Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft were building particle accelerators in the room outside Cavendis's lab;

Shi Ruwei was sent to Kapitsa's group by Chen Muwu and followed him as an assistant;

Only the big idler Oppenheimer has nothing to do in Cambridge every day.

During the day, he spent his days in the room belonging to Chen Muwu in the Cavendish laboratory, and when he finished work at six o'clock in the evening, he either went to the eagle bar next door to the laboratory for a drink, or went to the dance hall near Cambridge University, and danced a few dances to vent the frustration of staying in the room all day.

But even when it was time to dance, Oppenheimer was still very dissatisfied.

Although everything around him has hardly changed compared to before, he has only accepted new things in the United States for a month or two, and he is still a little uncomfortable returning to the somewhat conservative and rigid United Kingdom.

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 replaced their bands with black bands that play the same instrument, and the music genre has changed to more trendy jazz.

However, in the ballroom near Cambridge University, the band is still composed mainly of piano and violin, and traditional European dance music such as polkas and waltzes are still played.

This made Oppenheimer, who knew the marrow, feel very bored, but he was a little pitiful that these Europeans were leopards who had not seen much of the world, and they still danced so with relish to the accompaniment of these old music.

The culprit who makes Oppenheimer so depressed every day is Chen Muwu, who "does not do his job" to study mathematics.

The point is that in order to write a good math paper, he simply did not stay in the Cavendish laboratory, but spent the whole day in the library of Trinity College.

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

On the other hand, it is also to encounter something that I don't understand or can't get inaccurate, so it is more convenient to go to Russell for advice.

The point is, Russell himself is also very strange about this.

The Cambridge Apostle Society, which he invited Chen Muwu to join, also met this Chinese young man a few times at the regular event every Saturday.

However, apart from occasionally sharing some ancient Chinese philosophies, Chen Muwu always plays the role of listener at meetings.

When others share other topics related to politics, sports, society, people's livelihood and other aspects, he basically smiles and does not say a word.

As for the few talkative members, they often start to discuss mathematics, logic, and philosophy after drinking some wine and getting drunk, but at this time, Chen Muwu will never be seen.

Mathematicians have a visceral sense of superiority and don't think much of other disciplines, Hilbert and Russell.

He always thought that Chen Muwu was not interested in any of this, like a tendon who only had physical experiments in his eyes.

He may be good in physics, astronomy, popular literature, and sports, but not good enough, because he doesn't love mathematics.

It's just recently that Russell's perception of Chen Muwu has changed a bit.

It's not that he doesn't like math, it's just that he's just a little late.

Let's just say, no one can refuse the charm of mathematics!

Therefore, Russell tried his best to answer Chen Muwu's question, and he had to explain every detail to the latter clearly.

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

The opportunity to be taught by the big guy in person is very precious, and Chen Muwu also wants to write the paper better, more beautifully, and without mistakes.

This paper is a powerful punch he made as a physicist to those mathematicians who think highly of themselves, and he is still running away after the fight, and he will not drag the mud and water to sneak attack.

Therefore, this only punch must be played beautifully, it must not be the ugly Wang Baquan, at least it must be Hun Yuan Xingyi Taijiquan, which is very handsome and elegant as soon as you hear it.

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

At first, he thought that he would take this paper to Russell for review, help him check it, and write a letter of recommendation to those internationally renowned mathematics journals by the way, and publish the paper on it, so that more mathematicians can see it at the first time.

Ask Russell to check on it, but it's no problem.

Chen Muwu has frequently asked him for mathematical problems these days, and he has also secretly thrown a few superficial ideas in the paper to Russell.

He suddenly came up with a complete paper proving the incompleteness theorem, at least Russell wouldn't have been surprised.

Russell may have also come up with some ideas from these ideas.

But after all, he still has his own work to do, and giving Chen Muwu a make-up lesson is already an unplanned thing, and it also takes 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 a mathematics journal.

Chen Muwu is not a mathematics major, and he does not know what the publication process of those professional journals is.

And he can think of the look on his face when he sees his name written on the author column of a paper recommended by Russell, and what is on his mind when he is a professional editor of those journals.

It is true that this person is a physicist who has been in the limelight recently, but a physicist who has written a mathematical paper that is not about calculus, and who wants to come up and reject the Hilbert plan proposed by the great mathematician Mr. Hilbert, the uncrowned king of mathematics today?

That's a bit of a stretch!

Chen Muwu estimated that even with Russell's recommendation, those editors would definitely question the correctness of the paper.

They will certainly find multiple peer reviewers for Chen's paper, and as long as they can find a single minor error in it, they will not let the paper be published as soon as possible.

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

Except for one situation, that is, some editors will not be able to think about it, and want to get the paper published as soon as possible, and set up a target for the mathematicians to laugh at: "Look, the so-called physicists, their mathematics is at this level!" ”

Chen Muwu decided not to waste his time with a mathematical journal, and simply submitted his paper to the Proceedings of the Royal Society's Natural Sciences Society.

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

As for not having the paper published in a professional journal of mathematics, it may not be the first time that mathematicians around the world will see it......

