Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 423 162 The King’s Dinner Invitation

During lunch, Chen Muwu and Hilbert told him that they wanted to give a report at the History of Mathematics branch of this International Congress of Mathematicians. In the afternoon of that day, it spread to all the mathematicians attending the conference. In the ears.

This was thanks to Hilbert's own influence. He just said a word to a few acquaintances, and the news spread from him and became known to everyone.

So the organizer of the conference directly approached Chen Muwu, who had not yet had time to register, and asked him what day he wanted to give this speech and what the topic of his speech was.

Chen Muwu didn't expect that the other party's work efficiency was so high, so he took out the pen he carried with him, wrote "History of the Development of Ancient Chinese Mathematics" and a question on the paper, and handed it over.

Of course, what is more surprising than Chen Muwu's speech at this year's International Congress of Mathematicians is the news that he himself has arrived in Italy.

Although these mathematicians have all heard Chen Muwu's name more or less, there are only a few people like Hilbert who can recognize Chen Muwu at a glance based on the photos published in newspapers.

Some people even sat next to or near Chen Muwu during the opening ceremony in the lecture hall of the University of Bologna.

But they never thought that this East Asian with black hair, yellow skin, and black eyes was a person from China. They all regarded him as an abnormally tall person due to a genetic mutation.

Speaking of which, if we do not count Chen Muwu's several papers on general relativity, Chen Muwu's only contribution to modern mathematical research may be Chen Muwu's incompleteness theorem.

What really made Chen Muwu famous all over the world was his contributions to physics and astronomy.

Especially as Chen Muwu arrived in Bologna, Italy from Stockholm, Sweden, the first issue of the "Journal" he founded at Prince's College also followed Chen Muwu's footsteps, traveling across oceans and mountains, to the Apennine Peninsula. on land.

Although he himself once sent a copy of the first issue to Hilbert, the latter was not very interested in the content printed on it.

However, there are still many theoretical physicists who also came to participate in this International Congress of Mathematicians.

Some of them came to listen to reports, and some came to present their latest academic research results at the mechanics branch venue.

Many of these people can understand what Chen Muwu wrote in his article.

Moreover, Italy itself has its own physicists, and they can also understand what these articles printed in the first issue of "Journal of Prince's College" mean to physics.

Leaving aside cyclotrons, neutrons and positrons, the former is something that experimental physicists have been searching for for nearly ten years but have not been able to find, while the latter is something even more inspiring.

The concept of positrons is not something that Chen Muwu discovered suddenly through this experimental discovery. A few years ago, he had predicted the "existence of positrons" in his theory.

At that time, he used the Chen equation named after his surname to find such a solution. Not only Pauli in Copenhagen laughed at him, but also physicists around the world sneered at the conclusion obtained by Chen Muwu.

Although quantum mechanics was indeed based on experiments at the beginning, after Chen Muwu established it as a discipline, many formulas and theorems emerged.

People do not need to enter the laboratory. They only need to sit at a desk with a piece of paper and a pen to calculate the trajectory of microscopic particles in the microscopic world using mathematical formulas.

Therefore, after several years of development, this discipline that started from experiments has become more and more theoretical.

Among the participants attending the International Congress of Mathematicians this time, in addition to calculating general relativity, many of them also devoted their own research perspectives to calculations related to quantum mechanics.

After Chen Muwu calculated the conclusion of the existence of positrons, many people followed his calculation method and also obtained the solution of positrons.

No one believes that there is a positron in this world that has the same mass as an electron but carries a completely opposite charge.

Everyone believes that Chen Muwu made a mistake in quantum mechanics, and this mistake may even be more serious than the assumption of the cosmological constant that Einstein made in cosmology.

But he was a young man after all, so it was understandable, and Chen Muwu had already achieved so many achievements in all aspects, so it didn't hurt that he made only one mistake.

Everyone regarded this positron calculation result as a kind of fun, and after laughing about it, no one gradually mentioned it anymore.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, everyone had forgotten about this incident, but Chen Muwu once again threw out the conclusion about positrons.

And this time, what he threw out was not just theoretical results, but the positron that he predicted but was ridiculed by countless people in the experiment.

Those attending this International Congress of Mathematicians are basically theoretical physicists. They are only good at "sitting and talking", but not good at doing experiments themselves.

And the conference conditions provided by the University of Bologna did not allow them to conduct their experiments here.

So after the first issue of "Journal of Prince's College" was delivered here, the local telegraph office in Bologna became one of the must-visit "attractions" for many participants. They all passed the news via telegraph to their close friends in the university. The experimental physicists asked them to verify whether Chen Muwu's experiment of discovering positrons was correct or wrong.

Some telegrams received responses shortly after they were sent out. This was because experimental physicists had also seen the first issue of the Journal of Prince's College and had reproduced the corresponding experimental results based on Chen Muwu's paper.

The remaining experimental physicists, after receiving the telegram, began to search the world for this academic journal published in Stockholm to see what Chen Muwu had published.

After learning that the discovery of positrons was not fabricated by Chen Muwu to save face, but was a confirmed fact that had been reproduced by many laboratories.

Compared with what Chen Muwu will present at this Mathematicians Conference titled

In this speech on "History of the Development of Mathematics in Ancient China", more people want to hear what Chen Muwu thinks of his own new discoveries in physics that were the first of his era.

So on the day when Chen Muwu gave his speech, the largest number of people and audiences were squeezed into the history of mathematics sub-venue, which was originally a sub-venue that was least valued.

Because the closing ceremony of the conference is approaching, even King Emmanuel III of Italy, who came to attend the conference and will deliver a speech at the closing ceremony, also came to the conference site where Chen Muwu gave a speech today with great interest.

