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Just like Princeton, regularly publish our results. After all, Qiao Ze is still at Xilin University of Technology. Our communication costs are lower; we can't let Princeton outdo us in that as well."

Zhou Liang's eyes rolled, and he replied, "Hmm, we should indeed convene a meeting soon to finalize this matter. We should strive for funding to have Qiao Ze serve as the deputy team leader, responsible for the specific research and guidance. That way he wouldn't have any reason to decline, right? To rise to his mentor's position, he needs to make some contributions, doesn't he?"

"Exactly! Why didn't we think of this before? It's a good thing, isn't it? The Xi Lin Optoelectronics Institute can even have Qiao Ze give some guidance when he's free. Research based on Qiao Algebra will definitely be no problem then. We'll just tell Qiao Ze directly, if he agrees to be the deputy team leader, then everything will be negotiable."

Zhang Mingrui set his teacup aside and slapped his thigh as he spoke.

Discussing this issue, the two suddenly felt as if their thoughts had cleared up.

Actually, it's not that we fear Qiao Ze having ambition and ideas; it's the fear that this youngster lacks all ambition and desire.

"Right, not just Qiao Algebra, I'm sure you've also seen that problem he posed about traveling through the dimensions' gate. He must have developed something new recently; let's combine it all. When the time comes, with these two newest research directions, we in Huaxia will have the utmost authority."

If we really can achieve this goal, not to mention having Li Jiangao elected as an academician, when the next term comes, I'd nominate Li Jiangao for the chairperson committee. Whoever opposes, I'll stand firm against them!"

"Bang!"

In his excitement, Zhou Liang even started to slap the table.

It's not that Zhou Liang lost his composure; for Huaxia scholars, this is indeed an embarrassing matter.

The origins of modern mathematics in Europe are an indisputable fact.

It's not that Huaxia mathematicians aren't capable, but primarily because the first two industrial revolutions happened in the West. The era when mathematics flourished, Huaxia was still in turmoil. Especially last century, which was arguably the golden age of development for modern mathematics and physics.

But Huaxia was going through the most humiliating period of its history, where survival was incredibly difficult. Catching up was too hard.

This is why all the concepts and formulas we learn today are named after Westerners.

Even the complex mathematical symbols use Greek letters.

History has proven that in order to produce first-class scholars, a country needs the support of national power. You need to ensure that citizens have enough to eat and wear before they can contemplate academic pursuits. Although we have been catching up and have made some achievements, the fact that we were behind in all aspects before is indisputable.

This is also why top institutions choose to teach specialized courses in English. It is the same reason that English-language papers have far greater influence than Chinese papers.

Too many specialized terms cannot be suitably translated into Chinese, and some terms, after translation, sound quite awkward.

For example, "robustness," "reflexivity"...

Without specialized study, seeing these words would only lead to confusion. Who would think of the stability of a system under perturbations from the word "robustness"? As for "reflexivity," it leaves people speechless; in mathematics, if an element is equivalent to itself, it possesses reflexivity.

Who could understand that from the word alone?

Even professionals in the field sometimes ridicule these bizarre translations.

But there's nothing to be done; these definitions were first proposed by others.

Now Huaxia also has the chance to lead in some areas, which means that some of the specialized terms in Qiao Algebra and Qiao Geometry can also be named and defined in Chinese. It's time for scholars from the other side to learn how to use precise descriptions to restore a series of definitions for Chinese academic terms.

Thinking about it is indeed exciting; it's truly a case of changing fortunes."

"I understand what you mean. So let's start contacting people right now and aim to resolve this matter by tonight. Then take a trip to Xilin to discuss with Qiao Ze. If Li Jiangao alone isn't enough, we can also involve the Xilin University of Technology. They have submitted several development plan applications this year, and we can put in a good word for them." Your journey continues on My Virtual Library Empire

Zhang Mingrui immediately agreed.

"Yes, let's do that," Zhou Liang decisively said.

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United States, Princeton.

While the two Huaxia academic heavyweights thought that Qiao Ze was making overtures to Princeton's academic titans across the distance, the titans here awoke to find two problems laid out by Qiao Ze.

Their feelings were completely different.

Unsure whether to be happy or not.

After looking at the first problem, they realized that Qiao Ze's problem formulation had escalated directly from one dimension to higher dimensions, naturally implying the complexity of solving the problem had drastically increased.

But then again, the problems posed by Qiao Ze were indeed interesting.

What was frustrating, however, was that although Qiao Ze had posed two problems, he had not commented on the theorems they had summarized.

This was obviously not very satisfying. After all, coming up with problems only required ongoing research, which would gradually enrich the problem set, but whether a theorem was correct or not determined if the research direction was accurate and whether there were overlooked errors or omissions in the proof process.

This was really quite irritating.

And when they saw the second problem, it made the bigwigs think deeply once again.

Is this geometry?

In the office, Edward Witten wrote down a string of formulas based on the problem.

[\\delta V =\\int dt \\left[\\frac{\\partial V}{\\partial \\mathbf{x}}\\cdot \\delta \\mathbf{x}+\\frac{\\partial V}{\\partial (\\nabla \\mathbf{x})}\\cdot \\nabla(\\delta \\mathbf{x})\\right]]

Then he started to ponder, until the door was knocked.

"Come in."

"Hello, Professor Witten."

"Peter? What brings you here?"

"I came for Professor Sarnak's seminar tomorrow afternoon in the next building. Hmm, I wanted to discuss something with you, the damn jet lag made me only arrive here at seven in the morning."

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