A handsome young man lay bare-chested on the floor, doing push-ups!
His muscles had begun to take shape. Powerful bulges stretched from his arms to his back, his skin taut like a cheetah ready to pounce.
At some point, the trembling and awkwardness he used to show while doing push-ups had vanished. His movements had become steady, rising and falling with calm ease!
Fine beads of sweat seeped from his skin, like the moisture that condensed on a plastic bottle after a drink was taken out of the refrigerator.
"Bzzz!" The phone on the desk vibrated.
Song He finished one last push-up, stood up, and slowly exhaled. Then he picked up his phone to check the message.
Deng Puhe: "Excellent! You finished the one-week problem in less than a day. Your rate of progress is faster than Dewitt and I expected!"
Deng Puhe: "Try this one too. I'll give you six days. That should be enough."
Another handwritten problem was sent over.
Song He glanced at it, put down his phone, and lay back down on the floor to do push-ups!
His arm muscles drove his body up and down, but his eyes remained fixed on the floor. The new problem appeared clearly across the wooden boards, and the solution sprang to mind automatically!
With every push-up he completed, several more steps of the solution appeared on the floor, like a program loading bit by bit.
"Given the elements of group H, define the right action of the group on the set..."
"The general linear group Ln has a conjugation action on the space C of m-order square matrices, therefore..."
"In the quotient space, the matrices containing the same eigenvalue multiplicities..."
"The quotient topology N acts on Sd through the diameter map, therefore the standard topology of the real projective