It had been a week since Lu Zhou posted on arXiv. Most people who paid attention to Goldbach's conjecture had heard the news.
As for the fifty-page essay, some people said that the "Group Structure Method" was unbelievable. Some people dismissed the thesis because they could not understand it at all. The proof process was no piece of cake.
Except for those "exceptionally gifted" folks, most people that researched Goldbach's conjecture knew less than two methods.
For example, those who were proficient in the large sieve method were not proficient in the circle method. Apart from the mainstream choices, there was also the secret rate method and the triangle summation method which was even less popular.
In Lu Zhou's theory, there were residual signs of the circle method, sieve method, and even group theory. His scope of proof was unusually broad.
As such, most people could not even understand the paper, much less reviewed it.
