Evans continued reading the paper, but since he had not understood the earlier parts, the later sections naturally became even harder to follow. He gave up trying to understand it, quickly confirmed that there were no issues with its formatting or standards, then got up to report the matter to Editor-in-Chief Bojielun.
After knocking on the editor-in-chief's office door, Bojielun saw that it was Evans and said with a smile, "Evans, it seems you've completed your task."
With that, Bojielun stood up, pulled a fifty-euro note from his pocket, and handed it to Evans.
At the same time, he asked, "How did you word your rejection email?"
Evans calmly accepted the fifty euros and replied, "I didn't write a rejection email."
Upon hearing that, Bojielun reached toward Evans's pocket to take the fifty euros back. "Then give me my money back."
Evans sidestepped him, stared at Bojielun, and said, "And I'm already preparing to contact Peter Scholze or Jacob Stix to review this paper."
Bojielun froze, then spread his hands helplessly. "Are you crazy? If those two find out we asked them to review a paper written by a high school student, they'll probably mock us mercilessly at the next mathematics conference!"
Seeing Bojielun's reaction, Evans was certain that he had not read the paper.
"My dear editor-in-chief, haven't you read this paper before?"
Bojielun said, "Come on, I've been reading Professor Tracy's paper lately. I don't have time for this sort of thing. A high school student—even a genius—how good could his paper possibly be? We're IHES! Forget a high school student; if even an undergraduate published a paper with us, it would be the biggest headline in mathematics this year, unless someone proved the Riemann Hypothesis."
Evans immediately laughed. "In that case, Mr. Bojielun, it seems your judgment was mistaken."
"This paper may really be publishable in our journal."
Bojielun's eyes widened. "Are you sure you're not joking?"
How could that be possible?
For a high school student to write a complete paper at all would already be remarkable, yet now Evans was telling him that this paper's quality might actually qualify for their journal?
A top journal in mathematics?
"Let me see it."
Bojielun immediately returned to his computer and found the paper in the submission system.
He narrowed his eyes and began reading. Ten minutes later, he gave up.
He could barely understand any of it. The knowledge involved in the paper was completely unrelated to his own field of research. As for Far Abelian Geometry, he was utterly clueless.
Although he could not understand the paper's content, his many years of experience as a mathematics journal editor allowed him to tell from its writing that its author was highly professional.
"You were right."
Bojielun exclaimed in amazement, "There really is such a mathematical genius in this world."
His old friend Hu Guangde had not deceived him.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "Fine. We'll do as you suggested and send this paper to Professor Schultz and Professor Stix. Regardless of whether it can be published in our journal, it still needs expert review—but are you sure the two of them will be willing to accept it?"
Peter Scholze, a rising star in mathematics and winner of the 2018 Fields Medal.
Jacob Stix, an authority on Far Abelian Geometry and an expert in arithmetic algebraic geometry.
Evans patted his chest. "They'll definitely be willing to accept it."
"Fine, then let's first ask whether Schultz is willing."
Bojielun nodded, then opened the journal's contact list and found Schultz's information.
Once the call connected, he explained why he was calling.
"Oh? A paper on Far Abelian Geometry?"
After hearing Bojielun's introduction to the paper, Schultz was immediately interested. "Since the author dared to submit it to IHES, and you're asking me to review it, it seems this paper should be quite good."
"Well, I also haven't seen any outstanding papers on Far Abelian Geometry published recently. Please send it over, Mr. Bojielun. I'll do my best to give you an answer within two or three weeks."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Schultz. I'll send it to you right away."
Bojielun replied with a smile.
Without further nonsense, he hung up and immediately sent the paper to Schultz.
Bojielun remarked, "All right. I really didn't expect Schultz to accept this paper so readily."
Evans thought for a moment and guessed, "Could it be because of Shinichi Mochizuki's paper proving the abc conjecture?"
"Oh? You mean that Japanese man?" Bojielun raised his brows. "I remember Schultz and Stix jointly published an article in 2018 denying his proof of abc, though that guy didn't agree with them."
"Yes." Evans nodded. "Before Shinichi Mochizuki published his paper proving the abc conjecture, he also wrote more than seven hundred pages on Far Abelian Geometry. So I'm guessing Schultz is interested in this paper because he wants to find definitive evidence in it that Shinichi Mochizuki is wrong."
Bojielun froze and said hesitantly, "Probably not...? Shinichi Mochizuki's paper was published in 2012, and even now no one can definitively say he was wrong. This paper was only written by a high school student..."
Evans fell silent for a moment. "Maybe?"
"Hahaha, that should be impossible." Bojielun laughed awkwardly.
No matter how he thought about it, it was impossible.
Otherwise, their confidence would be shattered into pieces.
He immediately changed the subject. "But speaking of which, shouldn't you give me back those fifty euros? And then you still owe me another fifty euros?"
Evans's expression changed, and he turned to leave. "What fifty euros? I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm going back to work."
Then he quickly left the office.
Bojielun shook his head with a laugh, but he did not pursue the fifty euros. After all, he had intended to give them to Evans in the first place.
Now that the paper had entered the expert review stage, he had at least given his old friend Hu Guangde some sort of answer.
After that, he stopped thinking about it and continued with his work.
As for whether Xiao Yi's paper could truly become the "final spear" that ended Shinichi Mochizuki's paper, he quickly forgot about that as well.
In any case, there was absolutely no possibility of that.
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