Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 226 174 A Happy Russell
Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft are building a particle accelerator in the room outside the Cavendish laboratory;

Shi Ru was sent to Kapitsa's team by Chen Muwu, and followed him as an assistant;

Only Oppenheimer, the great idler, has nothing to do in Cambridge University every day.

During the day, he spends his days in the room belonging to Chen Muwu in the Cavendish laboratory. When work is over at six o'clock in the evening, he either goes to the Eagle Bar next to the laboratory for drinks, or goes to the dance hall near Cambridge University to dance A few dances to vent the depression of staying in the small room all day.

But even while dancing, Oppenheimer was dissatisfied.

Although everything around him has hardly changed from before, he has just accepted new things in the United States for a month or two, and he is still a little uncomfortable when he returns to the somewhat conservative and stereotyped Britain.

While in New York, Oppenheimer also went to the dance hall a few times with friends.

Several well-known dance halls in New York City have already replaced their bands with black bands playing the same instruments, and the music genre has also changed to relatively trendy jazz.

But in the dance hall near Cambridge University, the band composition is still dominated by piano and violin, and traditional European dance music such as polka and waltz are still played.

This made Oppenheimer feel very boring, but he was a little pitiful that these Europeans were local leopards and hadn't seen much of the world. Under the accompaniment of these old music, they still danced with such relish.

The chief culprit who made Oppenheimer so unhappy every day was Chen Muwu who "didn't do his job" to study mathematics.

The point is that in order to write a mathematical paper, he didn't stay in the Cavendish Laboratory at all, but spent all day in the library of Trinity College.

On the one hand, he hopes to draw some inspiration from the sages and scholars who used the same library as him throughout the ages.

On the other hand, it is also because it is more convenient to go to Russell for advice when encountering something that I don’t understand or is not sure about.

The point is that Russell himself is also very strange about this incident.

He had invited Chen Muwu to join the Cambridge Apostles Club before, and he had met this young Chinese guy several times during routine activities every Saturday.

But apart from occasionally sharing some ancient Chinese philosophy, Chen Muwu mostly played the role of listener at parties.

When others share other topics related to politics, sports, society, people's livelihood, etc., he basically smiles and doesn't say a word.

As for the talkative members, they often start discussing mathematics, logic and philosophy after drinking some wine and getting slightly drunk, but at this time, Chen Muwu is never seen.

Mathematicians have a sense of superiority from the heart, and they don't look down on other disciplines. Hilbert is like this, and so is Russell.

He always thought that Chen Muwu was not interested in these things, like a person who only had eyes for physics experiments.

He has achieved a lot in physics, astronomy, popular literature and sports. He may be excellent, but he is not good enough because he doesn't like mathematics.

Only recently, Russell's perception of Chen Muwu has changed.

It may not be that he doesn't love mathematics, it's just that he got the hang of it a little later.

Let’s just say, no one can resist the charm of mathematics!
Therefore, when Russell answered Chen Muwu's question, he tried his best to explain every detail clearly to Chen Muwu.

Of course, Chen Muwu also listened seriously. He didn't pretend this time, but really asked for advice humbly.

The opportunity to be taught by a boss in person is very precious, and Chen Muwu also wants to write a better, more beautiful, and error-free thesis.

This paper is a powerful punch he made as a physicist to those mathematicians who think highly of themselves, and he ran away after punching, without delaying the kind of sneak attack.

Therefore, this only punch must be done beautifully. It must not be an ugly boxing method, but at least it must be a Hunyuan Xingyi Taijiquan. This kind of boxing method is very handsome and elegant.

After several times of Russell's patient and meticulous training, combined with the memory of his own brain, Chen Muwu finally wrote a paper that proved the incompleteness theorem that he seemed to be quite satisfied with.

What he thought at first was to take this paper and ask Russell to review it, help him check it, and write a recommendation letter to those internationally renowned mathematics journals by the way, and publish the paper on it, so that more mathematicians can be in it. See it for the first time.

