186: Chapter 186 Banquet Hall

At that moment, a knock sounded at the door. Wang Zhe and Li Wei poked their heads in, and seeing that he was awake, they walked in with smiles.

"Feeling like you've come back to life?"

Wang Zhe handed him a glass of warm honey water.

"Dean Tang sent us to check on you. He said if you're awake, you can head over to the banquet hall whenever you're ready; things are quite lively over there."

"Much better."

Chen Youhua took the water and had a sip. The sweet liquid moisturized his parched throat.

"Give me a moment to change clothes."

Wang Zhe waved his hand and said,

"It's fine. We just came to see how you're doing. If you feel like resting more, it's okay if you don't go to the banquet hall."

Li Wei added from the side,

"Mhm, your health is more important. By the end, I heard your voice getting raspy. When I went up to support you, your clothes were soaked. You've worked too hard."

Chen Youhua smiled and said jokingly,

"It's no big deal, I've rested enough. As the saying goes, returning home in wealth and honor is like wearing fine silks to walk in the night if no one sees it. I worked so hard at the presentation; it would be a waste if I didn't attend the banquet."

Wang Zhe and Li Wei both burst out laughing. Others might not understand Chen Youhua, but did they not know him?

Wang Zhe teased,

"Coming from your mouth, that sounds so strange. It's like the opposite of that famous entrepreneur at an event saying he doesn't love money and has no interest in it, right?"

Chen Youhua rolled his eyes; it seemed his personality had been thoroughly figured out.

Simply ignoring the two, he took out a pre-prepared suit from his suitcase and shooed them out.

Half an hour later, Chen Youhua changed into a comfortable dark casual suit and, accompanied by Wang Zhe and Li Wei, stepped into the banquet hall.

The lights were brilliant and the room was buzzing with voices. As soon as he appeared, he naturally became the focus of the entire venue again.

Applause and congratulations flooded in once more, and he nodded with a smile in acknowledgment.

The first to greet him were, naturally, the group of world-class mathematicians.

Their congratulations were more professional and more investigative in Nature.

A Fields Medalist known for researching nonlinear partial differential equations shook Chen Youhua's hand, his eyes sparkling with excitement.

"Chen, your presentation was magnificent! Especially that threshold inequality you used to handle the balance between energy cascade and dissipation—it was a stroke of genius!"

"How did you think of introducing that specific Regularization Operator to strip away the singularities while simultaneously ensuring the uniform boundedness of the energy estimates?"

Although Chen Youhua was tired, his mind immediately focused when core problems were discussed.

He thought for a moment and answered in fluent English.

"Thank you for your affirmation. The key lay in realizing that traditional methods in three dimensions fail because dissipation is insufficient to control the energy input brought by vortex stretching when handling nonlinear terms."

"The operator I introduced essentially redistributes energy across different scales. It's equivalent to constructing a soft partition that allows energy transfer while preventing it from exploding at any single scale."

"The inspiration for its construction partly came from the zoom-smoothing techniques used in Ergodic Theory to handle long-term behavior, but I combined it with Littlewood-Paley Theory and gave it a weight adapted to the geometric structure of the N-S Equation..."

The other party listened with extreme focus, nodding from time to time, and then followed up with several questions regarding operator norm estimation and iteration convergence details.

The two stood on one side of the banquet hall like this, engaging in deep exchange for nearly ten minutes. Several mathematicians nearby also joined the discussion, forming a small, high-level academic salon.

For Chen Youhua, although this level of exchange was mentally taxing, it was also a form of enjoyment and relaxation.

Once the mathematicians had slightly dispersed, another group of people who had been waiting for a long time immediately stepped forward.

They were representatives of the world's top academic journals, already poised for action.

A senior editor from *Nature* spoke first, their tone enthusiastic and urgent.

"Dr. Chen, congratulations! This is undoubtedly one of the most significant mathematical breakthroughs of this century."

"*Nature* very much hopes to have the honor of being the debut platform for this great achievement of yours. We promise the fastest processing speed, the widest publicity, and the top-tier resource allocation..."

Before they could finish, the representative from *Science* nearby immediately cut in, eager to express their own views.

"Dr. Chen, *Science* also possesses top-tier influence and a cross-disciplinary readership. Your results have profound significance and are perfectly suited for global display on our platform. We can feature a major push in a cover story..."

The Editor-in-Chief of *Annals of Mathematics* appeared more composed, but his tone was equally firm.

"Dr. Chen, as the flagship journal in the field of mathematics, *Annals of Mathematics* is undoubtedly the most natural and professional home for this work of yours. Our reviewers and readership can provide it with the deepest understanding and its deserved academic status."

Chen Youhua listened quietly to their statements, a polite and slightly distant smile on his face.

He gently swirled the glass in his hand—which was actually soda water—and only after the representatives had briefly finished their pitches did he speak slowly, his voice calm.

"Thank you all for your kind regard. This work, in its essence, belongs to mathematics."

He looked toward the Editor-in-Chief of *Annals of Mathematics*.

"Therefore, I am inclined to choose *Annals of Mathematics*."

The face of the *Annals of Mathematics* Editor-in-Chief immediately lit up, while the other journal representatives could not hide their disappointment.

But Chen Youhua was not finished.

"However, I have one condition."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over everyone before settling back on the Editor-in-Chief of *Annals of Mathematics*.

"The paper must be published with a full Chinese version simultaneously."

"Furthermore, the Chinese version must have the same authority and citation validity as the English version."

"I hope it can be understood and studied by my compatriots immediately and without barriers, especially by domestic mathematics researchers and students, to promote the development of our own mathematical research."

This request took the Editor-in-Chief of *Annals of Mathematics* slightly aback; this was extremely rare in the publishing history of top journals.

Historically, no one had been able to get such treatment from *Annals of Mathematics*.

Because the West was the center of academia, and their *Annals of Mathematics* was the land of promise for everyone.

Many people spent their entire lives unable to write a single paper that could be published in *Annals of Mathematics*, let alone make such a demand.

But he had almost no hesitation.

Because he thought of Rabbit Country's rapid development in recent years—the academic atmosphere here was gradually thickening, and economy, resources, and industrial technology were shifting here year by year.

Additionally, the importance of this paper and Chen Youhua's youth made him reach a decision almost instantly.

He reached out his hand.

"I completely understand and respect your decision and sentiment! *Annals of Mathematics* accepts this condition."

"We will fully coordinate to ensure that the Chinese and English versions are published simultaneously and with equal rights!"

The two hands gripped each other tightly.

Seeing this, the representatives of the other journals knew the die was cast. They offered their congratulations sourly and then politely dispersed.

Having settled this major matter, Chen Youhua finally felt a true sense of relief.

He picked up a plate, finally getting the chance to get some food to reward his empty stomach.

Wang Zhe and Li Wei approached at the right time. The three looked at each other and smiled, everything understood without a word.