Fortunately, Qiao Ze was still willing to listen to Li Jiangao.
In fact, Qiao Ze himself had not realized that he had always had the need and desire to communicate with the outside world.
The difference was that he only needed to read through those mathematical ideas in the form of papers. This was the simplest and most efficient way, cutting straight to the core.
This was also why he had been upgrading his personalized intelligent paper assistant recently.
Li Jiangao's words made Qiao Ze realize that he really didn't need to be fixated on a single problem.
It was also a matter of efficiency.
If his life goal was just to solve this mathematical problem, he could indeed spend time thinking about it slowly.
But establishing a universal connection between gauge field and Riemann space was just to provide mathematical tools for addressing the mass gap hypothesis, which, in turn, was to have handy mathematical tools in future research in Quantum Physics, as well as a foundational framework that used gauge mathematics to describe natural laws of physics and perfectly explain the standard model of particle physics.
Only then would it be possible to smoothly unravel many mysteries of the microscopic world, such as the mystery of neutrino mass that Qiao Ze once mentioned.
Although Qiao Ze stubbornly believed that, if he spent more time, he should be able to find the answer, if someone could think about the problem with him, perhaps the process could be accelerated.
Moreover, he could save time to do other things.
Ever since he started engaging in research topics, Qiao Ze also found that if his focus was always on the same problem, he was more likely to feel fatigue and restricted.
So when Li Jian Gao offered his sincere advice, Qiao Ze thought for a moment and then nodded seriously, "Alright, I'll start writing the paper now. Which journal do you think is suitable for this paper?"
Li Jiangao thought for a moment and said, "Princeton's 'Mathematics Annual,' the world's most influential top-tier journal."
Qiao Ze nodded, then used the intelligent assistant on his computer to directly access the journal's official website.
How to put it, the homepage was so simple that it was infuriating.
On the left, a row of papers categorized by publication date for searching, and on the right, just a cover page providing editor information, submission guidelines, contact details, and subscription prices, without the slightest sign of the grandeur that Li Jiangao had described for a top-tier journal.
But this was quite in line with Qiao Ze's aesthetic.
Mathematics didn't need too many bells and whistles, not like a fashion magazine.
By this time, Li Jiangao had already stood up and walked behind Qiao Ze.
After glancing at Qiao Ze's computer screen, he couldn't help but say, "Don't think that 'Mathematics Annual' has a low impact factor because of the simple website.
Although the impact factor is only 2.9, which is even lower than the math journals you've submitted to before, you should know that this journal publishes fewer than a hundred papers a year, mostly in pure mathematics, which naturally results in fewer citations.
Moreover, many of the proofs in these articles have been turned into textbook material, because when textbooks are rewritten, more emphasis is put on the proof process and narrative techniques, so later citations will directly choose the textbooks rather than the original papers."
That's the reason 'Mathematics Annual' has a lower impact factor. To put it this way, in the whole of Huaxia, since the founding of the country, the number of papers published in 'Mathematics Annual' probably has not exceeded double digits. And for you, Qiao Ze, if your paper can be published in 'Mathematics Annual', you could be said to have secured your footing in the world of mathematics.
People will no longer see you as a student but will start to overlook your age and even consider you as a competitor. Forget about becoming an academician or not; with your current demonstrated capabilities, you could compete for the 2026 Fields Medal," Li Jian Gao declared emphatically.
As one of the world's top mathematics awards, limited to recipients under forty years old, if Qiao Ze could win the Fields Medal at the age of 21 in 2026, he would be the youngest ever recipient of the medal.
Even if he did not win it until 2030, at 25 years of age, Qiao Ze would still be the youngest ever recipient of the Fields Medal.
After all, Qiao Ze had set for himself the life goal to solve the Yang-Mills Equation by the age of 25.
Li Jian Gao also had no doubts that Qiao Ze would eventually solve this problem.
In the current mathematical community, not to say solving this problem completely, even if the progress made could give everyone hope for a definitive solution, winning a Fields Medal wouldn't be undeserved.
Indeed, there was no need to contemplate the possibility of becoming an academician anymore.
Rather, even if Qiao Ze didn't aspire to it, there would be a group of people pushing him to the pinnacle.
It was just like what was said on Zhihu: with the title of the world's youngest Fields Medal laureate, other academicians at the School of Mathematics would neither want nor be able to exclude Qiao Ze, otherwise, it would seem as though the selection of academicians was quite unprofessional.
Never underestimate the power of youth.
The Fields Medal and the Wolff Prize belong to the world's top mathematics awards, but they are completely different in stature.
In terms of contributing to human civilization, the potential future contributions of a Fields Medal laureate in their prime versus a Wolff Prize winner in their seventies or eighties are almost self-evident.
Although Li Jiangao was very excited, Qiao Ze's reaction remained calm, simply giving a nonchalant assent.