Chapter 267: Chapter 115: Brother Qiao Gets Serious—Simply Terrifying!_3

Pan Jingyuan was taken aback for a moment, and quickly said, “Elder Yuan, you’re too kind. To be honest, I also like Qiao Yu, that kid.”

Yes, who wouldn’t like a smart child?

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Yanbei International Mathematics Research Center.

Qiao Yu still maintained his state, earnestly and with total absorption.

What does a peak showdown mean?

It certainly requires giving one hundred percent effort to defeat the opponent.

Climbing a mountain is a long process; those who claim they can reach the top of Taishan within an hour might be lucky just to see the gate of the scenic area.

Qiao Yu harbored no such illusions, but every step had to be solidly taken.

Therefore, he was very serious, more serious than ever before in tackling a difficult problem.

The Geometric Langlands Conjecture is a very complex proposition, much like Schulz’s theory of seemingly complete spaces, featuring the complexity of theoretical frameworks, making the understanding of the paper very difficult, and so he proposed many questions.

At this time, his mathematical intuition was often more useful.

Many of the sharp questions he raised were truly driven by mathematical intuition, such as the question he just sent to Professor Pan. Technical obstacles are numerous when dealing with homology theory and spectrum sequences related to the Geometric Langlands Conjecture.

This results in the choice and construction process of the model being very complex, with BunG being hard to remain unaffected in the process.

Any small technical error can lead to places in the paper that are not rigorous, resulting in proof failure.

This is quite similar to a spaceship docking with a space station in space.

To ordinary people, it seems the space station is just floating in space, and all a spacecraft needs to do is gradually decelerate, then align with the interface, touch, and lock. But in reality, during the docking process, both the space station and the spacecraft are moving at high speeds.

The docking work has to be completed during high-speed movement; any small error can lead to docking failure or even a collision.

The process of questioning Professor Pan is the process of materializing potential problems.

Qiao Yu has already saved these in his mind as a directory. The main job now is to deduce and verify the situations that might arise in the directory, and then locate the flaws in the proof.

This is a very large undertaking. Even just the fourth and fifth papers combined are over three hundred pages.

But if he succeeds, it will be an even more colossal project for the team researching this proposition.

As always, mathematical proof demands one hundred percent correctness. Any logical inconsistency needs to be addressed.

Anyone who has written a related mathematics paper likely knows how difficult it is to modify a complex issue in an eight-hundred-page paper if someone indeed finds logical deficiencies running throughout the paper.

At the very least, forget about being invited to make a report at next year’s mathematicians’ conference; the creator couldn’t possibly be nominated for any award for solving this issue. By the time the paper is reworked and resubmitted, it would require another round of examination.

Without a paper guaranteed to be completely correct, at most people can only thank the team for their efforts and exploration on this issue, without being able to grant any honor.

For Qiao Yu, this is a game, a peak showdown with the Langlands Program as the battlefield.

His obsession appears because he’s serious.

But Xue Song doesn’t see it that way. When he silently left Qiao Yu’s room and found that the kid seemed unfazed, he was still somewhat startled. He instinctively made a call to Tian Yanzhen.

After listening to Xue Song’s report, Tian Yanzhen was silent for a moment and then said, “Let him be. As long as he’s serious about whatever interests him, it’s a good thing. Tomorrow is the day for the IMO camp, and if he forgets to report, don’t remind him.”

The feelings of the adults are the same. It’s already absurd for someone qualified to submit to Ann. Math, whose paper would likely be accepted, and who is beginning to challenge the Langlands Program to participate in the IMO.

At least in the history of mathematics, it has never happened.

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Unfortunately, Qiao Yu did not forget.

Thanks to the printer installed by Senior Brother Chen, he printed out the paper in full the night before. He put aside what he had read and roughly estimated nine days, organizing what he needed to read outside of examinations.

Although Qiao Yu now saw the enormous potential mathematics could bring to his future, the money that could be easily obtained was still worth earning. On one hand, improving life starts with doing every little thing around him well; on the other hand, Qiao Yu truly valued promises.

Old Zhang and Lan Jie are both decent people, so they would surely understand that Qiao Yu no longer needs the IMO to prove himself, and they wouldn’t say much even if Qiao Yu didn’t compete. But precisely because of this, Qiao Yu felt he couldn’t let down decent people.

When you feel some place in this world is rotten, it’s not a reason to go rotten yourself, but to strive to make some small changes.

For example, everyone thinks that good people don’t get rewarded, so Qiao Yu decided to show through his actions that, hey, in fact, good guys like them can be rewarded.

Qiao Yu believes that only when more people like him exist will many aspects of consciousness subtly change. This way, when everyone decides to be a good person, someone not purely good like him can thrive even more.