Mathematics and physics have combined forces to divide the earth into twenty-four time zones. When teenagers in the Eastern Hemisphere seek spiritual comfort from their loved ones on this night, the sun has just risen in Princeton. Lott Dugan eight o'clock in the morning Walk into his office on time.
Although he could have waited until nine o'clock, but at his age, not only could he not sleep for that long, but he was also unwilling to listen to women's nagging at home. It was better to start his day's work in the office earlier.
At least sitting at his messy desk can bring him an unparalleled sense of accomplishment. But at home, wherever there is a little mess, he can only listen to his wife's endless complaints.
However, Lot Dugan has always had a quirk. No one can move his desk, and he must maintain the messy aesthetic. Because only in this way can he find what he needs at his fingertips. Once the things on the desk become If it is tidy, he will need to spend more time looking for what he exactly needs.
Since the previous new secretary was scolded away for cleaning up his desk, no one has touched his desk in the college except himself. But it is different at home. The office in the study room The table is always neat and tidy, no matter what he says, it doesn't matter.
The elderly wife is different from when she was young. She seems to be suddenly infected with mysophobia, and she cannot tolerate any irregularities in her sight. This also makes the sixty-three-year-old Lot Dugan feel depressed.
Lot Dugan has always felt that his messy desk is like the N-body problem that he has studied all his life. Human beings are still unable to accurately map the motion trajectories of the planets in the solar system, but there are always ways to predict the approximate movement of these planets at a certain time. locations and find them quickly.
The desktop arranged according to his wishes may seem messy, but it is like a nearly perfect coordinate system. Everything will be fixed at a certain coordinate according to his needs. It is not only convenient, but also brings an achievement to Lot Dugan. feel.
After sitting at his desk with satisfaction, Lot Dugan turned on his computer and logged into his personal mailbox first.
I don't know since when, putting private before public has become a principle that every ordinary person in the Federation follows silently, even for people of Lot Dugan's age.
In fact, for people who lived through the 1970s and 1980s, most of them don't like the current federation.
Although the size of the Federation is still so huge and the body still looks strong, it can be clearly felt that something inside is decaying, and as time goes by, the area of ​​decay is growing.
Lot Dugan can sense this even from the soap opera screen.
When he was young, the most popular TV series were "Growing Pains", "Little Britain", "The Rescuers", "Family Matters", "Friends"... and other similar stories that conveyed the positive nature of life.
In this era, the TV series that everyone usually talked about became "Shameless", "Breaking Bad", and "House of Cards"... Of course, he couldn't change these, so he chose to go with the flow.
After checking several emails, he saw an email from Huaxia Yanbei University Tian.
In the past, Lot Dugan was not very fond of China. Including when he went to the capital of China to attend a mathematician conference in 2002, he did not have a very good impression of this country. But this impression began to change the year before last.
In 2022, he was invited to attend the Global Mathematics Forum in a place called Xiaozhou in China, and gave a 60-minute report at the conference. This mathematics conference was initiated by the number theory conference, one of the satellite conferences of the International Congress of Mathematicians, and mainly discussed
Topics in number theory and arithmetic geometry.
That trip to Xiaozhou was also an eye-opener for Lot Dugan.
Before this, Lot Dugan only knew that there were three cities in China: Jingcheng, Linhai, and Zhenguan. He had no impression of other cities at all. However, it was this city that he had never heard of before going there that overturned his understanding of the city.
All perceptions of the country China.
The hotel where the conference is located has an unmanned bar, unmanned robots delivering meals, a well-developed bus system, and even a large screen next to the bus station that broadcasts vehicle information at any time, and there are wireless charging devices on the resting seats next to it.
The streets in the city center are clean and orderly, and some people even asked him to go out for a walk at night.
There are also those high-rise buildings that can be seen everywhere, and the underground transportation system that looks like a future world.
Even that time, he did not return to Princeton directly after the conference, but stayed in China for another week. Accompanied by a doctoral student, he went to three surrounding cities, enjoyed the convenience of high-speed rail, and browsed the scenery of the water town.
I even took a look at the countryside below.
While waiting at the Linhai airport, Lot Dugan only felt that his mind was full of questions - how many truths did those damn media tell and whether this could be considered a developing country? After returning, he naturally paid attention to China.
