Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Although it made them feel a little frustrated, it inspired their determination to study hard.

In addition, they were curious to Spyips: since the beginning of the academic conference, the people of Dionysia who came to the school to listen to lectures have been endless, the whole school is full of people, and even Turui has to send The soldiers entered the academy to maintain order. Finally, the school forced to stipulate, "Every day, only a fixed number of people are allowed to enter the school." Even so, many people outside the school can still be seen wandering every day.

Oreas has spoken to them before, among these people are public officials, farmers, merchants, craftsmen...Turii, but also from Campania, Great Greece, Apulia, Sicily... and not only The Greeks, as well as the Lucania, Bruti, and Mesapi... Most of them have studied in schools in various cities of Dionysian, and even if they are busy with life, they still desire knowledge.

From the questions they raised in the venue, it can be seen that their level of knowledge is not low, which surprises them at Sipisipus and Oleas, because speeches and exchanges at this level are often For a few people, knowledge is not popular among many Greek city-states, even if they are prosperous like Athens.When the General Assembly of Athens Civic selects generals or deports politicians, it is common for illiterate citizens to ask others to write for themselves on the pottery... Dionysians are so enthusiastic about knowledge that makes them ashamed.

On the afternoon of this day, Oreas hurriedly rushed from the School of Philosophy to the School of Mathematics because there was a speech by Foster Carda.

The academic conference held in Dionysia also provides a stage for young scholars, as long as their application is approved, they can also speak on stage and intersperse with the speeches of famous scholars.

Of course, most of the young people who gave speeches were students from Dionysian Academy. After all, they were better prepared and naturally passed the assessment.

Foster Carda, as the students of Sipesipus and Oleas, the earliest and best-connected Dionysian Academy, also invited them to dinner in the Christosia restaurant in the city last night So, they were sure to come to support Sisipus, and they were also curious about what Foster Carda would say, because he was always tight-lipped when chatting last night.

When they entered the meeting place of the number college, Foster Carda's speech had already begun.

What they saw was an amazing scene: some spectators off the court yelled to rush to the stage, were blocked by the soldiers, and some even threw stones on the stage.Foster Carda was surrounded by his classmates. He was resolutely speaking his opinions in a louder voice, and at the same time, he used a white pen made of limestone to write its argumentation process on the black siding.

"What is the title of Foster Carda's speech?" Oreas asked the audience next to him.

The listener said impatiently: "On the existence of numbers other than integers and integer ratios." Then he continued to listen intently.

Oreas feels familiar with this subject.

"Hipassos!" Spicy Tips reminded aside.

Oleas suddenly realized.The reason why he feels familiar is because this subject involves an academic tragedy that occurred in Great Greece decades ago.

Hipassos is a Metapontum, a disciple of the Pythagoras school.When he studied regular pentagons, he found that the diagonals and side lengths cannot be represented by integers or integer ratios.Then, he found that the side length and diagonal of the square are the same.

So he was full of exploration spirit, after repeated verification, confirmed one thing: that in addition to integers and integer ratios, there is also a number, it can not be divisible by, can not get accurate numbers, inexhaustible, and Can't cycle.

Then, he put forward his views at the seminar of the members of the school.

The members of the Pythagorean School panicked, because the discovery of Hippassos, if confirmed and promoted, overturned the "foundation of everything, one is all," proposed by the founder of the Pythagoras. The generator, everything in the universe comes down to the philosophy of integers and integer ratios. As a result, the other members of the Pythagorean school imprisoned Hippassos, and finally threw it into the sea, drowning alive.

But the incident was finally spread by the complaint of the family of Hippassos.

Oreas knows about such an event and does not know the detailed process, but seeing the angry protesters from the audience, he knows that it must be a member of the Pythagorean school, and he can’t help but Foz Tekkada squeezed a sweat.

Foster Carda did not take these people's clamor in his eyes, and calmly continued to solve on the siding.

