Super God-Level Top Student
Chapter 950 - 361: Experts at Painting a Rosy Picture

Germany, University of Bonn.

If any university in the Western world has the most complex feelings about the name Qiao Ze, the University of Bonn definitely ranks first.

It's mainly because Qiao Ze's rise to academic fame was achieved by stepping over the University of Bonn.

Back then, whether Ackerman Konietz or Qiao Ze was right, let's not judge for now. But it's true that the former lost terribly.

Due to the hidden code in the paper, not only did the school lose a great professor, but its academic reputation also suffered a heavy blow.

Although academic reputation often seems intangible for universities and research institutions, it must be acknowledged that it truly exists.

For example, when such troublesome pasts are occasionally brought up at academic conferences, it often causes feelings of anger.

Thus, more anxiety was transferred to the faculty and students.

For instance, it became harder to establish projects, the requirements of the academic ethics committee became notoriously strict. The demands on students' graduation theses also became more stringent, causing many to complain.

Everyone was holding their breath. Right after the incident, many even thought they would seize any chance to turn the tide.

But Qiao Ze obviously didn't give these people much opportunity, as he was genuinely not keen on attending various academic conferences or discussing with peers. So even when many wanted to trouble Qiao Ze initially, there was simply no chance.

Later, fewer and fewer people wanted to trouble Qiao Ze, until they completely disappeared.

The reason was naturally that Qiao Ze rose too quickly in the academic world.

From the Group Wisdom project, to Dou Dou's sudden emergence, and then to the consecutive publications of heavyweight papers in "Mathematics Annual," Americans even selected Qiao Ze's papers as cover articles twice in a row.

When many were still dismissive, Qiao Ze directly calculated the general solution of the Yang-Mills Equations at a press conference, and it was verified by major supercomputers worldwide that very day.

When this news reached the University of Bonn, Ackerman Konietz, who had been recuperating at home, began to suffer sustained secondary damage.

From that moment, fewer people were willing to visit him.

Those who once spoke for him started blaming him for provoking such a mathematical genius.

Now, discussing Qiao Ze on campus has become a very normal thing.

The vast majority would only recall that young face when their projects were stalled or their papers were rejected due to stricter requirements, and then complain a bit. But the most aggrieved was still Ackerman Konietz.

Because towards Qiao Ze, at most, they could only complain, but they spared no effort in cursing this former big-shot professor.

Just that little bit of content, you damned well couldn't quote and had to plagiarize? Making everyone suffer, are you happy now?

Young people with a strong sense of action even smashed the windows of Ackerman Konietz's apartment. Although no one was caught after the police were called, this brave soul was directly honored as Bonn's unnamed hero on Twitter.

This is roughly the situation.

Qiao Ze is distant, but Ackerman Konietz is near.

Of course, when it comes to individuals, the situation is different.

For example, for Peter Schultz, he was hardly affected by this scandal.

It can only be said that geniuses have privileges wherever they are. This highly anticipated genius wouldn't lack projects, and the academic ethics committee with more authority certainly wouldn't dare to block his projects and papers. After all, he was already a W3-level professor at the age of 24...

Moreover, to be fair, when Ackerman Konietz's incident happened, Peter Schultz was at the Clay Institute having an exchange, completely avoiding this mess.

...

"Hey, Peter, you know what? I heard a joke at the bar yesterday, it's simply too funny."

On the way to the office, Peter Schultz happened to run into a colleague from the School of Mathematics.

"Oh? What joke?" Peter Schultz shrugged and asked cooperatively.

However, like Qiao Ze, his mind was still pondering over those things Lothar Dugan sent him.

The interactivity and intertwining of mathematics are indeed interesting, it has to be said that Qiao Ze directly turned mathematics into a work of art.

"Haha, the story goes like this. Several mathematicians went drinking together and came into the bar. The first mathematician said to the bartender: Hey, buddy, we're big drinkers, so give us a pint of beer each!

The second mathematician said: That's right, we're big drinkers, so add another half pint!

The third mathematician said: Yes, give me another quarter pint.

The fourth mathematician said: I'll take another eighth pint.

Just like that, before the mathematicians behind could speak, the bartender directly put out two pints of beer and said: Alright, stop wasting breath, I know your limit! Hahahaha..."

Peter Schultz looked sideways at his colleague who was once again laughing heartily, and politely tugged at the corner of his mouth.

It's scary how people with a low sense of humor are everywhere.

"Hmm, indeed quite interesting. But Robert, if I didn't misunderstand, the person who told you this joke was probably mocking you for not only being a lightweight but also a braggart, right? So who told you this joke yesterday?"

"Haha... Huh? Damn Bobby. I was just caught up in the humor and didn't realize this layer. Tonight I must go drown him!"