A New Star Set to Rise in the Mathematics World

As a mathematician born in France and working at the French Institute for Advanced Study, Evans was very familiar with Algebraic Geometry. After all, the father of modern Algebraic Geometry, Grothendieck, had once worked at their French Institute for Advanced Study. In a sense, they were colleagues.

Far Abelian Geometry, as a niche area within Algebraic Geometry, had garnered considerable attention after Grothendieck developed it, eventually attracting younger researchers like Evans.

Although after graduating from graduate school, he no longer dedicated all his efforts to Far Abelian Geometry.

It was simply too difficult, and he could barely find any literature online when searching.

However, the paper before him made Evans marvel inwardly.

So, Far Abelian Geometry could be studied in this way!

"That's right... a mapping f : T→T' to another topological space is continuous as long as the composition S→T→T' is continuous for all compact Hausdorff spaces S mapping to T, and the topological space T can be compactly generated..."

"The image of M→L/pL is contained in modules of finite type over Ck for any n... why is that?"

"Hmm, I see. It needs to be considered based on the nuclear Banach space. The nuclear Banach space has finite dimensions, and for any open cover LV, the space V ∈ Ck is called nuclear, so there exists another open cover M L such that the canonical map VM→VL is compact!"

"What a brilliant proof!"

He couldn't help but exclaim in his mind.

What an ingenious conception the author of this paper must have had to come up with such a step!

From this simple step, he could almost feel the author's genius-level thinking, just like Grothendieck!

Mathematics, in their eyes, seemed to have countless angles from which to explore its mysteries.

Evans felt a genuine sense of admiration.

This admiration also led him to become immersed in the paper without realizing it.

Time quietly slipped away, until half an hour later.

"Hey, Evans, what are you doing?"

Suddenly, his colleague David's surprised voice came from beside him.

What did he see?

Evans was actually taking out a draft paper and calculating something on it!

Evans snapped back to reality and then explained, "Oh, I'm reviewing a paper. It's written so well, but there are some parts that I really can't understand unless I calculate them myself."

"You can't do that! You should know better!"

David said to him with a warning look.

Evans immediately realized what his colleague was warning him about.

His behavior could easily be mistaken by someone with ill intentions as an attempt to plagiarize the author!

This situation was far too common in academia. Journal editors, being the first to access submitted papers, were also the most likely to plagiarize the author's ideas.

And his actions just now clearly carried such a significant suspicion.

If anyone petty-minded present saw it and reported him, even if he hadn't done anything, he would definitely be in trouble.

Breaking out in a cold sweat, he quickly thanked his colleague.

"Thank you, David, for reminding me. I'll buy you a drink later."

Hearing about a drink, David smiled, "No problem, we're colleagues."

However, he then asked with some confusion, "But what paper are you reading that's so captivating? Didn't you say earlier you were going to look at the high school student's paper that Bojielun gave you?"

"Uh..."

Hearing this, Evans froze, and an embarrassed look appeared on his face. "What I'm reading now... is that paper."

"What?" David was stunned. Didn't Evans say earlier that he was thinking about how to reject this paper?

Why was he now reading it so seriously?

He suddenly realized something and asked, "How much did Bojielun pay you?"

"50 Euros..."

As soon as he said it, Evans spat it out.

"Merde (Damn it)! Now I'm the one who has to give him 50 Euros!"

"What? Have you gone crazy from reading papers?"

David was dumbfounded. People paying to read papers these days?

And 50 Euros at that!

That was enough for him to spend a whole night at the bar.

Evans felt like crying.

He had initially thought Bojielun would pay him 50 Euros, but according to their bet, this paper was so well-written that he had clearly lost.

He even had to buy David a drink later!

He was losing big time.

"Or maybe Bojielun scammed you? Come on, let's go find him!" David said, still talking and intending to help Evans get his money back.

He wondered if Evans would buy him a few more drinks if Evans got the money back.

"This..."

But Evans hesitated. He turned back and glanced at the paper again. "Never mind, I'll finish reading this paper first."

David was taken aback, not quite understanding. "What are you doing? That's 50 euros, and the paper is so poorly written. What were you thinking?"

"You're mistaken. This paper is... very well written," Evans said.

David was shocked. "How good can a high school student's paper be? It actually managed to captivate you. I remember you graduated from École Normale Supérieure!"

"You'll know if you take a look."

Evans pointed to the paper in front of him.

David, not one to give up easily, leaned in to read it. But he quickly gave up.

He said awkwardly, "I... I can't really understand it. I don't understand Far Abelian Geometry very well myself."

Evans smiled. "That's normal. Even I found it quite challenging. I skipped over many parts I didn't understand."

"The methods and theories this high school student used in this paper are far beyond my imagination. If it hadn't been written in such detail, without any 'obvious' steps, I wouldn't have been able to read it so carefully."

"This..."

David was stunned.

Evans had graduated from the Mathematics department of École Normale Supérieure, a department that was arguably the best in the world. This was enough to show how exceptional Evans's talent was.

And yet, even he couldn't fully understand this high school student's paper?

"Is this really a high school student?" David couldn't help but ask.

"Perhaps we shouldn't view him as a high school student, but as a rising star about to emerge in the world of Mathematics."

Evans's gaze returned to the paper before him, a hint of regret on his face from not being able to fully comprehend it.

Being very interested in Far Abelian Geometry, he was genuinely intrigued by this paper. It offered him a completely new perspective, even reigniting his desire to research Far Abelian Geometry.

"Alright, I'll go find Editor-in-Chief Bojielun after I finish this paper."

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