathematics major still have a sign?
The dean also got emotional in the afternoon, adding candied dates to the big stick. The big stick is that if the battle cannot be won, remedial exams must be arranged. The candied dates add credits. Whether you prove a conjecture or propose a conjecture, you can get half a point!
When evaluating scholarships, recommendations, and honorary titles, half a point can impress many students!
Under heavy pressure and temptation, everyone was completely red-eyed and got together to work like crazy!
The most tiring one is Kong Gaojie. He needs to constantly switch his ideas and read one conjecture from Jinghai University. When he sees some clues and gives them to his classmates, he immediately has to read another conjecture with completely different ideas.
By twelve o'clock in the evening, Kong Gaojie was already dizzy, and sweat soaked through his head like a floodgate.
"Brother Jie, drink some water!" Someone handed him a drink.
"Thank you!" Kong Gaojie drank a few sips to replenish his strength. At the same time, someone brought a towel to wipe his sweat, as if he was serving the emperor.
There was a stack of paper placed under Kong Gaojie's chair. Each piece of paper contained a new conjecture or a proof of the conjecture. Everyone's results were collected here.
The night is getting darker and darker, and the paper under his chair is getting higher and higher!
At one o'clock, Kong Gaojie grabbed the papers and counted them.
"If they all pass, there will be 30 points!" Kong Gaojie said.
The students in the dormitory and corridor were slightly excited. Everyone tried their best, but the efficiency was still very impressive!
At the close, the gap with Jinghai University was 28 points, and they had just tied the score!
But that was the score at two o'clock in the afternoon. There is no doubt that people at Jinghai University must be wondering at this moment, who knows how many points they have accumulated?
No one dared to relax at all, and the used-up toilet paper was placed under the stools. Soon the paper was covered with snow, and the thickness was up to the ankles. It looked like paper mill workers sitting in a pile of waste paper.
In the corridor, students from other majors passed by from time to time and were shocked by such a spectacular scene!
The gossip quickly spread throughout the dormitory, and all students at Jinling Institute of Technology began to pay attention to the war!
"The math majors are staying up late and working hard!"
"Didn't the midterm exam pass early?"
"The Moon City Project! It is said that the opponent is Jinghai University, and they were overtaken accidentally. They are planning to stay up late and overtake!"
"Mathematics majors are so bad? How can a mere Jinghai University lose?"
"We haven't lost yet. The tigers also take a nap! It's probably due to a small mistake that they are temporarily behind. Now that the math students are working hard, it will only take a matter of minutes to overtake Kyohai University!"
"Indeed, if nothing else happens, it is impossible to lose to Jinghai in the mathematics major! But those who participated in the Moon City Project are really desperate!"
"Nonsense, can you build a city on the moon comfortably? Foreigners all over the world are busy landing on the moon. How can we win without risking our lives?"
Two o'clock in the morning.
In Kong Gaojie's dormitory, the students showed signs of exhaustion.
Some people's heads shook, and some people stabbed themselves in the thigh with the tip of the pen. The students in the corridor simply stood up and stuck the scratch paper and books on the wall.
"Wake up, wake up!" Kong Gaojie suddenly clapped his hands, "It's 45 points! The progress is optimistic, everyone, keep it up!"
Many students with their heads hanging down woke up, rubbed their faces with their hands, and continued to type on their cell phone calculators.
The energy level didn't last long, and by 3 o'clock, napping spread like the plague!
The students who didn't stand up in the corridor fell asleep leaning against the wall!
Kong Gaojie also has a headache. He consumes the most mental energy and is sleepier than anyone else at this time, but as a leader, he must hold on!
"I have paper cups and coffee in my drawer, let's get some coffee to drink!" Kong Gaojie thought of something, "We have saved 52 points so far. Let's work until we reach 60 points. Students who can't stand it anymore, go to bed!"
Soon, the strong smell of coffee overflowed from the dormitory and spread throughout the corridor.
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At the same time, Jinghai University.
Dormitory 101.
The white oxygen concentrator hummed, and Song He happily breathed oxygen.
It was too troublesome to buy oxygen tanks by express delivery every day. Considering that he would easily become deprived of oxygen when he thought deeply, he simply bought a home oxygen concentrator that cost 3,000 yuan. This kind of machine is used to assist breathing for people with lung diseases. Song He lowered the oxygen volume and it was just right.
There are four windows open on the computer, all of which are cutting-edge papers on geometric topology.
"It's all water..." Song He muttered to himself.
He originally thought that papers on cutting-edge mathematics would have a high rate of usefulness. After all, no ordinary undergraduates would issue watery papers just for graduation. To get involved in cutting-edge fields, you have to start as a graduate student.
I never expected that nearly half of the papers were parallel imports, yes, nearly half!
This is Song He's specially selected papers from some of the world's most famous universities. This is actually such a virtue!
He feels that his understanding of the academic world in today's world has improved. It seems that top universities are full of talents, but in fact, the proportion of people with real talents and practical knowledge is very small, and academic bastards are prevalent.
"No wonder mankind's technological progress is slow!" Song He was indignant, "You guys went to prestigious schools, but in the end you just fished for a living?"
The large number of water-filled papers seriously slowed down his speed in writing conjectures.
It's almost dawn, and I just wrote 60 little guesses.
The little conjectures are almost all watershed. They seem to have research value, but in fact they are of little value. They are about the same as the 60 difficult questions.
However, during the water filling process, Song He also had a clear premonition that he was getting closer and closer to a truly valuable mathematical conjecture!
It will take a few days, but we should be able to find the blockbuster mathematical conjecture before Song He's elements are published in "Cell"!
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Eight in the morning!
Jinling Institute of Technology, large classroom.
The students were all here, and at least half of them were lying motionless on the table. The students who hadn't slept had haggard faces, with thick dark circles under their eyes, as if they were wearing panda makeup.
The smell of coffee fills the air. Coffee sales in the school supermarket have skyrocketed this morning, and almost all customers are here.
Kong Gaojie also held a glass in his hand, drinking and waiting nervously.
They really worked hard last night. All the soldiers worked hard all night and scored a full 55 points!
Although it failed to achieve the expected goal, it was undoubtedly a huge breakthrough!
The only suspense now is, how is the progress of Jinghai University?
Just after eight o'clock, the dean hurried in and walked onto the podium!
Kong Gaojie put down his coffee cup and stared at the blackboard. His hands were wet and he was sweating nervously without knowing it.