It has become more numerous, and everything in China is constantly refreshing Lot Dugan's original deep-rooted knowledge.
By the way, during the week he stayed in China, the doctoral student accompanying him was arranged by Tian Yanzhen. So after seeing Tian Yanzhen's email, he clicked on it as soon as possible.
The email was received the morning before yesterday.
However, he had been doing academic exchanges at Columbia University, about a hundred kilometers away, yesterday, and did not log in to his email, so he only saw this email today. "Dear Professor Dugan, hello. Let's meet in person...
Lot Dugan probably read this letter once. It was a letter of recommendation. Whether it was based on his status as the dean of the Princeton School of Mathematics or the editor-in-chief of the Annals of Mathematics, he often received such letters of recommendation.
Familiar professor friends often write him such letters of recommendation. The former mainly recommends students to come to Princeton School of Mathematics for exchange or study, while the latter hopes that the submitted papers will receive certain attention.
Many people outside mathematics may not be aware of the importance of the "Annals of Mathematics" in the international mathematics community. After all, not as many people really pay attention to the development of cutting-edge mathematics as imagined. People are more concerned about visible scientific developments.
Such as brain-computer, such as artificial intelligence, such as autonomous driving...
Therefore, for the public, journals such as "Nature" and "Science" are more likely to arouse people's interest. But if you look at the number of articles published in these journals, you can know how difficult it is to publish in the four top journals.
Last year, there were only 34 papers included in the "Annual Review of Mathematics", while there were 1,017 papers published in "Nature" and 815 papers included in "Science". And last year, Ann.Math had more papers included.
A year, sometimes less than ten papers are collected in a year.
It is well-known and has few accepted papers, so the screening process is naturally very troublesome.
As the editor-in-chief, Lot Dugan knows very well that it is fast for submitted papers to be submitted for review within half a year. If there are some unexpected factors, such as the editor being on vacation, the original reviewer suddenly being shocked, or running away,
And issues such as layout design will further prolong the review time.
Sometimes, for various reasons, mathematicians hope that their papers can be published as soon as possible, so they often send them an email when submitting the paper, hoping to receive special care. Especially when the year of the Mathematicians Conference is approaching.
When he was a mathematician, he would often receive similar emails. Because every four years, the Fields Medal, Nevin Linner Medal, Gauss Medal, Chen Shengshen Medal will be awarded at the World Congress of Mathematicians...
Whether the paper can be published in an authoritative journal in time will sometimes affect the award of the award.
Although some mathematicians are very confident in their papers and will publish them on pre-publication websites such as ArXiver in advance and accept peer review in advance, the problem is that everyone knows that ArXiv is not authoritative. The big boss of the award review committee
It is impossible for us to stare at the results on the pre-publication website
And this year happens to be 2025, and next year will be the year when the World Congress of Mathematicians will be held. So Tian Yanzhen is really not the first to send him a similar email. Everyone hopes that their papers can be published in journals in advance and be selected by the review committee.
The big guys noticed.
So Lot Dugan was used to it.
But what interested him was that the author of the paper Tian Yanzhen specially recommended to him this time had just celebrated his sixteenth birthday. Moreover, the content of the paper still combined Schultz's theory with curves to perform upper bounds.
The derivation of rational points provides a general formula, which is then verified by supercomputing.
This made Lot Dugan decide to take a look at the paper for himself.
If this paper is as creative as Tian Yanzhen said, he would not mind personally serving as the editor of this paper and finding suitable reviewers for this paper. Not only because the content of the paper is very innovative, but also because
The age of the first author Qiao Yu.
Most mathematicians who have achieved a certain status are more interested in young geniuses because they all know the importance of mathematical talent.
In natural subjects such as physics and chemistry, as people get older, they can still rely on their rich experience to continue to shine by guiding students to conduct experiments and find bright spots in complex data, so the research life is generally very long.
But once mathematicians pass a certain age, they will lose their creativity. Mathematics happens to be a subject that requires creative thinking. It does not stick to the laws set by predecessors, but also requires logical autonomy within a perfect framework.
Push the entire discipline forward.
