Chapter 713

In addition to "New Advances in Mathematics", Gu Lu promised to give a certain manuscript fee.

The other three of the four major journals also expressed full sincerity to Gu Lu.

Especially the Annals of Mathematics, which belongs to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Mathematics.

Reitz, the current dean of the Institute for Advanced Mathematical Studies, told Gu Lu in an email that if Gu Lu agreed to give the article on the theory of 'geometry-algebra-topology' to the Annals of Mathematics, he would publish it.

Princeton University will confer the title of 'Honorary Alumnus' on Gu.

Honorary alumni.

Especially being an alumnus of a top 10 university like Princeton in the world is a great honor and full of gold.

After all.

Princeton is one of the top universities in the world, with a handful of outstanding graduates every year.

But......

Eligible to be awarded the title of 'Honorary Alumnus' by Princeton University, which hangs on the school's Wall of Merit, there may be only a handful of thousands of graduates in a class.

It can be seen how demanding it is to obtain this honorary title.

As far as Gu Lu knows.

Of the 16 graduating class of his year, no one has yet received this honor.

But think about it.

It's only 2021, and it's only been five years since 2016.

And most of Princeton's honorary alumni only received that title more than ten or twenty years after graduation.

As for Gu Lu, who became Princeton's 'honorary alumnus' only five years after graduation, this is not the first in the more than 100-year history of Princeton's founding, but it is also a rare existence.

Let's be honest.

Gu Lu is tempted by the title of 'honorary alumnus', but the degree of excitement is limited.

Again.

According to Gu Lu's current status in the mathematical community, the title of 'Princeton University Honorary Alumnus' is just the icing on the cake, and if it is not, it will not hurt.

If Princeton University wants to award him the Fields Medal, Gu Lu promises that there will be no hesitation.

But if it's just an 'honorary alumnus' title, it's worth thinking about carefully.

But......

The content of the email sent to Gu Lu by the Annals of Mathematics is more than that.

In the mail.

Dean Retz also played the emotional card to Gu Lu.

Gu is a graduate of Princeton.

Princeton is Gu Lu's alma mater.

No one can deny this.

Therefore, Dean Letz started from this, first gave Gu Lu a soft face, and then told the "Annals of Mathematics" about the dilemma that the "Annals of Mathematics" is facing now, hoping that Gu Lu, an alumnus, can read the feelings of teaching for two years and lend a hand.

Gu Lu is most tired of others playing the emotional card.

But when it comes to the real face, it has to be carefully considered.

Thereupon.

For a while, Gu Lu was in a tangle.

The four major journals give good conditions.

Therefore, no matter which Gu Lu submits the manuscript to, it will not be a loss.

But......

In terms of personal feelings, Gu Lu is inclined to the side of "New Advances in Mathematics", after all, there have been many collaborations.

But from an objective point of view, it is obviously just right for the "Annals of Mathematics" side, and it can also send a favor to the Institute of Advanced Mathematics by the way.

"If only you could have them all. Gu Lu scratched his head and muttered to himself.

As an adult, the most annoying thing is to do multiple-choice questions.

However, after saying that sentence, Gu Lu's eyes suddenly lit up.

Oh, yes!

Why can't you have them all!

It seems to be an unwritten convention in academic circles that a paper can only be included in one journal.

But......

There is no hard and fast rule that requires this.

In other words.

Theoretically, it is supported to submit multiple manuscripts.

However, no one has adopted this method before, because once an academic author is found to have multiple submissions, he will be blacklisted by many journals.

Because this behavior not only wastes the journal's internal review resources, but also expresses a kind of disrespect for the journal itself.

However, Gu Lu did not have this kind of trouble.

You won't be worried about being blacklisted by a journal.

This is because Gu Lu never worries that his paper has no place to be published.

Since he had already thought about it like this, Gu Lu decided to do it.

After thinking for a few seconds, Gu Lu replied to each of the four major journals with a similar email.

The content of the email basically means that Gu Lu can submit the paper to their journal, and also agrees that the four journals will reduce the remuneration originally intended to give Gu Lu by some of the remuneration, but the four journals need to accept the condition that multiple journals jointly publish the paper.

Gu Lu chose only two of the four major journals.

Either agree, everyone will have fun and make progress together.

Either they don't agree, Gu Lu will seek a new partner.

Anyway.

Behind the four major journals, there are still so many SCI Zone 1 and Zone 2 journals waiting in line.

The four emails were sent, and Gu Lu sat back and waited for a reply.

…………

More than ten minutes later.

Gu Lu received the first reply email.

It was sent by the editor-in-chief of Macron on the side of "New Advances in Mathematics".

In the email, Macron's editor-in-chief agreed with Gu's proposal, and several journals jointly published Gu's paper.

Moreover.

Macron's editor-in-chief also said that the remuneration promised to Gu Lu at the beginning will not be less.

Macron's editor-in-chief is obviously very good at being a person.

And Gu Lu also because of Macron's editor-in-chief's move, his favorability has increased a lot again.

After reading Macron's editor-in-chief's email, Gu Lu replied to Macron's editor-in-chief.

Gu Lu: "Editor-in-chief Macron, I'm sorry, you know the weight of the 'Geometry-Algebra-Topology Grand Unification Theory', this cake is so big that even I, the maker of the cake, can't be arbitrary, so I can't do it, I can only implement this plan, so that the four major journals can carve up a piece of it." ”

Macron, editor-in-chief: "I understand. ”

Seeing Macron's reply, Gu Luchang breathed a sigh of relief.

Then.

Gu Lu tapped his fingers lightly on the table while waiting for the replies from the other three journals.

In the next two hours.

Gu Lu received replies from the other three journals one after another.

The replies of these three journals were the same as those of New Advances in Mathematics, expressing their agreement with Gu Lu's plan.

After all.

None of the four major journals are stupid.

If you agree, you can at least get a piece of the pie.

Although it is not monopolized by his own family, he still has something to eat.

But if you don't agree.

Then it's really nothing.

No one would choose to disagree.

As for this, there is no precedent?

Never mind.

Now at the top of the pyramid of mathematics journals is a hall of words in their four major journals.

They all agreed.

Who else will stand up against it at this time.

So, after a short hesitation, he gave Gu Lu an affirmative answer.