Academic Circles Were Shocked Again-Why Were They Getting Shocked Every Day?

Under Shen Qi's direction, a netizen with the ID Ou Ye posted the manuscript of the Strong BSD Conjecture Proof on arXiv.

Shen Qi didn't alter a single mathematical symbol in Ou Ye's manuscript. After posting a scanned PDF of its forty-two pages, he typed in the post: "Seven Millennium Prize Problems, two left :)."

Just two hours after Ou Ye's manuscript on the BSD Conjecture appeared on arXiv, the news was reported by the media.

The first outlet to report it wasn't an academic publication, but the BBC.

BBC: "Chinese mathematician Ou Ye has just posted her forty-two-page manuscript on arXiv, a global preprint website. Ou Ye claims to have proved the Strong BSD Conjecture, one of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics. The validity of Ou Ye's proof will have to be further confirmed by the academic community."

Before long, academic media outlets, research institutions, and individuals began publishing their comments.

"Based on an initial assessment, Professor Ou Ye has provided what appears to be a plausible, complete proof of the Strong BSD Conjecture. Purely for academic purposes, we will organize a group of the world's leading mathematicians with whom we have long-standing collaborations to verify the validity of Ou Ye's proof." —A report from Springer Publishing Group, an academic publisher with many leading mathematicians, physicists, and other scientists as long-term collaborators.

"Seven Millennium Prize Problems, two left? Our institute will bring its strongest resources to bear on verifying Ou Ye's approach." —A comment from the Clay Mathematics Institute, the organization that established the seven Millennium Prize Problems. In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute selected seven problems and promised a million dollars for each. Many years had passed since then. Prices had risen: back then, a million dollars could buy a house in New York with a mortgage;