I have to say that if you put aside Qiao Ze's usual indifferent personality, habit of talking less, and misunderstanding of all kinds of people, he is actually a very warm person.

Although he doesn't take too much care of the thoughts of the people around him, he never minds pulling people and fulfilling some of their small wishes.

In fact, these days, Qiao Ze has also heard some discussions about his thesis in the academic circles.

Li Jiangao was afraid that Qiao Ze would have not good ideas, or collapse his mentality, so he came to chat with him for a long time.

As everyone knows, it was not Qiao Ze who felt a slight collapse in his mentality, in fact, Qiao Ze didn't care about the evaluation of those so-called academic bigwigs at all.

It's not that you don't respect your predecessors, it's just that you don't bother to pay attention.

After all, there are many interesting questions in this world, and what serious person would pay attention to what others say every day?

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"......, the review takes about a week. There's one more thing. I'd love to know, who did you talk to about this new article? Forgive my curiosity, but I'd love to know that. As far as I know, Hamilton, Richard and others have done this research in the field of number theory, but I don't know so much about the progress of mathematical research in this area in Huaxia. ”

José only saw the email from Lotter Dugan the next day.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon Princeton time when the other party sent the email, and Qiao Ze was sleeping soundly at that time.

However, Qiao Ze has long been accustomed to this way of communication, because neither of them will deliberately choose a time to contact.

My heart is still very warm.

As the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Lott Dugan was really good to Josser. He even took the initiative to tell him in an email how long it would take to review it, which is definitely a treatment that the world's top mathematicians do not have.

Of course, it is mainly due to Qiao Ze's age.

Eighteen is too tempting for many people.

Being young means limitless possibilities.

If you are young and have already shown great talent, then the possibilities are starting to expand infinitely. It's like an expanding universe.

José also had a good impression of Lotter Dugan, and after reading the letter, he also replied.

After briefly explaining a few of the math questions asked by the other party, I began to answer the final question.

"Nope. I haven't been in contact with the two professors you mentioned, but I've read their papers and I've been inspired by them. If I have to say who I have communicated with, I would probably like to thank a manager of Apple surnamed Cheng, who said something during the meal, which made me suddenly figure out the key point of this problem. ”

After dealing with Lott Dugan's reply, José began to read the letter again.

Recently, there have been a lot of letters from his mailbox.

Not only Lott Dugan, but also several professors and researchers he had previously sent emails to communicate with began to take the initiative to discuss some academic issues with him.

José would choose to scan the letter.

If it is an issue that interests him, he will write back to discuss.

If you're not interested, just reply that you're not good at it.

Speaking of which, Qiao Ze still likes this way of communicating.

Because it's simple, efficient and straightforward.

Especially after everyone is familiar with this way of communication, there is no nonsense when sending emails, simply and directly throw questions, and then discuss.

This also made Jozer find it necessary to communicate with mathematicians.

Because everyone actually has some strange ideas and ideas, although not necessarily feasible, but they are very useful for expanding ideas.

The amount of time spent processing these emails each day will also depend on whether he is interested in throwing the question.

Sometimes it takes an hour to close the mailbox.

If the question happens to be of interest to Qiao Ze, and the other side happens to have time, he may be discussing a certain issue in the morning.

In addition, José regularly spends some time each day discussing with the engineers in this building.

Although the large-scale lithography machine has reduced the requirements for the process, the requirements for accuracy and stability of this product are there.

The design of each part and the collocation of various parts need to be verified by supercomputing.

If you encounter a poor verification effect, you need to adjust the design scheme.

It could be a separate part, or it could be a part.

Jozer's role is to give advice when the verification is not satisfactory and the engineers in the project team are helpless.

This work also showed Qiao Ze once again how terrifying the power of the team is.

Originally, he thought that this huge project would really need to be implemented at least three or five times of preparation. However, judging from the current progress, the preliminary design preparation work has been completed by 80%.

At present, all kinds of drawings of the entire project have been printed, and they can fill about ten high-speed rail carriages. Of course, this is not only the efforts of hundreds of people in this building, in fact, many parts are assigned to nearly 100 research institutes across the country, and thousands of engineers are involved in this design work.

It's just that all the information will be compiled in this small building.

Before the National Day, even the optoelectronic institute even found a test site.

Just west of Xilin, a vacant lot of about 1.2 square kilometers has begun to be fenced down. At the same time, in order to cooperate with this project, two supporting storage power stations are being built next to the lithography machine base at the same time to ensure sufficient and uninterrupted power supply during future tests.

Qiao Ze has even seen the supporting drawings of the future lithography laboratory of the Institute of Optoelectronics.

According to the plan, this is a circular main building with three underground floors and two floors above ground.

This massive ring lithography machine will occupy the negative first and negative second floors.

The negative third floor is the entire operation center.

According to the plan, all kinds of construction machinery will be stationed next month to start the initial construction work.

It can be seen that in order to build a lithography machine, everyone is very serious.

It even gave Qiao Ze a feeling of no matter the cost.

That's something he never imagined when he designed the paper.

Especially when he learned that this project was not only promoted by two academicians of Xilin Institute of Optics, but also several academicians of the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and led the team to start design work on the front line.

It made Qiao Ze feel this almost desperate desire to build a lithography machine.

Well, he really just intended to scare people, but now that everyone is serious, he can only take on the initiative to take on more work.

For no other reason, Qiao Ze actually subconsciously likes to deal with people who do things seriously.

Regardless of whether the final result is successful or not, at least everyone is really doing something.

This alone is much better than those who waste their time in lip service.

