Let's put it this way, when this year's Crafoord Prize in Mathematics was not awarded to Qiao Ze, the entire Xilin University of Technology, and even the whole Huaxia Mathematical Community, found it inconceivable. The only person who didn't care was Qiao Ze himself, including those scholars who usually kept quiet but actually looked down on Qiao Ze in their hearts.
Impossible, right?
Not to mention the stir caused in the mathematical world by solving the existence and mass gap problem of the Yang-Mills equations, just the impact of superspiral algebra and transcendental geometry alone, how could the members of the committee from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in charge of the Crafoord Prize not be aware?
That indeed was a bit outrageous.
Actually, there had been some omens beforehand.
