Medal of the Kingdom of Italy?

Interesting.

Emanuel III's proposal startled Chen Muwu at first.

He thought that this was only the first time he had met the King of Italy, and that there had been little interaction between the two of them before.

Why would he be so enthusiastic and directly present his country's medal?

Chen Muwu thought about it again and probably guessed the motive of Emmanuel III.

When the Pope invited him to the Vatican to discuss the relationship between science and theology, it was not that the world's largest religious leader suddenly became interested in science, which had long been at odds with theology.

Why the Pope invited Chen Muwu to the Vatican in the first place, and why Emmanuel now gave Chen Muwu a badge on the third day is a reason.

They all want to use Chen Muwu's influence in scientific research to show their love for science.

On the other hand, they all want to return to the public eye through this incident.

Needless to say, the Pope said that the whole country was swallowed up by Italy, huddled in the Vatican, a city within a city within the city of Rome.

In this way, several generations of popes have lived in a quiet corner for decades, and every day they are terrified, for fear that neighboring Italy will one day be replaced by a radical leader and annex their own country.

And Chen Muwu is facing the Italian king, Emmanuel III, although he is not worried about his throne being abolished, but now in Italy, he is more and more embarrassed to know the prime minister but not the king.

Although the country itself is a constitutional monarchy, His Majesty may still not want his limelight to be stolen by others.

That's why he wanted to emulate the practice of another majesty who lived with him in Rome, and going to the History of Mathematics branch of the International Congress of Mathematicians today to listen to Chen Muwu's lecture was just an appetizer, and having dinner with Chen Muwu tonight was just a soup in his plan.

The real main course that Emmanuel III had in mind was to invite Chen Muwu to return to Rome from Bologna with him, where he would receive his honours and canonizations.

The king of Italy also considered it according to ordinary people's ideas, and he thought that Chen Muwu should not refuse his kindness.

After all, who doesn't want to have an extra golden badge on their chest, and a noble title after their surname, they can also have a kind of bragging capital in front of others in the future.

However.

"It's an honor to be so valued by you.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty.

"I was going to meet with Professor Hilbert this time, so I took the time to come to Italy to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians.

"As soon as tomorrow's meeting is over, I'm going to rush back to London, England overnight, because I'm going to have a wedding there.

"It's been going on for a long, long time, and with friends and family from all over the world already in England, I can't let them go just because I accept a personal honour.

"So I'm really sorry, Your Majesty, I'm afraid that this time I will not be able to accept the medal awarded to me by your country for the time being."

Emmanuel III considered the award of the medal with the thinking of a European, but he did not expect that Chen Muwu was not a European, but also a time-traveler who had traveled from the future.

He really didn't like the set of medals, which seemed to be very important to Europeans, but to him they were nothing more than iron medals.

Moreover, in later generations, people always like to play Su Lian's stalk of Su Xunzong, who wears the medal as a chain chain armor, and Dr. Hu, who likes to collect honorary doctorate titles from major well-known universities around the world, Chen Muwu does not want to become a combination of the two. A doctor who likes to collect medals.

Chen Muwu had already received two national medals, one from the Beiyang government of the People's Republic of China, but that medal had only been glanced at from the luggage they carried with them after all the family members came to London.

After receiving the first-class Baoguang Jiahe Medal and the First Medal from his eldest brother, Chen Muwu casually found a corner at home and stuffed it in.

However, later this matter was known to Mrs. Chen, and she asked Chen Muwu's two medals back, as a kind of family honor and ordered people to keep them.

Chen Muwu didn't know where the two badges were now, and he was also indifferent to them.

On New Year's Day this year, Chen Muwu received the Royal Order of the North Star from the Swedish crown prince in Sweden.

He just wanted to wait for himself to be stationed in Sweden in the future, and it would be much more inconvenient to do something with such a card than nothing.

When he returned home in London, England, with the medal, he gave it to the old lady.

On the one hand, Chen Muwu himself is unwilling to keep it, and on the other hand, it is also to continue to win the favor of the old lady.

Chen Muwu estimates that he should be able to receive another national medal in his life, and his good brother Prince Albert, Duke of York, will inevitably give him an honor after he ascends to the throne of the British Empire.

It's just that according to the laws of the British country, even if they award the Medal of Honor to foreigners, these foreigners will not enjoy the corresponding titles, as well as the related knightly nobility benefits, but are just a very simple honorary title.

In addition to the medals of China, Sweden and the United Kingdom, Chen Muwu feels that he should not have any intersection with the honor systems of other countries.

At best, in the future, it is possible to get some commemorative badges similar to "commemorating the victory of the anti-French XX war".

Chen Muwu didn't expect that the King of Italy would want to award him a medal.

And compared to the coat of arms of this kingdom that will die out after the end of World War II, Chen Muwu still feels that it is more important to hurry back to the UK and attend his wedding.

Therefore, he politely and politely refused Emmanuel III's invitation to Rome to discuss the matter of the award, and the reason given made the King of Italy speechless.

After all, Italy is a "small China" in Europe, a place where family affection and family are more important than anything else.

And Westerners seem to have a very strange value that Chen Muwu can't quite understand, that is, no matter what you do or how much mistake you make, as long as you say "for the family", then everything can be forgiven.

Marriage, as a matter that can make the family branch out and reproduce offspring, is also a very important thing in the family.

