It was exactly as Northenton expected.
As the incident fermented for several days, finally, almost all the discussion in the chemical community turned to Li Mu's four papers.
When chemistry researchers meet each other these days, the greeting has become: "Hey, have you read those papers?"
Then the person who answers will usually respond: "Of course I have."
Or a frustrated answer: "I'm not very good at math, and I can't understand it from the second page."
Yes, when these chemists went to arxiv out of curiosity based on rumors from others and downloaded these papers, they found out that if they wanted to understand Li Mu’s four papers, they had to first read them on arxiv. Have a strong foundation and ability in mathematics.
Otherwise, starting from the second page, that is, the second part after the introduction, the endless mathematical methods can make them confused in an instant.
Can not Understand it!
I can't understand it at all!
No way, chemists who are used to doing experiments don't pay much attention to mathematics.
So when faced with these cross-border articles by Li Mu, most people were immediately stumped.
However, they themselves cannot understand it, and they can always hear highly praised comments from various big figures in the academic world, which makes them feel as if they are scratching an itch.
But there are always exceptions.
For those who study computational chemistry, their basic mathematical qualities are better than those of other branches of chemistry.
As a result, these papers by Li Mu immediately made scholars in the field of computational chemistry ecstatic and discussed non-stop.
In particular, his article "Computational Chemistry Model of Interface Reactions between Two Types of Conductors" is regarded as a bible.
In fact, the derivation process and application methods of the computational chemistry model in this paper gave them an excellent case.
This paper is completely enough to be included in any computational chemistry textbook and be used as a classic material for research.
As for the other three papers, the content related to computational chemistry is also very valuable.
For a time, scholars in the field of computational chemistry seemed to be enjoying the carnival of the entire chemical community while enjoying the feast of their own computational chemistry.
In this way, the excitement in the chemical world finally reached its climax one day in late May.
Because on this day, an international chemistry academic conference happened to be held.
WATOC, the 12th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.
This conference is a discussion meeting specially provided for scholars of theoretical chemistry and computational chemistry. It is held every three years and plays a very important role in the chemical community. Each time it is held, it can attract the participation of thousands of chemists.
And this time it's even more so.
Even many chemists who had not planned to participate in this conference because of other matters suddenly sent emails to the organizing committee of the conference, expressing their willingness to participate.
And the reason why they are like this is very obvious.
It was for those four papers written by Li Mu.
…
On May 29, the conference officially started.
Russell Boyd, Chairman of the Conference Organizing Committee, first delivered a speech: "Welcome all chemists to our conference. Before the conference report officially begins, I would like to announce a very exciting news. In 2017, At WATOC, we have more than 1,500 chemists participating in the conference."
“This year, we originally predicted that less than 2,000 people would participate, but surprisingly, more than 3,000 people signed up to participate in this conference, and nearly half of them were The email was sent to us temporarily within half a month."
"To do that, we had to replace the conference hall, which, as you can see, is here."
There was laughter in the audience, and then there was applause.
These chemists all spontaneously applauded the organizing committee.
Until the applause stopped, Russell Boyd smiled: "Thank you everyone for the applause. Of course, I also know the reason why everyone is so positive suddenly. It's just a pity that we couldn't invite the young mathematical genius over - now , he can also be called a young chemical genius."
There was another discussion in the audience.
They all know that Russell Boyd is talking about Li Mu. In the past few days, Li Mu has become an upstart in the chemistry world, and countless people are discussing him.
After all, it was he who turned the entire chemical world upside down during this period of time.
It's a pity that he couldn't come to this meeting.
Otherwise, they would like to hear from Li Mu personally his thoughts on those papers.
Russell Boyd continued: "But no matter what, everyone is here, so let our discussion begin."
"I hereby announce that the 12th WATOC Triennial Conference has officially begun. Now, I would like to invite Professor Stanley Whittingham to kick off this conference."
Amidst warm applause, Stanley Whittingham stepped onto the podium.
Stanley Whittingham had been invited by this conference a few months ago to give the first plenary report of the conference.
After all, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year, and Goodenough is almost 100 years old, and the other Akira Yoshino is Japanese, so he became the most suitable.
Stepping to the microphone, he unfolded his speech, then faced the audience and said: "I am very happy to see you all here, and I am honored to be invited by watoc to come here to give a report."
"Originally, the topic of my report was "Where does the future of theoretical chemistry go?"
"But within this half month, I changed my theme, and as you can see, it is the title on the ppt."
Everyone raised their heads and looked at the big screen behind him.
"New Directions and New Thinking in Theoretical Chemistry".
"At the beginning, I was confused about the future direction of theoretical chemistry, but after reading the few papers that everyone has been discussing recently, I suddenly found the direction clearly."
"It's very simple. There are only two words, mathematics."
"There are traces of mathematics, even though they are hard to find."
"But our chemistry was always missing."
"Although we have great discoveries like the periodic table of elements, when applied to experiments, everything will become random and accidental."
"It is this randomness that restricts our development."
"Through MuLi's papers, I was surprised to find that mathematics can really guide us in the direction of progress."
"Just like the role of mathematics in physics, mathematics will certainly allow us to find the direction of chemistry."
"Although I know it's more troublesome and more obscure."
"Even for those of us who study chemistry, this is a difficult thing to do."
"After all, we're not very good at math—"
Stanley laughed at himself: "Including me."
There was laughter in the audience.
But soon, Stanley's voice became serious again: "But since it is before us, we cannot give up because the road to it is too difficult."
"If you want to find the truth, the process must be difficult."
"So, go study the math, chemists."
"The treasure is already in front of us. We just open the lock of the treasure and tell us that the key must be obtained using mathematics!"
There was thunderous applause from the audience.
(End of chapter)
