Germany.
North Rhine.
The conference room at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics was crowded. People sat shoulder to shoulder at a meeting table.
As Faltings looked around at the participants, he felt a range of emotions.
He never expected this to happen.
The internal meeting of the Bourbaki Group, which was intended to exchange research on the Grand Unified Theory, turned into a "review session"…
It was almost like a god was playing jokes on him.
This made him both happy and worried…
The scholars sitting at the conference table were silent.
They were too shocked to think properly, nor did they know what to say…
If they wanted to express their opinion on this matter, they would have to read the paper first.
Because of this, the authoritative voices of the mathematics community had stayed quiet. Not a single well-known scholar had expressed their opinion on this matter.
"I see…"