Before you know it, the sun is setting outside the window.

Powell was obsessed with Wong's three papers until his assistant reminded him that it was time to leave work, and Powell woke up from shock.

"Oh, I almost forgot Laura's birthday today." Powell patted his forehead, hurriedly sent the three papers to the three reviewers, and hurriedly left with the car keys.

……

The life of a mathematician can sometimes be really boring to outsiders, especially those top mathematicians who are in high places, and their lives can only be described as monotonous.

After a meticulous dinner, Edward Witten watched Princeton University at night.

As a big man across mathematical physics, Edward Witten's strength is undoubted, especially his serious square face, which will make people think that he is a taciturn person.

Suddenly, there was a knock on his door.

Who? Edward Witten walked over steadily and opened the door: "Pierre?"

The one who came was a little thinner, with a big guy hairstyle - Mediterranean, he was Viscount Pierre René de Ligne, the math boss of Princeton University.

"Edward, have you received Powell's manuscript?" Pierre Deligne asked hurriedly.

"Manuscript?"

"Looks like you didn't receive it."

"What manuscript?"

"Huang Mingzhe's New Topology Paper." Pierre Deligne replied succinctly.

"Oh? The young man is posting papers again?" Edward Witten frowned.

"Yes, and three."

Edward Witten hurriedly opened his laptop, and sure enough, he found three new emails on his e-mail, namely "Continuity and Uncertainty of Topology-Chaotic Formula", "Poincaré-Riemann-Loch-Grothendieck High-Dimensional Transformation-Topological Ensemble Group", and "Analysis-Algebra-Topology Extradimensional Space Model".

After he opened the decompression, he looked intently at it, and this view was more than three hours, and he thought about the situation in silence.

"What do you think, Edward?" Pierre Deligne asked.

Edward Witten took off his glasses, rubbed his sour eyes, and then said solemnly: "I have taken a cursory look, and it is not a big problem. ”

"So, you already agree with Huang's theory?"

"Nope." Edward Witten shook his head, "I need to take a closer look, after all, this matter is not to be sloppy. ”

Pierre Deligne also nodded, and Huang's 10 essays of more than 700 pages form a vast and well-organized topology theory, pushing topology to a whole new level.

But if one of the formulas or one derivation is wrong, it is very likely that the edifice will collapse.

As reviewers, Eduard Witten and Pierre Deligne were very cautious.

The two agreed to communicate once a day, and then they separated.

Edward Witten printed out seven of Huang's previous papers and then re-derived them piece by piece, which is not so easy for a reviewer in a top mathematics journal.

Since there are so many branches in the field of mathematics, almost no one can be proficient in every branch, and even those who are also experts in the field of analytical topology may not be able to read each other's papers.

If it's an alien essay like Shinichi Mochizuki, even Edward Witten wants a Muggle, after all, this big guy likes to create new terms the most, and he creates a new system on his own.

The problem is that this system is confusing for a few years except for Mochizuki Shinichi himself, and Mochizuki Shinichi's paper does not explain these new terms, and it is estimated that except for himself, there is no second person in this world who can read it, and there is a rhythm of self-appreciation.

Fortunately, Huang Mingzhe's topological theory is a new development. Through the existing formulas and knowledge, the topology is reorganized and derived, and the topology is transformed into a more coherent and clear manner.

What makes Edward Witten even more subtle is that the new topology developed by Huang Mingzhe is very easy to verify, and many of its formulas can make the Poincaré conjecture and other topological tributaries easier to understand, because topology has been unified.

This greatly reduces the difficulty of review for reviewers.

Although it is already very easy to understand, the new topology is still very complex, and there are as many as 18 new formulas alone.

It took Édouard Witten and Pierre Deligne about half a month to fully deduce the new edifice of topology.

The two of them sat in the dormitory again, Edward Witten was a little more haggard than half a month ago, but his eyes were more intense.

Pour a cup of black tea for Pierre Deligne.

"It's hard to imagine that this achievement was done by one person." Edward Witten shook his head with emotion, as if lamenting the unforgiving years.

"After all, the world needs young people to inherit and develop, and we should be fortunate to have Tao Zhexuan, Huang Mingzhe, Peter Schultz and other new generations." Pierre Deligne said with a smile.

"There's no problem with the paper, I'm thinking that Huang Mingzhe must be a perfectionist." Edward Witten joked.

"Oh? Why?"

"There is not even the slightest mistake in the paper, and it can be seen that he is a person who strives for perfection."

"Haha, his perfection saved us at least a few months." Pierre Deligne burst out laughing.

Edward Witten certainly knows why, and if you come across a paper like Shinichi Mochizuki, it's the least favorite paper of any reviewer.

I can't understand it, and I can't make conclusions casually, which leads to a year and a half of paper review, who has so much time to waste on it.

The two of them made a final conclusion and unanimously adopted three papers: "Continuity and Uncertainty-Chaos Formula of Topology", "Poincaré-Riemann-Loch-Grothendieck High-Dimensional Transformation-Topological Ensemble Group", and "Analysis-Algebra-Topology Extradimensional Space Model".

Edward Witten and Pierre de Ligné passed three papers, and the other reviewer, Yau Chengtong, was obviously fine.

……

Although the three bigwigs unanimously passed the paper review, the editorial department of the Mathematics Yearbook was embarrassed, and if it was published in March next year, the papers that had been selected before would have to be readjusted.

But no, I'm sorry for this exquisite masterpiece of mathematics.

"Editor-in-chief, why don't you publish a supplement!" One editor suggested.

"Supplement? But three papers, not enough space, why not find some other papers to make up?" Another editor said something was wrong.

Powell thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "No, there is no need to find other papers, we will divide each issue into two volumes, it is better to directly combine the seven preprints released by Huang Mingzhe before with these three articles and publish them in one volume." ”

The other editors listened to it, discussed it, and agreed with Powell's idea.

Immediately Powell contacted Huang Mingzhe again, but Huang Mingzhe did not expect that the Annals of Mathematics would be so bold and dedicated to his new topology supplement, and he naturally had no opinion on such a good thing.

The Annals of Mathematics obtained Huang Mingzhe's approval, and sent the seven papers to Edward Witten and Yau Chengtong for review.