The third-order Kawahara-type equation was notoriously difficult to tackle.
Even documenting the known intermediate steps took considerable time, and finding patterns within those steps demanded even more.
Daniel Hayes walked along the street and grabbed dinner from a food stall before returning to the hostel. He settled at a small table and worked straight through until three in the morning.
When he woke at eight, a cup of coffee was enough to restore his energy completely.
"Being young really is something," he muttered.
In his previous life, pulling an all-nighter would have left him sluggish for an entire day. No amount of catch-up sleep could fix it. In fact, the more he slept, the more exhausted he felt.
But at just over twenty, in the prime of his life, the consecutive days of
