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Qiao Ze still planned to submit his paper to "Mathematics Annual".

During this period, following the publication of two consecutive papers, Qiao Ze received many solicitations from the editors of various journals, all of them top-tier mathematics publications in the world.

For instance, the other three of the "Big Four Mathematics Journals" revered in Huaxia had all sent emails to Qiao Ze recently.

This was certainly in part due to the comment Daniel had made on Facebook, but more importantly, it was because of Qiao Ze's recent prominence.

For a mathematician like Qiao Ze, whose papers were produced with such efficiency, even on a global scale his impact was explosive. Not to mention the unquestionable quality of his papers.

However, for Qiao Ze, the editorial department of "Mathematics Annual" recommended by Li Jiangao had already shown extremely professional academic competence, so he couldn't be bothered to adjust to the editorial styles of other journals.

There are many truths in this world, and people in different positions can only see the parts they want to see. Qiao Ze was well aware of this, so he couldn't be troubled to explore if there were more possibilities regarding these minor details.

Not to mention that he had a pretty good impression of Roth Dugan, the editor-in-chief of "Mathematics Annual".

If in the future "Mathematics Annual" changed editors or its style and became less friendly, he could simply move to another journal. If all journals started to turn unfriendly, he would probably have the capability to start his own scholarly publication.

After all, if they really wanted the School of Mathematics at Xilin University of Technology to compete with Princeton, having an internationally credible academic journal of their own was indeed necessary. It was like Huaxia having both South Nuclear and North Nuclear.

Of course, Qiao Ze hadn't considered any of this at that time.

It wasn't the time to raise his head and challenge the world, so there was no need to think about such matters.

It was the same as before, he wrote the paper simply because he had been quite free these past few days, and he had already discussed the problem with several professors, so he decided to just go ahead and write it.

He couldn't be like Dean Xu, without anything to do; that would be the end of a person.
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United States, Princeton.

It was around 8:20 p.m. Huaxia Capital time when Qiao Ze submitted his manuscript through the "Mathematics Annual" submission system. At that time, Lotte Dugan had just walked into his office.

Although he could have come in at nine or even later, older people don't need as much sleep. And Lotte Dugan was busy, truly busy.

After all, Princeton was a private university without the burden of excessive paperwork. Though he held the title of dean, Lotte Dugan seldom spent his energy on administrative tasks such as the development of the school.

He was still leading his own research team, and also serving as the editor-in-chief of "Mathematics Annual". This made Lotte Dugan feel like there were always endless tasks each day, but fortunately, they were all things he enjoyed doing.

Today was Wednesday, so Lotte Dugan didn't start by checking the submissions on "Mathematics Annual", but instead began reading the research weekly report sent to him by his team the day before.

In fact, Qiao Ze's first paper had caught the attention of Lotte Dugan purely by chance.

The editor-in-chief only checked the "Mathematics Annual" submission system on two days each week to see if there were any papers worth his attention. Most other times, the other editors would do the initial screening and then report to him.

As Lotte Dugan once told Qiao Ze, for the past five years, he had been receiving NASA funding to research the N-body problem.

For many ordinary people, their understanding of the N-body problem began with the famous Huaxia sci-fi writer's novel "Three-Body".

In the words of the novel, Three-Body was an unsolvable chaotic system.

But in reality, with the efforts of mathematicians, the Three-Body problem had been solved many times. And to say that the Three-Body problem is completely unsolvable is not objective. A more accurate description would be that in most cases, it's impossible to obtain an analytical solution for the Three-Body problem.

These are also the foundations upon which mathematicians were able to tackle N-body problems. And it's a problem well worth studying, as most situations in the universe involve N-body problems where N is far greater than three.

Like the Solar System, for instance.

The Solar System is a standard N-body problem.

Eight major planets revolve around the sun, and countless moons around those planets, together forming the star system that gave birth to Earth's civilization.

More importantly, even though it's known to be a complex N-body problem, scientists have been able to calculate the orbits of the eight main planets, and can roughly predict the positions of certain planets within a future period, even allowing them to anticipate certain astronomical events, such as a solar eclipse.

This is because, although there is no analytical solution for N-body motion in mathematics yet, approximate solutions have been calculated. In some special cases, stable periodic solutions can even be determined.

So the current problem is that humans still can't predict the long-term changes in the Solar System. For example, nobody can calculate the positions of the planets in the Solar System after ten thousand years at a specific time. The longer the time calculated using approximate solutions, the greater the error.

More importantly, to this day, it has not been possible in mathematics to prove that a chaotic N-body system like the Solar System is stable. In other words, according to current mathematical theory, such systems could collapse at any time, extra planets could be ejected, ultimately simplifying into the simplest and most stable two-body system.