This April Was Far from Peaceful

Late April.

A major event shook the academic world.

The latest issue of Mathematical Annals devoted a full forty pages to a paper proving the existence of solutions to the Yang–Mills Equations.

The moment the news was confirmed, it caused a sensation throughout the international Mathematics and Physics communities.

On MathOverflow, the internationally renowned mathematics forum, discussion of the matter had already exploded.

[Have you heard? The existence of solutions to the Yang–Mills Equations has been proven!?]

[I heard about it this morning, but isn't the matter still undecided?]

[How can it still be undecided if it was published in Mathematical Annals? The reviewer was Charles Fefferman!]

[I haven't finished reading the paper yet. I'm not very familiar with the theory involving L-manifolds, and to understand it, I'll need to study his 2018 paper on L-manifolds as well. Then I'll have to cram Differential Geometry too. What a headache... Anyway, with a submission from someone like him, even if there are flaws, ordinary people won't be able to find them. As for the final result, let's wait until the presentation is over.]

Since many younger-generation mathematicians, including Terence Tao and Scholze, had registered accounts on the site, the popularity of a topic on MathOverflow could more or less reflect just how much of a sensation it had caused within the mathematical community.

The last discussion on such a scale dated back to two years ago, to Sir Atiyah and his five-page paper...

The heated debate was not confined to professional academic forums.

Even though most people did not even know how to write the Yang–Mills Equations, they were no strangers to the Millennium Problems.

Almost the day after the paper was released, related news appeared as headline pushes on various news sites, drawing countless onlookers.

Compared with the rational discussions