Chapter 150: The Blazing Sun

As per tradition, the conclusion of the presentation led to the Q&A session. The very first person to raise a hand was none other than Professor Peng, the esteemed Academician Peng from Luxing University.

Without a trace of the condescension sometimes found in senior academics, he earnestly and modestly asked his questions.

Glancing at her notes, Wu Tong provided a detailed and meticulous response. "Regarding the citation of Wilson's theorem..."

"I understand now. Thank you, Wu Tong! Your presentation was brilliant, and I have learned a great deal!" Professor Peng experienced a sudden flash of insight. He bowed his head slightly toward Wu Tong on the stage, expressing his sincere gratitude. True mastery knows no age, and his attitude was exemplary.

"You are far too kind, Professor!" Maintaining the utmost respect due to a senior, Wu Tong returned the gesture before turning to address the next questioner.

Taking advantage of this open forum, the scholars in attendance temporarily set aside their pride. They eagerly sought answers to every complex puzzle they had previously failed to grasp, transforming the session from a traditional interrogation into a genuine exchange of knowledge.

Naturally, having already been thoroughly tested and certified by international luminaries, Wu Tong's Infinite Group Proof method left no flaws for them to pick at.

Wu Tong's answers were profound, precise, and straight to the point. Mathematical formulas and theoretical concepts flowed from her fingertips effortlessly, ready to be deployed at a moment's notice. The sheer vastness of her knowledge base once again left the gathered scholars awestruck.

If not for the youthful face before them and the clear, young voice echoing in the hall, they might have genuinely believed they were back in their student days, listening to some white-haired, venerated professor of legendary renown lecture from the podium, effortlessly untangling the most obscure mysteries.

To listen to a few words from a master was better than reading books for ten years.

Perhaps it was no illusion after all; the young girl on the stage—who still possessed the vibrant aura of youth—truly possessed the caliber of a top-tier international scholar!

In the audience, the representatives from Peking University beamed with pride. This was the brilliant sun of their university, the towering pillar of their institution!

The radiance of mere pearls was far too dim; only the dazzling sun could compete with the highest heavens!

After answering the final question and confirming that no one else wished to speak, Wu Tong said, "My presentation concludes here. Thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedules to attend!" She bowed slightly to the audience and gracefully stepped down from the stage.

A sudden, thunderous wave of applause erupted. As the crowd watched Wu Tong descend, everyone understood that from this moment onward, the Chinese mathematical community had gained a young, elite scholar of international acclaim, and Peking University had secured another towering titan.

With the seminar concluded, Wu Tong did not linger. After meeting up with Cai Yi, she returned to the university vehicle and took out her phone to check messages from her family.

Their flight home had coincided with her presentation, preventing her from seeing them off.

[Tongtong, when your presentation began, we had already arrived smoothly at the airport. Xiao Wang and Xiao An helped us with the check-in procedures, and everything went wonderfully. Please don't worry about us.]

[Xiao Cheng sent us a photo of you on stage. It was magnificent! We are all giving you a thumbs-up and feeling so proud of you! Tongtong is the absolute best!]

[Xiao Wang and Xiao An were far too thoughtful. Right before leaving, we tried to slip them a red envelope, but they stuffed it right back into our bags after we passed security. Make sure you give them a glowing review, Tongtong! It really put those young people to a lot of trouble!]

A soft smile graced Wu Tong's eyes as she happily read through the messages from home. Seeing the final note, she couldn't help but give Cheng Yi a thumbs-up and said sincerely, "Brother Yi, thank you and Brother Wang and Sister An for all your trouble! My family said you all did a wonderful job, and they felt bad that Sister An and Brother Wang wouldn't accept the red envelope!"

"As long as your family is happy, that's all that matters! This is our duty," Cheng Yi replied. Knowing Wu Tong's family was satisfied was the greatest praise they could receive.

Truthfully, Wu Tong was so low-maintenance and cooperative that they actually felt a bit guilty enjoying their special privileges during this assignment. It was rare to have an opportunity to truly be of service, so they naturally wanted to put their heart into it.

As the wonderful holiday drew to a close, students returned to campus and working professionals headed back to their offices, nearly everyone suffered to some degree from post-holiday syndrome. How they wished the vacation could be longer—that every day could be a holiday!

In contrast, having already begun her work on the sixth by attending academic conferences, Wu Tong was entirely free of such troubles. Her only lingering regret was parting ways with her family; no matter the circumstances, goodbyes were always difficult.

Wu Tong resolved to finish the project at hand as quickly as possible so she could take a few days off and visit them back home. With this motivation, even if her focus wavered momentarily, she could instantly recharge to full capacity.

Browsing through her preferred topics, Wu Tong attended several more presentations.

In particular, the seminars given by the two newly minted Hua Award winners, along with several top domestic scholars who had dedicated the better part of their lives to these fields, provided Wu Tong with invaluable foundational insights. Their nuanced understanding of various subfields helped her fill in theoretical gaps, granting her a much deeper and more subtle comprehension of these domains.

The invited international guests and Professor Qiu each held presentations—or perhaps sharing sessions was a more fitting description. Wu Tong refused to miss such a rare learning opportunity.

The insights delivered from the lofty heights of these two top-tier international masters—both Fields Medalists—made Wu Tong feel she had benefited immensely.

Wu Tong had already read quite a few academic works by these two scholars. Professor Qiu, in particular, had achieved remarkable results in the realm of partial differential equations, developing them extensively within differential geometry. The session he shared focused precisely on this area.

Wu Tong’s eyes lit up as she jotted down her inspirations in her notebook. The Navier-Stokes equations, which describe the motion of viscous incompressible fluid momentum conservation, were inherently highly complex and difficult nonlinear partial differential equations to solve.

Among them, the problem concerning the existence of smooth solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in three-dimensional space had been designated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in the United States as one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems.

Sitting in the conference hall, listening intently to Professor Qiu’s lecture on stage, Wu Tong felt sparks of inspiration ignite in her mind, crashing against one another like shifting tectonic plates.

Fluids are continuous. Starting from the fundamental principles of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy—considering an arbitrary finite volume that could either remain fixed in space or move with the fluid flow...

When the Reynolds number is greater than or equal to 1, outside the boundary layer of a flow-past object, viscous forces are far smaller than inertial forces, allowing the viscous terms in the equations to be neglected, thus simplifying the Navier-Stokes equations into the Euler equations of ideal flow. Meanwhile, inside the boundary layer, the Navier-Stokes equations can be further simplified into the boundary layer equations...

Wu Tong’s hand moved swiftly across the notebook, condensing a rapid sequence of mathematical formulas onto the paper.

Noticing Wu Tong suddenly freeze as if entranced, lowering her head to write at lightning speed, Cai Yi sensed something was amiss the very split second it happened.

This was it—the legendary "Wu Special State" had appeared!

He had been on the verge of nodding off, nearly tortured to sleep by the abstruse mathematical sharing session, relying entirely on sheer willpower to stay awake. His sharp instincts caused him to jolt instantly, banishing all traces of drowsiness. While his posture remained completely unchanged from a moment before, his entire body grew taut from within. Beneath slightly lowered eyelids, his gaze burned with alert vigilance, ready to draw a blade at a moment's notice.