Across all major social media platforms, people were still discussing what the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem was and what it meant for the problem to be solved. At the same time, "Xiao Yi proves the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem" was still sitting at number one on the trending lists.
But now, second place had been taken by "Xiao Yi wins the Fields Medal," and its popularity was still skyrocketing. Overtaking first place was no longer a question.
Especially for those netizens who had learned during the day that Xiao Yi might receive the Fields Medal at the ICM opening ceremony that night. Quite a few of them had stayed up past half past midnight, watching the live broadcast, and had personally witnessed Xiao Yi step onto the stage to accept the award.
As a result, they became one of the main forces spreading the news.
In the end, group chats, forums, and platforms like Tieba were filled with discussions about it.
For example, in the Math Tieba.
The Math Tieba probably had never imagined that it would one day make the Tieba trending list. A post titled "Breaking News! Scholar Xiao Really Won the Fields Medal!" had even shot straight to the top of the hot posts.
Users from all corners of the forum flooded into the post and joined the discussion.
Although forum users could be extremely aggressive whenever anything controversial came up, on this matter, they were all lavish with praise.
Holy shit! The first mathematician from the mainland to win the Fields Medal. An absolute god!
God among gods. And he's only nineteen this year! That's insane. He's nine years younger than Jean-Pierre Serre was when Serre won it at twenty-eight!
**Wait, bro, I'm nineteen too? Does that mean I can get a