Ask Russell to check, but there is no problem.

These days, Chen Muwu asked him frequently about mathematics, and he also secretly threw some of the more obvious points in the thesis to Russell.

At least Russell would not have been surprised that he suddenly came up with a complete paper proving the incompleteness theorem.

Russell may also have some ideas from these viewpoints.

But after all, he still has his own work to do. Supplementary lessons for Chen Muwu are already out of the plan and take up extra time, so it is unlikely that Russell will have time to continue to study in depth.

But there is little need for Russell to recommend mathematics journals.

Chen Muwu is not a practitioner of mathematics, and he doesn't know the publishing process of those professional journals.

And he could think of his expression when he was a professional editor of those journals and saw his name written on the author column of a paper recommended by Russell, and what he thought in his heart.

It is true that this person is a physicist who has been in the limelight recently, but a physicist wrote a mathematical paper that is not about calculus, and he even denies the uncrowned king of mathematics today, the great mathematician Hill The Hilbert plan proposed by Mr. Burt?

That's a little bit overpowering!
Chen Muwu estimated that even with Russell's recommendation, those editors would definitely question the correctness of the paper.

They will definitely find multiple peer reviewers for Chen Muwu's paper. As long as they can find any small mistakes in it, they will not let this paper be published as soon as possible.

In this way, it is estimated that it will take several months for the paper to be finally published.

Except for one situation, some editors can't think about it, and want to publish the paper as soon as possible, setting up a target for mathematicians to laugh at: "Look, so-called physicists, their mathematics is like this." kind of level!"

Chen Muwu decided not to waste time with mathematical journals, and simply submitted the paper to the Royal Society's "Proceedings of Natural Science".

Anyway, everyone is on their own, and Chen Muwu is a big contributor to the journal, so it is more convenient to publish papers there.

As for not publishing the paper in a professional journal of mathematics, it may not be seen by mathematicians in the world for the first time...

Please, it can only be their loss, not his own, not to have read the paper sooner.

With this in mind, Chen Muwu put the printed and transcribed manuscript into an envelope, wrote the address of the editorial department of the Royal Society's "Proceedings of Natural Sciences", and threw it into the mailbox of Cambridge University.

Previously, in the Cavendish Laboratory, papers on physics were published, and they were regularly sent to the editorial department by special personnel.

This is because the Cavendish Laboratory has a large number of experimental personnel, and the output of papers is not bad.

But this time Chen Muwu wrote a mathematics paper, so he didn't have the nerve to go this way again.

At the same time that the Royal Mail's postal system was transporting the letter from Cambridge to London, Chen Muwu's reputation in Russell's heart deteriorated again.

After people have achieved high enough academic achievements, they always want to establish a school and spread their branches. Bohr was like this, and Russell was no exception.

The former is the founder of the Copenhagen School, and the latter is the master of the logicism school.

Russell thought in his heart that with his own level, coupled with Chen Muwu's intelligence, not to mention training him to be a leader among young philosophers like Wittgenstein, it should be no problem to train a second Ramsey.

But I don't know why, since the last farewell, Chen Muwu hasn't come to him for advice on mathematics and logic for a long time.

This made Russell a little chilled.

Is it because he doesn't recognize the beauty of logic and thinks this subject is too boring, so he can't stick to it?

A Persian proverb once said that whoever has no patience has no wisdom.

An anticlimactic, half-finished guy like Chen Muwu can never study mathematics, so he can only study physics!
But Luo Su thought again, Chen Muwu was much better than his compatriot named Xu Zhimo.

That person started writing letters to himself many years ago, and he also visited him at Cambridge University last year. Even after returning to China, they never stopped communicating with each other.

However, in those letters he wrote, apart from expressing his admiration for himself and expressing that he helped to promote his own theories in China, there was no other content.

Even if you chat with him about math and logic problems, they will be automatically ignored in the reply.

However, since he doesn't even understand mathematics and logic, how can he help promote his theory in China?

