Chapter 1160 Optimization Algorithms Are Also Pure Mathematics!

Although Chang Haonan did not explain more, Ding Zhongli, who has always advocated toughening the West on climate issues, is also experienced in fighting and immediately understood the former's meaning.

The so-called giving up on self-evidence does not mean that we do not explain the rumors at all and focus on throwing dirty water on each other.

That way you will only be brought down to the same level as your opponents, and then be defeated by others with rich experience.

It's a state of mind.

A mentality of jumping out of logical traps and not following other people's routines——

When Americans accuse you of destroying the environment, they don't really care whether you are environmentally friendly.

But I want you to die.

Therefore, you must show the ability and determination to "no matter what you are going to do, I will do the same."

The only problem is time.

Ding Zhongli frowned slightly and thought for a while:

"The other side's offensive is still focused on public opinion, so we are not particularly eager to respond...but there are less than three months left before the launch of the IPCC's fourth round of assessments. If it is delayed until then, we may be Somewhat passive.”

"Three months..."

Chang Haonan estimated the timetable in his mind, and then his tone became firm:

"Three months is enough!"

In the other party's slightly shocked eyes, he further explained:

"I have contacted Professor Abella Lisser of the Lagrangian Center for Mathematics and Computation, a very authoritative scholar in the field of multi-objective optimization and neural networks. A paper we jointly completed should be published soon. …”

"At that time, as long as we follow the steps we have previously determined to conduct an inversion of the infrared satellite spectra in North America, many truths will be revealed..."

Ding Zhongli is actually not too worried about the inversion process itself that Chang Haonan focused on.

There's something almost certainly wrong with Americans' emissions data.

It's just that I can't find direct evidence.

What he paid more attention to was the first half of the sentence.

"Is such a short time... really enough to appear in the magazine?"

Ding Zhongli's tone was somewhat worried.

Although the popularity of online submission has effectively shortened the paper review cycle, for the same reason, the number of submissions received by almost every editorial department has increased exponentially.

This has led to increasingly outrageous queue times for publishing papers.

Even if the original bimonthly or quarterly magazine is changed to a single monthly publication, it will only slightly alleviate the situation of too much food and too much food.

Some popular journals even have to wait six months after the acceptance is confirmed.

However, Chang Haonan's demeanor was quite relaxed:

"Generally, it's not enough."

He answered very frankly:

"But the two of us... we should be able to let the editor jump in, so it's not a big problem."

"..."

Ding Zhongli, who had been fighting internal and external enemies for more than ten years without breaking his defense, suddenly felt a little unstable.

"I don't need to ask about what I just said..."

…

Chang Haonan's confidence is not unreasonable.

Professor Lieser's research results greatly expanded the richness of the content of his paper.

As an expert in the field of neural networks, he successfully applied the improved Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to non-convex problems.

Although subject to the limitations of the iterative method, its accuracy performance is not particularly ideal.

But considering that neural networks have just started and are still in a promising future, any breakthrough is likely to be landmark.

The only problem is that since this is the first collaboration between Chang Haonan and Lieser, and the time is quite tight, the structural arrangement of this paper has not been particularly carefully considered...

Therefore, when the editorial department of Advances in Mathematics in Germany received the manuscript, I almost thought that some reckless person had filled in the wrong email link before sending it.

"This paper is like a first draft written by a graduate student...it combines two parts of research that are barely related to each other..."

Marcel Schmidt was holding a cup of freshly brewed coffee, dragging the mouse with his other hand to quickly flip down the page, and at the same time complained to his colleagues:

"If my supervisor when I was studying at the University of Munich saw a paper in this format, he would definitely ask him to submit it to the magazine Current Affairs..."

The editor sitting opposite him is a Spaniard, and it is obvious that he did not fully understand what the other person just said:

"current events?"

After thinking for a while, I still couldn't find any mathematics journal with the same or similar name from my memory.

This is an unusual situation for an editor of a professional mathematics journal.

However, just when he felt ashamed because of his professional level, he heard Schmidt explain:

"It's a tabloid here. It usually publishes celebrity scandals and the like, and its sales are quite good..."