Let’s put it this way, a whimsical idea in mathematics may create a completely different world. But such whimsical ideas are often the patent of young people. Therefore, the Fields Medal is awarded once every four years, and it is only awarded once every four years.
Awarded to scholars under the age of 40.
It would be so imaginative if a sixteen-year-old could really complete such research independently.
So Lot Dugan did not continue to browse his personal emails, but directly logged into the backend of the "Annals of Mathematics" submission system, and through keyword searches, he soon found the paper recommended by Tian Yanzhen.
"Application of Schulz'plete Space Theory and P-Algebra Methods in Deriving Upper Bounds for Rational Points on Curve. The formula directly given in the introduction was enough to attract him. How could it be so simple?
Well, this was indeed a very interesting paper, and Lot Dugan soon became immersed in it.
He read the previous part about the analysis of curves using Schulz's complete spaces very quickly, which was not his area of ​​expertise. Although this part of the work also seemed very creative, based on the understanding of nearly complete spaces,
He does not think this part is the most eye-catching part of the paper.
Because the complexity of Schulz's theory is very high, it is not enough to support the author's ability to derive the formula for the upper bound of the curve's rational number points to such a simple level. Soon Lott Dugan saw the important part - the invariance of geometric constraints.
Derivation of parameters.
What a genius idea!
The genus, homology relationship, modular form, and P-geometric quantization are cleverly combined through the BSD conjecture, from local complexity, radiation to overall complexity, and the constraints of all variables are unified into one geometrically constrained invariant parameter!
Beautiful, simply too beautiful!
Combined with the final supercomputer analysis results of the paper, Lott Dugan also became excited. He picked up his mobile phone and wanted to call Tian Yanzhen to confirm that the main work of this paper was indeed completed by a sixteen-year-old mathematical genius.
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But I looked at the time and realized that it was already past 11 noon.
This prevented him from dialing the number immediately. Considering the time difference between the two countries, it was already late at night in China. It should be Tian Yanzhen's private time. He planned to put down the phone and directly reply to an email to Tian Yanzhen, but
My heart still feels itchy...
No, this guy wrote him an email recommending the paper first. Even if the call was not polite, the other party would still understand it. After thinking about it, Lot Dugan still made the call.
However, Lot Dugan also thought about it. If the other party didn't answer the phone for thirty seconds, he would stop harassing her today. Thinking about it, it wouldn't be very rude. Fortunately, the call was picked up in less than ten seconds.
"Hello, Professor Dugan, I guess you saw my email, right?"
Lot Dugan could hear the excitement in the other person's tone, which reassured him. The other person was not asleep yet, and he didn't feel that his call had disturbed his life. Maybe Professor Tian was also looking forward to his response.
"Yes, Professor Tian. I'm sorry, I was busy all day at Columbia University yesterday, so I just saw your email this morning. And I just read this paper, and I have to say, especially the ideas proposed in the paper Geometrically constrained invariants are a stroke of genius
So after the Supercomputing Center reviewed the results given in the paper, I decided to personally serve as the editor of this paper. But one thing, Professor Tian, ​​you know, I hope to re-define the main work of this paper. Was it really done independently by Joe Yu, the first author of the paper?"
Lot Dugan, who has taken the initiative to learn about Chinese culture, has become accustomed to respecting Chinese cultural habits and putting his surname in front of his first name when addressing Chinese people. In fact, in recent years, in more and more contexts, people Everyone began to respect this habit subconsciously.
For example, when commenting on international sports events in which Chinese people participate, some international journals began to publish the names of Chinese scientists using the last name followed by a space and then the first name. For example, Qiao Yu. However, this situation is not common because most of them When publishing names in most international academic journals, they still put the first name before the surname. But it is undeniable that this is already a developing trend.
And this method is still used, mainly for the sake of continuity when entering and retrieving. Because it was laid out this way in the past, everyone is used to searching for papers in this way when doing paper retrieval. Changing it rashly will be very troublesome.
"You know? Professor Dugan, I know you will have this question, because when my student proposed to do this proposition, I couldn't believe that he could do it to this extent. But there is no doubt that, This was indeed done independently by him.
