Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 418 157 International Congress of Mathematicians

The papers published in the first issue of "Journal of Prince's College" went far beyond the one on the discovery of neutrons.

According to the order of the research results produced by Chen Muwu's five-person team after arriving in Stockholm at the end of last year, several academic papers were published in the "Journal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences", and the authors were all scientists who were conducting research at Prince's College.

"Design and Construction of Cyclotron",

"Discovery of the 85th element iodine-like element using a cyclotron",

"Examination of element 85 like iodine",

"Discovery of the 43rd element manganese-like substance using cyclotron",

"Examination of Element No. 43 Manganese",

"The Discovery of the Neutron",

"The Discovery of the Positron",

"The Discovery of Carbon-14",

……

There may be many people in the world waiting to see Chen Muwu's jokes. For him to want to edit and publish a scientific journal by himself is simply overestimating his capabilities.

But they may have never imagined that Chen Muwu actually produced this scientific journal.

The above-mentioned several heavyweight papers, together with the data and pictures of the papers, were typed and printed together to produce a thick English version of the sample issue.

Chen Muwu originally made great ambitions, saying that the "Journal of Prince's College" would be published simultaneously in Chinese, English and Swedish.

The English one is the simplest, and the Swedish one invited several local Swedish teachers and students from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to help translate it.

Only the Chinese version was the most difficult. The whole process required two people, Chen Muwu and Zhao Zhongyao, to carve the plate on the wax paper with a steel needle stroke by stroke, and then print it one by one with ink.

Fortunately, the "Journal of Prince's College" does not stipulate a fixed publication time. Otherwise, if one is published in one month or two months according to the management of academic journals, Chen Muwu will be unable to do anything for at least three days and will have to publish alone here. .

All in all, with the full cooperation of young Marcus and the full cooperation of the printing house in Stockholm, a large number of English and Swedish versions of the first issue of the "Journal of Prince's College" were produced.

The latter was sent to various universities and high schools in Sweden for free as a souvenir.

As for the former...

Because Chen Muwu had previously advertised in relevant academic journals and newspapers in various countries, as well as the communication telegram that Rutherford took to the editorial department of Nature after the discovery of neutrons.

During the printing process of the English version of "Acta Sinica", Chen Muwu in Stockholm had received many letters and telegrams from all over the world, asking how to subscribe to the year-round journal.

Chen Muwu decided that as long as it was a letter or telegram, he would send back a copy of the first issue to the address above.

In addition to these people, he also followed suit and sent a copy to every famous university, research institute and library in the world. Anyway, the English version has the largest number of prints.

As for those sent to Chinese universities, Chen Muwu not only attached the English version, but also attached a Chinese version that he and Zhao Zhongyao handwritten.

The cover of the first issue in any language had a photo of a cyclotron.

Chen Muwu originally planned to attach the school gate photo of Prince's College, but at Rutherford's suggestion, he replaced it with this more selling photo.

"Chen, you have now made a cyclotron. Do you plan to sell it to the outside world like the previous electrostatic particle accelerator? If you want to sell it to the outside world, I suggest you take the photo on the cover from the gate of Prince College. Replace it with a photo of a cyclotron. There’s nothing more attractive than advertising on the cover.”

Of course, the teacher's kind reminder also comes at a certain price: "I don't know how much you plan to sell this machine to others. If it's not expensive, the Cavendish Laboratory also wants one, 豼Make an offer."

Rutherford has already said this, if Chen Muwu still dares to raise a price, then he is a fool.

"Sir, what you said is really outrageous. No one I can ask for money from is the Cavendish Laboratory that trained me. If the money comes from the laboratory, then I only need to give you the cost price from the factory, and I don’t want a penny.

"But if the money comes from Cambridge University...it's not impossible for me to want some money."

The people in the Cavendish Laboratory are all descendants of their parents, but not all the people at Cambridge University are.

Hearing what he said, Rutherford also understood: "When we return to Cambridge University, we will study it with the school to see how much it will cost to build such a sophisticated but expensive machine."

All experiments have been completed, and all papers have been compiled and published in the "Journal of Prince's College".

At present, Chen Muwu has nothing to do in Stockholm, so it is time to leave temporarily.

Rutherford was equally satisfied. He came to Stockholm and witnessed with his own eyes the discovery of the neutron he had been looking for.

Not only neutrons, he also saw positrons, a newer and stranger thing than neutrons.

Bohr met his teacher Rutherford, and saw so many achievements in physics made by his junior brother Chen Muwu, so his visit was not in vain.

Everyone has gained something more or less from their visit to Stockholm, but only one person is unwilling to leave.

Kapitsa made his attitude clear to Chen Muwu straight to the point: "Chen, how much power do you have in this school? If you can give me a professorship, I will bring Anna to Stockholm and not go back to the UK.

"This place is only across the Baltic Sea from St. Petersburg. I can take a boat home at any time, and I don't have to face difficulties from the customs gentlemen every time I pass through British customs because of my Sulian passport.

"And your new school, whether it's the laboratory space or the equipment used in the laboratory, is much better than the Cavendish Laboratory. I really think I might as well stay here."

A true warrior who dared to say such things in front of Rutherford.

Chen Muwu didn't know whether Kapitsa's words were a joke or sincere, but no matter which way it was, he certainly couldn't take it seriously.

Chen Muwu smiled and responded: "Peter, since you are so willing to stay, then please stay. It just so happens that during this period, Prince's College also needs a temporary worker to stay in the school and guard the campus."

"During this period? Temporary worker? Campus guard? Chen, are you leaving Stockholm? Where are you going?" Kapitsa was confused and didn't know what Chen Muwu was talking about.

"Of course I have to leave Stockholm. It's almost October and I have to go back to London to get married!

