A genius student? Ha, they're nothing but ants at your feet!

One morning on the eve of Christmas.

Cambridge's weather is like a grumbling woman going through early menopause, acting up again.

Until yesterday, the horizon was still clear and cloudless.

But just one night later, the entire sky suddenly became covered with dark clouds.

Amidst the howling wind, snowflakes began to fall without warning!

Looking around, the entire campus was forcibly covered with a filter by a thick layer of white snow.

It's as beautiful as a scene from a fairy tale, creating a romantic feel reminiscent of "Frozen".

Dean Whitman of the Department of Mathematics placed his coffee cup in a gap in the pile of documents.

Then, as usual, he logged onto the arXiv preprint website.

This has been his unwavering morning routine for decades.

It is also to check whether anyone has submitted a new paper that is truly impressive in the past 24 hours.

Page refreshed.

On the computer screen, a dense list of newly registered papers appeared.

Splash!

He swished the mouse wheel so hard it flew up.

Just then!

A familiar term, long sealed away in the urn of the history of mathematics, suddenly burst into view, causing Whitman's hand, which was rubbing the rubbing wheel, to stop abruptly!

"Smail's mean?"

The old dean's eyebrows twitched twice.

This is a concept that has been absent for a long time.

It's been a long time... It's like turning the pages of a dusty history book of mathematics, from which the spirits of those who died half a century ago drift out.

Stephen Smail!

This is not the name of some cat or dog.

This is a legendary mathematician who is a generation older than him.

In the world of mathematics, this giant has single-handedly won two of the three highest honors: the Fields Medal, the Abel Prize, and the Wolf Prize!

And now, the age-old mystery left behind by this great man has actually appeared in today's update list.

Whitman felt her breathing suddenly become disordered.

He struggled to control his right hand, which was trembling in a high-frequency vibration pattern.

I moved the cursor over little by little.

I pressed the left mouse button.

The page redirects, and the paper slowly opens.

The bold, black-and-white title, seemingly carrying some indescribable pressure, clearly caught his eye.

[Proof of the Smail mean conjecture in non-uniform measure spaces]

There is no misleading subtitle.

There are no unnecessary modifiers.

It's such a short and simple title.

But to an expert, those few words are like dropping a nuclear bomb on a calm lake!

who is it?

Is it that old monster from Princeton?

Or are they those hermits who have been in seclusion for many years at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris?

Whitman immediately shifted his gaze to confirm the author's name.

Immediately afterwards!

The moment I saw that name!

The old dean's eyes widened suddenly, and he jumped up from his seat in astonishment, as if he had been electrocuted!

The movement was so forceful that it even caused the chair behind him to slide backward.

"Su Hao?"

He knew that name all too well!

Whitman's mouth dropped open, and her head was buzzing.

No wonder he hasn't seen that kid wandering around the yard much lately.

I thought he was under too much pressure from his final exams and had gone to his dorm to sleep!

Unexpectedly, he secretly and without saying a word created this nuclear-level research that could blow up the ceiling of the mathematics world!

and many more!

It's not over yet!

His gaze shifted to the side an inch again.

That name, quietly listed as the second author, delivered a brutal home run to his already crumbling worldview!

That is also an extraordinary and renowned name in the mathematics world today!

Theodore Langford.

A genius from Stanford University, and the top mathematician of today's younger generation!

In his early years, this guy gained immense popularity and renown throughout the academic world with a groundbreaking paper that connected analysis and geometry.

Whitman not only knew him, but she even saw him in person at a high-level academic conference last year, and the two even drank red wine and talked face to face!

"What the hell is this magical turn of events?"

Whitman felt his brain boiling.

It's ridiculous!

Normally, a top young scholar like Theodore, who is extremely arrogant, would consider it a waste of time if someone asked him to even glance at a paper.

But now, he's actually lowered himself to co-author a paper with an undergraduate student from MIT?!

And his name is condescendingly listed after Su Hao's as the second author?!

This is simply unbelievable!

It's as absurd as sending a max-level swordsman to a newbie village to be a concubine for a village bully who has just picked up a wooden stick!

"Could it be that these two monsters, who span the east and west coasts, suddenly hit it off?"

So the two of them joined forces to solve this problem that had plagued the mathematics community for decades?

Whitman awkwardly adjusted his glasses, which were about to fall off his nose.

He simply lay most of his body on the desk, pulling the monitor so close that his face was almost touching the screen.

The question was quickly answered.

Theodore, who was always arrogant, unusually explained his motivation for writing the paper in the preface.

My contribution to this paper is negligible and not worth mentioning.

I was merely a recorder, responsible for organizing the messy drafts and providing a simplified explanation and translation of the original author's seemingly divine mathematical language.

The core derivation, the very essence and core of this proof, is entirely attributable to its first author, Mr. Su Hao.

Read this passage.

Whitman found that the layout and writing of the entire paper were indeed well-organized, even more pleasing to the eye than a textbook.

In the past, Su Hao's homework was full of terrifying leaps, such as "jumping directly from 1+1=2 to the Big Bang theory".

The mental gap that would normally cause someone's brain to shut down at a glance has been gently and deliberately filled in.

He read a few lines and took a slow breath.

"No wonder it reads so smoothly; it turns out Theodore personally polished every single word!"

So clear and easy to understand!

Theodore practically used all his academic knowledge to pave a straight highway for Su Hao's raging logic bulldozer!

This paper is extremely well-made, and the solid skills it exudes are truly impressive.

The entire logical structure is deduced as smoothly as silk!

The citation guidelines for all references are extremely rigorous, and not a single punctuation mark can be found to be wrong.

As for the wording, it was every word was precious and concise, sharp as a scalpel piercing the enemy's heart!

Those incredibly concise formulas, combined with Theodore's brilliant and objective writing style, vividly weave together a grand and awe-inspiring picture.

Such appalling quality, let alone on this preprint website.

Even if it were published directly in the world's top academic journals tomorrow morning, it would be more than enough to earn the collective admiration of all peers!