I believe you can see from the letter I sent you that I am willing to vouch for him academically. Because we have sufficient evidence to prove this. By the way, maybe you can ask Professor Zhang Shuwen who is currently working at Princeton and the professor at New York University. Professor Robert Green.
When my students proposed this proposition, both of them were in China and were invited to attend a seminar on this proposition. Qiao Yu was the speaker at that time. Even the proposal of geometric constraint invariants was made by Professor Zhang Shuwen there. A request made personally to Qiao Yu at the seminar.
After hearing these words, Lot Dugan probably made his own judgment in his mind.
Well, a student can let a world-renowned mathematician tutor use all his years of business as an academic guarantee. If this student is not the mathematician's biological son or grandson, it is enough to explain many problems.
Lot Dugan didn't even think about appropriating other people's work.
After all, no matter what benefits are promised for such a result, the original author cannot give it away.
"Well, I'm very happy to hear this answer. I will personally serve as the editor of this paper and find suitable reviewers for this paper. If there is a chance, I would like to meet you as a student. Congratulations
, Professor Tian, ​​can find such students.
To be honest, before this, I really didn’t believe that someone could understand Schulz’s paper at the age of sixteen and apply his mathematical methods to his own research. This sounds like a science fiction story.
"
"Thank you, Professor Dugan. In fact, he is indeed extraordinary and has brought me many surprises. Thank you for finding suitable reviewers for him personally. By the way, I also believe you can understand my concerns.
, so the paper has been published on ArXiv. Of course, we have not done any publicity for the time being."
"Okay, I can understand. But... forget it, then it can only be a single-blind review. But it doesn't matter, because I believe your student is not a well-known figure, and no one has heard of him yet.
The name is just the first paper he completed independently, right?"
"You are wrong again, Professor Dugan. In fact, this is the second paper he has completed independently. His first paper was published in the Journal of Number Theory. At the age of fifteen, he summed up a type of three-dimensional
Methods for solving the Phantau equation.
"Well... I'm more interested in your student. If there is a chance, maybe we can let him come to Princeton for exchange." "Of course, but he is still too young. Maybe in two or three years.
Bar?"
"It's a deal. Okay, I won't delay your rest. Professor Tian, ​​I'm glad I could talk to you so much. Goodbye." "Goodbye."
After hanging up the phone, Lot Dugan thought for a moment, then took out his cell phone and called Zhang Shuwen.
It has to be said that Tian Yanzhen's introduction made him more curious about Qiao Yu. He wanted to talk to Zhang Shuwen, who had met Qiao Yu, about this young genius he had never met in person. The call was quickly connected.
"Hey, Professor Zhang, are you free now?
"Not yet. It's Q&A time in my office and it ends in twenty-five minutes."
This is indeed no time. Office hours are also called Office Hours. This is a task that professors teaching at Princeton University must complete every week.
During this period, professors need to stay in the office all the time, waiting for students to come to them to discuss academic issues, course content, research methods and even life directions. Waiting for anything to be discussed and communicated with the professor.
When professors are too busy, it is common for teaching assistants to take their place in classes. The school also allows teaching assistants to take on part of the teaching tasks, especially discussion classes and tutorials. However, OfficeHour professors must stay in the office in person, otherwise they will definitely be complained by students.
After all, Princeton is a private university and the tuition is expensive. If students feel that the professor does not provide them with the help they deserve according to regulations, they will definitely be dissatisfied. "Okay, how about having lunch together?"
"Well, okay, but what's the matter?"
"I want to discuss a person with you. It should be said that he is an extremely talented Chinese mathematics star. "You mean Qiao Yu? How do you know him?"
"Haha, it seems we have reached a consensus, let's talk about it at lunch. How about just at Laurea? I haven't had Italian food in a long time. "Okay, Dean Dugan."
After hanging up the phone, Lot Dugan immediately and enthusiastically began to arrange for Princeton's Supercomputing Center to verify the formula given by Qiao Yu's paper. Although the paper ended with a report issued by the Yanbei University Supercomputing Center, the unit of the paper was also
Wasn’t it written by Yanbei University?
Having this report can save a lot of time for secondary verification. For example, the program does not need to be written again. Just check it once and there is no problem, and then use it directly. After the work was arranged, he sent it to Robert Green.
