Chapter 154: The True Master (Happy Chinese New Year's Eve)
Nanhua's clothing is the best looking among all the athletes, the sportswear of this era, in order to save fabric, the upper body is a sweatshirt style, and the shorts on the lower body are short and only expose the buttocks.
But no matter how beautiful the costumes are, it is impossible to increase the performance of the athletes, compared with the clothing, their results are not worth mentioning, and the two athletes with good shooting results did not even make it to the finals, and they were all wiped out.
Zhou Nan didn't have any regrets, after all, they had never been exposed to this kind of training before. After confirming his participation in the Olympic Games, Nanhua borrowed a few Olympic guns from the Netherlands and Switzerland and found people to train.
The two members of the shooting team who participated in the competition have been exposed to this gun for less than three months, so it is normal that they did not make it to the finals.
However, when the two athletes saw Zhou Nan appearing and comforted them, they couldn't help crying. It may be that they feel ashamed that the country has spent so much money to provide them with the best conditions, but they have not achieved good results.
Zhou Nan could only comfort them and encourage them to make persistent efforts and strive to achieve good results in the future.
The mainland delegation also did not perform well, losing the first football match against Turkey 0-3 and being eliminated outright.
On 10 August, the South China delegation was wiped out, and only the basketball team of the mainland delegation entered the late round-robin with a record of 3 wins and 2 losses.
Zhou Nan was also very busy during this time, recruiting more than 30 lecturers and professors for the University of South China, and signing academic cooperation agreements with many universities in the UK.
And he finally got a message from Turing and Wittgenstein that he was ready to leave London and visit them in person.
Turing was originally in charge of the research of automatic computing engines at the Institute of Physics, but he resigned in anger because of unfair treatment.
Zhou Nan approached him at the right time, as he had recently been looking for a new position, but both Cambridge and Oxford rejected his offer, and only the University of Manchester offered to offer him a position as a lecturer.
When Zhou Nan offered to hire him as the deputy dean of the School of Physics of the University of South China, and to set up a computer laboratory with him as the main body, the research results were willing to be shared with him.
He only thought about it for two days before agreeing. However, he gave Zhou Nan a list of experimental equipment to be purchased, and the purchase amount reached 200,000 pounds, and only after buying these equipment did he be willing to go to Nanhua.
Two hundred thousand pounds, in this day and age, is four hundred thousand dollars.
Zhou Nan originally donated $3 million to the University of South China, and later the University of South China also received $7 million in social donations. But the first phase of the campus alone cost more than half of the money.
At present, there are only more than one million dollars left in the school's account, and this money is almost enough to hire professors for settling-in and travel expenses.
However, Zhou Nan was willing to invite Turing, a great god, and spent more money, so he took out another $400,000 from his private account and asked Turing and the staff to purchase these experimental equipment together.
With all this work arranged, Zhou Nan took Fewerd and Popler to leave London by train and arrived in the town of Holyhead, the easternmost part of Wales.
From there, they boarded the boat again, and after a five-hour voyage, they came to Dublin, Ireland.
It was already 8pm when we arrived in Dublin, but it was not dark yet because it was summer.
The Earl of Lancaster, whom Zhou Nan knew, had a Rolls-Royce and a Rover already waiting at the docks, and they drove south along the coastline without delaying for almost a minute.
After another hour's journey, at nightfall, they finally arrived at their destination, a small seaside town called Wicklow.
Compared to the British mainland, Ireland was poor in this era. The population of Wicklow is not small, but the city is dilapidated, and many people live in shabby stone houses that are hundreds of years old.
The streets here are also very deserted, the roads are full of potholes, and the drivers asked several people before finally finding the Red Cross Inn in the southern suburbs.
It is said to be an inn, but it is actually a stone house in the corner of the courtyard of a private house, with two rooms, which can be rented out.
But they didn't find Wittgenstein here.
The condition of the stone house was so poor that Wittgenstein lived here for half a year, and then moved out in February of this year to live in a nearby hotel called Ross.
They went to the Ross Hotel again, where they finally met Wittgenstein, whom they hadn't seen for two years.
Wittgenstein is noticeably older than he was two years ago, but it can be seen that he is in good spirits.
He was also very pleasantly surprised to see Zhou Nan appear in this humble hotel. "Oh my God, Jonas, I never thought I'd meet you here!"
Zhou Nan ran for a day and was a little tired. "Let's have a few beers first, I never thought I'd be in such a remote hotel one day."
