Pan Yang

## Status(es)

### Occupation(s)

Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University (former)Vice President of Peking University

## Chapter Appearances

### First

Chapter 550

Pan Yang is one of Zhang Ye's friends at Peking University and is the one who gave him the assistant professor position to him.

## Background

Pan Yang is the Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University.

## History

### **The Wondrous Math Problem Arc**

When Zhang Ye's wondrous math problem spread throughout Weibo, Dean Pan confirmed that the math problem is indeed an elementary math problem but with a hidden catch. He then explains on Weibo the principle of the trap of the math problem. He copied down the math problem for Peking University students to try and analyze.

### **College Entrance Examinations Arc**

He was appointed as the supervisor of the question setting team for Mathematics for the Beijing college entrance exam. The questions for the exam were already set but they were not approved by the board, as the Board of Education wanted to add more difficulty to the Beijing college entrance exam. Dean Pan had been impressed by Zhang Ye's problems that he gave when he was at No. 2 Experimental Primary School and Zhang Ye's Classroom and wanted Zhang Ye to do the same for the college entrance exams.

He waited to receive Zhang Ye and greeted him when he arrived, then confiscated his cell phone and any forms of communication devices. He later reveals to Zhang Ye that the Mathematics question setting team has discussed that the creation of the questions will be mainly led by Zhang Ye. They appointed him as head of the Mathematics examination question setting team and for the majority of the exam, most of the questions will be set by him. When he saw the questions proposed by Zhang Ye for the Mathematics section, he was stunned by their difficulty.

After the question setting team had submitted their tasks' requirements, the main, supplementary, and some backup questions which were not selected were all sorted and submitted to the higher-ups by Dean Pan as one of the supervisors.

He later met Zhang Ye and Su Na while they were coming back from their morning jog. He informed them about the celebratory feast organized by the teachers on the hilltop. During the feast, he explained to Zhang Ye that it is a tradition to have a friendly competition between the teachers. When the female team picked Zhang Ye as their representative for drinking, he told Zhang Ye to stop eating and join.

When Yu Fan, the supervisor of the Chinese Literature question setting team, arrived at the feast, Dean Pan hurried him to judge which poem is better in the poetry duel between Zhang Ye and Liao Qi. He was surprised when Yu Fan claimed that Zhang Ye's poem is worlds apart from Liao Qi's. He was dumbfounded to see that Zhang Ye's poem can actually be read backward and still work perfectly.

When Zhang Ye was being cursed by countless people due to the questions he set, Zhang Ye tried to claim that Dean Pan was the one who set the questions. Dean Pan got anxious as it is not something he could take the blame for, but none of the comments believed Zhang Ye. He called Zhang Ye the next morning to rant about it.

He was again blamed by Zhang Ye a few days later when the results of the national college entrance exams were released. Zhang Ye blamed Dean Pan for offering him the job, causing the Beijing examinees' average to be lower than the national average by 70 points.

Zhang Ye called him one day to recommend Huang Lingling for Peking University but Dean Pan told him that she's already on the list of top scorers that the student recruitment team went to meet.

After the matter between Peking University and Tsinghua University was over, he called Zhang Ye to ask how he is and to pass a message from the university's president. He also told Zhang Ye that many of the teachers who used to be not friendly towards him, now spoke well of him, including Han Henian. He was also worried whether Zhang Ye can shoulder all the anger of Tsinghua, to which Zhang Ye assured him that he can but asks if the heads of the university can compensate for the car windows for him. As Zhang Ye had been a great help to Peking University, he readily agreed.

## Trivia

* Dean Pan is a rank higher than Dean Chang Kaige of the Chinese Department

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 550: The Youngest Associate Professor in the Country!
2. ↑ Chapter 621: Heated discussions about the wondrous math problem on the Internet!
3. ↑ Chapter 703: The teachers' friendly contest?
4. ↑ Chapter 707: Marvelous, hidden palindrome poem!
5. ↑ Chapter 720: Tsinghua and Peking University fight over the students!
6. ↑ Chapter 725: An urban legend of the entertainment industry!