In the venue, these people listened to Chen Muwu talk about the history of ancient Chinese mathematics for almost two hours, from knotting records to oracle bone inscriptions, from the rules and criteria used by Dayu to control water, from "Zhou Bi Suan Jing" to "Zhou Bi Suan Jing" "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", from Liu Hui to Zu Chongzhi, from Qin Jiushao, Yang Hui to Zhu Zaiyu...

Chen Muwu has been racking his brains in the past few days during the International Congress of Mathematicians. He has listed all the ancient Chinese mathematical classics and names of mathematicians in his brain on his speech outline.

He himself spoke bilingually in English and German, and the conference organizers provided him with an interpreter who could translate into Italian.

Throughout the afternoon, Chen Muwu talked about his history of the development of ancient Chinese mathematics.

Basically, all the mathematicians who came to the venue to listen to his speech knew that "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" is China's "Elements of Geometry" and that Liu Hui's circle slicing technique was more advanced than Archimedes's. , and learned about "Zulu 355/113" and "Chinese Remainder Theorem" which were more than a thousand years earlier than the West.

During Chen Muwu's speech, the audience had different reactions.

It was basically the first time for European and American mathematicians to hear about the books, theories and figures proposed by Chen Muwu. The more they heard about it, the more they felt that ancient China was far more mysterious than they imagined. But the mathematicians from Japan, the more they listened, the more they felt an inexplicable sense of superiority. "We East Asians are no worse than you guys in the study of mathematics," a sense of superiority.

After Chen Muwu's speech ended, the audience sitting below the venue raised their hands and asked questions enthusiastically.

Someone asked Chen Muwu whether there were corresponding English and German translations of the mathematical works mentioned in his speech, and if so, where they could be purchased.

However, the questions raised by more people have nothing to do with the purpose of Chen Muwu's speech today.

They were more interested in the positron discovered by Chen Muwu in his experiment. They listened drowsily to a lecture on the history of Chinese mathematics for more than two hours. This was the moment they were waiting for.

"Dr. Chen, let's talk about the positron you discovered in Stockholm not long ago!"

"Dr. Chen, tell me how you discovered neutrons?"

"Dr. Chen, why can't chemists find those chemical elements after decades or hundreds of years, but you can discover two completely different new elements in a short period of time? You want to name these two new elements? What’s the name?”

"Dr. Chen, how do you see the regime change in your country? The southern government has completely defeated the old regime in the north and completed the de facto reunification of the country. Do you think China will rise like this?"

……

Ha ha.

Of course it's okay to ask math questions, because this is, after all, an international conference of mathematicians.

Chen Muwu also welcomes questions about physics. He can just use this platform to promote the journal "Journal of Prince's College" he founded in Stockholm.

But what do you mean by asking that last question that has nothing to do with math or physics?

Ask Chen Muwu if he has confidence in that. How do you answer this?

Chen Muwu only answered the academic questions. As for the last question, he turned a blind eye to it.

After the day's speech ended, Chen Muwu wanted to leave this mathematics history branch venue and return to his residence to pack his luggage.

Tomorrow is the closing ceremony of this International Congress of Mathematicians. Once the conference is over, he will return to the UK to attend his wedding.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Chen Muwu reached the backstage of the venue, someone blocked his way again.

"Dr. Chen..."

After hearing the visitor's intention, Chen Muwu knew that the person standing in front of him was a staff member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Italy.

King Emmanuel III of Italy, who sat in the VIP seat and listened to Chen Muwu's speech today, wanted to invite Chen Muwu to dinner.

Chen Muwu now doubts whether he has a special physique that attracts the attention of royal family members.

From England to Sweden, to the Vatican, and now Italy.

The first two countries are all members of the royal family, the princes of today and the kings of the future.

It’s hard to say whether the third one counts as a country and whether it counts as a king.

But now the person inviting him is the nominal head of Italy.

It is estimated that the other party was not prepared at all that Chen Muwu would not accept the invitation. Of course, Chen Muwu would not be stupid enough to refuse the invitation.

The King of Italy is only the nominal head of state of this country and has no real power at all.

He, Old Chen, has even had dinner with the most powerful bald man in the country, so this meal is not missing.

"Of course, of course. Thank you His Majesty the King for the invitation. I am extremely honored."

Chen Muwu followed the staff of the Italian royal family to a luxurious restaurant prepared by the royal family in Bologna.

He met the current and last king of Italy.

Emmanuel III was nearly sixty years old and in good spirits. At this time, he had not yet been crowned Emperor of Ethiopia and King of Albania.

Seeing Chen Muwu arriving with the staff, he even left the table and stood up to greet him, to show his respect for Chen Muwu, a scientist whose reputation in the academic world is getting more and more famous.

"Dr. Chen, I really benefited a lot from listening to your lecture at the venue today.

"Especially what you talked about about the development of ancient Chinese mathematics opened my eyes. ..."

After the polite greetings, Emmanuel III invited Chen Muwu to take a seat.

It turned out that this person was an out-and-out chatterbox. Even after he sat down, he was still chattering away.

He talked about the Italian Marco Polo from China, and from Marco Polo to the opera "Turandot" written by Puccini.

He also lamented that Chen Muwu came at the wrong time and did not catch the performance of "Turandot" in Bologna, otherwise he would have been invited to watch the show together.

While Chen Muwu was eating, he kept chatting with the chatty king.

He regretted coming to the King of Italy's dinner today just for a good meal.

At the end of the meal, the elated Emmanuel III almost regarded Chen Muwu as his close friend. He asked Chen Muwu a question that could not be regarded as a problem: "Dr. Chen, how long will you stay in Italy? I want to I’ll give you a medal.”

(End of this chapter)