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Pure Mathematics Student

Preferred Pronouns: They/Them

smyts4@nottingham.ac.uk

justice523@outlook.com

BSc Hons Mathematics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, September 2022 to June 2026,
- Third Price, 31st International Mathematics Competition for University Students, Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria), August 2024
- in Ningbo, China campus until 2024; however, due to the programmer transfer from “BSc Mathematics with Applied Mathematics” (which lacked pure mathematics modules) to “BSc Mathematics”, the Ningbo-side degree was dropped out.
Zibo No. 4 High School, September 2019 to June 2022
- the choice of subjects were Physics, Chemistry, Biology, albeit performed badly in Gaokao
- Shandong Provincial Second Prize of 2021 Chinese High School Mathematical Joint Conpetition
- National Second Prize of 2021 Popular Science and Science Fiction Writing Competition
Zibo Yucai Secondary School, now “Junior Section” of Zibo No. 4 High School, August 2015 to June 2019
Zichuan Experimental Primary School, September 2010 to June 2015

Chinese (Simplified Mandarin): Native
- However, I struggle to speak my local dialect like a native.
English (preferred British English): C1
- IELTS taken in October 2025: Total 8.0, Listening 9.0, Reading 9.0, Writing 7.0, Speaking 6.0
Miscellaneous languages
- Czech: I tried to study on Duolingo but Duo didn’t teach me its complex grammar directly, just like how preparatory softwares behave.
- Japanese: I can only read railway documents

Pure Mathematics: Algebra, Number Theory, Geometry
Transportation: trains, planes, Japanese National Railways, and their timetables
FOSS: OpenTTD China Set Developer
Music: Piano, classical, and 80s-90s Chinese and Japanese music
Photography: I don’t chase wonders. I chase behind history, and over reality.
- If I was always focusing on “how to afford a Canon R6 Mark iii”, then I would have probably missed many more things, that had already gone and would never come back.
- Those chasing the last years of steam trains in the 1970s probably had much worse devices and faced much harder challenge. However, they had photos that are classic and remembered.

Academic Productivity
- Brain, Paper, Pen.
- ThinkPad E16 Gen 3 with Linux Mint 22.3 x86_64
Photography
- Canon EOS 650D
- Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS Nano USM
- Old Devices
  - Panasonic Lumix FZ-82D, from January 2025, until August 2025
  - Canon EF-S 18-55mm IS II and 55-250mm IS II, until 3 March 2026