"It was agreed beforehand, Peter. You can stay in Stockholm, but my wedding gift cannot be less than a penny!"

Hearing Chen Muwu's answer, everyone present laughed.

Kapitsa, on the other hand, blushed deeply and also laughed to cover up the matter.

"Chen, you should have told me earlier. If you had told me this earlier, then I would definitely not stay in Sweden anymore. I still have to attend your wedding. When should we set off?"

"In two days, I will arrange the work in Stockholm."

There is no such thing as a feast that lasts forever. It’s time to leave.

"Chen, of course I'm going to attend your wedding, but I have to go back to Denmark to deal with some things first. We'll see you then!"

Naturally, Bohr and Bierman were going back to Copenhagen. The former said he was going to attend Chen Muwu's wedding, and the latter was somewhat interested in it.

But Biermann felt that he might not be that familiar with Chen Muwu, so he was too embarrassed to speak.

Chen Muwu saw his dilemma, so he invited the other party enthusiastically: "Professor Bierman, thank you for supporting our research work in Stockholm these days. If you have time, I hope to invite you to London to participate. My wedding."

"Of course, of course! Dr. Chen, I wish you all, but I was too embarrassed to speak just now."

"Then we'll see you in London then!"

"See you in London!"

Irena and Frederic, as Eve's natal family, would definitely not be able to follow her directly to London. Instead, they would first return to their home in Paris to help prepare for their little sister's wedding.

Rutherford, Chadwick, and their driver Kapitsa had to retrace their steps, take a ship from Stockholm back to Norwich, pick up Kapitsa's car parked there, and then return to Cambridge. go.

After completing a series of experiments in Stockholm, Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft returned to the UK with the director of the Cavendish Laboratory.

They brought with them their own and Chen Muwu's luggage, as well as many first issues of "Journal of Prince's College" that still smelled of ink.

It is estimated that after getting off the ship in Norwich, the two of them would not be able to squeeze into Kapitsa's car, but would have to take the train back to school.

Those who go back to Copenhagen go back to Copenhagen, those who go back to Paris go back to Paris, and those who go back to Cambridge University go back to Cambridge University.

Only Chen Muwu's destination was different from the others.

He followed Irena and Frederic first back to Paris, where he met some old and new friends, including De Broglie.

Then Chen Muwu only stayed in Paris for one night before boarding the train again.

He didn't go to Calais, a coastal city in western France, and then take a ferry across the English Channel back to London.

Instead, head east from Paris, across the Alps, and on to Italy again.

I don’t know whether the International Mathematical Union recognized Chen Muwu, the man who once overturned the beautiful idea of ​​Hilbert, the king of mathematics, as a mathematician, or whether it was to gain his popularity.

The International Congress of Mathematicians, which is held every four years, also sent an invitation letter to Chen Muwu, asking him to attend this year's International Congress of Mathematicians at the University of Bologna in Italy.

Because of the First World War, after the Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians was held at Cambridge University in England in 1912, the 1916 Congress was suspended due to the war and was not held again until 1920.

No matter whether it was in Strasbourg, France, in 1920, or in Toronto, Canada, in 1924, mathematicians from the defeated Allied countries were not allowed to participate in the two International Congresses of Mathematicians.

If there is an opportunity for physicists like the Solvay Conference, it would be fine if allied physicists did not attend.

But this is an international conference of mathematicians after all, and it is somewhat nondescript to exclude mathematicians from the University of Göttingen, which has been an international center for mathematical research since Gauss.

This situation is like the future World Table Tennis Championships without the participation of the Chinese team. Countries with absolute dominance in a certain aspect do not come to participate, leaving only a group of rookies pecking each other.

Therefore, a large number of mathematicians do not recognize the two International Congresses of Mathematicians in Strasbourg in 1920 and Toronto in 1924, thinking that these two conferences were not international enough.

They believe that this year's (1928) International Congress of Mathematicians in Bologna, Italy, is the sixth conference after the fifth one held by Cambridge University in 1912.

Of course, some mathematicians believe that the previous two conferences should be included in the International Congress of Mathematicians, and this year’s conference should be regarded as the eighth conference.

Rigorous mathematicians around the world have discussed this issue for the entire meeting but have yet to come up with a result.

So much so that when the new International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zurich, Switzerland in 1932, the German mathematician Weyl—who was also one of Hilbert’s apprentices—quipped about this incident at the opening ceremony of the conference: "We have to deal with an unusual event here. Regarding the number n, corresponding to the International Congress of Mathematicians that has just opened, we have the inequality 7 ≤ n ≤ 9. Unfortunately, our axioms are not sufficiently based to give more Precise proposition.”

Seeing that in 1932, it was still unclear which session the conference should be, so the organizers of the conference simply took a step back that year and decided to start from that year's conference and no longer call the conference what session it was, but All are named by year.

This year's conference will be held from September 3rd to September 10th, just before Chen Muwu's wedding.

Moreover, the venue for the conference is also suitable. It is in Italy, no longer across the Atlantic Ocean, and it takes more than half a month to go back and forth in North America.

Therefore, Chen Muwu happily accepted the invitation of the International Mathematical Union to participate in this year's International Congress of Mathematicians.

He thought he could just take this opportunity to meet Hilbert, the king of mathematics, who was no longer boycotted by the International Mathematical Union because of his nationality and could attend the conference.

The old man had long conveyed his intention to meet Chen Muwu through von Neumann, and this time he finally had the opportunity.

Just when Chen Muwu left France by train, crossed the Alps and arrived in Italy.

In universities, research institutes and libraries around the world, people began to receive the Journal of Prince's College sent from Stockholm one after another.

(End of this chapter)