Every year, many mathematicians publish new processes, but the achievements in pure mathematics are relatively few in quantity, and most come from those "easier to produce results" areas.
For example, the research of partial differential equations.
Many mathematicians spend their entire lives studying partial differential equations.
Zhou Li was one of them.
This field could have many results; the solution to a particular nonlinear partial differential equation would become a decent achievement.
The field of analytic number theory is the most renowned but the hardest to yield results in.
Several world-leading mathematical conjectures, including the Goldbach Conjecture, Fermat's Last Theorem, the Twin Prime Conjecture, and so on, all come from the field of analytic number theory.
The current research in analytic number theory, or progress in the field of prime numbers, would surely be highly influential achievements.
A few people were getting excited.
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