After Li Dong's paper on the Yang–Mills Existence and Mass Gap was published, it immediately drew the attention of the entire world.
Under normal circumstances, the first people to pay attention to something like this would have been those in mathematics or physics.
But this time, the contrarian crowd had joined in as well.
Because the timing of Li Dong's paper was simply too perfect.
Just a few days ago, everyone had still been arguing over whether mathematicians were inferior to AI. No, whether even top mathematicians were inferior to AI.
After all, of the seven Millennium Problems, human mathematicians had solved only one.
Yet in some people's eyes, AI had already cracked one and a half conjectures, and the second and third would soon follow.
So the appearance of Li Dong's paper was a naked slap in their faces.
In a male dormitory at the School of Mathematics, Nankai University, Huaxia.
The dorm lights had already been turned off.
One student lay on his bed, scrolling through short videos.
Then a Xinhua News Agency alert popped up at the top of his phone.
[One of the seven Millennium Problems, the Yang–Mills Existence and Mass Gap, has been solved by human mathematician, Fields Medal and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Academician Li Dong.]
The student's smile froze. Then he rubbed his eyes and finally tapped into the article.
One minute later...
A roar suddenly erupted from the quiet dormitory.
"Holy shit, that's awesome!"
The others in the dorm jolted awake from the shout.
"Liu Yang, are you insane? It's the middle of the night. Why are you going crazy?"
"Look! Li Dong—no, Eastern God... Eastern God solved the Yang–Mills Existence and Mass Gap!"
The groggy roommates immediately sat up when they heard that.
"Holy shit, really?"
"Really. Xinhua