The two hugged intimately, and he smiled and said, "So, you came specifically for me?" I read your job posting in the newspaper, you don't want to ask me to teach in South China, do you? ”
Zhou Nan shook his head and said, "No, I know you're tired of being a teacher, and I just want to meet you." ”
"Today is a wonderful day and I am very happy to meet you...... Mr. Ross, can you bring us some glasses of your home-brewed ale? ”
The innkeeper smiled and said, "Of course, sir. ”
"Rose's own ale is very good, but he hasn't made wine for several years because of the shortage of food in Ireland in recent years, and his stock is running out. …… Jonas has just come at the right time, the second part of my Philosophical Studies is almost complete, and you can be my first reader and give me some advice. ”
Of course, Zhou Nan knew this, in fact, the main purpose of his visit this time was to help him publish the second part, at least, so that he would not leave with regrets at the end of his life.
Wittgenstein's greatness was undoubted in later generations, but his work was so profound that even most philosophers could not fully understand his theory of logical philosophy.
Because he is not only a philosopher, but also a mathematician, if you are not good at mathematics, you will think that his work is too profound.
So the sales of his books have not been high, and even this part of the content, he himself has not thought of publication.
In the field of philosophy, his brain and exploration are comparable to Einstein in physics, and few philosophers of later generations dare to say that they have not been influenced by him.
Zhou Nan didn't want to wait for him to die before people gradually realized his greatness.
Zhou Nan said with a smile: "I can read your book later, let's let Mr. Ross make us some dinner first, we are all hungry." ”
Rose, who entered the room with a bottle of wine and a few wine glasses, said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, it is a great honor to receive such a great person as you, my fish fried skills are unmatched in Wicklow, and I will definitely not let you down." ”
Zhou Nan shook his head and said, "The really great person is Ludwig, and he is a real genius. ”
Ross laughed, apparently thinking that this was Zhou Nan's self-humility, and he would not deny that Wittgenstein was an academic master, but compared to the world-famous Zhou Nan, the vast majority of people had never heard of Wittgenstein's name.
Zhou Nan didn't care whether he believed it or not, and said to him: "Help us arrange a few more rooms, I think we need to stay here for one night tonight." ”
"Of course, it will be my pleasure." Hearing Zhou Nan say this, he immediately burst into laughter. Zhou Nan stayed here for one night, and he was able to advertise with it.
Zhou Nan has lived in a room, he can even increase the cost of accommodation, and people will definitely pay generously in order to be able to live in a room with him.
There is no beer, and when Wittgenstein speaks of ale, it is actually whiskey. Zhou Nan didn't have much of a liking for this, just took a sip, and said a little impatiently: "Ludwig, dinner should be a while, I think I can see your masterpiece now." ”
"Let's go, let's go to my room now......"
In another life, many of Wittgenstein's later studies were not published. He is a lonely hermit, immersed in his own world of study.
He doesn't care about money, he doesn't care about fame and fortune. His family is a super-wealthy family in Austria.
To what extent? Because his mother was of Jewish descent, although she later believed in Christ, she was still demanded by the Nazis for ransom in exchange for freedom.
He and Hetler were classmates in elementary school, and even Hetler was jealous of his family property.
In exchange for freedom, the family gave the Nazis nearly two tons of gold at one time. And these are just some of their family's savings.
Because his three older brothers died in battle and committed suicide one after another, he received most of the inheritance. But he gave all the money to his sisters and lived an ascetic life himself.
He spent his life searching for meaning in life, so much so that when he died, his last words were: "Tell them that I had a very good life!" ”
The first time he published a book, his work was so profound that many publishers were reluctant to publish it and even asked him to pay for the paper and printing himself.
Since then, he has no interest in publishing books, and only prefers to do research alone.
The second part of his current Philosophical Investigations, which he now writes, was published in bits and pieces in a few magazines during his lifetime, and never published in a separate book. It was only after his death that his students and the executors of the will were able to organize the contents and republish them in conjunction with the first part that had already been published.
And now, the content of this part is in front of Zhou Nan.
Because there is no final approval, it looks messy in terms of content. However, Zhou Nan studied his writings in later generations, and although he did not fully understand some of the contents, he also knew how to organize this part of the content.
"Ludwig, I have a good relationship with the publisher, would you like me to help you put this together with your first part into a book?"
(I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year's Eve, family reunion, happiness and peace!) )