Since the telegram from Sweden was sent in the name of the king, it was naturally sent directly to the Prime Minister's Office of Foreign Affairs of the Qing court, which was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The telegraph receiver was stunned on the spot when he received the telegram. After copying the telegram, he tremblingly gave it to Prince Qing Yikuang.
"King, king, lord!"
Yikuang was checking the compensation account book for this issue, and when he heard what his subordinate said, he was dissatisfied and said: "Speak more clearly, why don't you wear a high hat for me!"
The telegraph receiver held the message: "Your Majesty, a telegram has been sent from Sweden."
"Sweden?" Although he has come into contact with many powerful countries, Yikuang is really not familiar with those countries in Northern Europe because they have never invaded China.
Yikuang thought for a long time before he remembered that he had seen such a country on the map, and wondered: "What does Sweden have to do with us?"
"It's not a relationship, Your Majesty, the Swedish royal family wants Li Yu to go there."
"Hey! It's Li Yu again," Yi Kuang said in surprise, "What did he do again?"
"The telegram said that Li Yu would be awarded the Mathematics Prize in the name of the King of Sweden, and the signature of the telegram was also the King of Sweden himself."
"King...of Sweden?"
"To be precise, it should be the kings of Sweden and Norway."
Yikuang was surprised. Although the Qing Dynasty had never fought with Sweden and he didn't know whether they were powerful or not, he at least knew that they were also a powerful country in Europe. Moreover, the king had personally sent a letter, so of course he could not ignore it.
Yikuang grabbed the telegram and read it carefully, "Good guy! This is Li Yu!"
"Bang bang bang!"
Rui Zheng hurriedly knocked on the door of Li Yu's house: "Hurry, hurry up! I want to find Li Yu, no, it's Prince Qing who wants to find Li Yu!"
Li Yu walked out of the inner courtyard and asked, "Interpreter Ruizheng, what's the matter with you?"
"Hurry up and go to the Prime Minister's Yamen, the prince is looking for you!"
"Your Highness is looking for me? Why are you looking for me?" Li Yu didn't know what was going on.
Ruizheng said: "There was a telegram from abroad just now, saying that you won an Oscar or something."
Li Yu didn't react for a while. Shouldn't it be the "Oscar Award"? What is this "Oscar Gold Award"?
At this time, Chinese people were not as casual as foreigners when naming their names. They directly used the names of their ancestors and then added a few lifetimes and it was done.
Rui Zheng missed "Second Generation", which caused Li Yu to have ambiguity at this time.
It wasn't until he arrived at the Prime Minister's Office that he found out what was going on.
In the view of Prince Qing Yikuang, if the message is sent by a foreign king or government, it is naturally a diplomatic level event and must be taken seriously.
When Yikuang saw Li Yu, he immediately said: "Oh, Li Yu! I really didn't expect that a Western king would personally give you an award! I just asked about Sweden, oh, it should be Sweden and
The United Kingdom of Norway, their strength is really not low, it’s unbelievable! What did you do this time?”
Li Yu glanced at the telegram and saw that it was indeed sent by King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway in person, so he replied: "They invited me to write a mathematics paper, and I won the prize."
"It's over? Is it that simple?" Yi Kuang said in surprise.
Li Yu shrugged: "That's it."
Yikuan stroked his beard and said: "Why do these Western kings attach so much importance to subjects such as mathematics and physics? I always feel that it will not make the country stronger. It is really confusing. If it were me, I would rather hold a cannon-making award.
!By the way, tell me first, what article did you write?"
Li Yu really couldn't explain it. After all, it involved advanced mathematics. As a "baby" in science, how could Prince Qing understand it?
Li Yu had no choice but to say: "It's too complicated to talk about. In short, we have studied some mathematical problems and explored the huge impact that small perturbations may have on the macroscopic whole. As the old saying goes, a thousand-mile embankment is destroyed by an ant nest."
"Oh?" Yikuang seemed to understand, "That's it? Foreigners don't even understand this? How can they still win the grand prize? Tsk tsk tsk!"
"Then I understand!" Yikuang became a little proud and continued: "Whether foreigners understand our old sayings or not, this is also a diplomatic trip for you, and all food and clothing expenses will be borne by our Prime Minister's Yamen. For convenience,
First, we will give you a reserve fund of 2,000 silver dollars. If it is not enough, you can ask us to continue writing it off after you return to your country."
Li Yu didn't want to turn it into a diplomatic trip at all, but since the Prime Minister's Yamen can provide the money, let him let it go! "Thank you Yamen for your concern."
Yikuang thought for a moment and then said: "It just so happens that Zhang Deyi will be the ambassador to the UK in a while. You can go abroad with him."
Fortunately, the candidate given by Yikuang was pretty good, and Li Yu was afraid that he would send his son Zai Zhen as an envoy together again.
Li Yu quickly agreed: "Your Majesty arranged it just right! If there is nothing else, I will go back and prepare."
Li Yu first went to the Capital University to tell Ding Haoliang and the Minister of Management Zhang Baixi. After all, it was Ding Haoliang who first told Li Yu the news.
But Ding Naoliang didn't seem surprised at all, and even said frankly: "I have already guessed such a result in my heart. There is no doubt that you are the pride of the university."
Last time Li Yu helped Tang Shaoyi and Zhang Xinwu, Zhang Baixi didn't even have time to reward him.
