Vol 7 Chapter 70: A debate about a mathematical tragedy

Although this made Spisips feel a little frustrated, it even inspired their determination to study hard.
In addition, what makes Spispus curious is that since the beginning of the self-study conference, the people of Deonia who come to the college to listen to the lectures are in a constant stream. The entire college is full of people, and even Turi has to send Soldiers entered the college to maintain order, and finally the school forcibly stipulated that "only a fixed number of people who come to the class are given to the school every day." Even so, many people outside the school can still be seen every day.
Ole As has talked to them. There are public officials, farmers, businessmen, craftsmen... there are Turifs, also from Campania, Great Greece, Apulia, Sicily... and not only The Greeks, as well as the Lucanias, the Brutiss, the Mesapis... Most of them have studied in schools in various cities of Dionia, and even if they are busy with life, they still desire knowledge.
From the questions they raised in the venue, they can see that their level of knowledge is not low, which makes Spisips and Ole Ass surprised, because speech and communication like this level are often In the case of a few people, knowledge is not widespread in many Greek city-states, even if prosperity is like Athens. Every year when the Athens Citizens Conference elected generals or expelled politicians, the illiterate citizens asked others to help them write on the pottery. The Dionians’ pursuit of knowledge was so enthusiastic that they were ashamed.
On the afternoon of the day, Ole Ass rushed from the Institute to several colleges, because there was a speech from Foster Kada.
The scholarly conference held in Dionia also provides a stage for young scholars. As long as their application is approved, they can also make speeches and interspersed in the speeches of well-known scholars.
Of course, the young people who took the stage to speak were mostly students in the Diaonia Academy. After all, they were prepared to be more adequate, and naturally they passed the assessment.
As the student of the earliest and most intimate Diaonian school, Forstucks and Ole As, they also invited them to the city of Clyostia for dinner last night. So Spitsips, of course, they want to come and cheer, and they are also curious about what Foster Kada will say, because he was always tight-lipped during the chat last night.
When they entered the conference halls of several colleges, Fosketada’s speech had begun.
What they saw was an amazing scene: some of the audience under the field yelled and rushed to the stage, blocked by the soldiers, and some even threw stones on the stage. Foster Kada was surrounded by classmates in the center, and he resolutely told his point of view with a louder voice, while writing a demonstration on the dark wall with a white pen made of limestone.
"What is the title of the speech of Forst Kada?" Ole Ass was busy asking the audience next to him.
The listener said impatiently: "On the existence of numbers other than integer and integer ratios." Then concentrate on listening.
Ole As feels that this topic is somewhat familiar.
"Hipasos!" Spitzs reminded him.
Ole Ass suddenly realized. The reason why he feels familiar is because this topic involves an academic tragedy that occurred in Greece a few decades ago.
Hipathos is a member of the Metaponto, a Pythagorean school. When he studied the regular pentagon, he found that the diagonal and side length could not be represented by integer or integer ratio. Then, he found that the side length and diagonal of the square are the same.
Then he was full of exploration spirit and repeated verification to confirm one thing: in addition to the integer and integer ratio, there is still a number, it can not be divisible, can not get accurate numbers, inexhaustible, and Can't loop.
Then he put forward his own point of view at the discussion of the members of the school.
The members of the Pythagoras school panicked, because the discovery of Hipassos, if confirmed and promoted, overturned the idea of ​​the school founder Pythagoras, "everything is counted, one is all The philosophical idea of ​​generating the meta, everything in the universe is due to the ratio of integers to integers, the result is that other members of the Pythagorean school imprisoned Hippassos and eventually plunged them into the sea and drowned.
But this incident was finally circulated through the complaints of the Hipassos family.
Ole Ass knew that there was such an incident and didn't know the detailed process. But when he saw the angry protesters in the audience, he knew that it must be a member of the Pythagoras school. Tekkada squeezed a sweat.
Foster Kada did not put these people's screams in his eyes, calmly and continually solved on the siding.
