A doctoral dissertation definitely had to be sufficiently original, especially for doctoral students at Oxford University.
So if Richman's dissertation had been completed only after today, then once it was submitted to the academic committee for review, it might not have passed at all.
Thus, upon learning this news, Richman naturally broke out in a cold sweat.
Fortunately, thanks to Maynard's earlier reminder, he had managed to complete his defense the day before.
In the end, he got Maynard's signature as he had hoped and brought his student years to a perfect close.
However, Maynard's students still could not figure out why their professor had suddenly started criticizing Fermat today.
Maynard even posted similar remarks on his social media account, drawing the attention of other renowned mathematicians around the world. In particular, many mathematicians working in Analytic Number Theory were close to Maynard, and when they saw him complaining about Fermat, they all began asking him about it.
Yet before Maynard could explain, mathematicians around the world gradually learned what had happened.
More than three hundred Chinese mathematical scholars had attended Xiao Yi's lecture, and quite a few of them were mathematicians with international reputations.
Thus, news of the lecture quickly spread beyond China and into the rest of the world.
A Chinese mathematical prodigy had solved the mysterious functor problem left behind by Grothendieck?
He had also fully algebraized Far Abelian Geometry and forged a close connection between it and Automorphic Forms in number theory, which would have enormous implications for solving a whole series of related problems?
He had even demonstrated on the spot how to directly push the level of distribution for primes, θ, to 0.75?
Ever since Bombieri's theorem in the 1960s, no one had ever advanced θ by as much as 0.1 in one leap,