"Well... why don't we begin by talking about Dou Dou? We couldn't understand those posts that Dou Dou shared today. What's going on, exactly? How about starting by explaining in detail?" Zhang Zhou approached Qiao Ze and said.
Study is study, but today's event was clearly an explosive one in the academic circle, making it hard for anyone to resist gossiping.
Qiao Ze was about to reject him firmly when the dorm room door suddenly flew open, and Xu Dajiang charged in wearing a black coat, his face flushed with excitement.
"Qiao Ze, did you really write that paper?"
"Hmm?" Qiao Ze was slightly taken aback. Although he could guess which paper Xu Dajiang was referring to, it hadn't been published yet, and he hadn't mentioned it to anyone else. Even Li Jiangao probably didn't know, which made him uncertain if Xu Dajiang was talking about the paper he was thinking of.
"Yes, yes, the one that proved the existence of a solution to the Yang-Mills Equations." Xu Dajiang was so excited that he was almost tripping over his words.
"Oh, that one, yes. But how did you know about it?" Qiao Ze asked.
"I just knew it was you! Qiao Ze, such a huge deal, why didn't you tell us about it? This isn't good, the school was totally unprepared! You could have at least mentioned it in advance, when did you even start keeping things from Li?" Xu Dajiang complained, grinning from ear to ear.
The university was indeed caught off guard this time.
They were still preparing a seminar for Qiao Ze to present his previous paper, and had already sent out invitations to many renowned professors within the country, when suddenly the news broke tonight that Qiao Ze had solved the existence of a solution to the Yang-Mills Equations.
This was heaven-defying; they were completely unable to keep up!
Who among the invited professors would still be interested in attending a seminar on another, simpler problem?
What's more, the previously prepared seminar was too modest in scale.
They had only invited some domestic professors and mostly from the mathematics field; it was definitely not enough.
Qiao Ze had advanced the entire theoretical academic community's understanding of the Yang-Mills Equations.
It was very possible that even Professor Yang would personally attend this seminar, creating a legendary academic anecdote, the impact and appeal of which...
Xu Dajiang didn't even dare to think about it!
Before, when Qiao Ze talked about making Xilin University of Technology comparable to Princeton, Xu Dajiang, as much as he wished it were true, understood it was an idealized dream when considering the difference between public and private institutions.
But upon hearing the news, Dajiang suddenly felt that it might not be so impossible after all!
A great figure founding a school of thought that flourishes for centuries is not something unthinkable.
At this moment, still caught in his excitement, Xu Dajiang subconsciously ignored the reactions of the other three youngsters in the dorm room.
The three poor kids were looking completely dazed by now.
The Yang-Mills Equations?
Has Qiao Ze already solved them?
Their bewildered eyes betrayed their scrambled thoughts.
Indeed, they had come close to worshipping Qiao Ze as a deity, but could he really be this powerful?
That was one of the Millenium Prize problems, the most intellect-testing of them all, even touching on the foundations of physics, and Qiao Ze had solved it without anyone noticing?
Even the university had just found out about it?
Just as the four of them were lost in a complex and confused tangle of emotions, Qiao Ze's voice, bland as water, entered their ears as though it were a spell.
"I've only solved the most basic part of the problem; I couldn't even produce the equation's solution, so there was really no need to mention it. Besides, how did you find out?"
"This... The news came from Edward Witten at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was one of the reviewers for your paper. Qiao Ze, what am I supposed to say about you? This basic problem has been troubling the academic community for half a century!
This really isn't a simple issue! I'm begging you, the next time, really, don't do this again, okay? At least give me a hint, a little mental preparation..."