Super God-Level Top Student

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For Qiao Ze, whatever arrangements the school made for Lu Xiuxiu, he wasn't too concerned about them.

It was merely icing on the cake.
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If anything, the 300,000 Yuan promised by Yu Chenggong before he arrived at the school made a better impression on him—it was like sending charcoal in snowy weather.

Moreover, Qiao Ze never felt there was anything unreasonable about any so-called benefits.

A genius with a terribly muddled rational thinking ability understood the essence of such matters directly.

It was nothing but a small gesture by the school to get both parties on the same side. It couldn't even be considered an equitable exchange; it was just a little spice to add interest to daily life.

So after returning to school, Qiao Ze continued his daily routine of pondering how to find a method to calculate the general solution of the Yang-Mills Equations and to find a way to prove the mass gap.

As for the paper he submitted to "Mathematics Annual," Qiao Ze didn't tell anyone, including Li Jiangao.

It wasn't that he lacked confidence in his paper. In fact, he was more confident about his paper than anyone else.

His cutting method was bound to be correct; therefore, the derived mathematical formulas were definitely correct, and the conclusions drawn on this basis were naturally right as well.

As for how long it would take the reviewers to reach the same conclusion, that was beyond his control.

It was just that before publication, Qiao Ze felt there was no need to discuss these matters. Another reason he was not completely satisfied with this paper was that he had hastily published the results even though he hadn't found the concealed general solution. Whenever he thought about it before falling asleep, he even felt a bit ashamed.

Under the influence of these emotions, Qiao Ze naturally didn't feel like discussing this topic with anyone.

What was different from the past was that Lothar Dugan hadn't been in frequent email contact with him, which made his life simpler. The majority of his time, aside from pondering problems, was spent training Dou Dou to search for papers.

He hoped to get some inspiration from the research on the relevancy.

Unfortunately, as Li Jiangao had said, not many people studied this problem.

Even research on related partial differential equations was rare; hardly anyone looked for the general solutions of such equations. There were many papers related to the Riemann hypothesis, but they weren't much help. However, they did give Qiao Ze another idea: the cutting method he had created seemed applicable to solving some problems with the Riemann zeta function.

For the field of number theory, the Riemann hypothesis was equally an extremely important crown jewel in academia.

But Qiao Ze considered whether he wanted to waste some time in this area, such as finding the line where the non-trivial zeros' real parts lay. Well, that too belonged to the game of challenging the pinnacle of human intelligence, with little rationale to discuss.

It was not bad as a diversion when the main problem was at a standstill.

Qiao Ze was considering it this way for now.

Life was thus unremarkably passing by when, at the end of November, the list of candidates selected for Jieqing began to be publicized. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, after the publicity period ended, Li Jiangao would officially start his Jieqing project—it was just a matter of a paper. As Academician Xi had judged, the problem was almost solved.

Dou Dou had already begun to dominate online, and countless self-media voices were exclaiming that humanity had finally entered the era of strong artificial intelligence; it was illogical that such issues would still have loopholes.

Xu Dajiang also brought several pieces of good news.

First, Li Jiangao's issue of becoming a full professor was resolved, and his qualification for supervising doctoral candidates was under review. He was expected to officially become a supervisor next month and start recruiting PhD students; second, the paperwork for Professor Xu from Yanbei University, whom Qiao Ze had high hopes for, was almost completed, and he would be able to come to Xilin University of Technology after this winter break.

The most important good news was that the higher authorities had approved the school's application—the Xilin Institute of Mathematics could start its preparations.

In the plans, this institute would be a peer entity to the School of Mathematics and subordinated to the university. The funding for its establishment was divided into two parts. The higher authorities suggested that they would match the amount of money raised by local and university funds.

Of course, there was a cap on the funds from the higher authorities, with a maximum of thirty million Yuan.

Compared to another tycoon who self-funded 350 million Yuan to build an International Mathematics Research Center, this sum wasn't substantial. However, Xilin was not the Capital, and a total of sixty million Yuan was almost enough. It was simply about building an extra building within the university.

As for the subsequent funding for various expenses, with Qiao Ze present, as long as he could produce results, it wouldn't be a big issue.

Even if they hit a period where outcomes stalled, it didn't matter. Although the university's finances were tight, they would always be able to support the operation of the research institute.

To allow Qiao Ze to study and work at the institute without worries, Li Jian Gao had been internally designated as the first director of the Xilin International Institute of Mathematics.

Using Xu Dajiang's exact words, "Having Jian Gao serve as the director is to help you manage things. After two or three years, you won't have to worry about your research outcomes being too numerous and others trying to pick the fruits of your labor. The next director will definitely be you."

Well, whether he became the director or not, Qiao Ze really didn't care.

He didn't even care whether the research institute existed or not.

The addition of another research unit wouldn't immediately help him solve his current problem.

Qiao Ze was, however, quite pleased with the news that Li Jian Gao was finally going to become a supervisor for doctorates.

What a coincidence, wasn't it?

Just as he found that the cutting method could analyze the mysterious zeta function, he could apply for his doctorate, which gave him a sufficient reason to first embark on some non-mainline mathematical research—completing the three papers for undergraduate, master's, and doctoral phases.