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Zhou Qingyuan and Huang Pei both misunderstood.

Wang Hao acknowledged that he was indeed excellent, but he couldn't surpass the level of the mathematics professors, especially in terms of knowledge accumulation; he was sure he couldn't catch up with them.

He was just standing on the shoulders of these two.

"Teaching as a Gift" helped him continuously obtain insights from others, aiding in understanding, insights, and correct thinking when explaining.

When they were just thinking about a question, not yet sure if it was correct or not, the corresponding "correct" content had already been fed back to Wang Hao's mind.

So, he was just gathering the wisdom of "three people," or more precisely, "four people," including Zhou Qingyuan, Huang Pei, Sun Jian, and himself.

Zhou Qingyuan and Huang Pei are both mathematics professors.

Sun Jian is also a mathematics Ph.D.

Their understanding and ideas on specific issues are certainly not comparable to ordinary students, but they also don't bring too much inspiration value.

When he sat down to study the system at the restaurant, Wang Hao found this problem.

He originally thought it would bring a lot of inspiration value.

But the fact was otherwise.

[Task One]

[Inspiration Value +2, Inspiration Value: 31.]

[Task Two]

[Inspiration Value +12, Inspiration Value: 19.]

The research on common solutions to partial differential equations at the B difficulty level only increased the inspiration value by two points.

The research on one-dimensional non-homogeneous equations at the D difficulty level also only increased the inspiration value by 12 points.

This value is not much.

Comparatively, in the first class, studying the Fourier transform algorithm at the C difficulty level increased the inspiration value by more than one hundred points, while studying the one-dimensional non-homogeneous equation at the D difficulty level only increased it by a dozen points; the difference between the two is quite significant.

"This may be because the newly acquired knowledge is understanding, not inspiration."

"Research and development require inspiration."

"Students' understanding of knowledge certainly cannot compare to that of doctoral students or professors, but their ideas, or inspiration, may not necessarily be inferior to those of doctoral students or professors."

"Also, there are more students..."

The last point is also crucial.

"Teaching as a Gift" can gather everyone's correct understanding, correct ideas, and thinking. Naturally, the more people covered, the better. The advantage of professors and doctors is in knowledge, not creativity or inspiration.

In terms of mastering knowledge, what he possessed was enough to support cutting-edge exploration. Mastering some other knowledge, other understanding, might not necessarily help with research and development.

...

That night.

Wang Hao carefully reviewed the lesson plan again and made sure everything was well-prepared.

He was about to go downstairs for a stroll when he found several emails in his inbox, all from the "Computer Mathematics and Information Engineering" journal.

Three of them were notifications of manuscript acceptance, and the relevant papers would be published in the magazine two weeks from now.

There were also several reminders about copyright, legal disputes, etc., and one of them requested filling out information so that the journal could transfer the manuscript fee to his account.

Wang Hao immediately became spirited.

He read each email carefully, then filled out the account information.

Submit, send!

Three hundred euros, in hand!

Wang Hao was slightly excited; he hadn't expected all three submissions to be accepted on his first attempt.

Although he was confident in his research, his initial thought was that the papers would be sent back for revisions, and there was no guarantee that all of them would be accepted upon resubmission.

Now all three had been accepted and confirmed for publication in next month's magazine.

Wang Hao couldn't contain his inner anticipation and carefully studied "Computer Mathematics and Information Engineering." He found a large amount of relevant material, studying how many pages the papers would occupy and the proportion of pages they would occupy in an issue of the magazine.

And so on.

His phone rang.

Wang Hao glanced at it and saw it was an unknown number. Somewhat reluctantly, he answered the call and heard the voice on the other end say, "Is this Wang Hao, Professor Wang? It's Sun Jian. We met at the top floor library this afternoon."

"Sun Jian! What's up?" He was slightly surprised; it was indeed an unexpected call.

"I'm fine. It's you who has a problem."

"What?"

"Open the school forum. There's a post about you!" Sun Jian reminded him, "It says you, during class, punished students physically."

This news was quite unexpected.

Wang Hao, with doubts, opened the school's official website, found the forum entrance, logged in, and saw a post titled "Differential Calculus Lecturer Physically Punishes Students."

There was an image in the post.

Two students stood in the corner seats of the first row, with a teacher lecturing in front.

Although the figures in the picture were blurred, Wang Hao could immediately recall that it was a scene from teaching physics, where he had asked two students to stand and listen to the lecture.

Several people promptly replied to the post, confirming that indeed some students in the "Partial Differential Equations" class were made to stand as punishment.

There were dozens more replies below.

In the campus forum of Xihai University, the post was quite heated, with dozens of replies in just over two hours, enough to show that many people were paying attention.

Wang Hao carefully analyzed, "Several prompt replies indicate it's a 'collaborative crime.'"

"Looking at the photo, it was taken by physics major students, most likely second-year students."

"Considering the extremely limited number of female students, it's probably male students, physics major male students, who should all live on the same floor. Just pick one at random and you'll know who did it."

"Of course, it doesn't matter."

"What is definitely worth noting is... some students playing with their phones during class!"

Wang Hao smiled inwardly.

Who did it doesn't matter.

But, students thinking they can confront the course lecturer in charge of the department like this

That's just too naive!

...

Wang Hao didn't pay much attention to the post on the forum about him, even though there were personal attacks against him in the comments.

For example, mentioning his research mistakes making it to the news.

For example, mentioning his public statement that he doesn't care how many students fail, as most of them will probably not be able to stay in school next year.

And so on.

He didn't care.

The next morning, after his usual morning run, Wang Hao went to the office building and went through the lesson plan again to ensure that there would be no issues during class.

Zhou Qingyuan came over, "Wang Hao, what's going on with class? Someone reported that you physically punished students, and the academic affairs office said they'll come to observe today's class."

"It's just making a few sleepy students stand."

Wang Hao explained briefly, indifferent, "It's okay, that was the method from last week. This week, I'll just teach the class normally."

"That's good."

Zhou Qingyuan reminded him, "You're still young; don't get into conflicts with students. It's normal for students not to listen to undergraduate courses."

Wang Hao nodded in agreement.

In fact, he didn't care at all.

Whether out of his teaching philosophy accumulated over more than a decade or out of the "win-win strategy" of getting more students to listen, he had decided to establish a "strict" image.

If students post something or make a report, his momentum will be directly suppressed. How can he still demand that students listen to the lecture in the future?

Nine thirty.

Wang Hao went to the large classroom for class, got the key to the back door from the floor manager.

Locked!

He posted a note that read, "Back door closed, please use the front door for class!"

Students who arrived early to the classroom, Wang Hao asked for their names one by one, and then marked a checkmark after each name on the list.

He brought a chair and sat at the entrance of the front door.

One by one, "checked."

When students saw Wang Hao waiting at the door, checking off names one by one, some of them felt a chill down their spines; they didn't expect Wang Hao to be so decisive.

How can they skip class like this?