The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 43 IHES Editorial Department

The IHES Mathematics Journal is very famous in the mathematics community, with an impact factor of over 6 points, which is almost the highest among all mathematics journals.

Even the impact factors of the four top journals are not as high as theirs.

For example, the one with the lowest impact factor among the four top journals, the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, has an impact factor of less than 3, while the highest impact factor, the Annals of Mathematics, does not exceed 5.

This also makes the editors of IHES quite proud, as it shows that the papers published here are of truly high quality. They even think that the four top journals are only called the four because of historical factors.

Otherwise it would be the Big Five.
It’s just that perhaps, precisely because they are not one of the Big Four, they appear to be more “friendly” and thus often attract some overconfident people to submit their works to them in the hope that their works will be accepted.

Unfortunately, this makes it difficult for editors because they need to read every submission and respond to it.

Evans shook his head helplessly. "Let's get started!"

Even if I can't finish it, it's not a big problem. I can't work overtime. I will never work overtime in this life. Just put off today's work until tomorrow, and tomorrow's work until the day after tomorrow. I will finish it one day.

It is absolutely impossible to get the French to work overtime.

And so he began to read the paper.

However, he was somewhat lucky in that it was difficult for him to read any of the previous papers, either because the value of the conclusions did not meet their requirements, or because the abstracts were not even clearly written.

Just pass them all and save a lot of time.

These editors are also researchers at IHES. Even though their abilities may not be as good as those of the big names, they are more than capable of conducting a preliminary review of these submissions.

And just like that, Evans saw the fifth submission.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Evans was startled and noticed that there was an asterisk on the title of this submission.

This generally means that this paper has received the attention of their editor-in-chief, Bo Jielun, and has been directly cut in line from the back.
The papers that often receive this kind of attention are basically those written by some of the more famous scholars in the mathematics community.

Why not Daniel?
Because the editors-in-chief of the papers of big names will usually review them themselves, and there is no need for ordinary editors like them to review them. The editor-in-chief will then decide whether to send them to experts for review or accept them directly.

Of course, in addition to this situation, there is another possibility, that is, the paper is from someone with connections, so it can be jumped to the front of the queue.

Where there are people, there are human relationships, and the same is true here.

However, due to the strict requirements of IHES for papers, the papers of such people with connections can only jump the queue and enter the review in advance. It is impossible to relax the requirements.

They are not journals like "Advanced in Mathematics" which can even be called the MIT journal - as a top-level mathematics journal, it allows almost every mathematics graduate student who graduates from MIT to publish a paper in it.

This is a benefit for MIT mathematics graduate students, as it allows them to get a certain degree of employment guarantee after graduation based on this top paper.

Although it sounds good, but... as the editor of IHES, Evans looks down on this kind of thing.
“Let’s take a look at this paper first.”

"Hmm... "Non-singularity Analysis and Absolute Distant Abel Conjecture"?

When he saw the title, his eyebrows raised slightly, as if it was a little unusual.

It turned out to be a paper on far Abelian geometry. The author seems to be quite impressive.

It looks like he is a rising star in mathematics who has caught the attention of their editor-in-chief?
He couldn't help but become curious, so he immediately looked at the information of the contributor.

But then, he froze.

"Uh...? A high school student from China?"

Evans found it absurd. How dare a high school student submit a paper to Publications Mathematiques de l IHES?
He suspected that he had not seen it clearly, so he wiped his eyes and leaned closer to take another look, and finally confirmed that he was not mistaken.

A high school student. Well, to be precise, it should be a high school student who just graduated this year - but whether he has graduated or not, or even if he is an undergraduate student, this is really too ridiculous.

“Could it be that Editor-in-Chief Bogeron marked it wrong?”

He thought so in his heart, and in order to verify this, he immediately left his seat and walked towards their editor-in-chief's office.

Knock on the door.

"Come in." A voice came from the office.

Evans opened the door and saw Editor-in-Chief Bergeron sitting inside, then he asked his question.

As for Evans's question, Bergeron seemed to have realized it a long time ago. He smiled and said, "It's not marked wrong. It's just that paper, written by a high school student. You just need to review it carefully. Also, don't use the template reply email. Just comment on it briefly and explain the advantages and disadvantages."

Evans said helplessly: "This paper...review it carefully? And comment on it? I doubt I will want to continue reading after reading the abstract."

Bo Jieren laughed and said, "Anyway, this is something you go through every day when you go to work, so it's okay to go through it again."

"The main thing is that the person who called me was Mr. Hu, who had visited us before and was also from China. He and I have a good relationship. According to what he said, this is a paper written by a mathematical genius he discovered. Maybe you can really read this paper?"

"How about we bet 50 euros?"

Evans curled his lips. Well, he figured it out. It was simply because Bergeron didn't think the paper was that good, but he couldn't refuse the request from an old friend, so he came to torture him.

Hmm... I guess this 50 euros is a gift to him, as compensation?
"Ok."

After accepting the "bet", Evans returned to his seat and looked at the paper again.

David, a colleague next to him, asked, "What did you do at the editor-in-chief's place?"

Evans pointed at the computer screen in front of him and said, "A high school student submitted a paper. Bergeron gave me 50 euros and asked me to think about how to reject the paper without hurting the student's self-confidence."

David immediately understood, patted him on the shoulder and showed a sympathetic expression.

it is more than words.

Evans was too lazy to say more and started to look.

He wanted to see how good this paper, which Mr. Hu called "genius", was.

It just so happened that his doctoral thesis was on far Abelian geometry, which is probably why this paper was assigned to him by Bergeron.

However, Evans had already begun to think about how to tactfully reject the manuscript so that his old friend, editor-in-chief Bergeron, could save face, but as he began to read the paper, all these distracting thoughts disappeared.

This paper seems to...

Not ridiculous at all, on the contrary, it's excellent!

Looking at the rigorous derivation and narration in the paper, Evans' eyes gradually widened.

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