Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 8 Manuscript
For international mathematics journals, they can be divided into two categories, one is the four major journals, and the other is others.

The four journals are: Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones Mathematicae, Acta Mathematica and Journal of the American Mathematical Society .

Ordinary people who can post on it once can live comfortably in this life, and any university will open their arms for you.

Moreover, since the establishment of the four major divine magazines, there have been only a few dozens of Chinese people who have been able to publish articles on them. When they appeared in the magazines, they immediately occupied the headlines of major domestic media, and they were unparalleled for a while.

But for Cheng Nuo, who lived in the Republic of China, only two of the so-called four major journals can currently contribute.

The reason for this is that both "New Advances in Mathematics" and "Journal of the American Mathematical Society" have not yet been published. One of the two brothers was founded in 1966 and the other in 1988, which is half a century away from 1917.

So only the Yearbook of Mathematics and Acta Mathematica can be considered.

After thinking about it carefully, Cheng Nuo ruled out the "Acta Mathematica" sponsored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Although the world mathematics center is still in Europe at this time, and there are a series of giants in mathematics such as Hilbert, Cantor, and Adama, which are not comparable to other places at the moment, but their "Mathematics Yearbook" is in the United States, you Europe is still in the quagmire of the First World War.

Moreover, the "Almanac of Mathematics" had been run at Harvard for 12 years. It was not until Cheng Nuo came to the United States to study that he moved to Princeton. Since then, he has completely settled down.

As a student of mathematics at Harvard, Cheng Nuo must have a certain first-mover advantage over others. Just putting his article in the front of the review order is enough to save a lot of time.

At the same time, most of his classmates and mentors are in the United States, so it is more convenient to move rescuers if there is a problem.

Furthermore, after gaining fame in the United States, it will be easier to make small money in the future, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

In summary, "Mathematics Yearbook" is the best solution.

After thinking about it, Cheng Nuo began to polish the manuscript to ensure that there were no problems with the grammar and data.

This was not a process of inventing and creating, so Cheng Nuo soon finished transcribing the manuscript and was going to send it out in the morning.

According to the usual practice, normal people must find the nearest post office to deliver mail, write the address and paste the stamp, and the job is over, but the problem is that this is in the Republic of China, so it is not easy.

It took a lot of effort to arrive at the General Post Office. The staff looked at the address for a long time, and finally shook their heads.

"I'm sorry, sir, I really can't help you, I can't send it."

"What's the problem? Is my address wrong?" Cheng Nuo took back the mail, read the address on the envelope carefully, and found no problem: "In addition to English, there is also a Chinese address on it, which will not affect delivery. of."

The staff member looked bitter, shook his head and said, "The problem is not with you, but with us."

After finishing speaking, the foreigner over there who was showing off his might to the porter nuzzled: "I need to have a good communication with our postmaster Johnson."

It turned out that the General Post Office at this time was still in the hands of foreigners, similar to the police system when Hong Kong Island was colonized, and all important positions were held by foreigners.

The postmaster general, postmaster and deputy postmaster are all controlled by foreigners, and Chinese people can't get in at all.

Even if they have outstanding abilities and become postmasters, the salary of that countryman is much less than theirs.

In addition, it is outrageous to bear the expenses of these gringos for communication, chefs, nannies and even gardeners.

Cheng Nuo didn't want to give up. He really didn't expect that it would be possible to fail in the delivery process: "Sir, after your postmaster leaves, can you deliver the letter?"

The staff member pondered for a moment, then shook his head again and said, "Yes, but you'd better not."

"how do I say this?"

Seeing that there was no one around, the staff member lowered his voice and whispered, "I think you are also a learned gentleman. If you are sending letters overseas, if you are not afraid of losing the letters, you'd better go to the American Post Office."

After speaking, he immediately pretended not to know Cheng Nuo and drove him away.

Is the Customer Post Office, a subsidiary of the Post Office, responsible for overseas letters?
Of course not, Cheng Nuo quickly inquired after going out that this is an authentic American government agency, and it opened in Dongjiaomin Lane.

And when it came to its origin, Cheng Nuo was really angry and funny.

This guest post has to be counted from the 70s, the pot of the serious Qing government,

UPU, an international postal organization, invited the Qing government to join as early as 1878 to coordinate postal communication issues among countries.

But at this time, the postal system of the Qing Dynasty was controlled by an Englishman named Hart. Under his coaxing, the Qing government rejected the invitation, saying that the time to join was not ripe and they wanted to stay out of the world.

This kind of thinking is obviously too naive, if you don't come, then I will take the initiative to go there.

Various countries have set up customer mail offices in China to handle international communications, and the Qing government has no right to inspect them.

As a result, the smuggling of drugs such as opium and morphine further spread, and many cultural relics were gradually lost overseas.

By the time the Qing government reacted, it was already too late. When they wanted to ban it, they told you clearly that because you did not join the UPU, there was no way to communicate with other countries internationally, and it must be retained for international cooperation.

Helpless, the Qing government wanted to apply for membership.

It was you who ignored me at the beginning, but now you want to use true love to exchange me back.

That must be unrealistic.

Under the pressure of the British Hurd, another application failed.

It was not until the fall of the Qing government and the founding of the Republic of China that it officially joined the UPU in 1914, followed by the International Agreement on Exchange of Insurance Letters and Boxes in 1918, and finally joined the International Postal Exchange Agreement in 1920.

It was a full half a century of tossing in the middle, and it was really sad and tearful.

As a representative of domestic postal humiliation, the Western powers gradually abolished the customer post office in the 20s, but Japan firmly disagreed, and it was not completely withdrawn from the stage of history until the end of the Anti-Japanese War.

At this time, the international letter exchange is still the first choice for the customer post office.

Outside the U.S. Postal Service.

Looking at the receipt in his hand, Cheng Nuo shook his head, feeling full of melancholy.

Although the letter was sent, it felt awkward no matter how you looked at it.

This is like when I call a friend at home, it is unimaginable that I need the consent of a stranger.

After all, it is still too immature and the idea is too simple.

The size of the Republic of China is that it has a land area of ​​1141 million square kilometers, second only to Maozi.

The Republic of China is so small that every postage stamp and every match has the shadow of a foreigner.

Colloquial nouns such as foreign cars, foreign umbrellas, foreign porcelain basins, foreign alkalis, and cements are still used in later generations, and their influence has penetrated into every aspect of our lives, and it has not been completely eliminated after a century.

How to develop in the future
No, he has grasped the general trend of technological development in the next century.

There will be times when the wind and waves break, and the sails will be hung upright.

The road is long and far away, and I will search up and down.

(End of this chapter)