Chapter Eighty-Three: Invitation
For a while, the international chemistry community became a bit chaotic because of an article, especially the researchers of basic chemistry, and became agitated because of this article, which led to the whole April and May of 1981 becoming a mess. Even those organic chemists who have a huge boundary with inorganic chemistry occasionally jump out and express some opinions, which makes the already chaotic chemical world even more confused.
But this is not the most chaotic time, when it was learned that Junxin, as the corresponding author and first author, was also a mathematician, mathematicians from all over the world also ran out to join in the fun. Professors from Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo in Japan, professors from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University in the United States, researchers and professors at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Etudes in France and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and even professors from Moscow University, the center of mathematics in the Red Empire, which was still hostile to China, expressed their opinions one after another because of this paper. Very little, if any, can deduce, from a purely mathematical point of view, a matter that has never been discovered, and be able to give a mathematical model of it in such detail.
When it comes to mathematics, it is actually the most difficult to falsify, because of the special properties of mathematics, once a substance is defined in the form of mathematics and its properties are expressed, then unless the error of the model is verified by experiments, or its error is proved by logical deduction from the mathematical aspect, this definition will become a conventional rule.
However, in today's chemistry world, if you want to say that there are chemists who are proficient in mathematics, you must not say that there are none, but there are basically no mathematicians who can reach the level of the Wolf Medal and the Fields Medal. Therefore, no chemist will consider the falsification of mathematical propositions to test the authenticity of Junxin's theory, and the only way they can think of is to verify the results derived from the model in Junxin's paper from the perspective of experiments, so as to clarify the true propositionality of his model.
The same applies to mathematicians, who may be far superior to Junxin, but there is hardly a mathematician who can achieve the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and therefore mathematicians will not test Junxin's model through experimental schemes.
The combination of the two reveals the root cause of the confusion in the world of mathematics and chemistry today. When mathematicians learned that a mathematician like Junxin had mathematically completed an achievement that could be called the foundation of the chemical community, they naturally praised Junxin, and found Junxin's theory to study and further improve Junxin's theory. And people in the chemistry world are more entangled. Chemistry is the stronghold of the diehards. However, the most important thing in chemistry is experimentation, so although conservative, everything can be resolved by experimentation. Therefore, conservative is conservative, but it is also the easiest place to produce results.
Because Junxin's paper is too deviant, not everyone can look at it as calmly as Professor Richard and Professor Shechtman, and more often after getting Junxin's paper, they will repeat the experiment with skepticism or deduce a new structure through the model established in the paper.
On the one hand, those mathematicians hail Junxin for being able to build such a perfect mathematical model of the chemical structure basis, but they are trying to find loopholes in Junxin's paper and try to "pick thorns". On the other hand, those basic chemists cursed Junxin's papers and systems as too deviant, but their experimental results always proved the accuracy of Junxin's papers.
The turmoil of the outside world can't lead to the waves of Junxin's life, and he still lives his own research life every day. He came to the Institute of Mathematics very early in the morning, and then studied some of his own topics, in fact, he didn't have any topics, basically his topics were divided by other professors, and all he needed to do was to study independently, but unlike others, his research funds and research equipment were readily available. In addition to research, what Junxin has to do is write books and prepare for classes.
The second volume of the book "Mizuki University Mathematics Guide" was completed in early May after a period of data searching, collection, and collation, and the sample was printed in the same way as the first volume. The difference is that Junxin's second book was also sent to Professor Chern and Mr. Gu Yuxiu, who were far away in the United States. In addition, when I corresponded with Professor Yau Seong-tong, an advocate of the Mizuki Institute of Mathematics, I also sent a sample to ask for comments and revisions.
After eating in the morning, Junxin walked slowly along the path of the lotus pond, thinking about the problems that arose in the research. Then I went back to the office of the institute and studied mathematics and physics.
In the afternoon, I would go to the chemical materials laboratory, which was under construction and was about to be completed, and sometimes I would sneak into a classroom and listen to the professor's lectures. Occasionally, Wei Donglai would be found to check on the progress of his kink calculations.
More often than not, though, he hid in his office alone, carefully studying the information and calculating the solutions according to his own ideas.
In the evening, Junxin usually chooses to deal with the letters sent to himself. After all, there is no Internet in this era, and e-mail is naturally out of the question. Therefore, Junxin had to reply to some more important letters in a timely manner. In this case, Mr. Gu Yuxiu's letter, Junxin also officially received it in the evening and replied to it.
However, it is relatively simple to reply to Gu Lao's letters, and Gu Lao will not dwell on one letter after another for too long. Therefore, in the rest of the letters, Junxin only gave priority to the letters from a few masters from all over the world.
However, among these letters, the most troublesome thing for Junxin was an invitation letter from the Organizing Committee of the 12th International Federation of Crystallography in Canada.
This is an invitation to participate, but the location in Canada does make Junxin a little nerve-wracking, but thinking that he is about to go abroad to study as an exchange student at Princeton University, considering that he will go to the conference before starting school, it seems that there are no such words.
However, what makes Junxin more depressed is some rules and regulations from the state, such as the foreign affairs discipline that has been abolished in later generations but is still relatively popular at this time.