Got an email.
Then I logged into Princeton's literature system and found Qiao Yu's paper published in the Journal of Number Theory, downloaded and printed it.
This series of actions can probably be understood as the basic review of a new author as the editor in charge of the paper. Everything is based on the rigor of academic papers. As for the second author of the paper, he was directly ignored by Lot Dugan.
The paper clearly states the contribution of the two authors to the paper. To be honest, as an independent researcher and only providing some inspiration to the author of the paper, it is a bit reluctant to be listed as the second author.
But people are always a little tolerant towards unknown young geniuses.
After doing this, Lot Dugan looked at the time, it was almost half past eleven, then picked up the printed paper and prepared to go to the appointment.
Although we don’t have the habit of having a full meal at noon, the Laurea restaurant right in front of the school is still very good, and it is very suitable for an occasional toothpaste. But the most important thing is that although this is an Italian restaurant, it has
French restaurant style - food is served very slowly.
Although this can hardly be called an advantage in many cases, it is different when we need to talk about things.
And there are fewer people at noon, so no reservation is needed.
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When Lot Dugan came to the restaurant, Zhang Shuwen had already arrived first.
After saying hello, the two of them sat at the dining table. Lott Dugan didn't say any more nonsense and directly handed the paper to Zhang Shuwen: "After reading this paper, you will understand why I want to talk to you about Qiao Yu, right?"
For me, this is a rare surprise in recent years.
To be honest, even if Professor Tian is willing to vouch for this child’s academic work, I still find it hard to believe that this is a thesis completed independently by a sixteen-year-old child.”
Zhang Shuwen took the paper handed over by Lot Dugan, glanced at it, and said in surprise: "He actually came up with this proposition? How long has it been since?"
"Yes, not only was it done, but the conclusion was perfect. It seems that you have indeed participated in his seminar. I suddenly want to know when he determined the proposition, but I still recommend that you read the introduction first.
Partly, I am willing to keep this expectation for a while."
Lot Dugan said expectantly.
Zhang Shuwen glanced at Lot Dugan, and then continued to read.
Obviously, after seeing the general formula, Zhang Shuwen once again showed a surprised expression. Then just like Dugen thought, the professor quickly began to browse according to the table of contents, skipping most of the previous proofs and turning directly to
About the proof process of geometric constraint invariants, and start reading more carefully.
Until the waiter brought the Italian barbecue ordered by the two of them, Professor Zhang was still indifferent to the food. Lott Dugan did not disturb the other party, but he picked up the knife and fork and ate with relish.
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Fortunately, Zhang Shuwen still remembered that this was in a restaurant, so he did not read it in depth. He just skimmed it quickly and carefully read the verification report given by the Supercomputing Center of Yanbei University at the end of the paper, then put the paper aside.
Yes, he didn't give it back to Lot Dugan.
"There is no need for this. Professor Tian has already published the paper on ArXiv first." Lott Dugan looked at the paper and said.
Zhang Shuwen replied directly: "I can't believe that Qiao Yuzhen can achieve this level in such a short time, so I hope to be one of the reviewers. Please rest assured that I will review it carefully with the strictest attitude."
This article."
Lot Dugan was stunned. It was obvious that he only wanted to talk to Zhang Shuwen about Qiao Yu today, and did not invite the professor to be a reviewer. However, regarding this kind of initiative...
"Well, you know, Professor Zhang, I do plan to invite some Chinese scholars to review this paper. If you insist, why not? I have already asked people to use TIGER to verify the results. If the final results are consistent with the paper
If the report is consistent, you will be one of the reviewers.
So now it's time for you to satisfy the strong curiosity of a paper editor. Professor Tian said, not only did you participate in that seminar, but even such a concise result of this paper was your request? Is that true? That time
When was the seminar held?"
Lot Dugan shrugged, gave his own answer, and asked his own question.
"Yes. I was invited to attend that seminar when I went to Huaqing this year...
As soon as Zhang Shuwen started to explain, he was interrupted by Lot Dugan: "Wait, this year? I remember you just went to China and it hasn't been a few days since you came back."
