Cannon Fodder Is King [Quick Transmigration]

Chapter. 13

　　On Thursday morning, as usual, Peter Sarnak woke up early. He was thirty years old this year, graduated from Princeton Mathematics Department, and now works as a reviewing editor for the "Annals of Mathematics."

Being a reviewing editor for one of the world's top four mathematics journals had always been a source of pride for him.

After breakfast, he drove to the magazine's office. Just like usual, he made himself a cup of coffee first, then opened his work email with his mouse. At that moment, a ding from the speaker indicated he had received a new email.

Peter took a sip of his coffee and casually clicked on the email.

Perhaps due to the large size of the attachment, the computer took a bit longer to respond.

He put down his coffee cup and first glanced at the title of the paper: "Four ways to prove the Goldbach Conjecture."

He thought, someone must be a novice to give a paper such a title.

Wait a minute—

Peter realized. Four methods to prove the Goldbach Conjecture?

He quickly reread the title to confirm.

Indeed.

Peter's spirits lifted, his expression serious, as he continued reading.

　　Ten minutes... thirty minutes... one hour...

Peter rubbed his tired eyes. With his level of mathematical expertise, he could only read up to page twenty before it became too much.

But that didn't stop him from expressing his excitement.

Perhaps he was about to witness a historic moment.

Peter hurriedly printed out the paper and then rushed into the editor-in-chief's office, waving the paper in hand.

Even if he couldn't understand it, it didn't matter. In Princeton, in the United States, in North America, and throughout the world, there would always be someone who could understand this paper.

"The Goldbach Conjecture?"

The editor-in-chief, James, seemed much calmer. He looked directly at the author's name, which only had one listed: "Zezhi Meng."

Then he looked at the author's affiliation: "Capital University."

He frowned. "A Chinese person?"

It wasn't that he was discriminating against Chinese people, but in such a mathematically underdeveloped area, could someone really prove the Goldbach Conjecture?

This was a world-class problem that had plagued the entire mathematical community for two hundred and seventy years.

　　Peter immediately said, "Mr. James, I understand your point. So what we need to do now is to quickly submit this thesis for review and let those professors verify the correctness of this thesis."

Typically, academic journals divide the review process into two stages. The first stage is editorial review, and the second stage is peer review.

The journal editor will select articles based on the topic and the scope of the journal, and then send the qualified articles to appropriate reviewers for evaluation.

Reviewers mainly come from three fields: first, the editorial board members of the journal, especially for newly established journals; second, peers from around the world; and finally, reviewer candidates provided by the authors themselves.

However, for top academic journals at the forefront of research, to ensure the accuracy of the review results and to prevent academic misconduct, their reviewers are limited to peers engaged in research in the same field as the article. Typically, there are three to five reviewers, making this stage also known as the peer review process.