Specipes looked at the siding, and he saw that the numbers and symbols used by Foster Carda were "Daveus numbers", which were said to have been invented by King Daveus inspired by Hades. The "Daveus number" was only popular in the Kingdom of Dionysia at first, and later spread to other city-states through merchants. It was gradually accepted by other city-state citizens and even scholars. After all, it is too convenient and fast in counting and calculation. In particular, the troubles of the Greeks in counting large numbers have been eliminated, so the scholars and the people present here can basically understand it.

Foster Carda drew a square on the siding. He set each side to be one. Then he calculated the length of the diagonal. Ironically, Foster Carda used Pythagoras. Pythagorean theorem invented by Si.The result of the calculation is that the diagonal length becomes a square root of two.

Foster Carda then used the Pythagorean school's usual method, the method of proof, to prove that this number could not be represented by the ratio of two integers.After his successful argument, he continued to try to calculate the square root of the two.

At this time, he was using an algorithm he called the "dichotomy". Seeing that the entire siding was almost filled, he threw away the white pen, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and turned to face the audience. The audience said aloud: "After my calculations, the length of the diagonal of this square should be 1.4142... This number does not end. It will be endless and non-cyclic. It cannot be written as the ratio of two integers. So it is not a natural number, I call it a non-natural number..."

"To shut up!"

"Nonsense!"

"Everything you said is wrong, there is no such number at all! What right do you have as a little student to defame the great Pythagoras! Insult our school! Get out, let us teach you a lesson Fuck!" members of the Pythagoras School cried out loudly.

In the front row of the meeting, the deputy dean of the College of Mathematics, Martinique, stood up angrily and shouted: "What is the trouble! This is the Dionysian Academy, not Tarantum! Drove me out!"

Mattikoris has the identity of a veteran of the kingdom.He said that the soldiers immediately rushed up to arrest these troublemakers.

There was chaos in the meeting place, and some members of the Pythagoras School shouted out loudly: "Marty Corris, you traitor! I knew that you would use the power of Dionysia to suppress our Pythagoras School , Because you can’t compare with us academically! Originally, when we came to Turi, we wanted to see what new ideas you had, but I didn’t expect... I yuck! What a conference of all Greek scholars! I think it’s a shit!"

"Is the "All Greek Scholars Conference" good or not, it's your turn to comment!" There was a loud voice at the entrance of the venue.

"Your Majesty Davis!!"

"His Majesty!!!"

...

In the exclamation of the audience, Davers strode toward the podium.

Photographed in the power of Daphes, the members of the Pythagoras School stopped crying, and a weird silence soon appeared in the venue.

Daveus walked onto the podium and Foster Carda saluted him respectfully.

Daveus patted his shoulder gently, and then faced the audience, Shen Sheng said: "This is a sacred place to impart knowledge and exchange of knowledge. Abuse and fight are prohibited. Violators will be punished. This is "Dionia The Law stipulates that I hope you will not violate it, otherwise you will be punished by the law regardless of who you are!"

"Your Majesty, we have no intention of violating Dionysia’s laws. However, at such a huge conference, the Dionysian College of Mathematics deliberately chose such a topic to discredit and discredit our school’s respected ancestor, Pida. Golas, wantonly attack the reputation of our school and destroy the unity between Dionia and Tarantum, I think this is not what you want to see...I hope your majesty can cause this Those who deal with it seriously!" As an important member of the Pythagorean school, Lüsis did not make a fuss like other people, but used his sharp argument and solemn protests.

"Your Majesty, you listen to me..." Mattikoris was anxious to argue, and Davis glanced at him sharply like a knife, and he stopped talking in guilty conscience.

Davos had coordinated the schedule of the conference before. He knew the topics of well-known scholars' speeches, but he didn't understand the content of young scholars' speeches, because they were all arranged by the colleges themselves.However, as a disciple of the original Pythagorean school, Matticoris, how could he not know the possible impact of this incident, even without telling himself, he quietly arranged for the students to talk about such a topic, of course, Davis Will be dissatisfied with him, because this may ruin such a conference that is not easy to organize.

If it wasn’t in the morning that Henripolis was anxious to go to the College of Liberal Arts to listen to the lecture, Daveus asked what was the content of the conference today. He, he may not know until the conflict has become more serious.