"Yes, if I remember correctly, the seminar was on February 7th, which is of course Chinese time, which is the early morning of February 6th here." Zhang Shuwen said with certainty. There is no way, the memory of that day is too
Too profound.
"Wait, February 7th? Today is February 23rd. If I remember correctly, when I talked to Professor Tian today, what you discussed on February 7th was a feasibility report on this proposition? That is He said that from the time he decided to do this project to the completion, um... it only took half a month?"
Lot Dugan asked in surprise.
Zhang Shuwen nodded, and looked at the dean of the college across from him holding a knife and fork, raising his head in surprise, and felt a little happy. After all, Qiao Yu is a Chinese, and he is still a young Chinese who has not received systematic Western education. people.
"Yes, Professor Dugan. This is also the reason why I hope to be a reviewer of this paper. To be honest, I was surprised to see his results, because his ideas were still very immature at that time. I gave him a suggestion.
It means leaving all the complicated things in the proof process, and the result must be simple to be a truly useful mathematical theorem. If the result of the paper is correct, it means that he not only listened, but also did it."
Zhang Shuwen replied calmly.
"Well, I'm more interested in this story. Your barbecue is almost cold. You can talk while you eat it. I'm very interested in knowing what happened that day."
This lunch, which was too rich for Westerners, took about two hours to eat.
Leaving aside the time that Zhang Shuwen focused on the paper, he spent about half of the time talking about Qiao Yu. But this was enough to make Qiao Yu's image three-dimensional and full in Lot Dugan's mind. Plus some Filter..
This is a humble and well-behaved genius.
He has not yet received a relatively complete mathematical education. Most of his mathematical knowledge comes from self-study. Even before he had this idea, he did not know the basic tool of the Riemann-Roch theorem.
Even without any guidance, I can read Schulz's paper.
Of course, the latter is only the news that Zhang Shuwen heard and cannot be proven for the time being. But even if someone tutors it, it is already shocking enough.
After lunch, Zhang Shuwen asked: "Professor Dugan, I would like to ask, if the supercomputer review proves the correctness of the formula, which experts do you plan to invite to be the reviewers of this paper?"
Lott Dugan smiled and replied: "Obviously, Schulz is a good candidate. I think if he knew that there was a child with the same talent as him and extended his theory, he would You will definitely be very interested."
Zhang Shuwen asked: "What else?"
Lot Dugan said in a consulting tone: "What do you think of Dennis from Harvard University?"
"Didn't he form a team with Professor Ruskin that just released the geometric Langlands conjecture? He shouldn't be free during this time, right?" Zhang Shuwen said with a frown.
"I remember that there were two Chinese professors in his team. Even if Dennis didn't have time, I think he would hand over a paper of this magnitude to a qualified professor for review instead of just looking for a random student." Lott Dugan smiled and said confidently.
Of course, this confidence stems not only from his confidence in this paper, but also from his own status in the mathematics community.
Zhang Shuwen nodded. Including his reviewers, there are three, which is enough for ordinary papers, not to mention that Lot Dugan is looking for reviewers of sufficient weight. Although high-level and high-importance papers are often This means that the journal editorial office will look for more reviewers out of prudent considerations.
But for papers whose results can be verified by supercomputing and pass verification, this is not necessary. Unless the editor does not trust the author of the paper.
"In addition, I have also contacted Professor Robert Greene of New York University. If he agrees, I plan to let him also serve as a reviewer. What do you think?" Lott Dugan asked again. Zhang Shuwen thought for a while. , and then nodded.
He knew Robert Greene's opinion of Qiao Yu. If it were another reviewer, it could be interpreted as distrust, but if it were this professor, it would probably only mean that he valued him. Of course, it could also be because he was not Lott in the first place. ·Reviewers selected by Dugan.
But it doesn't matter, Zhang Shuwen doesn't care about this.
Not surprisingly, two days later the Princeton supercomputer also came to the same conclusion as the Yanbei supercomputer. In fact, this was expected.
Unless it was a technical problem, no one would falsify something that could be easily verified. Lott Dugan also started contacting the selected professors step by step.
This step went smoothly, and the big-name professors he selected showed great interest in this paper, especially Schultz. When he heard that the author of the paper was only sixteen years old, he only asked: " real?"
