Super God-Level Top Student-Chapter 454 - 211: Isn’t Pinyin More Fragrant Directly?_3

This is unscientific.

After a moment’s thought, Robert Stephen said, "Is this just the opinion of our Huaxia colleagues? Forgive me for being blunt, but there are not many scholars in Huaxia who have made contributions to this issue…

Of course, I don’t mean any disrespect to Professor Yang, but he has already reached a venerable age. So, I think everyone is simply under the illusion that they are because he gave the general solution to the Yang-Mills Equations. We all know that the proof of mass gap requires a more rigorous line of thought."

The reply came quickly from the handset: "That’s exactly why I’m making this call. I’ve received an invitation to attend Qiao Ze’s doctoral thesis defense and to listen to his thoughts. So, Robert, are you interested in joining me?"

Robert Stephen hesitated.

He had received an invitation to the last report meeting of Qiao Ze as well, but he chose not to attend.

Because he always felt that Qiao Ze’s proof of the existence of a general solution to the Yang-Mills Equations was flawed. He hadn’t thoroughly studied the paper yet, couldn’t find the intuitive flaws, and thus couldn’t raise questions of higher quality.

But who would have thought that Qiao Ze didn’t mention the proof of existence at the report meeting at all but directly presented the results of the general solution.

Individuals who don’t play by the rules are the most detestable.

This directly led to the fact that it didn’t matter whether there were flaws in the proof of existence.

Because the solution had been found.

Robert Stephen firmly believed that this was not something a rigorous mathematician could have done.

Now, once again, a choice lay before him...

After a while, Robert Stephen finally made up his mind, "Alright, I think I should go this time, but what about his doctoral thesis? Has it been sent to you?"

"No, Robert. I’ve talked with friends at Xilin University of Technology, and Qiao Ze’s thesis doesn’t have an English version. Huaxia’s doctoral theses don’t necessarily have to be in English; Chinese is equally acceptable. So this will be a Chinese defense. However, the school has arranged for the best simultaneous interpretation translator. I hope this won’t affect your decision."

"Ha, that makes me think I need to go even more. Don’t you find it strange, Edward? Why is there not an English version, and why use Chinese instead? This indicates that the paper must have serious flaws; he doesn’t even dare to write it in English to withstand our scrutiny. Without a doubt, Qiao Ze is someone who is in a rush to achieve success, he always has been!"

This time it was the person on the other end who fell silent for a moment before Edward Witten’s voice floated over.

"Well, maybe it’s not what you’re imagining. In fact, the explanation given on the invitation I received is that there is no English version because Qiao Ze used too many new mathematical concepts in this paper, all defined and described in Chinese, and he was unsure how to better describe those concepts in motion in English.

Therefore, the invitation to attend this defense is partly to spread these new mathematical ideas as soon as possible and also in hope that we can help with related work."

"So you believe that, Professor Whitten? Forgive my forthrightness, but your trust is based on the fact that he indeed found a general solution to the Yang-Mills equations and that the Super Helical Space Algebra he proposed is fundamentally interesting. But this does not mean he has perfectly resolved the mass gap problem.

The rigour of science is not built on past achievements. Just like Mr. Atiyah, it’s undeniable that he achieved remarkable feats, but his Riemann hypothesis proof process was more of a joke. Of course, considering his age, that’s forgivable. But Qiao Ze... he is still young and so impatient..."

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Before Robert Stephen could finish what he wanted to say, he was interrupted by the person on the other end of the phone.

"Alright, Professor Stephen, so you have decided to attend this special defense, correct?"

"Of course, I feel I need to make the trip this time."

"Good, that’s settled then. I’ll forward an electronic invitation, with which you can quickly proceed with your visa. That’s all then. Goodbye."

"Goodbye!"

After hanging up the phone, Robert Stephen could feel Edward Witten’s impatience.

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Well, of course, he knew why it was like that.

The Fields Medal-winning theoretical physicist was so eager for an answer that his thinking was beginning to grow muddled.

But he was different; as a mathematician who had studied the subject for twenty years, he knew better than anyone how difficult it was to get the gauge group U(2)*U(1) to behave according to mathematical laws in explaining the zero mass conjecture. Just the existence and isolated single-particle spectrum could be the death of him.

Now his colleagues actually believed that a student under twenty years old had given a perfect proof in three months.

Such naivety!

...

On the other end, after hanging up the phone, Edward Witten also sighed.

He started to doubt whether he should have made that call.

To tell the truth, without having seen the paper, he couldn’t be sure whether Qiao Ze had indeed perfectly solved the problem.

So, on the phone, he didn’t express his own opinion at all.

But the other side was paranoid, thinking he had been deceived?

Shouldn’t a rigorous standpoint be that before the defense, one cannot judge the correctness of the paper?

Otherwise, why would they go all the way to Huaxia for the defense?

Not arguing was simply because he disliked quarreling over such meaningless matters, but he still felt Robert was somewhat delusional.