Zhang Baixi smiled and said: "I was still asking Hattori Unoyoshi for advice on how to make a Western award certificate, and you actually got another reward from the Swedish royal family."
Of course Li Yu didn't care: "It hasn't been long since the start of the university hall, and everything needs to be perfected. There is no need for Principal Zhang to be busy specifically for my affairs."
Zhang Baixi praised: "Very good! I appreciate your magnanimity. I am really lucky to have you in the university."
Li Yu can leave at any time, but on the other hand, Zhang Deyi, as the ambassador to the United Kingdom, has to prepare a lot of materials. Now he just waits for him to be well before he can leave.
During this time, Levler had already printed the first edition of his mathematical paper, which was published in Europe under the name "Fractals and Chaos".
A total of 1,000 copies were published first, and all funds used were provided by the Swedish royal family.
Since it is distributed for free, the promotion effect is naturally good and fast. In addition, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has just won the Nobel Prize, and many mathematicians have got this book in their hands.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, causing an uproar in the mathematics community.
Mathematicians praised its profound ideas, ingenious methods, and profound insights; and outside the mathematical community, people who studied physics and chemistry also began to read this book.
Because today's mathematics has developed very abstractly, like Hilbert's 23 problems, if you are not a mathematician, you will basically not be able to understand the questions.
However, there are really too few mathematical articles like chaos theory that directly express the principles of nature. Although it involves some mathematical derivation and the differential equations are pure mathematics, many people who are not engaged in mathematics can still generally understand it and understand it.
It does not prevent everyone from elaborating on its core "chaos thought".
The Times still has the most sensitive sense of the market. It quickly contacted Beijing reporter Pu Lande and once again asked him to conduct an exclusive interview with Li Yu.
When Puland found Li Yu, Shi Liangcai, a reporter from Shenbao, was also asking for articles. After he learned about Li Yu's deeds in Sweden, he immediately offered to pay a lot of money to arrange an interview.
We have no choice but to come together.
It was during this interview that Shi Liangcai came up with the idea of "carp effect" through the "ant nest effect" mentioned by Li Yu.
Li Yu also liked it very much when he heard it: "Sure enough, you guys in the news can create hot words!"
Through the interview, Li Yu briefly described the nature of chaos, using the most common language. However, no matter how many words he said, it seemed that the "carp effect" could not be compared to the direct expression.
Purland sent a press release back to London via telegram that day. With the influence of The Times in Europe, many scholars in other fields quickly began to pay attention to Li Yu's paper.
Soon, the front pages of major European newspapers painted a "carp" in the Yellow River in the East. However, in order to take care of European readers, the newspapers painted a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean next to it.
And it’s also an academic hurricane!
Because the press release was easy to understand, the "carp effect" was all discussed in the streets for a while.
Some people also thought of the Scottish folk song:
"A nail is missing, a horseshoe is missing;
A horseshoe fell off, and a war horse was lost;
Lost a horse, lost a king;
Lost a king, lost a war;
If you lose a war, you will lose a country."
It also talks about historical events in which small and inconspicuous things at the micro level led to huge changes at the macro level.
The prototype of this story is the Battle of Bosworth in British history.
In 1485, after Richard III succeeded to the throne of England, Earl Henry, who was in exile in France, led 2,000 French soldiers to land from Wales with the support of the French King and went to London to challenge Richard III.
The two sides met on Bosworth Plain in central England, and a decisive battle ensued.
Before the battle began, Richard III's groom found that the four horseshoes of the king's mount were very worn, so he went to the blacksmith and asked to replace the horseshoes.
But because they had been marching during this period, the blacksmith had changed horseshoes for many people, and all the horseshoes he had prepared were used up. He took the iron material off the iron bars and hammered them into horseshoes.
While nailing the horses' hooves, the assembly bugle sounded outside.
The groom was so anxious that he kept urging, and the blacksmith said: "The fourth horseshoe is still missing a nail. Just wait until I drive another nail and nail the horseshoe firmly."
The groom was anxious: "When you drive another nail, my head will be chopped off by the king! Stop talking nonsense and nail it quickly!"
The blacksmith had no choice but to hammer together three nails and drive the last horseshoe into place.
After the battle broke out, the troops led by the King of England himself were quite powerful, and could not be compared to the troops that Henry's boy had raised temporarily.
Richard III was so brave that he even killed Henry's standard bearer with his own hands.
Soon, Richard III launched a final battle with the enemy.
Tragically, when he started to charge, the unnailed horseshoe of his mount fell off. Richard III's horse fell over and threw Richard III away. Richard III was immediately swarmed.
The enemy soldiers on top were chopped into pieces.
In this way, Richard III lost his kingdom and his life.
Of course, this is just a legend.
However, at this time, the discussions caused by this were really endless, and some people were even discussing that Napoleon's Battle of Waterloo was defeated because of this.
The mathematical community looks at derivation and ideas, while other walks of life, especially the public, although they do not understand advanced mathematics, the "carp effect" is really amazing. What they see is that details determine success or failure.
In short, because of Li Yu's paper, there are now many interpretations of it from different perspectives.
Even the original translation of "Carp Effect", many people do not care about the order of surname and first name, and directly pronounce it as the homophony of Li Yu's name: "LiYu Effect".
As a result, his name once again resounded throughout Europe, and the effect was not even weaker than the time when Pluto was discovered.