The General Solution to the Yang-Mills Equations!

He had solved it?

The general solution to the Yang–Mills Equations???

Where was the derivation?

And wait, what about the Q&A?

How could he just leave?!

Even if he was a Fields Medal winner, he couldn't do whatever he pleased, could he?!

The audience in the auditorium exchanged bewildered looks as a wave of murmurs spread from the center of the hall.

Some shook their heads and rose to leave. Others sat there at a loss. Some photographed the equations on the blackboard, while others traded astonished glances with their colleagues, unsure what to say.

Staring at the equation on the blackboard, Kliqing scribbled a couple of random strokes on his paper, then turned blankly to Faltings. "...Is that the general solution?"

Faltings stared at the blackboard without expression. After a long while, he finally managed to speak.

"My specialty is Algebraic Geometry. If you have a question about Partial Differential Equations, ask Fefferman."

Kliqing: "...?"

There's something even you aren't good at?

Faltings had passed the question to Fefferman, but Fefferman looked just as stunned.

Deligne frowned at the general solution on the blackboard and tried to check it. Soon, like Faltings, he gave up. He turned to Professor Fefferman, the expert in Partial Differential Equations seated beside him, and put down his ballpoint pen.

"Is his answer correct?"

"I don't know... Even if I wanted to verify it, I couldn't do it myself." Fefferman paused, then said with some difficulty, "This is work for a computer, not a mathematician."

Partial differential equations were unlike ordinary equations. The amount of computation they required was among the greatest in any field.

That was especially true of nonlinear partial differential equations. Only a handful could be solved, and there were scarcely more for which the existence of a solution could be