Chief Editor Yao would have never expected Lu Zhou to submit such a major mathematical problem to a newly-established journal.
Even though at Lu Zhou’s level, the reputation of the journal didn’t matter anymore, this was still…
“… Um, I think you should think carefully for a submission like Riemann’s hypothesis. I think submitting it here…”
Lu Zhou looked at Chief Editor Yao and smiled.
“You think submitting Riemann’s hypothesis to Future is a bit unconventional?”
Chief Editor Yao didn’t say anything, but his expression was obvious.
“At the International Congress of Mathematicians, Professor Holden privately told me that he wanted me to submit the paper to Inventiones Mathematicae.
“A trivial research result wouldn’t flourish just because it is in Nature or Science, while a non-trivial research result would flourish even if it was published on arXiv.
“Remember, the reputation and honor of a journal or an award come from the contributors and researchers, not the other way around.
“You got this,” Lu Zhou said as he patted Chief Editor Yao on the back. He smiled and said, “If you think only top journals like Nature and Science are worthy of Riemann’s hypothesis, then let’s make Future worthy as well!”
…
Many major events happened in academia recently.
First, Academician Lu’s paper was withdrawn by IEEE, and the legitimacy of the carbon-based and the authority of IEEE were both questioned. Then, many academic scholars gossiped about the creation of the Future journal.
With the arrival of the end of the month, the first issue of Future finally appeared in people’s hands.
The second this first issue came out, people were stunned.
There was only one reason.
The first issue of this journal was a 30-page long special issue?!
And the publication was on the proof of Riemann’s hypothesis.
Even Science, which was funded by Edison, had never received such an honor during its first few issues. For a journal to publish a world-class mathematics problem as its first issue, this was unprecedented.
The aura of Lu Zhou himself, combined with the reputation of Riemann’s hypothesis that was the crown jewel of mathematics, shocked everyone in the mathematics community, including the likes of Faltings.
Lu Zhou didn’t publish his research on Inventiones Mathematicae like Holden had suggested. However, he never promised Holden anything since he said he would only consider it.
In addition to the thirty-page proof of Riemann’s hypothesis, the carbon-based chip technology was also published in one of Future’s sub-journals.
Many people found out that this was the same paper that was withdrawn by IEEE.
In fact, it was a word for word copy.
This might as well be a public insult to IEEE.
Things suddenly became interesting.
A cafeteria in a Chinese university.
Two noob researchers were eating noodles together, talking loudly to one another.
“Haha, Professor Lu is nutty! This is the first time I’ve seen someone create their own journal after being withdrawn.”
“My supervisor has been keeping up with this, even he was stunned.”
“Do you think people will submit to Future?”
“Do you really think this is a problem for Academician Lu, with his influence in the academic community? I don’t think the problem is having enough people submit to Future. The problem is passing its review process.”
“You’re right…”
After all, this is Professor Lu.
Forget about his influence outside of academia, his control over the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study alone was enough to make him the most authoritative figure in the Chinese academic community.
This noob researcher was in the field of materials science, and he remembered his supervisor talking about how the materials science researchers at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study were miles ahead of everyone else.
No university or research institute had ever been able to attract so many foreign Chinese scholars to return to China. No research institute had ever had more research funding. Apparently, Lu Zhou invested almost half of Star Sky Technology’s annual profits into the institute.
It was like the papers and research that came out of the institute were from another planet…
While the academic community was talking about the newly established Future journal, as well as the feud between Academician Lu and the IEEE, a CTO was boiling with rage.
In fact, Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and even Samsung formed an alliance to counter this crisis. Mayberry proposed for IEEE to withdraw the paper, claiming that it could exclude the technology from the semiconductor industry. Mayberry already considered various scenarios that would arise from his plan.
He thought of what would happen if Lu Zhou posted his paper on arXiv instead, or posted it on Science, Nature, or another Chinese journal. He didn’t expect this guy to actually start his own journal.
This was almost like the referee began playing on the court himself!
Actually, it was worse than that!
It was almost like the player was upset by a yellow card, so the player decided to become a referee himself!
Not to mention that this journal began to receive some traction, and many people thought it would be on par with the likes of Science and Nature.
Mayberry didn’t know what to do.
What could he do?
It wasn’t like he could lobby the legislators to ban the journal in the United States, right?
Theoretically, he could do this. After all, the influence of the semiconductor industry was quite powerful.
However…
What would that accomplish?
Other than making others think he was a fool.
Not to mention the whole “academic freedom” thing.
He heard a knock outside his door, followed by his assistant walking in.
“Sir.”
“What?!”
The assistant gulped at Mayberry and spoke.
“HiSilicon sent us an invitation letter… to the product launch of the Dragon One chip.”
Mayberry’s eyelids began to twitch, and he quickly asked, “Where?”
“Shanghai.”
Mayberry asked, “They only invited me?”
The assistant said, “No, and Mr. Swan… If you don’t want to go, I can—”
“No, who said I’m not going!” Mayberry clenched his teeth and said, “Buy me a ticket right now!”
