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It seems it was never the right time.

He Danchang originally planned to wait until Qiao Ze's expert application results were out before publishing, but when the expert results came out, news broke of a foreign mathematics authority crazily praising Qiao Ze on Facebook.

Considering that Qiao Ze had already become a trending topic, and even internet celebrities and streamers were flocking to Xilin University of Technology to find Qiao Ze, even to the point of disrupting normal teaching activities, He ultimately missed this opportunity.

For an eighteen-year-old kid, getting too much praise all at once is not necessarily a good thing.

Another newspaper might not have had such concerns, but Everybody Daily was, after all, different.

So, after discussing with the newspaper's leaders, He Danchang decided to wait a bit longer. Since Qiao Ze's paper was about to be published in "Mathematics Annual," they might as well wait for the paper's publication before releasing it.

At this critical moment, Xilin University of Technology released Dou Dou.

The news was out the next day that this Dou Dou was also designed by Qiao Ze.

This made He Danchang hesitate again.

His investigation work was still superficial and the article lacked a lot about Qiao Ze's views on artificial intelligence.

Luckily, he had Su Mucheng's WeChat, so he simply interviewed her remotely for some content and then added it to the article.

Right after that, he heard about the significant impact Qiao Ze's latest paper had on the entire mathematics community. However, the community was still in the discussion phase as the paper had been published too recently.

Therefore, He Danchang thought it best to wait a little longer. He contacted a professor he knew at Yanbei Mathematics Institute, and this professor recommended another who had research intersecting with the subject of Qiao Ze's paper to meet with He.

This time, He Danchang was determined.

He decided to wait until Professor Xu at Yanbei University had finished reading Qiao Ze's paper and provided his assessment, then add those assessments to the article and formally publish it.

It was a series of twists and turns.

But in terms of time, it hadn't been that long—just over half a month.

For a feature interview article like this, it was normal to be delayed for so long due to page layout reasons.

But He Danchang was indeed getting a little impatient during this time.

After all, for this reporter who had reawakened memories of past glories during a two-day visit to Xilin, he could hardly bear to read the commentaries of some of his colleagues.

...

Yanbei University, International Mathematics Research Center.

Xu Changshu had just closed Qiao Ze's paper and then sat silently with his eyes shut.

After a moment, he picked up a pen and placed a blank sheet of paper in front of him, but although he tapped the pen on the paper lightly, he didn't write anything for a long time.

After hesitating for a while, he finally wrote down a formula: [hΛ(l)=∑(rows)∑(c)·h^(c,c+1)+∑(colus)∑(r)·h^(r,r+1)+∑(i∈Λ(l))·h(i)].

Then he started to gaze at the formula, lost in thought.

Until the knock on the door suddenly sounded.

"Come in."

"Xu, are you busy?" Zhang Hongcai came in with a cup of tea, glanced at the paper on Xu Changshu's desk as he approached the desk, and said, "Oh, doing some mathematical research, huh?"

"Yes, Professor Zhang, please take a seat," Xu Changshu quickly stood up and sat down with Zhang Hongcai on the sofa.

After sitting down, Zhang Hongcai took a sip of tea, pondered for a moment, and then cut to the chase, "Xu, what are you thinking about, suddenly submitting a resignation? What, did some foreign university invite you to teach?"

Xu Changshu shook his head and then said calmly, looking at Zhang Hongcai, "Professor Zhang, you've misunderstood. If I wanted to leave, I would have gone to New York University the year before last. I wouldn't have waited until now."
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"Hmm."

Zhang Hongcai nodded and then asked, puzzled, "Then why are you leaving? Didn't we agree that you are to be promoted to a third-tier professor this year? If you're not planning to go abroad, leaving at this time wouldn't be good for your career."

"I plan to apply for a teaching position at Xilin University of Technology," Xu Changshu replied.

Zhang Hongcai froze for a moment, frowned and said, "Xilin University of Technology? That's... never mind, let's not talk about that for now. You want to go to Xilin University of Technology, why not just ask for a transfer? Surely, they wouldn't refuse to accept you?"

"It's not that, it's mainly because Dean Lu won't let me go. I really want to go, so I decided to just resign first, then apply there afterward," Xu Changshu said, rubbing his hands awkwardly.

Zhang Hongcai understood.

Although Xu Changshu usually worked at the research institute, his personnel relations were with the School of Mathematics.

These days, it was quite difficult for professors from universities in central and western China to transfer to universities in the economically developed southeastern coastal regions or to the Capital. The Ministry of Education didn't support it much; after all, if all the talented professors moved to developed areas, who would dedicate their youth to the central and western part of the country?

But if the transfer was from a developed area to the inland, it was much easier, as long as the original and destination institutions agreed, the whole process could generally be completed in half a month.

Not to mention someone like Xu Changshu, who had already secured a senior professional title at a top-level university in Huaxia, going to a place like Xilin University of Technology didn't require using the precious title quota there, so naturally, they would welcome him with open arms.

But it was normal for the university here not to let him go.

Xu Changshu was cultivated by Yanbei University, having completed undergraduate and master's studies at Yanbei, then after finishing his doctoral studies at Harvard returned to take up a teaching position at Yanbei. Especially since Xu Changshu was only 36 this year, at the prime age for producing results.

Especially since the paper Xu Changshu completed last year, "The Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence for Rigid Variable Logarithms," was published in "Inventiones mathematicae," a top international mathematics journal.