Chapter 299: Chapter 120 The Name of Genius_5

In other words, if Qiao Yu’s findings are indisputable, it would undoubtedly be a sad story for Frank.

Thus, Frank paid very close attention, even more so than when he was reading Qiao Yu’s paper.

He scrutinized every detail of the proof process, yet even so, an hour later, he finally gave up.

Although this was not a formal paper, without a doubt, the fellow’s proof process was entirely prepared as if for publication. The choice of words was as precise as in a paper—there wasn’t a flaw to be found in the wording.

In other words, it was irrefutable.

Frank looked up, turning his gaze toward Sam across from him, and Sam was looking back at him.

After a moment of silence, Sam was the first to ask, “How did he conceive of inducing a non-trivial impact on the homological level? Could it really be as Danis said—that Qiao is specifically looking for flaws in the paper? Just because his paper isn’t reviewed swiftly? Look, he even created a high-dimensional singularity for this!”

Frank remained silent, feeling that something was off.

He couldn’t even ascertain whether Qiao Yu was aware of his existence. Everything seemed too coincidental—first, Qiao Yu’s paper landed in his hands, then the young man discovered a flaw in the results where he was a major contributor.

If everything was merely a coincidence, it would appear a bit too coincidental.

“Alright, the most crucial theorem indeed fails locally. We didn’t foresee this situation; do you have any thoughts?” Sam asked after a moment.

Frank shook his head, saying, “I don’t know, I feel a bit confused.”

Understanding this, Sam nodded, then stood up and said, “Alright, perhaps we should calm down and think carefully. Frank, you don’t need to be overly upset; this indeed is an issue, and now our task is to solve it.

The problem of distortion occurring when globalizing higher-order derived functors, I think, is solvable. This is a mending issue, theoretically, it’s enough to correctly map the derived objects at P1 to P2. If all goes well, maybe we can resolve this issue within this year.”

To be honest, Sam Lars himself was not very confident when saying this.

But what else could he say?

As one of the project’s most significant contributors, his mood was also not great.

Damn it…

What’s this all about!

…

Seeing Sam Lars leave the office, Frank sat at the desk, contemplated for a while, then reopened his email to draft an email to Pan Jingyuan, primarily inquiring about some details pertaining to Qiao Yu.

This was a very normal reaction.

Having read Qiao Yu’s paper before, he hadn’t bothered to ask then, but now that their paper, one to which he was one of the primary authors, had been criticized by this young genius from Huaxia, not inquiring would seem strange.

However, writing this letter was quite tough, with constant revisions being made.

While learning about Qiao Yu, he also hoped to covertly probe whether Qiao Yu knew about his existence. Facing such a situation, you always fear that others will read something different from your words.

In this way, Frank spent an entire hour composing a letter of only a few hundred words, and then he clicked send.

At this time, it was probably already deep into the night in Huaxia. After finishing the email, Frank only felt exceptionally bewildered… What the hell is going on?

…

Just as Frank was feeling bewildered, Qiao Yu’s name had already spread throughout the Langlands Program research community.

This was thanks to Danis.

This Harvard professor not only called the project collaborators but also the paper reviewers, and the experts who had commented on the paper, informing them of the matter.

And he didn’t forget to email Qiao Yu’s counterexample to these academic giants.

Among them, naturally, were also Peter Schultz and one of the founders of the Geometric Langlands Program, Alexander Beringson.

The former had praised this latest achievement as the pinnacle of thirty years of effort, while the latter considered the proof very beautiful, the best of its kind.

Also, recently giving an evaluation was Phil Rolla, who currently holds a position at the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Danis even wished that if Lola had made this evaluation two days later, both could have avoided an embarrassing situation.

After all, having just praised the internal consistency of their theory as excellent and hard to believe it was flawed, it turned out that the most crucial theorem’s proof contained a flaw, embarrassing both sides.

Especially since on the other side stood a sixteen-year-old boy, this age alone was enough to make established giants feel a sense of shame.

After making a round of calls, Danis quickly received a call back from Schulz.

Danis could hear that the tone of this genius, widely acknowledged in the Western mathematics community, was even slightly excited.

“Ha, Danis, I have gone through the counterexample provided by Qiao, and I must say, it’s spectacular. Well, saying this, you probably wouldn’t feel too discouraged, right?”

“Of course, I’ve already accepted this fact.”

“Then why not invite him to next month’s Algebraic Geometry conference? I think it’s worth sending him an invitation; he could do a thirty-minute presentation. I’m sure many people would be interested in his ideas.”