The editorial office of Annals of Mathematics had probably never imagined that one day, its website would suffer such a massive traffic surge.
After all, the papers published in Annals of Mathematics were among the most difficult of all journals to read and understand. Even a mathematics PhD might need a full year to comprehend a single one.
Therefore, despite being a top journal in mathematics, Annals of Mathematics had never worried that excessive traffic would crash its official website's servers.
Yet now, it had happened.
Fortunately, Princeton University had plenty of internal servers, so they quickly borrowed others and restored the website to normal.
"God, are these people insane?"
Watching the download count continuously climb in the backend, the Annals of Mathematics editors gathered together and could not help exclaiming in amazement.
"They really are insane."
Another person nodded in agreement.
Someone else said, "Maybe this paper can directly raise our journal's impact factor by a whole point?"
"One point? I think two points are possible. After all, our journal only publishes a few dozen papers each year, and even the combined total over two years does not exceed seventy. If one paper gets more than a hundred citations, it can raise our impact factor by quite a bit. As for how much Xiao Yi's paper can raise it by..."
The speaker shook his head. "I can't estimate it either."
Everyone present could not help sighing.
That was the advantage of applied mathematics.
Of course, it would not be quite right to say that Xiao Yi's paper was purely an applied mathematics paper. After all, the blow-up problem was an important issue that had to be considered throughout partial differential equation theory. It was a problem pure mathematics needed to solve, while also having major practical implications.
"All right,