Chen Muwu used the fact that he was going to marry to refuse Emmanuel III's invitation to be honored, and the Italian king opposite him could not find any fault.

"Well, then in that case, there's really nothing to be done.

"Dr. Chen, if you are coming to Italy next time, please get in touch with us in advance.

"When the time comes, you must be invited to visit Rome, and by the way, a grand ceremony will be held for you in the royal palace of Italy."

Emmanuel III said very sincerely.

But Chen Muwu felt that the other party was not very sincere, even if I didn't go to Rome to receive the medal, couldn't you send the medal to London, England?

Your Majesty, though you yourself have not had time to go to London, but your country has a legation in London?

Can't you send the badge you want to give to Chen Muwu to the Italian legation first, and then let the Italian minister carry the badge and go to Chen Muwu on the wedding day?

You don't need to give a red envelope, a medal can be exchanged for a wedding banquet, you don't lose money here and right, just steal the fun!

Hmph, not sincere at all!

After saying goodbye to Emmanuel III and leaving from tonight's banquet hall, Chen Muwu, who returned to the station, began to pack his luggage in his room.

Just as he said to the King of Italy this evening, as soon as the closing ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians is over tomorrow, Chen Muwu will leave Bologna and hurry back to London, England.

Chen Muwu himself came to Italy to attend the conference, not to give a speech or read his paper at the conference, but to meet Professor Hilbert, who had come from the University of Göttingen in Germany.

Being able to invite Professor Hilbert to follow him back to London, England to attend his wedding was already an unexpected gain for Chen Muwu's own trip.

As for the lecture on the history of ancient mathematics in China at the history of mathematics branch this afternoon, it was completely improvised.

Although he listed many well-known mathematicians and mathematical achievements in ancient China, he also received the recognition of many audiences and achieved the desired effect.

But Chen Muwu also knew that he was just using his reputation in the academic world to help China forcibly save his respect.

After all, ancient Chinese mathematics was a practical mathematics aimed at solving practical problems, and did not form a set of theoretical systems that have been passed down to the present.

Moreover, since the Renaissance, the level of mathematics in Western countries has become more and more distant, except for the Tartars in the Forbidden City and the students taught by missionaries in the coastal areas, few people know how advanced the mathematics of Europe is.

And his speech was well received by the audience only because for these big-nosed Europeans and Americans, ancient China was a mysterious country that was only recorded in "The Travels of Marco Polodon", the writings of Voltaire during the Enlightenment, and a series of Arab legends, and the face was always covered with a hazy veil.

The next day, it was time for the closing ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians.

The most famous Fields Medal in mathematics was still in the conceptual stage.

After two sessions of the International Congress of Mathematicians that had excluded the Allies of World War I, the Canadian mathematician, Professor John Charles Fields, who had led to the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians at the University of Toronto, Canada, had the idea of using the prize to connect mathematicians from all over the world.

Just after the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians, Fields, a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto, who was the host of the conference, noticed that there was a surplus in funds for the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Therefore, Fields finally came up with the idea of emulating the Nobel Prize, which is now known to women and children, and using the funds of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1924 to set up a foundation, and using the annual share of the foundation to hold the highest prize in the international mathematics community.

It is a pity that Professor Fields's idea lasted from the end of the congress in 1924 until 1932, when it finally wanted to be put on the agenda.

Unfortunately, Professor Fields died in 1932 before the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich, Switzerland, and was not able to make it in time.

The Fields Medal was awarded for the first time four years later, in 1936, at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Oslo, Norway.

Of course, even if there was already a Fields Medal in 1928, it is not surprising that Chen Muwu will not win the award if there is an accident.

Not to mention whether the incompleteness theorem has a chance to win a prize, but the mathematical community is also very xenophobic, and they absolutely do not allow the first award of the Fields Medal to Chen Muwu, an outsider who studies physics.

At the closing ceremony of this year, Chen Muwu remembered that this highest award in the mathematics world was purely "salty and carrot-less and worry-free".

Emanuel III, who had dinner with Chen Muwu yesterday, took the podium at the closing ceremony of this year's International Congress of Mathematicians and made a concluding speech.

Chen Muwu suspects that the Italian king suddenly came to attend the closing ceremony of the conference, and he also hopes that he can get enough exposure under the lens of the media.

After the whole process of the closing ceremony, Chen Muwu and Professor Hilbert gathered together.

"Dr. Chen, I went to listen to your speech yesterday, and in general it was very good."

Hilbert deliberately mentioned Chen Muwu's speech at the History of Mathematics session yesterday.

Chen Muwu didn't hide it, he just smiled slightly.

"Professor Hilbert, you know, I don't know much about mathematics, and another opportunity to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians, instead of forcing mathematical problems, I may make mistakes and be ridiculed by the audience, I can only talk about some of the things I can best grasp."

"Dr. Chen, do you know why German mathematicians did not attend the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1920 after the end of the World War?"

Chen Muwu didn't know why Hilbert suddenly wanted to talk to him about it, but he still told the other party what he knew.

"Is it because Germany belonged to the Allies at the time of the first, uh, world war, and the Allies were defeated?"

Hilbert shook his head: "This is not the case at all, in fact, it is because the venue for the International Congress of Mathematicians was chosen by the French for ulterior motives in Strasbourg. ”

(End of chapter)