In Russell's mind, this kind of behavior of Xu Zhimo is not to mention compared with Chen Muwu, who once humbly asked for advice and tried to put himself into the embrace of mathematics. Chinese students can't compare!

I am not afraid of ignorance, but I am afraid of comparing goods. Looking at it this way, Chen Muwu is not bad!

The editor on duty of the editorial department of "Journal of Natural Sciences" didn't pay much attention to Chen Muwu's letter at first.

Every paper submitted by Dr. Chen from Cambridge University in the past few years was successfully published in this newspaper.

Not only can it be published smoothly, but it can basically generate considerable repercussions in the scientific community.

This has made the "Proceedings of Natural Sciences", a comprehensive journal for multidisciplinary publications, attract more and more people's attention.

Everyone seems to have developed a habit. When each issue of the Journal arrives, they first open it to see if there are any papers published by well-known people in this discipline, and then check to see if there are any paper titles that interest them.

Now, many people will add one more step between these two steps, that is, to see if there is Chen Muwu in the author column. If there is, it is necessary to further confirm whether the paper he wrote is in the direction of the subject.

First physicists, then astronomers, and last year chemists.

According to past experience, if the papers sent by Chen Muwu are related to physics, astronomy or even chemistry, then there is absolutely no need to review them, just publish them.

After all, Rutherford from the Cavendish Laboratory, Eddington from the University of Cambridge Observatory, and Old Prague from the David-Faraday Laboratory are all in charge, and basically there will be no mistakes.

Only this time, what Dr. Chen sent was actually a mathematics paper?
He has opened up a new battlefield!

Not to mention opening up a new battlefield, Chen Muwu had previously combined microscopic physics and mathematical matrices to create a kind of matrix mechanics, and developed a new discipline of theoretical physics called quantum mechanics from matrix mechanics.

He has a good foundation in mathematics.

However, Chen Muwu's latest paper is pure mathematics without any physics.

He himself should also know this, so he did not choose to use Cavendish Laboratory for the mailing address, but Trinity College, Cambridge University.

Do you need to do business and ask someone to review the draft?
The editors on duty discussed it, and finally decided to go through the review process.

Although Chen Muwu is one of the favorite students of Rutherford, the president of the Royal Society, he still needs to maintain the authority of the Journal of Natural Sciences.

So the editor who specializes in reviewing mathematics papers was the first to read Chen Muwu's paper, and then he took a deep breath.

If the conclusion of this paper is accurate, then the plan proposed by Hilbert four years ago will be completely overturned, which will trigger a major earthquake in the mathematics world.

But if this paper is wrong and it is still published in the Journal of Natural Sciences, not only will Chen Muwu be ridiculed by mathematicians, but also the reputation of the Journal of Natural Sciences will be worsened.

The editor can't judge whether the paper is right or wrong, and whether it is right or wrong, he can't take the risk.

So there is only one way left, and that is to ask God.

Although the center of mathematics in the world today is still in continental Europe, there are also many first-class mathematicians in the UK.

The editorial department of the "Congress" copied several copies of the paper and sent them to the mailing addresses of these people, asking them to help review them.

How the original paper was sent from Cambridge to London through the Royal Mail system, and how a copy of it was sent back to Cambridge from London.

I received a letter from London, and after opening it, I found that it was a request for review from the editorial department of the Journal of the Natural Science Society.

Russell didn't take it seriously at first, and even complained in his heart that the Royal Society didn't find more reliable editors. Every time he had such an uncertain paper, he had to trouble himself.

"On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Mathematical Principles and Related Systems".

The title is pretty mediocre.

Author, Chen Muwu.

It turned out that he didn't give up mathematics, but because he was secretly writing a thesis, so he didn't come to him?

It seemed that he was a little bit wrong at the beginning!
Sure enough, the charm of mathematics is very great, and Chen Muwu couldn't refuse it at all.

Russell, who was a little happy after the misunderstanding was cleared up, looked at the specific content of this paper with a relaxed attitude of correcting students' homework.

(End of this chapter)