Super God-Level Top Student

Such tasks shouldn't always be left to Li Jian Gao and Qiao Ze to handle, right? Even though there is Su Mucheng, how could you really expect a young girl to entertain esteemed guests?

Although he was annoyed internally, since it was the hotel that they had booked and they were so enthusiastic, Zhang Hongcai naturally couldn't say anything.

Since Li Jian Gao didn't have any other ideas either, after arriving in the room and exchanging a few pleasantries, he had Qiao Ze bring up the PPT prepared for this report meeting at Yanbei University.

After Qiao Ze brought up the PPT, he sat to one side and began to explain the problem to Su Mucheng.

Yu Chenggong sat on the sofa with a full face of smiles, leisurely and contentedly sipping his tea.

He also paid attention to the movements of Zhang Hongcai and Li Jian Gao, ready to top up their cups with water at any moment if Zhang Hongcai chatted about something excessive.

Fortunately, both men began to grow silent once they started flipping through Qiao Ze's PPT.

Similar to the style of today's press conference, the PPT was in minimalistic mode, composed mainly of a series of formulas, but the difference was that it included many more proof processes.

How should one put it, Zhang Hongcai could even perceive Qiao Ze's personality from this PPT—few words, simple, and direct. The only problem was still—hard to understand.

Really hard to understand.

If the first half was mainly content that already existed in the paper, Zhang Hongcai and Li Jian Gao, who had studied Qiao Ze's papers, could somewhat keep up with Qiao Ze's train of thought, but when it came to the second half, they began to feel lost.

"hΛ(l)=∑（rows）∑（c）·h^(c,c+1)+∑(colus)∑(r)·h^(r,r+1)+∑(i∈Λ(l))·h(i)..."
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When he saw this, Zhang Hongcai suddenly felt the series of formulas looked familiar and quickly recalled that two days ago, he had seen the same formula written on the draft paper in Xu Changshu's office.

After pondering for a moment, he flipped back a page in the PPT and carefully reviewed the proof process of the previous step.

Then suddenly felt a roaring in his brain.

He finally understood why Xu Changshu chose to resign and go to Xilin University of Technology, even defiantly so.

He impulsively raised his head and asked Qiao Ze with palpable excitement, "Qiao Ze, is this... are you trying to prove the existence of mass gap?"

"Mm." Qiao Ze looked up at Zhang Hongcai, nodded, and casually responded.

Su Mucheng also curiously looked up at Zhang Hongcai.

She felt that this Yanbei University professor seemed overly excited.

Is it worth it?

It's just one of the Millennium Prize Problems, isn't it?

The seven Millennium Prize Problems have been solved before.

The Poincaré Conjecture was proven several years ago, wasn't it?

"So how far have you gotten?" Zhang Hongcai calmed down a bit and then asked. He suddenly felt that his question was too presumptuous; after all, this was someone's independent research, so he changed his question, "What I mean is, at what step are you stuck."

"The classical Yang-Mills field is massless, but the mediator particles of strong interaction can have mass. This leads to the subsequent proof process being extremely complicated, and I haven't found a good approach to handle it," Qiao Ze answered.

"Hmm..." Zhang Hongcai was stunned for a moment, then instinctively said, "What if you take it in two steps? For example, first you could prove the existence of a solution to the Yang-Mills Equations? Then go on to prove the existence of mass gap?"

Qiao Ze tilted his head to look at Zhang Hongcai, thought for a moment, and said, "Is that possible?"

The next moment, he suddenly remembered that Li Jian Gao had also discussed the same topic with him before.

He suddenly had an epiphany.

Right...

It indeed seemed possible.

His publishing two papers in a row in "Mathematics Annual" was clear proof.

The first paper laid the foundation, and the second paper completely solved the problem.

Qiao Ze had not considered this approach, simply because the difficulty of proving the existence of a solution to the Yang-Mills Equations compared to the mass gap proof was vastly different. From the current situation, the latter would require an unprecedented mathematical method to complete the final argumentation.

After all, solving this problem would mean elucidating a nature's law that even physicists didn't yet fully understand.

"Of course, you can! If you really can prove the existence of a solution to the Yang-Mills Equations, do you know what that means? You'll become one of the youngest and most famous mathematicians in the world. You will be invited to give an opening one-hour presentation at the World Congress of Mathematicians!

You will be the most competitive contender for the Fields Medal in 2026! If successful, you'll be Huaxia's first Fields Medal laureate, and also the youngest in the world!"

Zhang Hongcai became even more excited, even unconsciously waving his arms to emphasize his point.

"Oh." Qiao Ze nodded, casually acknowledging it.

He had already done that report meeting, and it seemed just so.

As for the Fields Medal...

Actually, Qiao Ze didn't particularly value it.

After all, it's not like winning the Fields Medal or the Nobel Prize would help him achieve his wish.

His goal was to understand this world, this universe; merely proving the existence of a solution to a mathematical equation actually wasn't that significant.

Zhang Hongcai's passionate words even made him faintly feel that if it were so easy to become the most competitive winner of the Fields Medal, then perhaps the award was being given out too hastily?

It seemed not to carry much weight.

Seeing Qiao Ze's reaction, Zhang Hongcai obviously became quite anxious.

"No, Qiao Ze, don't you understand? If you can achieve this result, it means a leaning of resources. If you can prove the existence of solutions to the Yang-Mills Equations, many collaborators will come to you proactively, and you will get access to lots of precious data. Also, the computing resources you can use, manpower resources... ah, I can't explain it to Qiao Ze, Professor Li, you explain to the kid."