Wiblen was very efficient, completing the task in just two days, printing thousands of journals and shipping them to major universities in the United States, striving to make a name for himself in the shortest possible time.

In addition, he deliberately made a bad intention, and distributed two copies of the "Mathematical Yearbook" to Rutgers University, his sworn enemy in this state, but did not receive a penny, just to see that the other party was angry.

Before the 20th century, Princeton University was called the College of New Jersey, and Rutgers University was also called Queens College.

Until one day, students at Rutgers University took advantage of the night to steal a cannon from Princeton University, and Princeton was dissatisfied and wanted to come to the door to ask for advice, but people didn't look at him and refused to admit it.

Later, there was no way, Princeton rolled up his sleeves and said, why don't we have a fight, play a football game, and the other party agreed.

What I never expected was that Princeton, who was full of confidence and wanted to be ashamed, was hit head-on and lost to Rutgers 4:6.

Not only that, but this game also became the first intercollegiate game in the history of American football, and by the time more and more schools participated in the game, the sports content became more and more abundant, and it became known to us basketball fans as the NCAA - National Collegiate Athletic Association.

So ask someone what the earliest NCAA game was, and they'll tell you to start with Princeton's 4-6 loss to Rutgers......

Belonging is engraved on the pillar of historical shame.

So far, the beams of the two schools are getting deeper and deeper, and the derby in the same city is becoming more and more intense.

Now that Princeton's good days have come, not only surpassing Rutgers in teaching, but also such a major academic achievement in his hands, Wiblen is in a happy mood.

Throwing a stack of Mathematical Yearbooks on the table across the table, he said happily, "Hey, Mason, my dear friend, you must take a look at this supplement of ours, which has something that will shake the world of mathematics. ”

Mason, who is also a professor of mathematics, pulled down his glasses, rolled his eyes, and said: "Little Wilbrunn, you know, there are many academic journals in Rogerstin, such as "Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics", "Chronicle of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics", "Acta Mathematica Sinica", etc., but we never read academic garbage like your "Mathematical Yearbook" in Princeton. ”

"Oh, my dear friend, your attitude is not friendly, we are brother schools, we should help each other." Wiblen was not angry at all, picked up the top magazine, and flipped through it casually: "But our supplement seems to prove Kroneck's youthful dream, and the author has easily created another discipline called class field theory, if you don't take a look, it seems that Rutgers has taken a step back from the academic frontier." ”

Seeing this arrogant attitude, Mason was so dead that his teeth were about to be crushed, and he resisted the desire to put the book in his hand on his head, and said unceremoniously: "I know Kronek's dream of youth, if you lie to me, I will definitely send you to Satan with a shotgun." ”

Wiblen laughed, knowing that the effect was out, he retreated to the door and prepared to continue to send a school, he suddenly felt that it was almost tasteful, touched the door frame and said cheaply: "Professor Mason, although I believe in your mathematical ability, but this paper is a little difficult, if you don't understand it, please go to the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University next door for advice, Dean Fan Yin and I are very welcome to your arrival." ”

came, touched the door frame and boasted again: "The author Tom Cheng is going to become a professor in our school, and you Rutgers should also work hard." ”

After speaking, he hurried away, because in addition to an angry roar, there were two gunshots in response.

In this way, thanks to Wiblen's efforts, the entire American academic community soon learned that a man named Tom Cheng not only proved Kroneck's youthful dream, but also created a mathematical discipline that caused a major sensation.

The many emotions of amazement, praise, doubt, and disdain have come together to stir up the miasma of smoke in the American mathematical community, and even gradually out of the academic world, and the general public has also heard the news.

Even if it is only a sub-discipline under mathematical number theory, it is still an ancestor-like existence, and some people even exaggerate to the point of giving Tom Cheng the title of the father of class theory, and for a while everyone is discussing the identity of the mysterious man, and they want to find him and let him give a lecture to solve these doubts.

Because New York State is very close to New Jersey, where Princeton University is located, some reporters in New York with a keen sense of smell rushed to the editorial room of the "Annals of Mathematics" to inquire about the identity of the author.

At first, Fan Yin refused to disclose any of Cheng Nuo's content, but some people in the editing room couldn't resist the temptation of money, and soon some of them gradually leaked out.

"Tom Cheng is one of the most mathematically gifted people I have ever met, he comes from Harvard University and is currently teaching at Peking University, a public university in China, and I have already sent him an offer on behalf of Princeton University to believe that he will be one of us in the future."

The first half of the sentence and the second half of the sentence were directly ignored by the public, and only focused on the word "China", which completely detonated the American public opinion circle.

At this time, the United States generally had a negative attitude towards the Chinese because of the "Chinese Exclusion Act", and it was difficult to imagine that the flower of science bloomed in that land, and many people began to think of Napoleon's famous sentence "China is a sleeping lion, let him sleep, once he wakes up, it will shake the world." ”

Unconsciously, a small number of whites began to change their attitude towards the Chinese, and they were no longer as arrogant as before.

But the mystery that shrouded Tom Cheng had not yet been fully revealed, and in order to learn more about this man and to better sell, the New York Herald, the New York Sun, and the New York Times continued to send reporters to Harvard, arriving at Harvard almost on the same day.

In the face of the aggressive reporter, Professor Robert, who was familiar with Cheng Nuo, was a little overwhelmed and said slowly: "Although the isomorphism between the generalized ideal group and the Galois group is obtained by the order of the computational group, and the isomorphism of these two groups is not clear, there is no doubt that Tom Cheng, a young student from the Far East, has proved the existence of general class domains, and the discipline of class domain theory will have a lot of room for development, and there is no doubt that Tom Cheng may become another master in mathematics in the future. I have applied to the school to hire him as a professor in the Department of Mathematics in my personal capacity......"

The same passage came to these three major newspapers, but it changed its taste.

"The Sun" pays more attention to lace, saying that Tom Cheng is a young handsome oriental guy who will have more pounds in the future in addition to being versatile, and he is still single, and there are no scandals during school......

The Herald was even sharper, saying that it was a shame for local scholars that the current major scientific achievements actually came from backward continents, and proposed that the old men on Capitol Hill should relax the restrictions on Chinese and increase the number of Chinese faculty members in various universities......

The content of the "New York Times" was even more serious, and it actually copied Professor Robert's original words verbatim in the newspaper, focusing on popularizing the theory of class domains......

Through the telegram, some students studying abroad also got the news, and they were excited to hear it, and burst into tears for a while, and a small number of people were excited and became interested in mathematics, changed the subject to mathematics, and posted this paper on the bedside to motivate themselves.

As for right and wrong, that's another story.