Spisips looked at the siding. He saw that the numbers and symbols used by Foster Kada were "Davers numbers". It was said that King Duffus was invented by Hades. The Duffus number was first popular only in the Kingdom of Dionia, and later spread to other city-states through merchants, gradually accepted by other city-states and even scholars. After all, it is too convenient and fast in counting and computing. In particular, it has eliminated the troubles of the Greeks, so the scholars and the people present here can basically understand.
Foster Kada painted a square on the siding. He set each side to one, and then he solved the length of the diagonal. The irony is that Foster Kada uses Pythagoras. The Pythagorean theorem invented by Sri Lanka. The length of the calculated diagonal line becomes the square of the second.
Foster Kada went on to use the method commonly used by the Pythagorean school, the counter-evidence method, to prove that this number cannot be represented by two integer ratios. After his successful argumentation, he continued to try to open the second operation.
At this time, he used an algorithm he called "divide method". When he saw that the whole siding was almost filled, he threw away the white pen, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and turned to face the stage. The audience said loudly: "After my calculation, the length of the square diagonal should be 1.4142..., this number is not over, it will be endless, not looping, it can not be written as the ratio of two integers, So it's not a natural number, I call it an unnatural number..."
"To shut up!"
"Nonsense!"
"All you said is wrong. There is no such number at all! What is the right of a little student to smash the great Pythagoras! Insult our school! Get out of the way, let us teach you a good one."顿!..." The members of the Pythagoras school shouted loudly.
The head of the college in the front row of the college, Martin Koris, stood up in anger and shouted: "What is the trouble! This is the Dionysian Academy, not Tarantum! Soldiers, do not listen carefully, but make trouble. The fool is driving me out!"
Mattikoris has the status of a veteran of the kingdom. He said that the soldiers immediately rushed to arrest the troublemakers.
There was chaos in the meeting, and members of the Pythagoras school shouted loudly: "Matikoris, you traitor! I know that you will use the power of Dionia to suppress our Pythagorean school. Because you are academically better than us! Originally we came to Turui this time and wanted to see what new ideas you have. I didn't expect... I am! What a Greek scholars' meeting! I think it is a bubble!"
"The "Greek National Scholars Conference" is not good, it is not up to you to evaluate!" A loud voice came from the entrance of the venue.
"Daveus sire!!"
"His Majesty!!!"
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In the exclamation of the audience, Davers strode to the podium.
In the power of Daves, the members of the Pythagoras school stopped screaming, and a strange silence appeared soon in the venue.
Davers took the stage and Foster Kada paid respectfully to him.
Davers patted him on the shoulder and then faced the audience. He said: "This is a sacred place to impart knowledge and exchange knowledge. It is forbidden to fight and fight. Violators will be punished. This is Dionia. The provisions of the law, I hope that you will not violate it, otherwise it will not be related to who you are, will be punished by the law!"
"Your Majesty, we have no intention of breaking the law of Dionia. But ~EbookFREE.me~ At such a hugely influential conference, the University of Deonia deliberately chose such a topic to discredit and derogate our school. The founder of Pythagoras, who arbitrarily attacked the reputation of our school and undermined the unity between Dionya and Tarantum, I don’t think this is what you would like to see... I hope that you can Seriously deal with the perpetrators of this matter!" As an important member of the Pythagoras school, Lucius did not make such a big trouble as everyone else, but used his sharp eloquence and righteousness to protest.
"Your Majesty, you listen to me..." Marty Collis was anxious to argue, and Davis swept at him like a knife with a sharp gaze. His guilty conscience did not speak.
Before Daves coordinated the schedule of the conference, he generally knew the topics of famous scholars' speeches, but he did not understand the contents of the speeches of young scholars, because they were all arranged by the colleges themselves. But Mattikoris, as a disciple of the original Pythagoras school, how could he not know the impact of this incident, even if he did not inform himself, he quietly arranged for the students to talk about such a topic, Daves, of course. Dissatisfied with him, because this may ruin such a conference that is not easy to organize.
If it wasn’t for Hernepolis’s eagerness to go to the College of Liberal Arts to listen to the speech in the morning, Duffus asked what the content of today’s meeting was. Aristilas sent someone to the school to inquire about it and came back to tell. He, he may have to wait until the conflict is too big to know.