Lu Zhou ate dinner at Palmer Square. By the time he went back to the hotel, Luo Wenxuan was gone.
Lu Zhou silently blessed him in his heart as he took the elevator back to his room.
When he opened his email, Professor Deligne had replied back. His email only contained one word.
[Received.]
Mathematics was a rigorous discipline, and everyone that was in the building of mathematics must undergo rigorous selection. The result from a wrong thesis was not just a retraction from the journal, it could result in a series of other wrong theses.
In particular, the review process of major mathematics conjectures was often very long.
Even though Lu Zhou presented the proof live in front of a crowd of mathematicians, that did not mean that his thesis would be flawless.
Even Professor Deligne needed the time to scrutinize the details of the thesis and asked his peers for opinions.
