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During the winter break, the university emptied of its people, and the fervor over the Yang-Mills solution being discovered had gradually subsided online, giving way to various discussions about the Spring Festival holiday.

The world of science had never ceased to innovate, and naturally, neither had the humanities.

For instance, this year Huaxia innovatively embarked on an experimental approach where whether New Year's Eve was a holiday completely depended on the boss's conscience. In theory, there was no holiday, but bosses were suggested or, rather, encouraged to give their employees a day off.

According to Dou Dou's evaluation, the experts who had researched the holiday this year probably had some beef with the director of this year's Spring Festival Gala.

That meant countless workers would spend New Year's Eve on the roads, which meant the elders at home wouldn't even need to turn on the TV.

Well, one could only say that the intentions of the big shots were good.

They probably felt that most bosses would surely heed the advice and generously give the hardworking masses an extra day off.

What they hadn't considered was whether these bosses would take the advice at all.

After all, many in this group hardly even paid attention to the law. If everyone listened to advice, labor arbitration departments wouldn't have so many cases every year.

But then again, when to take holidays or even whether to take the Spring Festival off was immaterial to those in the research institutes.

They never had holidays anyway.

Though ordinary people had lost interest in the Yang-Mills solution, the paper was still hot in the academic world.

Just over a month after the paper went online, it had been downloaded more than a hundred thousand times.

Analyses suggested that at least eighty percent of the downloads were contributed by physicists.

Especially those who had the chance to go to CERN every year. Most of them were very interested in Qiao Ze's new algebra.

It was as if the work Qiao Ze was doing, if the new mathematical tools were integrated, could often help them find some as-yet-undiscovered physical laws through modeling.

The same was true for Huaxia.

But this was clearly very difficult.

To derive a series of theorems and formulas in superspiral space algebra from the most fundamental level was a massive project. Qiao Ze's paper did derive some, but it was far from enough.

It could be understood that neither in the reports nor in the paper did Qiao Ze discuss the mathematical principles of the new algebra, nor did he elaborate in detail on the concepts and methods within it. The only actual case study was the transformation and analysis of the Yang-Mills Equations.

So, for others besides Qiao Ze, to assimilate this new algebraic theory was like someone skipping elementary, middle, and high school mathematics, and starting directly from advanced math. They'd need to complete all the content set for advanced math first, then derive elementary, middle, and high school mathematics.

The difficulty can be imagined, and it has directly led to many people being quite annoyed recently.

For example, Zhang Hongcai of Yanbei University was nearly harassed to death by the old professors from the Physics College, to the point where he couldn't even enjoy the New Year.

Who knows who let it slip, but within the university, he was the one most familiar with Qiao Ze.

Many professors, researchers, and even senior academicians involved in physics research approached him to inquire when Qiao Ze planned to summarize some basic laws of the new algebra.

Heh...

That's really looking up to him.

He did have Qiao Ze's phone number, but the guy hardly ever answered calls!

The emails he sent did get a reply, though—five words, "No plans for the near future."

He remembered that Chen Yuanzhi had promised him before that he could invite Qiao Ze to Yanbei University for a lecture.

So he began to actively communicate with Xilin University of Technology again.

The university indeed agreed, saying as long as Qiao Ze was willing to come, it would be fine.

But at Qiao Ze's end, he hit a wall again.

The response was still those same five words, "No plans for the near future."

As a result, the title that was of no use to anyone was directly pinned on him by many colleagues. Explore more at My Virtual Library Empire

It was one thing to fail to poach someone, but to not even manage to invite them for a lecture was too face-losing for the Executive Deputy Director of the International Mathematics Research Center.

Moreover, many people at Yanbei felt that the university's being disregarded by Qiao Ze was all because Zhang Hongcai had looked down on people the first time he led a team to Xilin University of Technology, and as a result, they had offended them.

Extremely frustrating.

Really, who offended whom on that last trip to Xilin?

How had he been looking down on people? No, wait, who was he calling a dog?!

Probably having an even bigger headache was Xu Changshu, who had decided to settle at Xilin University of Technology.

He came to Xilin University of Technology intending to work with Qiao Ze to solve the Yang-Mills general solution problem.

But Qiao Ze didn't wait for him.

Still, the new problem he'd been given was extremely challenging. The only issue was, his former colleagues had started reaching out to him, hoping he could persuade Qiao Ze to strike while the iron was hot and construct the framework of the new algebra.

Sigh, as if he had any sway over Qiao Ze?

Alright, those people probably thought that after he came to Xilin Institute of Mathematics, he could have meetings with Qiao Ze every day, at least one a week, but the reality was that everyone here was busy with their things, and there wasn't much crossover in topics, so there wasn't much communication.

Apart from the monthly results summary, most of their communication was via internal emails.

Although he was only a floor away from Qiao Ze, in the more than a month since he officially joined Xilin University of Technology at the beginning of the year, he had only seen Qiao Ze twice.

But he had gained a lot.

At least here, emails were answered every day, and Qiao Ze clearly had more patience for his own people, explaining some issues in more detail.

This method of splitting, strictly speaking, couldn't be considered Qiao Ze's original creation, but Qiao Ze's understanding of the method was clearly much deeper.