Chapter 253: Chapter 112 Professor Frank, Would You Like to be a Reviewer? _3

What a genius idea!

Combining deficiency, homology relations, modular forms, and P-geometry quantization through the BSD conjecture in such an ingenious way, radiating from local complexity to global complexity, unifying all variables’ constraints into a geometric constraint invariant parameter!

Brilliant, simply brilliant!

With the supercomputing analysis results at the end of the paper, Lott Degen also got excited. He picked up his phone, wanting to call Tian Yanzhen to confirm that the main work of the paper was indeed accomplished by a sixteen-year-old mathematical genius.

But after glancing at the time, he realized it was already past eleven in the morning.

This made him refrain from dialing immediately, considering the time difference between the two countries. It was already late at night in Huaxia, which should be Tian Yanzhen’s personal time.

He intended to put down the phone and simply reply to Tian Yanzhen with an email, but he still felt an itch…

No, it was this guy who emailed him first to recommend the paper, so even if this call might be somewhat impolite, he thought the other party would understand.

With that in mind, Lott Degen decided to dial anyway.

However, he thought if the other party didn’t pick up the call within thirty seconds, he wouldn’t bother them further today, hoping that would not be too rude.

Fortunately, the phone was answered in less than ten seconds.

“Hello, Professor Degen, I guess you’ve seen my email?”

Lott Degen could hear the excitement in the other party’s tone, which reassured him that the other person hadn’t gone to bed yet and didn’t seem to feel this call was an intrusion, maybe even anticipated his response.

“Yes, Professor Tian. My apologies, as I was busy at Columbia University all day yesterday, so I only saw your email this morning. And after reading the paper, I must say, especially the geometric constraint invariants proposed in the paper, is simply an inspired idea.

After re-verifying the results provided in the paper with the supercomputing center, I’ve decided to personally take on the editing of this paper. However, there’s one thing I hope to confirm again, Professor Tian, you understand, I hope to ensure once more that the main work of this paper was indeed independently accomplished by the first author, Joe Yu?”

Lott Degen, who had taken the initiative to understand Huaxia Culture, was accustomed to respecting Huaxia’s cultural practices by putting the surname before the given name when addressing Huaxia people. In fact, in recent years, more and more contexts have subtly begun to respect this habit.

For example, during international sports events involving Huaxia participants, some international journals have started to publish the names of Huaxia scientists using the surname space given name format, like Qiao Yu.

However, this is not yet widespread, as most international academic journals still place the given name before the surname when printing names. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that this is a burgeoning trend.

And this approach is still used mainly for consistency in search indexing. Since it has been typeset like this before, people are accustomed to searching for papers this way in research databases. Changing it abruptly would be quite inconvenient.

“You know, Professor Degen, I understand why you would have this question. When my student first proposed to tackle this problem, I didn’t dare believe he could achieve this level either. But there’s no doubt that he independently accomplished it.

I believe you can see from the letter I sent you that I’m willing to provide academic assurance for him because we have ample evidence to prove this point. By the way, maybe you could ask Professor Zhang Shuwen from Princeton and Professor Robert Green from New York University.

When my student proposed this problem, both were in Huaxia and were invited to attend a seminar on this topic, where Qiao Yu was the keynote speaker. In fact, the proposal of the geometric constraint invariants was a requirement Professor Zhang Shuwen made directly to Qiao Yu at that seminar.”

Hearing this, Lott Degen had roughly made up his mind.

Well, if a student can lead a world-renowned mathematics mentor to invest everything built over the years to provide academic assurance, unless this student was the mathematician’s biological child or grandchild, it speaks volumes.

Lott Degen didn’t even consider the possibility of someone else seizing the achievements.

After all, for such accomplishments, no promise of benefits would cause the original author to give them away.

“Alright, I’m glad to hear this answer. I will personally take on the responsibility of editing this paper and finding suitable reviewers for it. If I have the chance, I would very much like to meet this student of yours. Congratulations, Professor Tian, on finding such a student.

Honestly, before this, I really couldn’t believe someone could understand Schulz’s paper at sixteen and apply his mathematical techniques to their own research. It sounds like science fiction.”

“Thank you, Professor Degen. Indeed, he is very unusual and has surprised me many times already. Also, thank you for personally looking for suitable reviewers. And yes, I believe you can understand my concerns, so the paper has already been posted on ArXiv. Of course, we have not conducted any publicity yet.

“Alright, I understand. But… well, it will have to be a single-blind review. No matter, though, because I believe your student is not yet a well-known figure, so probably not many have heard of his name — this is his independently completed first paper, right?”