Perelman's sudden visit did not cause much of a stir for Lu Zhou, but it sent Jin University's administrators into a frenzy.
After all, this heavyweight was simply too famous.
Even among people who knew little about mathematics, quite a few had heard the stories about him, the Millennium Problems, and the million US dollars.
Several renowned universities, including Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton, had invited him to teach, but unfortunately, none had succeeded.
Now this recluse, who had turned down invitations from the world's top ten universities, had suddenly visited Jinling University. He had even pulled up a little stool at the back of a classroom and sat there listening attentively. How could the university's administrators not feel flattered?
Perhaps the only person who felt nothing unusual about it was Lu Zhou himself, standing at the front of the classroom.
After all, he had met plenty of people whose accomplishments far surpassed Perelman's.
Still, Lu Zhou had clearly underestimated how appealing the recognition of an internationally renowned scholar was to Jinling University's administrators.
Ever since he had returned to teach in Hua Nation, Jinling University had been consolidating the influence he had earned for his alma mater in the mathematics community, determined to turn the university into a mathematics hub for Asia and even the world.
And indeed, with strong support from Lu Zhou and many other alumni, Jin University had achieved considerable success over the past six or seven years. It had gradually transformed mathematics from a peripheral discipline into a flagship subject even stronger than physics and computer science.
Even so, a world-renowned university could not be built in a year or two. It still needed the accumulated work of several generations of scholars to reach a truly world-class standard.
Now that Perelman