Not to mention that José was sure that in theory, the project would succeed, sooner or later.

But as things stand, the project could be completed sooner than he expected.

It just so happens that he hasn't been very busy lately.

Thinking about the quality gap is a relatively long-term work.

Even if Qiao Ze felt that he already had enough mathematical tools, he was not in a hurry to do so.

For those of us who are so busy doing things, the week is almost fleeting.

I even hated why I couldn't have a few more days.

Far across the ocean, in the small town of Princeton, Daniel Mirno has once again come to Lott Dugan's office.

This time it's night, though.

is different from the last time, although Daniel's hair is still messy, he does not have the domineering spirit of last time, but he has a pair of bloodshot eyes and heavy dark circles.

From this, it can be seen that he had a good rest last week.

But Lott Duggan didn't laugh at the rude guy this time, because he was actually about the same.

Although not as obvious as Daniel, he is actually obviously mentally depressed.

The main thing is that the euphoria period has passed.

Those wonderful proof processes can indeed make people very good, and even have an endless aftertaste.

But you can't stay in a state of euphoria all the time.

Even if you use the little blue pill, you can only prolong the time, not become the god of war.

"You're right, Lot, this paper is simply wonderful. He approached the problem from an incredible angle. Why didn't I think of it? Split, split, split...... Isn't that the basic idea of calculus? Of course, the most important thing is his transformation approach and thinking. You're right, that Joe is a genius! ”

Although he seems to be mentally depressed, Daniel speaks extremely quickly, presenting a strange sense of complete separation from the spirit.

But Lott Dugan doesn't care about that.

In a sense, this guy in front of him is rude, but cute.

At least he won't force a lie for the sake of face.

"Yes, yes, I see. I said a long time ago, I studied this paper. It really struck me. So you also think this paper deserves to be published, right? ”

"Of course! I dare say that this paper will rank among the top two in the new century. After all, you know, the Russian solved the Ponkalai conjecture. By the way, Joe is only eighteen years old, and if this is added, then the contribution of this paper may be greater than that of the Russian. Because I know exactly what it can help us!

You know? Lying in bed these days, I can't sleep all the time. Because if we follow this line of thought, we can find a possible solution to the mass gap conjecture through a series of splits and transformations of non-abelian fields, oh my God, what a crazy idea! Can you believe it? Lott! ”

Listening to the other party's chant-like tone, Lott Dugan's face became extremely strange, and then he asked rhetorically, "So, Daniel, why do you think Joe would want to solve this problem?" I would like to remind you that from the previous paper, to this one, they are in the same line. ”

Lott Dugan's words made Daniel Mirno quickly calm down.

Tilting his head, he asked in an incredulous tone, "You mean that Jota was here to solve this problem?" ”

Lott Dugan shrugged his shoulders and said, "We did talk, but he didn't answer the question directly. But I can guess what he thinks from a few details. He has a very in-depth understanding of group theory, noncommutative geometry, linear algebra. And I'm sure he's read almost all of Robert Stephen's papers, so what do you think? ”

Robert Stephen is a physicist who has devoted almost his entire life to the problem of the mass gap hypothesis, and of course a brilliant scientist, a proper bigwig, currently working in the back hills of Berkeley.

But it belongs to MSRI, which is the National Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Many people in the field of scientific research have never heard of the name of this big guy, and the citation of this big guy's papers is also very low, in other words, no one reads it.

But that's not to say that the big guy's papers are of poor quality.

On the contrary, Robert Stephen has a reputation in this direction because the research is very advanced. But because the papers in this direction are not readable by ordinary people at all, they choose not to waste time.

Just like what Li Jiangao told Qiao Ze when he first met him.

If Qiao Ze can really solve this problem, there are no more than twenty people in the world who are qualified to review and understand the paper in the first place.

This is true, and it is not an exaggeration.

After all, there is a lot of subdivided knowledge used, and when you encounter a field that you don't understand, you have to look up various theorems, and it is indeed not a simple thing to understand.

Not to mention the fact that physicists are even more desperate than mathematicians to solve this problem.

After all, the series of theories they use to describe the microscopic world, and the Higgs mechanism they have created, all rely on the Young-Mills theory, which has not even been proven mathematically. This is really worrying.

Daniel stopped talking.

He also had nothing to say.

Sure enough, what he could think of, people had already thought of it.

Of course, Daniel is not to blame, after all, this is the first paper he has reviewed for José.

"Well, tell me, you must have recruited Joe, right? What did he need to come to Princeton? After the silence, Daniel asked.

"He won't come." Lott Dugan replied, then added, "At least not for now." ”

"No, no, no, you must be talking about letting him be a student, right? Together, we can convince the board of directors to hire him as a tenured professor with a high salary. As long as it is proved that he wrote the paper, then he can work in the School of Mathematics, of course, the main place of work should be in the Institute for Advanced Study. I can work with him on this issue. Daniel said aggressively.

"I'm sure he wrote the paper. But I'm sorry, I don't think a high salary may be too tempting for him. You should go and know about his original papers, well, he's published a lot of papers lately. For the research of AI large language models, he should have accumulated enough wealth, at least I can feel that he doesn't care too much about money. As for tenured professors......"

Lott Dugan shook his head.

This little guy doesn't care much about money anymore, and there is a high probability that he won't be too interested in a professor.

And the other side seems to be able to give him all kinds of treatment.

"What if we could recommend him to the National School of Mathematics?" Daniel waited for his red eyes to look at Lott Dugan and said.

"Are you crazy? He hasn't really solved the quality gap hypothesis yet! Lott Duggan glared at the guy.

It's crazy!