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"No, actually, about half an hour before you walked into my office, I received his reply. I sent two problems simply because it was a simple matter, something I could do without wasting much time," Edward Witten shook his head.

Peter Schultz couldn't help but complain, "Didn't you tell that young man that the value of this set of mathematical tools might be more important than solving the mass gap hypothesis?"

"I think he is more aware of this than we are. But you have no idea how far his research on the problem has progressed. I sent him an invitation letter, hoping to invite him to the United States next month to attend this year's Spring Meeting for Physics, but he flatly refused.

It wasn't just me who was rejected. As far as I know, in the past month, Qiao Ze has turned down almost all the invitations sent to him, without attending a single exchange-oriented conference. He seems to have no interest in communication. Ah..."

Edward Witten sighed heavily.

"I know... Lusen told me that even an invitation for Qiao to give a sixty-minute talk at ICML was declined. He's not just uninterested in attending mathematics and physics conferences, but he also shows no interest in top computer science conferences. In other words, if you want to have effective communication with Qiao, you'll have to wait until his next lecture, meaning..."

Peter Schultz didn't finish his sentence, as it left him feeling somewhat hopeless.

"Yes, probably not until he has completely solved the mass gap problem. I guess Robert's feelings are quite complicated right now. He doesn't know whether to hope that this damned problem will be resolved quickly or that Qiao will be stuck on it for a bit longer. Ha..." Edward Witten suddenly laughed.

He was well aware of Robert Stephen's attitude towards Qiao Ze.

Even in this building, many shared the same sentiment as the professor working at MSRI.

Their attitude towards Qiao Ze was rather chilly.

Especially since many genuinely believed that Qiao Ze was too arrogant, which really didn't make him likeable.

"No matter what others think, I hope that Qiao Ze will hold his next lecture soon. If I get the chance, I'd like to have a face-to-face talk with him. My interest in the new algebra is growing. If he really succeeds, perhaps another true industrial revolution is on the horizon.

If we want to seize this opportunity, we need more people to understand this theory. At the very least, they should be proficient in deriving formulas that can be used to calculate the complex computational problems in engineering designs," Peter Schultz said earnestly.

Although theoretical scholars typically don't consider specific technological applications.

But Peter Schultz was well aware that the fact he received research funding far exceeding others was ultimately thanks to the support of large corporations controlling the flow of capital.

A vigorous industrial revolution often signifies a reshuffle of global capital. Capital's profit-seeking nature also ensures it will flow desperately from low-productivity areas to high-productivity ones. Although the methods may vary, it could be the dominant plundering by high-productivity areas or the natural proactive investment activities of capital.

Regardless of the method, no one wants their home to become a soil drained of its sustenance.

Even those with noble morals prefer to stand on high ground and display their kindness rather than be pitied by those standing above from the lowlands.

This statement once again made the atmosphere in the office heavy.

After a moment, Edward Witten decided to end the conversation, "Alright, Peter, I think you should go and rest now. Maybe in the afternoon we could sit together and analyze the key points in the two problems posed by Qiao. Perhaps we can get a glimpse of his train of thought. By the way, did you book the hotel?"

"Yes, Professor Witten. See you in the afternoon."

"See you in the afternoon."

...

At this moment, it wasn't just Huaxia and Princeton concerned.

Once the two problems posed by Qiao Ze traveled through the submarine cables to the Western Hemisphere, they also began to stimulate a second, broader round of discussion.

It wasn't just Edward Witten who, using traditional methods, had managed to analyze the solution formulas hidden in the problems and then got stuck at this point.

Because to continue, one needed to introduce some new concepts, or say mathematical tools, to solve them.

With the current mathematical tools, whether it's cutting methods or variational methods, it would either lead to an unsolvable loop in the subsequent calculations, or the computation process would become increasingly complicated, ultimately discovering that the function simply cannot converge.

If it cannot converge, it's naturally impossible to truly find the minimum value of the curve.

One has to conclude, therefore, either Qiao Ze's problem is posed nonsensically or the academia's understanding of the new algebra is still too superficial. They haven't found more universal rules.

The latter is more likely.

After all, Qiao Ze used this method to find the general solution of the Yang-Mills Equations. Before him, everyone was equally at a loss with this nonlinear partial differential equation.

Thus, on this morning, the mathematics and physics communities began another debate.

This time, the topic of discussion was whether the special field that Qiao Ze was attempting to construct could indeed exist.

Another, even larger group of applied physics researchers started to consider whether it would be possible to design relevant experiments based on the conditions given by Qiao Ze.

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It has to be said, the problem posed by Qiao Ze had already stimulated the imaginations of many.

"Qiu, you know Qiao Ze, don't you?"