One can only say that people's joys and sorrows are not communicated.
The two academicians visiting Xu Dajiang couldn't understand for the life of them why Qiao Ze would be less than happy after solving such a world-class problem.
Even if the other party was a genius, the most they could accept was a lack of excitement, but there shouldn't be any regrets.
Not to mention that Qiao Ze wasn't idle; the grand unified theory he envisioned still required research.
In any case, the atmosphere in the office was strange.
Xu Dajiang hadn't even managed to sort out his emotions and even used a probing tone.
For Zhang Mingrui and Zhou Liang, was this a problem?
Successfully solving the Yang-Mills mass gap problem meant that Qiao Ze had proven the existence of a set of solutions in four-dimensional spacetime that allowed for the characteristic features of Yang-Mills field theory to exist, and these solutions also satisfied the conditions for having mass.
According to the information from Yanbei University, Qiao Ze had done more than just that; he had even provided an explanation for why Yang-Mills Fields accounted for some fundamental particles lacking mass and proposed a method to physically verify it.
It wasn't that Zhang Mingrui and Zhou Liang looked down on the Xi Gong University School of Mathematics.
With such a paper, without organizing a report meeting, could the school find anyone qualified to preside over this doctoral dissertation defense? Could the defense team organized by the school even be qualified to evaluate whether this paper was correct?
Let alone Xilin University of Technology, the whole world would struggle to find many qualified and capable individuals to review this paper.
Only a few heavyweights, countable on one hand, were probably still studying the new algebraic structure proposed by Qiao Zeti.
So how could Xu Dajiang have the face to ask that question?
But to their surprise, Qiao Ze actually pondered seriously for a moment before saying, "Let's keep it simple, just a normal defense will do."
The last report meeting was big and lively, but it didn't leave a good impression on Qiao Ze.
Too many people and too noisy, not very interesting.
As for the so-called academic recognition, Qiao Ze didn't value it much, either.
Most people at the report meeting couldn't understand the deductive reasoning behind superspiral space algebra in a short time, and once transcendental geometry theory was added, it became even more abstruse; why trouble everyone?
But in the end, someone got anxious.
"Wait, Qiao Ze, I heard that your doctoral dissertation topic is the Yang-Mills field mass problem, right?" Zhang Mingrui gave Xu Dajiang a look and gently said to Qiao Ze.
"Such an issue must have a world-class report meeting! Without elaborating the process of solving the problem at the meeting and accepting questions and doubts from peers, how can you gain academic recognition?" Zhang Mingrui said earnestly.
"But why do I need academic recognition? Or who can represent academia?" Qiao Ze retorted.
"Uh? This..." Zhang Mingrui was stunned, momentarily at a loss for a response.
Because that's how everyone operates.
After solving a difficult problem, they can't wait to announce it, then choose a good day to exchange ideas with mathematicians all over the world and strive for recognition.
This is what many independent mathematicians and theoretical physicists do.
Even if they don't want prize money or medals, isn't academic peer recognition exactly what theoretical mathematicians pursue?
"Of course, by academia, I mean the collective understanding of the vast majority of scholars... Qiao Ze, I know you're proud, but this recognition is not satisfaction from the higher-ups to those below, but rather everyone accepting the theorems you proposed and affirming their correctness.
I know you might not care about fame and fortune in your way of thinking, but this kind of recognition means that your scholarly ideas can be widely disseminated and advance the world's understanding of relevant issues. After all, this is also the significance of your studying this topic, right?" Zhou Liang chimed in, picking up where Zhang Mingrui left off.
Qiao Ze shook his head and said, "Mathematical expressions rely on Quantum Chromodynamics, and the paper provides a method for verification."
But this did seem to be a method...
"What brought you here?" Qiao Ze eventually brought the topic back around.
Realizing that further persuasion might fall under the category of ineffective communication, Zhang Mingrui and Zhou Liang exchanged glances and decided to temporarily give up.
If only they could take a look at Qiao Ze's paper first.
But it wasn't a big problem.
Even if Qiao Ze was reluctant to host a report meeting, the doctoral thesis defense process still had to be carried out.
Someone needed to review it first.
"Here's the thing, Qiao Ze, the two academicians had an idea yesterday that coincidentally matches your previous thoughts, so they specially came to discuss creating a periodical..." Xu Dajiang suppressed his emotions and fully conveyed the intentions of Zhang Mingrui and Zhou Liang from yesterday.
In fact, he had already messaged Qiao Ze last night.
He had clearly spelled out the academicians' thoughts and the school's intentions on WeChat.
Going over it again was simply to save face for Zhang Mingrui and Zhou Liang.
Although Xu Dajiang was fearless, he didn't want to incur the resentment of two such influential figures.
Fearing that Qiao Ze would find it annoying, Xu Dajiang spoke quickly and summed everything up very concisely, clearly explicating the thoughts of Zhang Mingrui and Zhou Liang in just a few words.
No sooner had Xu Dajiang finished speaking than Qiao Ze nodded and said, "Okay."
Upon receiving Xu Dajiang's message the day before, Qiao Ze had also considered the issue and found it to be a very good idea.
It wasn't that Qiao Ze wanted to compete with the West for discourse power.