Although it was still the holiday period, once the galley proof of the paper was mailed to Xilin University of Technology, Xu Dajiang arranged an internal review and defense, a defense that took place during the holidays.
Essentially, this could be understood as a mere formality.
Because the project conclusion application had already been submitted earlier with Xu Dajiang's reminder.
This kind of paper, "Mathematics Annual," had already helped the school's professors confirm its quality; the defense was nothing more than a proof that the paper was independently completed by the authors.
Considering that no faculty papers from the Xilin University of Technology School of Mathematics had been published in "Mathematics Annual" before, the professors in charge of the internal project defense were somewhat lacking in confidence.
They prepared a few questions casually, and Qiao Ze, accompanied by Liu Chenfeng, answered them just as casually to complete the process.
Even the celebration banquet didn't include Qiao Ze or Liu Chenfeng, just took Li Jiangao along for the celebration.
Qiao Ze didn't care for this meal, and neither did the professors insist.
Such banquets, after all, mainly serve to bring people closer together.
If Qiao Ze had been involved, it would have only made everyone unduly cautious, so there really was no point.
Once the old project application was finished, the new project was naturally approved with extraordinary speed.
It wasn't Qiao Ze who was in a hurry, but the school was.
After learning from Su Mucheng that Qiao Ze had been in constant contact with Princeton University, Xu Dajiang had been beside himself with worry these days.
Although Qiao Ze's response to the other party was firm, which he appreciated, people's thoughts ultimately always change.
It would be good to have a way to keep Qiao Ze linked to the School of Mathematics.
Therefore, the school's response was extremely quick.
Even though it was during the holidays, they had to work overtime to expedite the approval process urgently.
The efficiency was so high that it was nothing short of breathtaking.
In two days, Xu Dajiang personally took the application submitted by Qiao Ze and completed all the procedures.
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It wasn't that they didn't want to give more, but more funds would require additional procedures, which were too troublesome.
However, these procedures could be approved during the holidays, but when it came to transfers, they had to wait until after the National Day holiday.
Of course, Qiao Ze wasn't short of this money, so naturally, it didn't matter to him.
Xu Dajiang's string of operations probably gave Qiao Ze the impression that the school's project approval speed was incredibly fast.
This was probably one of the reasons why many projects that weren't necessarily worth it were chosen.
There were, however, some processes that were inefficient.
For example, his expert application submission, which still hadn't received a formal reply. It was already October, and soon they would start peer review, a stage where projects that passed the initial review could possibly be withdrawn.
Fortunately, when discussing the issue with Zhang Hongcai, this mathematics professor from Yanbei University mentioned in passing that his application had been approved by the mathematics group and had been reported to the fund management committee; as for the final outcome, it was beyond their control.
In addition, Zhang Hongcai also subtly implied that Li's project was highly likely to pass before the committee review.
He didn't state it outright, but Qiao Ze understood the subtext.
So, he became somewhat quieter.
Since that was the case, there was no need to rush. The committee review was scheduled for November; even if he did not get selected as an expert, with the help of these professors, it was highly probable that he would succeed.
In the unlikely event that it didn't pass, at least someone would tell him who opposed his mentor's project.
And Qiao Ze had his own matters to attend to; since the school had quickly approved his new project, he planned to go ahead and submit the paper he had previously prepared.
There was no helping it; not long after the topic was confirmed, Cheng from Apple visited Xilin University of Technology. While donating a scholarship, he also gave Qiao Ze some inspiration, allowing him to thoroughly understand the problem of a unified proof, and after multiple verifications with a supercomputer, the results were perfect.
These days, while contemplating the ultimate proposition in mathematics and taking a break to rest his mind, Qiao Ze had also completed the paper for the new project.
Because there was no rush this time, it took Qiao Ze about a week to finish this paper of over sixty pages.
There was no choice; Li had advised him to write the process as thoroughly as possible.
Dragging it out to this point wasn't for the research funding; rather, Qiao Ze felt he needed to fulfill the promises he had made.
After all, he had promised Liu Chenfeng that he would include him in this project application.
As for the submission destination, it was naturally still "Mathematics Annual."
There wasn't any particular reason, other than Qiao Ze felt he had a good rapport with Roth Dugan.
Others did not understand why "Mathematics Annual's" official website would promote Qiao Ze's paper, but the moment Qiao Ze learned of this, he got it.
It was a kind of tacit understanding.
Also, lately, Qiao Ze had noticed that the old man had indeed paid some price for his whims. So this submission also had a bit of a reciprocating meaning.
This was probably the most meaningful thing Qiao Ze did over the National Day holiday.
However, as usual, Qiao Ze didn't mention this minor matter of submission to anyone.
These days, Lothar Du had indeed been a bit irritated.
After the magazine was published, the electronic version of Qiao Ze's paper was immediately released on the website.
The download numbers were astonishing.
It was not just the pull of the name Qiao Ze.
The key was that getting such a level of promotion from "Mathematics Annual" raised tremendous expectations and left many feeling incredulous.
Being able to construct a causal learning framework through group theory was enough to confirm Qiao Ze's genius.
There were also reports confirming that the upgrade for Group Wisdom's voice system M60P stemmed from Qiao Ze's theory, and the many papers he had published continuously had proven this point.