After getting a definite answer, I happily accepted the invitation and became one of the reviewers.
But some things were just as Zhang Shuwen expected. After Professor Dennis of Harvard University agreed to become a reviewer, he did not intend to review the manuscript himself. Instead, he found a Chinese-American who was a faculty member at Berkeley in the team. professor.
"Professor Frank, Professor Dugan, the editor-in-chief of the Annual Journal of Mathematics, invited me to review a paper. It is said to be the work of a young genius from China. It is about the derivation of the upper bound of the rational point of the curve, and it uses many new methods. I think you are sure Interested in taking a look."
"Young genius? Aren't you blind?
"No, the author has already published the paper on ArXiv, so Lot Dugan doesn't think it is necessary to use a double-blind method." "Oh? What do you think of the level?"
"I have roughly read the introduction and the final supercomputing verification data. It makes sense to dare to submit it to the Annual Journal of Mathematics. It is a very important result."
"Young geniuses in China? Well, I think I do have some interest, but in some cases, you may not know that China is very keen on hyping up all kinds of young geniuses. I don't doubt the quality of the paper itself, but I do doubt this paper. The author behind it."
"Haha, Frank, you have to believe in Professor Dugan's ability. At least he is optimistic about it, and as reviewers, we only need to be responsible for the paper itself. Since you agree, I will send the paper to you right away."
"Okay, Dennis."
In the office on the third floor of the Department of Mathematics at Berkeley, Feng Yu, no, it should be said that it was Professor Univers Frank, put down the phone, and then opened his mailbox. Since he was naturalized in the United States, he got himself an English
name.
Feng Yu felt that he could not be a person who forgot his roots, so he adopted Frank as his last name. The pronunciation of this word in English is actually very similar to Feng. As for the name Uniworth, it was taken from the letter t in his name.
The universe in English is also called Universe.
This is how he introduces the origin of his name to the international students from China every time. Even though it has been so many years since he came to study in this country, he has never been back to China. Of course, as a young and promising professor who studies basic mathematics,
This is nothing to criticize.
Soon, there was movement in the mailbox.
Feng Yu downloaded the paper and then looked at the corresponding author of the paper.
Yan-zhen Tian (Yanbei University), and then smiled, he was indeed a student of a big Chinese academician.
But when his eyes moved from the first author Yu Qiao (Yanbei University) to the second author, he suddenly froze and subconsciously frowned XiQiao (independent researcher)?
Without warning, a long-dead memory suddenly came to mind.
Without rushing to read the paper, Feng Yu took a deep breath, logged into the browser on the computer by mistake, and then entered Baidu's website, Google, the favorite search engine of the Chinese people, somewhat awkwardly. He was used to using Baidu's interface.
He's not used to it.
Then he entered Qiao Xi's name in the search bar, and there were results, but one star was not the person in his mind, and the others were some messy results. So he started searching for Qiao Xi, an independent researcher in mathematics, but it still didn't work.
the result.
Feng Yu thought for a while, then looked at the first author. Damn Chinese, yu represents too many words.
However, he was the first to enter Qiao Yu. If it was what he guessed, this name was most likely... This name was very popular, but most of it did not match his guess, nor did it match Dennis's introduction to the young genius.
For a moment, he had the urge to find Tian Yanzhen's contact information, and then make a call to ask about the author of this paper, but he still held back. Regardless of whether he was a reviewer or not
Identity, it is unreasonable to contact the corresponding author of the paper to inquire about the author's situation before the paper has been reviewed.
Just thinking about it still makes me feel unwilling.
So Feng Zi simply used the input method to try yu characters one by one.
Finally, when he used the metaphor, he saw the result he wanted.
"Good news! Qiao Yu, a student from Xingtie No. 1 Middle School in our city, won the first place in CMO!"
Feng Yu immediately clicked in and looked at the website where the news was released - Star City Morning News.com, and there was a sudden "buzz" in his head, as if he was hit by a precise lightning strike!
Below the article is a huge photo. The photo was taken at the gate of Xingtie No. 1 Middle School. Congratulatory messages are hung on the arched balloons at the back. The young boy standing between the two adults below has an eyebrow that looks like... So familiar...
Chapter completed!