Obviously, as a German, the latter has a sense of humor that is far beyond the reach of most of his compatriots.

"puff--"

Colleagues at several workstations around him laughed out loud.

"Perhaps, as you said, a graduate student accidentally sent the thesis that was supposed to be sent to his supervisor to us..."

The Spanish colleague shrugged, and his tense expression relaxed.

Schmidt had already finished the coffee in his cup, and was about to send a standard rejection email as usual, and then start the next stage of work:

"The content is not in line with the requirements of our journal. About half of the space is about artificial neural networks..."

As one of the "four major journals" in the field of mathematics, "Progress in Mathematics" has always been famous for its focus on pure mathematics.

Although this principle has been loosened as the boundaries between theory and application have gradually blurred in recent years, it is still impossible for something from the symbolism school of neural networks to pass the editing test.

While Schmidt was thinking this, he habitually pulled the editing page directly to the bottom.

Then, he saw the signatures of the two authors of the paper.

For a moment, Schmidt wished he could travel back to two minutes ago with his sewing box and sew up his big mouth——

The first author, Chang Haonan, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Co-first author, Lagrange Center for Mathematics and Computation, Abella Lisser…

"hiss--"

The joke in his mouth stopped abruptly, and his whole body adjusted to a state of sitting upright.

Then, press Ctrl+home on the keyboard at the speed of light.

Back to the top of the page!

Others just thought he finished his coffee and started the next stage of work, and didn't pay too much attention.

Until the Spanish colleague just walked around and took a look behind Schmidt during a break in work.

"Why are you still reading the article just now?"

The latter's face flashed with embarrassment for a moment.

But submissions from such big bosses are usually distributed directly to the editor-in-chief.

Perhaps it is because the number of recorded papers by Professor Chang in the past was so small that it accidentally fell into the hands of an ordinary editor like him.

Absolutely amazing performance.

Awkward?

Embarrassment counts as a hammer!

"Ahem——"

Schmidt cleared his throat and said with a very serious expression:

"I think the optimization algorithm for nonlinear functions should also be considered pure mathematics..."

This speech was like a landslide and immediately knocked the other party out of control:

"What about... neural networks?"

Schmidt blushed, veins popped out on his forehead, and argued:

“Why is the application of pure mathematics not pure mathematics?”

"..."

Looking at the troubled expressions of his colleagues around him, he also knew that his statement was a bit unreasonable.

So he simply stopped talking and clicked submit on the web page at the speed of light, then picked up a paper manuscript that had just been printed and rushed out of the office...

In short, this article was sent to the journal editor-in-chief Jean Bosta Benaud.

When Professor Benoy saw the title of the paper, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes when he looked at Schmidt.

But after all, the editor-in-chief has experienced many battles and is not as hasty as the latter.

Instead, I turned to the end first and took a look at the author's detailed information.

Then, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"You're right."

He turned around and sat back in front of the computer, opening the editor's backend page:

"Although our journal mainly targets submissions in the field of pure mathematics, times are constantly changing after all, and the industry's definition of pure mathematics is also constantly changing..."

How could I say he is a leader?

This level of language art is much more elegant than Schmidt’s stiff defense just now.

"As for the review of this paper, you see..."

The main reason why Schmidt came to see the editor-in-chief was because the reviewers he was familiar with were indeed not qualified enough to evaluate such a paper.

And if you follow the normal editorial department submission process, it may waste a lot of time.

"Don't worry, I will contact Professor Jeffrey Hinton and Professor Stephen Boyd... One of them is the founder of modern neural networks, and the other is the most authoritative expert in the field of convex optimization..."

Beno naturally knew what the other party was worried about:

"I will also add your name..."

Schmidt suddenly beamed.

For an editor, being able to handle a high-impact article from a big boss is definitely an important highlight in his career.

However, before he could express his gratitude, Beno continued:

"Also, check the number of manuscripts received in the last two issues of our journal. If there are not too many, add a queue to this article and publish it as soon as possible after it passes the review..."