"Ah..." Edward Witt sighed and then picked up the phone again.
There were more mathematicians in the team who had been studying Yang-Mills Theory for years besides Robert, he hoped the others would be more reasonable.
Fortunately, Robert Stephen was not an employee of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; he didn't need to persuade this stubborn man, it didn't matter anymore.
While the Western academic magnates began to enthusiastically discuss whether to come to Qiao Ze's doctoral thesis defense, the efficiency of the Department of Mathematics and Physics at the Huaxia Science Academy was also astounding.
They had even found a team of advanced academic translators to provide simultaneous interpretation for the foreign mathematicians and physicists who were coming.
At the moment, Qiao Ze was communicating with the team's representative, Guo Xiaoqing, through the internet.
Clearly, this was not easy work.
Even though AI technology had developed language models that were incomprehensible to ordinary people, simultaneous interpretation of academic papers was still an extremely specialized task.
Improvisation alone would not suffice, so the translation team had already received Qiao Ze's paper.
"Dr. Qiao, would translating '共融超越集合' as 'Conjunctive Transcendental Set' be appropriate?"
By the third time he received this kind of question, Qiao Ze's already scarce patience had all but worn thin.
However, it wasn't without its rewards; the translators' struggles had made him realize he had made an extremely correct decision.
The '共融超越集合' was a concept Qiao Ze had defined in transcendental geometry. It refers to a group of objects that, if linked by a common transcendental path or spiral element, can be recognized as a conjunctive transcendental set.
This concept was used to describe points, surfaces, or volumes with special connections in transcendental geometry.
Now in the translation provided by the team, 'Conjunctive' in English means connected, conjunctiva; 'Transcendental' refers to transcendental numbers, and 'Set' could mean many things, a verb, a noun... but here it should mean a set, right?
So translated as 'Connected Transcendental Number Set'?
Honestly, Qiao Ze didn't know whether this translation was appropriate either because from the perspective of scholars who were native English speakers, he didn't know whether they could intuitively understand the meaning this concept was supposed to convey through this translation.
So, he simply delegated the task of communication to Dou Dou.
Soon, the other side got the reply: "Guess why this paper doesn't have an English version? Is it because we don't understand English? (Room erupts in laughter) *´∀`)´∀`)*´∀`)*´∀`)"
Seeing this response, Guo Xiaoqing immediately knew Qiao Ze had probably grown too lazy to bother with them.
It had to be the robot's reply.
Other than the artificial intelligence Dou Dou that Dr. Qiao had toyed with, which serious person at the Mathematics Research Institute would use emoticons popular with young people?
Forget Qiao Ze, even the undergraduates working at the institute would not be so childish.
Guo Xiaoqing couldn't fathom how anyone could think that such an entity fond of spewing garbage talk would one day destroy the world.
But then again, as much as Dou Dou's reply left much to be desired, at least it clearly expressed the other side's attitude...
"Old Guo, did the other side reply? Can we proceed with our translation ?"
"Reply my ass! Let's just not bother, and for any obscure terms not found in the academic dictionary, let's just replace them with their Pinyin. That's it."
"What's wrong with that? With so many unheard-of words, are you guys confident you can find appropriate translations for all of them before the defense? Rather than making a hash of it and causing misunderstandings, it's better to use Pinyin directly. It's simple and clear!"
Meanwhile, at Xilin University of Technology.
"Qiao, Chen Yiwen said he wants to treat us to a meal today."