Super God-Level Top Student

It has to be said that if one looks past Qiao Ze's typically indifferent demeanor, his habit of speaking little, and his misunderstandings about various groups of people, he is actually quite a warm person.

Although he may not pay too much attention to the thoughts of those around him, he never minds lending a hand or fulfilling their small wishes.

In fact, these days Qiao Ze had also heard some of the academic discussions regarding his paper.

Li Jiangao was worried that Qiao Ze might develop some unhealthy thoughts or even become mentally disturbed, and so he specifically spent a long time talking with him.

Little did he know that the person whose mental state was slightly disturbed wasn't Qiao Ze; in fact, Qiao Ze didn't care at all about the so-called academic elites' evaluations.

It wasn't out of disrespect for his seniors but simply a lack of interest in paying attention.

After all, there are many interesting problems in this world. What serious person would spend all day paying attention to what others think?

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"..., the review will probably take about a week. Also, there's another matter. I really want to know if you have discussed this new paper with anyone? Please forgive my curiosity, but I'm very eager to know this.

As far as I know, in the field of number theory, there are individuals like Hamilton, Richard, and others conducting research, but I'm not so familiar with the progress of mathematical research in Huaxia."

Qiao Ze didn't see the email from Roth Dugan until the next day.

It was already three in the afternoon at Princeton when the other party sent the email, which was when Qiao Ze was sound asleep.

But Qiao Ze was already accustomed to this mode of communication, as neither of them would specifically pick times to contact each other.

It still warmed his heart.

As the editor-in-chief of the journal, Roth Dugan was indeed very good to Qiao Ze. He even went out of his way to tell him in the email how long the review would probably take, a privilege not even the world's top mathematicians received.

Of course, it was mainly because of Qiao Ze's age.

The age of eighteen was too tempting for many people.

Youth itself signifies endless possibilities.

If one is young and has already shown outstanding talent, then the possibilities start to expand infinitely, like the expanding universe.

Qiao Ze had a very good impression of Roth Dugan, and after reading the email, he wrote back.

After briefly explaining a few mathematical problems raised by the other party, he began to answer the final question.

"No. I haven't had any contact with the two professors you mentioned, but I have read their papers and have been inspired by them. If I have to say I've discussed it with anyone, I should probably thank a manager named Cheng from Apple Inc. The conversation we had during a meal helped me understand the key point of this problem."

After dealing with Roth Dugan's reply, Qiao Ze began to read the next letter.

Recently, he had received many emails.

It wasn't just Roth Dugan; including Zhang Hongcai, several professors and researchers with whom he had previously taken the initiative to communicate by email had begun to actively discuss academic issues with him.

Qiao Ze would choose to skim through the incoming emails.

If it was a question he was interested in, he would reply and discuss it.

If he wasn't interested, he would simply respond with a sentence indicating it was not his forte.

Speaking of which, Qiao Ze quite liked this way of communication now.

Because it's simple, efficient, and direct.

Especially after everyone got used to this way of interacting, they didn't beat around the bush in their emails and directly posed their questions, followed by a discussion.

This made Qiao Ze realize that communication with mathematicians was indeed necessary.

Because, in fact, everyone has some odd thoughts and ideas which might not always be practical, but are very useful for expanding one's thinking.

The amount of time he spends handling these emails each day also depends on whether he finds the posed questions interesting.

Sometimes he shuts down his email after just an hour.

If the question is of interest to Qiao Ze and the other party has time, they might spend a whole morning discussing a particular problem.

Additionally, Qiao Ze also had to set aside some time every day to discuss with the engineers in this building.

The upscaling of the photolithography machine may have reduced the demands on the process, but the requirements for precision and stability for this product remain in place.

The design of each part and the combination of various components need to be verified multiple times through supercomputing.

If any area failed to achieve satisfactory results in verification, the design would have to be adjusted.

It could be a single component or a specific part.

Qiao Ze's role was to provide some suggestions when the verification results were not ideal, and the engineers in the project team were at a loss.

This work once again showed Qiao Ze the terrifying power of a team.

He had originally thought that such a grand engineering project would require at least three to five years of preparation to get off the ground. But judging by the current progress, eighty percent of the preliminary design work had already been completed. Read the latest on empiren/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

The designs for the entire project, if printed out, could already fill about ten high-speed train carriages. Of course, this wasn't just the efforts of a few hundred people in this building; in fact, the design work for many components had been distributed to nearly a hundred research institutes across the country, with thousands of engineers involved in the design work.

However, all the information would be consolidated in this small building.

Even before National Day, the Optoelectronics Institute had found a test site.

It was located on a roughly 1.2 square kilometer plot of land to the west of Xilin. Construction of a fence had already commenced, and to support this project, two supporting power storage stations were being built next to the photolithography base to ensure abundant and uninterrupted power supply for future testing.