"What? Academician Hu said my paper might be the best paper in Far Abelian Geometry in recent times?"
And that it was a perfect mathematics paper?
After receiving a call from Professor Liu Bin and hearing his account, Xiao Yi was utterly stunned.
Damn, was he really that amazing?
"Professor Liu, is that true? Did Academician Hu really say that?"
Liu Bin laughed from the other end of the line. "Come on, would I lie to you? Of course it's true. Academician Hu is standing right beside me right now. Want me to have him tell you himself?"
Soon, Academician Hu's voice came through the phone as well. "Hehe, Xiao Yi, you don't believe I said that?"
"Ah, Academician Hu, you're there too." Xiao Yi felt embarrassed.
"Haha, have some confidence in yourself. Believe in your paper. We all have great faith in your talent as well."
Hu Guangde's voice became clearer over the phone, likely because he had taken Professor Liu's phone. "When I first started reading your paper, I already had great faith in its value. Now that I've spent several days on it, I'm completely certain. Your talent for mathematics may be even greater than any of us imagined."
Receiving praise from an academician, Xiao Yi could not help feeling flattered. He modestly said, "It's not that good..."
"Don't belittle yourself." Hu Guangde laughed. "I hope you can continue to make use of your talent in the future. Don't let it go to waste. Who knows? You might even become China's Gauss."
The Prince of Mathematics, Gauss, was a mathematical genius of the nineteenth century. In the mathematical world... no, throughout the entire world, he was an enormously renowned figure.
And now, Hu Guangde had compared Xiao Yi to Gauss. It was clear just how highly he regarded Xiao Yi's talent.
Liu Bin, standing beside him, also showed surprise in his eyes. But it quickly faded, replaced by an expression that said, "That's indeed true."
Gauss had proved the constructibility of the regular seventeen-sided polygon with straightedge and compass at nineteen, while Xiao Yi, only seventeen this year, had completed a proof of the Absolute Remote Abelian Conjecture.
Who was better was impossible to say. Only after several years—or perhaps several decades—when Xiao Yi had gradually made more achievements in mathematics could another judgment be made.
"All right, Xiao Yi. There's no need to say anything more. Next, start translating this paper into English."
Hu Guangde said.
"Okay!" Xiao Yi answered at first, but then froze. Translate it into English?
"Why translate it into English? Do domestic Core Journals require papers to be written in English too?"
"Uh..."
Hearing Xiao Yi's question, Hu Guangde and Liu Bin exchanged looks.
So this young man was actually thinking of publishing his paper in a Core Journal?
Compared with the quality of this paper, such a rookie question left the professor and academician unsure how to respond.
Although Xiao Yi was only their junior and treated them with great respect, while they were both seniors in academia—not to mention that Hu Guangde was an academician, and Liu Bin was an Outstanding Young Scholar with exceptional academic ability—their talent for mathematics was naturally quite remarkable as well.
But when facing such a young genius...
It really... made them want to curse.
Why was heaven so unfair?
Hu Guangde suddenly felt exhausted. He listlessly waved his hand, passed the phone back to Liu Bin, and said, "You explain it to him. I... need a moment."
Liu Bin sighed helplessly. He wanted a moment too.
But what could he do? Hu Guangde was his superior.
He could only explain to Xiao Yi, "Your paper is probably a bit... too good for our domestic Core Journals. It can already be published in an international core journal."
"Like the journal that published the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem you read before, Annals of Mathematics. It is one of the most central and authoritative journals in the entire international mathematical community."
"And since Academician Hu has said that your paper is the best paper in Far Abelian Geometry in recent times, you can absolutely publish it in one of the top international mathematics journals."
"Although it might be a little ambitious for a journal as elite as Annals of Mathematics, there would be no problem at all with a second-tier top journal."
"Academician Hu and I both recommend Publications mathématiques de l'IHES. It is the mathematics journal of the French Institute for Advanced Study. It is very well known in our mathematical community, and the papers it publishes are of excellent quality. There are no mediocre papers there."
"Also, after you submit your paper, Academician Hu will provide some assistance and have your paper moved up in the review queue. That way, you won't have to wait too long."
"What do you think?"
What else could Xiao Yi say after hearing Liu Bin's words?
It was not as though he knew nothing about these journals. He knew that Annals of Mathematics was one of the four top mathematics journals in the world.
He simply had not expected that his paper could actually be submitted to a journal only one tier below Annals of Mathematics.
The elementary value defined by that voice was a little too exaggerated, wasn't it?
Based on his guess, if he wanted the Ruthless Continuous Study buff to keep leveling up, he would probably need to publish at least a paper of medium value.
And now, even an elementary-value paper was already worthy of a second-tier top journal. Wouldn't a medium-value paper have to be at the level of Annals of Mathematics at minimum?
And above that, for high value...
Would it have to be a heavyweight paper comparable to proving Fermat's Last Theorem?
Xiao Yi suddenly felt a headache coming on.
"Hmm? Xiao Yi, no problem, right?"
When Liu Bin heard no response from Xiao Yi for a long time, he asked again.
Xiao Yi came back to his senses and quickly replied, "Oh, no problem. I'll start translating it in the next couple of days."
"Mm. Send it to me after you finish translating it, and I'll take a look."
"Okay, thank you, Professor Liu."
A few days later, Xiao Yi finished translating the paper. It was his first time doing this kind of English translation, so it had taken quite a bit of effort.
He then sent the translated paper to Liu Bin and asked the professor to review it.
Under Liu Bin's guidance, Xiao Yi adjusted the formatting and changed the wording in many places, making it look more like an SCI paper.
"All right, it's about done like this. As for paper writing, the more you write, the more experience you gain. You'll become more and more proficient in the future."
Liu Bin said with a chuckle over the phone.
"Thank you, Professor Liu!" Xiao Yi said gratefully.
"Mm, that's it, then. You can submit the paper to IHES now. If you run into any problems during submission, just ask me," Liu Bin said.
At that moment, Xiao Yi suddenly asked, "Um, Professor Liu, should I list your name as the corresponding author? I saw online that the corresponding author is usually the advisor."
Liu Bin froze upon hearing Xiao Yi's words, then felt deeply moved.
What Xiao Yi suggested did tempt Liu Bin a little—after all, this was IHES!
But he restrained that temptation and hurriedly said, "No, don't put down my name. For the author information, just put your own name. Don't include anyone else."
"You completed this paper entirely independently, so you should be the only author."
Xiao Yi said, "But you were the one who chose this topic for me."
Liu Bin laughed, then said, "It was only a topic. It's no big deal. I didn't provide you with any guidance during the process—not to mention that Academician Hu gave me this topic in the first place. I couldn't understand it myself, so how could I have the nerve to be the corresponding author?"
"What is yours will always be yours."
"Also, don't casually send the papers you write to other people in the future. Academia is not clean; it can even be rather filthy. Protect yourself, and protect your achievements as well."
"This is my advice to you as a professor."
Listening to Liu Bin's words, Xiao Yi felt deeply moved on the other end of the line. In the end, he said with complete sincerity, "Thank you!"
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