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

Inside the mathematics department, no one was reading!

All the books were pushed aside!

No matter where you go, you can see groups of students huddled together, all staring at their phones or tablets, whispering to each other.

"Holy crap, did you guys see that amazing paper that was uploaded last night?"

"You mean the Smail conjecture? It's been all over the place for ages!"

"That's perverted! How can a human touch something like that?"

"When exactly did Su Hao secretly develop such a powerful move behind our backs?"

"I knew it! That guy wasn't from Earth at all; he was definitely a Namekian in human form!"

"Damn it! In our department, where we're all losing our hair from calculus every day, there's actually a brilliant undergraduate student who can solve this world-class problem!"

"This world has completely gone mad! Living in the same courtyard as him, I suddenly feel like my IQ is only good enough to peel potatoes..."

This is the terrifying power of the internet age to spread information.

Only one day has passed since the paper was uploaded to the arXiv server.

The entire academic community has been completely ignited, buzzing with excitement and flames reaching the sky!

Top researchers, professors, and postdoctoral fellows around the world have been spreading the download link of this paper like zombies, making it a hot topic in countless work groups and mailing lists, almost crashing the servers!

And at that academic forum, which is usually filled with all sorts of geniuses and is the most authoritative in the world!

The moment the post analyzing this paper was published, the number of replies skyrocketed, instantly exceeding one hundred and then one thousand!

[Breaking News: A Half-Century-Old Barrier Broken! MIT Seems to Have Solved the Smail Problem!]

I was woken up by my supervisor's phone call in the middle of the night last night, and I downloaded the paper and read it carefully.

After watching it, I was shaking uncontrollably in the air-conditioned room. The whole deduction process had a kind of violent aesthetic that was terrifying!

I heard that Su Hao is an undergraduate student at MIT, right?

What the hell kind of genetically mutated monster is this?!

I understood a little bit of it, and I was deeply impressed!

The article forcefully introduces a completely new theorem, folds it up like a paper crane at the geometric level, and then ruthlessly deconstructs it using probability theory!

This kind of unethical cross-disciplinary combination punch... has plunged me into deep self-doubt.

I even started to wonder if all that rubbish I learned in school was real mathematics, or some kind of witchcraft used to scam funding!

Although reason tells me that, according to procedure, this thing still needs to undergo a long and rigorous peer review.

However, the logical framework presented in this paper is absolutely a magnificent proof that can shake the fundamental assumptions and definitions of modern analysis!

It's like opening a skylight in the existing edifice of mathematics!

[Stop bragging, experts! Has anyone actually discovered any logical flaws in computers?]

Although I teach at Princeton, I feel my abilities are limited when faced with this paper. I have read it three times and still cannot find any flaws.

The derivation process itself, leaping like a mad dog yet incredibly rigorous, is simply an unparalleled work of art!

[Wait, guys, I'm more curious about the gossip than the proof process.]

How exactly did Theodore, that arrogant and arrogant guy, get in touch with Su Hao from MIT, all the way at Stanford?

Are you still willing to be a second author?

Have you all forgotten? Last month, Theodore was relentlessly attacking Su Hao on the Logia forum, even almost going so far as to challenge him to a real-life confrontation online.

Could this phenomenal paper be the result of a pre-arranged fight between the two of them, ending up bruised and battered, and then a genuine bromance blossomed in the emergency room?!?

[I'm hesitantly raising my hand. Um... I'm just a casual student from the chemistry department next door, I don't usually follow the math scene, and I don't know much about this first-year student. Is he famous?]

[Hey, chemistry buddy, that's a rather presumptuous question of yours.]

Su Hao is the future hope of our entire MIT Mathematics Department!

Believe it or not, from Dean Whitman down to all the bald professors, everyone now treats him like Jesus...

Sunset and moonrise.

As Boston fell asleep into the night, European mathematicians across the ocean, sipping their tea, awoke from their slumber.

The moment they opened their eyes, they were struck through the skull by this extraterrestrial meteorite, and scrambled to join this global academic frenzy and discussion.

The flames of war spread instantly!

Berlin.

Paris.

Zurich.

On those ancient and proud European academic forums, related discussion posts circulated like a viral outbreak.

Every major academic center was left dizzy and disoriented by this sudden, massive wave.

Mean value theorem in non-uniform spaces.

This was a death zone that countless geniuses had previously considered off-limits.

just now.

The door was kicked open!

Even the most stubborn, old-school, conservative European scholars fell into a long silence after reading the paper.

Because everyone knows it.

This paper doesn't need to be perfect.

Even if there are some minor flaws, as long as the core logic passes the verification.

That would be a momentous event, the likes of which would be so significant in the last half-century that it would tear every textbook on analysis in the world to shreds and have to be reprinted!

.......

The next day, the sky over Cambridge remained overcast.

As if even the heavens were building up momentum for this academic storm, the snow continued to fall as if it were free.

Whitman urgently convened a closed-door meeting of all tenured professors in the Department of Mathematics with the highest level of administrative authority.

Those academic giants and renowned professors, who are rarely seen on ordinary days, are now sitting around the dean's office like sardines.

Although everyone was holding a steaming cup of coffee, not a single person could sit still.

Everyone had dark circles under their eyes.

Although everyone looked extremely exhausted, as if they had been working three days and three nights straight.

But upon closer inspection, the atmosphere in this crowded room is unusually excited!

In the eyes of every old man, it was as if two raging fires were burning, capable of melting the snowfield!

"What's the situation outside? What's the reaction?"

Upon hearing Whitman's question, a senior professor with a messy hairstyle became so excited that his fingers trembled.

He pounded on the keyboard of the laptop in front of him, which was still frantically sending emails.

"I just confirmed the situation on the European forums. Those usually extremely rigid Germans are getting restless."

They have just issued a public statement indicating that they will immediately initiate an independent, top-level review process for this paper!