Please, not being able to read the paper early can only be their loss, not his own.

With this in mind, Chen Muwu put the printed and copied manuscript of the paper into an envelope and wrote the address of the editorial office of the Bulletin of the Royal Society's "Natural Science Society", and threw it into the mailbox of Cambridge University.

In the past, in the Cavendish laboratory, papers on physics were regularly sent to the editorial office by special personnel.

This is due to the large number of experimenters in the Cavendish laboratory and the good output of papers.

But this time Chen Muwu wrote a mathematical paper, so he was embarrassed to take this path again.

At the same time as the Royal Mail's mail 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 start a sect and spread their branches, and Bohr is like this, and Russell is certainly no exception.

The former was the founder of the Copenhagen School, and the latter was the grandmaster of the Logicist School.

Russell thought in his heart that his own level, coupled with Chen Muwu's intelligence, not to mention cultivating him into a leader among young philosophers like Wittgenstein, but cultivating a second Ramsay, there should be no problem.

But I don't know why, since the last goodbye, Chen Muwu hasn't come to him for a long time to ask for questions about mathematics and logic.

This gave Russell a chill.

Is it because he doesn't recognize the beauty of logic and thinks that this discipline is too boring to persevere?

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

A guy like Chen Muwu, who is anticlimactic and gives up halfway, will never be able to study mathematics, so he can only study physics!

But Russell thought about it again, Chen Muwu was much better than his compatriot named Xu Zhimo.

That man had been writing to himself for many years, and had visited Cambridge University the previous year, and even though he had returned to China, they had never been in contact with each other.

But there was nothing in the letters he wrote other than to express his admiration for himself and that he had helped propagate his doctrines in China.

Even if you talk to him about math and logic, you will be automatically ignored in the reply.

It's just that since he doesn't even understand mathematics and logic, how can he help propagate his doctrine in China?

In Russell's heart, Xu Zhimo's behavior, not to mention Chen Muwu, who once humbly sought advice and tried to devote himself to mathematics, is not even comparable to the knowledge-hungry Chinese students he met when he lectured at Shao University a few years ago!

I'm not afraid of not knowing the goods, I'm afraid of comparing the goods, so I look at it, Chen Muwu is okay!

The editor on duty in the editorial department of the "Natural Science Society" did not care at first after receiving Chen Muwu's letter.

Each of the papers submitted by Dr. Chen of the University of Cambridge in the past few years has been successfully published in this newspaper.

Not only can it be published smoothly, but it can also have a lot of repercussions in the scientific community.

As a result, the Journal of the Natural Science Society, a comprehensive journal for multidisciplinary publications, has attracted more and more attention.

Everyone seems to have developed a habit of opening each issue of the "Bulletin" to see if there are any papers published by well-known people in the discipline, and then to see if there are any paper titles that they are interested in.

Now, many people will add one more between these two steps, that is, to see if there is Chen Muwu in the author column, and if so, to further determine whether the paper he wrote is in the direction of the discipline.

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, and they can be published directly.

After all, with Rutherford of the Cavendish Laboratory, Eddington of the Cambridge University Observatory, and the old Prague of the David Faraday Laboratory, there is basically nothing wrong with them.

Only this time, what Dr. Chen sent was actually a mathematical paper?

He has opened up a new battlefield!

Not to mention opening up a new battlefield, Chen Muwu had combined microscopic physics and mathematical matrices together, created 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.

It's just that Chen Muwu's latest paper is pure mathematics without a trace of physics.

He himself should have known this, so he chose not to use the Cavendish Laboratory for his mailing address, but to use 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 Rutherford's favorite students, now president of the Royal Society, he must maintain the authority of the Bulletin of the Natural Sciences.

So the editor, who specializes in reviewing mathematics papers, was the first to read Chen Muwu's paper, and then gasped.

If the paper's conclusions are correct, then Hilbert's plan four years ago will be overturned, which will cause a major earthquake in mathematics.

However, if this paper is wrong and is published in the "Bulletin", it will not only make Chen Muwu ridiculed by mathematicians, but also make the reputation of the "Natural Science Bulletin" worse.

The editor couldn't tell whether the paper was right or wrong, and whether it was right or wrong, he couldn't afford to take the risk.

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

Although the centre of mathematics in the world today is still on the European continent, there are many first-class mathematicians in the UK.

The editorial board of the newspaper made several copies of the paper and sent them to the mailing addresses of these people, asking them to help them review them.

How the original paper arrived in London from Cambridge through the Royal Mail system, and one copy of how it was returned to Cambridge from London.

I received a letter from London, and when I opened it, I found that it was a request for review from the editorial office of the Journal of the Natural Science Society.

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

"On the Principles of Mathematics and the Undecidable Propositions of Form in Related Systems".

The title is pretty decent.

Author, Chen Muwu.

It turns out that he didn't give up on mathematics, but because he was secretly writing papers, so he didn't come to himself?

That seems to be a little wrong to blame him at the beginning!

Sure enough, the charm of mathematics is very great, and he Chen Muwu can't refuse it at all.

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

(End of chapter)