Super God-Level Top Student

Over the next two days, for everyone in the research group, it was probably the most relaxed period since the group was formed. It was mainly about coordinating with the university to complete the relocation of the group's work equipment and attending the so-called confidentiality course the day before.

Qiao Ze didn't bother finding out how the Optoelectronics Institute had communicated the specifics with the university, nor did he care for such details. It wasn't necessary.

However, Xu Dajiang still dragged him to the School of Mathematics's research space planned inside the Modern Design and Integrated Circuits Test Building.

The university was generous, allocating half a floor to the research group that wasn't yet named publicly.

The original layout included three laboratories and one multimedia conference room.

Each of the three laboratories even had its own accompanying rest area.

But now, the equipment in the laboratories had been cleared out, transforming them into general workrooms, though two enterprise servers from Inspur were still left for the group's exclusive use.

The tower-style cases looked somewhat dated, but Qiao Ze tested them and found that the performance was still quite good. The data inside had been wiped clean, leaving only 24TB+700G of storage space, which was a bit small. But after all, it was free of charge, so it was not good to be too picky.

The work of others had been put on pause as well, as there were dedicated people responsible for packing and transporting the project group's computers. As for the rest of the research group, they were required to attend a day-long course on the principles of confidentiality.

According to Chen Yiwen, who listened to two classes in the morning, the teachers weren't taking it very seriously, and they were just casually listening.

The main point was just to make a cursory effort, as a little extra odd knowledge couldn't hurt.

However, Liu Chenfeng and Tan Jingrong were quite baffled.

Although they had heard that some key laboratories in the school required students to sign confidentiality agreements before being recruited, they were from the School of Mathematics and didn't know much about these matters. Besides, they really didn't see anything that needed to be kept particularly secret since they truly didn't know anything.

Speaking of which, everyone had been too lazy to put passwords on their work computers. Suddenly starting to do things formally indeed took some getting used to.

As for Qiao Ze, naturally, he didn't want to waste time listening to this nonsense.

The university had given them two servers, which must be put to good use.

He planned to design an intelligent program based on Group Wisdom.

The framework for Group Wisdom was already written, although in engineering terms, it would still take countless engineers to study various adaptations and interfaces before it could truly begin widespread use and application. But for Qiao Ze to set up a smaller framework that served only himself, it would not be so troublesome.

The ready-made framework was installed directly on the server, and once the drivers were in place, it could be used immediately.

However, to meet Qiao Ze's requirements, some features still needed to be added or removed.

Qiao Ze had always been dissatisfied with the efficiency of human labor.

Even though Liu Chenfeng worked diligently every day to find suitable papers based on his requirements, the problem of paper padding in this era was too severe.

This problem was not unique to Huaxia—it was a collective issue worldwide, including the field of mathematics.

It also included many top journals.

Qiao Ze couldn't understand how many papers that piled up concepts passed the review process and still garnered double-digit citation counts.

The hot spots for substandard articles in top journals were usually those with a list of big names as corresponding authors.

Of course, it couldn't be said that the papers were entirely devoid of content. However, by Qiao Ze's standard, if a paper did not present new arguments or introduce new mathematical tools capable of solving problems, then labelling them as filler was not unjust.

It was like someone reducing the steps to solve an equation that was previously solved in ten steps down to eight by summarizing and integrating methods already developed by others. To the indulgent eye, this was already progress in mathematics.

But to Qiao Ze, publishing such papers was purely a waste of time.

Although the authors could deepen their understanding of the field and perhaps offer a more comprehensible and approachable perspective to a junior researcher new to the direction, to Qiao Ze, these papers were only increasing the volume of his search for useful papers in the database and wasting more of his time—they served no purpose and were mere page pollutants.

If Qiao Ze's thoughts on this were to get out, it would definitely be met with vehement criticism from the entire mathematical community.

After all, it was the sorrow of the times.

Mathematics and fundamental physical theory had found it difficult to progress any further.

Newton once said that he had achieved his great accomplishments by standing on the shoulders of giants.

But in this day and age, looking forward, the former giants had become so numerous they almost completely sealed off the foundational theoretical framework, leaving little room for newcomers to establish new schools of thought. Even the big problems left by those giants have mostly been solved.

The remaining issues, such as the NP problem, turbulence problem, Hodge conjecture, and Riemann hypothesis, are so complex and significant they are almost on par with philosophical conundrums.

As for developing new mathematical systems similar to calculus or topology that could stand the test of verification and widespread application on the basis of modern mathematical systems, the difficulty is even higher than solving the aforementioned conjectures.

So for the vast majority of mathematicians, what they can do is pick the shoulders of a predecessor that are high and broad enough, stand on them to see a bit more of the scenery, and leave their own footprints along the way.