The Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis had been proved, a breach had been opened in the approach to proving the critical strip, and now Professor Lu had even provided a siege ladder for storming this fortress.
Although no one knew why Lu Zhou himself had no interest in increasing the value of ε, this approach was unquestionably viable.
Almost every scholar researching analytic number theory or algebraic geometry, along with researchers who dabbled in these fields, had thrown themselves into studying the value of ε.
The scene bore a striking resemblance to when Professor Zhang Yitang had proved a weak form of the twin prime conjecture and brought the theoretical tool of the Large Sieve Method back into the public eye, drawing half the analytic number theory community into this "mathematical game"...
Meanwhile, at a five-star hotel beside Jinling University's old campus.
Because it was fairly close to the university and conveniently accessible, the hotel often served as a venue for major academic conferences in the country. That evening's banquet had also been scheduled there.
It was a banquet for more than two thousand people.
Even though some scholars had chosen to remain in their rooms to study the Hyperelliptic Curve Analysis Method Lu Zhou had presented that morning, the number of guests in attendance was still enormous.
Fortunately, after a flurry of preparations, the banquet had finally come together.
During the banquet, an elderly professor who had nearly lost all his hair rose from his table, somewhat drunk. Holding a full glass of red wine in one hand and supporting himself against the table with the other, he joked drunkenly with the friends seated beside him.
"The food here is simply incredible... God, why have we never considered holding the Congress of Mathematicians here? I propose that we hold next year's congress