Regardless of faith, nationality, or other factors.
Currently, nearly all the big shots who hold sway in the Huaxia academic circle are betting on Qiao Ze, even if just for appearances.
As an undergraduate, he boldly applied to become an expert on the National Natural Science Foundation's database, and the committee begrudgingly accepted it.
Not only did he secure a Fields Medal for his mentor, he also rubbed the faces of all those professors who had applied for the same award that year in the dirt. Everyone thought that would cause quite a stir.
The next day, he directly proved the existence of solutions to the Yang-Mills Equations, and his paper was published in "Mathematics Annual." Yang himself attended the report meeting, where a general solution was presented...
This series of actions, God knows how many people it shocked.
It also disappointed all those who were hoping to enjoy the spectacle.
People thought Qiao Ze would somehow receive a lesson from the higher-ups for his youthful arrogance, but the result turned out to be the exact opposite.
The people causing trouble publicly apologized, and then the school announced it would deal with the matter seriously.
After Qiao Ze's paper was published in "Mathematics Annual," the serious proceedings did indeed start. The school suspended that professor's privilege to recruit graduate students and apply for projects, ordering a profound self-review.
Following the report meeting, the punishment escalated and ultimately resulted in dismissal. Now, that professor probably lost the eligibility to apply for the Fields Medal forever.
As for after today, if the academic community acknowledges Qiao Ze's research findings, that's not as simple as just a Fields Medal, or an Abel Prize.
Because once it is determined that Qiao Ze's understanding of the mass problem in Yang-Mills Fields is correct, then the superspiral space algebra and transcendental geometry primarily used to solve this problem must also be correct and extremely valuable mathematical theories.
His status instantly rose to that of a founder of a new theory.
It's like even if Qiao Ze suddenly kicked the bucket right now, in a few years once his results are recognized, he could almost immediately become a top existence in the global scholarly community, like Ai and Niu, someone who would be directly written into history books.
Mathematics and geometry named after him would, within the next ten years, become compulsory content in Advanced Mathematics courses. Each year, countless newcomers would follow the path he laid out and delve deeper into the contents of superspiral space algebra and transcendental geometry.
In at most half a century, the theoretical academic circles would start to pass down legends of Qiao Ze scholars or the Xilin School.
A byproduct would likely be that various stories about him would also spread widely.
For instance, Qiao Ze's dedication and persistence towards academia were incomprehensible, with research occupying his mind almost all the time, including his dreams! So one day, in a dream, Qiao Ze invented a new form of mathematics and used it to solve a world-class problem, earning the worship of scientists around the globe.
That goes to show that true genius is still born from diligence.
Really, such stories are bound to spread. They might even be exaggerated further and in the not too distant future become inspirational texts in schoolbooks, engraved in the minds of many children.
The only regret is that Qiao Ze is not dead yet. So all this will have to wait.
Anyway, everyone smiled brilliantly for the group photo, but who knows if some were already wishing for Qiao to hurry up and die. Unfortunately, Qiao Ze is too young, so young that even if he swept up all the attending scholars in today's grand group photo, no one inside was confident they could outlive him.
After the official group photo, Lu Xiuxiu, Su Mucheng, and Qiao Ze's roommates, who had been watching the feast from the sidelines, also started taking photos.
The teacher in charge of photography was completely patient.
He took nearly a hundred photos with his camera.
Really, Qiao Ze felt that all the photos he had taken in his life couldn't match the number taken today.
Especially Lu Xiuxiu.
When she was young, Lu Xiuxiu always wanted to take more photos of Qiao Ze for keepsakes, but Qiao Ze never cooperated. This time she finally seized the opportunity, not to mention that there was a professional photographer to help her find angles. So she simply dragged Qiao Ze and Su Mucheng and, under the lead of Qiao Ze's roommates, started snapping photos everywhere.
They nearly took pictures of every spot in the entire school that she found to have a nice scenery.
It wasn't until she felt that her dear son was approaching his limits of tolerance that she finally stopped with great reluctance.
Qiao Ze finally relaxed and could quietly have a meal with his roommates.
At the cold buffet prepared in the school cafeteria, Lothar Dugan walked directly up to Peter Schultz, who was holding a sandwich and looking at the replay video on a table.
"Professor Schultz, may I have a word with you?"
"Of course, Professor Dugan, what is it?"
"While listening to Qiao Ze talk about transcendental geometry earlier, I suddenly had a bold idea. If the theorem is proven correct, this new method could be applied to process multi-variable function optimization problems. You are an expert in this area, so I hoped to discuss it with you."
"Oh? Let's hear your thoughts." Peter Schultz was clearly interested too.
Lothar Dugan took out his already prepared manuscript and handed it over, excitedly saying, "Consider an objective function f(x) = ∑n,i=1,sin(xi), and define a constraint function g(x) = e^x1+cos(x2) = 0, then introduce Lagrange multiplier λ to deal with the constraint condition, and you can get a new Lagrange function."