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After Su Mucheng returned to Qiao Ze's office, she immediately asked.

"Huh? Weibo?"

Qiao Ze was somewhat surprised; he had never really considered adding the functionality for Dou Dou to interact and communicate with the outside world.

"I want to test the limits of Dou Dou's abilities and see if it can become an internet celebrity," Su Mucheng said matter-of-factly.

Qiao Ze replied, "In theory, it's feasible, but you'd better set a content scope for it. Besides, if you let Dou Dou recreate content based on all the trending topics on the internet, it will seriously occupy the bandwidth."

"I definitely won't do that. I'll just register an account and entrust it to Dou Dou, which can choose to post content within the bounds of the law to attract followers, and then interact with the fans in the comments area," Su Mucheng thought for a moment and then shared her idea.

Looking up at the server, Qiao Ze said, "That's possible, but it would be best to communicate with the platform first. Interacting in the public comment sections is tantamount to using the platform's servers to test Dou Dou's parallel response capabilities, although it won't be a problem when the number of fans is small at the beginning."

"Don't worry, Qiao, I'll arrange everything. So, shall I register a Weibo account now and get Dou Dou set up on it?"

"Oh." Qiao Ze nodded and didn't take the matter to heart anymore.

After all, in his eyes, Su Mucheng was just a child who hadn't grown up yet, and it was understandable that she liked to have fun.

...

No matter how much momentum Apple Inc. had generated, Qiao Ze's paper still appeared on the official website of "Mathematics Annual" at the scheduled time.

And because of Daniel's promotion, the download count surged to unusually high numbers as soon as it was published.

Without a doubt, Qiao Ze had become the brightest new star in the international mathematics community in recent times, even though he had not yet given a single report or even shown his face at some of the more prestigious conferences.

Whether it was publishing multiple SCI Zone 1 papers in just over four months, the unique watermark on his papers, being published twice in a single month in "Mathematics Annual," or being personally recruited by a Fields Medalist, these were all things that the younger generation of mathematics students wouldn't even dare to dream of.

One could only describe him as the mysterious mathematical genius from the mysterious ancient country of The East.

However, when the paper was finally formally published, the whole academic community became quiet.

But this was understandable.

This is a place that values true scholarly learning, after all.

Whether the paper lived up to the height Daniel had described was something that could only be judged after reading it.

...

The United States, California, San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley Branch.

Typically, this university named after the city refers to the University of California, Berkeley.

It is also one of the earliest founded and most well-known higher education institutions of the University of California System, especially known for its programs in electrical engineering, chemistry, and computer science, which are among the top five in the world rankings.
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Located in the hills behind Berkeley is one of the world's most important mathematics research centers—MSRI. But now, few outside the field know that the Chinese mathematician Chen Xingshen was once the first director of MSRI, though he held the position for only two years.

In the office of Shiing-Shen Chern Hall, Robert Stephen also downloaded Qiao Ze's paper as soon as it was available and began to read it carefully.

Although this esteemed mathematician did not interact with Daniel on Facebook, he had actually seen Daniel's Weibo post the moment it went live.

He then called him directly.

Robert rarely makes statements on public traffic pools like Facebook and Twitter unless for a particular reason.

Many mathematicians like him do the same.

After all, studying mathematics is a job that requires one to withstand solitude.

It's just like Qiao Ze said: those who cannot appreciate the beauty of mathematics simply cannot bear to delve into this field.

Not to mention, strictly speaking, the subject that Robert Stephen studies is one of the most challenging within number theory, known for its exclusivity—the Langlands Program.

This belongs to the grand unification problem of mathematics, which, in simple terms, seeks to build a bridge between the two major branches of mathematics—number theory and group theory—to unify them.

In Langlands' view, three mathematical systems that developed relatively independently—number theory, algebraic geometry, and representation theory—are closely related, and the tie linking these branches is a set of special functions, the L-functions.

To be more precise, two of the millennium problems that Qiao Ze is interested in are closely related to L-functions: the Riemann Hypothesis and the BSD Conjecture.

So if Robert can make future breakthroughs, he is likely to leave his name in textbooks for future mathematics students to curse at fervently.

He might even become part of the collective memory of a generation, like Newton, Einstein, and Gauss.

Even if there was no breakthrough...

there were still a multitude of mathematics awards bearing his name.

The reason Robert downloaded Qiao Ze's paper at the first opportunity was due to doubt.

Yes, doubt.

Even though Daniel was a Fields Medal recipient and a peer reviewer for Qiao Ze's paper, Robert still harbored doubts about Qiao Ze's paper.

It had nothing to do with Qiao Ze's age, nor with Daniel's character.

It was purely the rigor of a number theorist at play.

The title of the article had already spelled out the content the author was about to discuss; the problem was obviously of tremendous difficulty.

Daniel had said on Facebook that few could understand it at first glance.

Robert certainly had grounds to doubt whether Daniel himself was among them.

Indeed, for papers of this level of difficulty, it's hard to say whether a reviewer could definitely spot any errors or omissions.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be stories of many papers being published only to be retracted later on.

So although the paper had already been published, Robert still approached it with a reviewer's eye.

Not to nitpick, but to look for any lack of rigor.

After all, the unification problem of non-canonical field theory and Riemann space is no joke; according to Daniel, the paper introduced completely new mathematical tools and path integrals to accomplish this great work.

For mathematicians who came after, they might use these new tools proposed in the paper to tackle one mathematical problem after another.

If the paper eventually proved to be unreliable, it would mean that the work of countless people was in vain.

It's akin to if one day, the mathematical community proved that the Riemann Hypothesis was wrong, and the non-trivial zeros didn't exist; then the whole series of mathematical systems built around the Riemann Hypothesis would crumble instantly.

Bear in mind that over a thousand mathematical propositions in the literature assume the Riemann Hypothesis as a given. This is the effort of thousands of mathematicians; if the Riemann Hypothesis is correct, these propositions would be elevated to theorems. Conversely, numerous journal editors would be busy for a year retracting countless papers.

In Robert's view, this was the paper's most significant impact.

Thus, as soon as he finished downloading the paper, he immersed himself in it immediately.

For a fact, there were many mathematicians around the world just like Robert.

Of course, not everyone's logic of thought may be the same.

Not everyone could completely ignore the author's age.

Really, could someone solve such a proposition at eighteen?

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Huaxia, Capital, Yanbei University, International Mathematics Research Center.

Even though it was already nine at night, Qiao Ze's paper was promptly printed in over ten copies.

A thick stack.

After all, each one was over sixty pages long.

The professors involved in related research each got a copy right away.

Zhang Hongcai also kept a copy for himself.

Looking at the paper in his hands, Zhang Hongcai felt a mixture of emotions.

He subconsciously recalled his feelings when Zhao Guangyao first sent Qiao Ze's information over WeChat.

He had even made a special call to Zhang Chunlei, who had said that the two of them were on equal footing with their knowledge.

At that time, Zhang Hongcai thought Zhang Chunlei was either being modest or simply giving Qiao face; now, it seemed that he had misunderstood.

All he could say was that Professor Zhang from Jiang University was just too proud.

For a paper of such caliber to be recognized, could it even be considered a close match for a Yangtze River Scholar?