Chapter 107: Blair's Turtle [9/14]
Chen Luo never thought he was a hero, although people outside called him that.
He helped Loren through the storm, and it was just a deal.
His Majesty the King spent a full five thousand gold coins for this, and of course Chen Luo wanted to do things beautifully, so the Gaya scholar, who pretended to be forced to run, was forced to stay here for a month, polishing all his sharpness.
But these five thousand gold coins are just the reward for those people to stay.
Further shaking the foundations of Gaya's school was not within the scope of the original agreement.
Destroying the foundation of the school of people is tantamount to slapping people in the face and killing people's hearts, this is an endless scene, and Chen Luo generally does not do it.
Unless you add money.
Children are always naΓ―ve, and adults who have a little physical foundation know that love can't generate electricity, but gold can.
Chen Luo will not expose the old bottom of the Gaya School for the ethereal glory of the Luolan Kingdom, and he will never die with the Gaya scholars.
But he can do it for his dreams.
His dream is to become the most powerful magician, and this great dream needs gold to support it.
Calvin was not surprised by Chen Luo's words, he thought about it for a while, and said: "Your Excellency Blair saved the city of Arpo and saved Lorain's honor, and on behalf of the Lorrain Mathematical Society, I will reward Your Excellency Blair with another two thousand gold coins." β
"Deal. β
When he walked out of St. Donas Academy, Calvin's expression was still a little dazed.
It's not because he feels sorry for the gold coins, two thousand gold coins, although it is not a small amount for the Apo City branch, but if Luo Lan can turn defeat into victory, even if this gold coin number is multiplied by ten, it is nothing.
What really made him confused and frightened was Chen Luo's question.
This problem seems to be a mathematical problem, but it is not just a mathematical problem, it involves philosophy, science, and even the nature of time and space......
Calvin could have predicted that the emergence of this problem would have a much greater impact on the mathematical community than the emergence of irrational numbers.
Irrational numbers have always existed, and it is only due to the negligence of scholars that it has not been discovered until now.
And this question will ------ drag countless mathematicians into the abyss of fear, and Gaya, as the world's mathematical center, will bear the brunt.
Just as the significance of irrational numbers to the Howard family and the number school, this question is mainly aimed at the Gaya school.
As long as Calvin takes that one more step forward, the situation of Gaya and Loren will be completely reversed.
The Gaya scholar's trip to Lorain will become the biggest joke.
But Calvin didn't dare.
He couldn't predict the consequences of this matter, because this problem shook not only the faith of the Gaya scholars, but also the scholars of Loran, and even the scholars of the Divine Grace Continent.
Scholars here refer not only to mathematicians, but also to philosophers and scientists......
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Calvin returned to the Mathematical Society in a daze, and Audri handed him a letter with an indignant expression.
The letter was sent from the royal capital, and it said that although the Gaya scholars were blocked in the city of Apo, the Gaya kingdom was already announcing that their visiting scholars had swept all the way through the mathematical circles of the Loran Kingdom.
After all, compared to the small setbacks in the city of Apo, they achieved a large-scale, overwhelming victory in Loraine.
Ignoring this small flaw, Gaya's purpose has actually been achieved.
A small setback in Apo City will not affect the overall victory of Gaya, and if there are no surprises, the Lorain scholars, for a long time to come, will not be able to hold their heads up in front of the Gaya scholars.
Audri let out a long sigh and said with great regret: "If these three problems had appeared earlier, Gaya would have been able to stop them when they had just arrived in Loran...... Alas, everything was late. β
"No, it's not too late. A trace of ruthlessness appeared on Calvin's face, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Since it was Gaya who did it to us first, then ------ everyone will go to hell together!"
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In Gaya's visiting scholar group, after being troubled by those three questions for a whole month, the devil in the mathematical community of the Kingdom of Luolan has a new move.
After those three questions, there was one more question on the bounty wall of the Apor Mathematical Society.
This question sounds a bit funny, but the profound meaning contained in the question has caused countless people to think deeply...... , and even panic.
How long will it take for the first powerhouse of the Gaya Kingdom, the Wind Archmage Achilles, to catch up with a turtle?
This is the fourth question of the devil Blair.
Achilles is a well-known powerhouse in the Gaya Kingdom, with the realm of the Great Magister, and his name is almost unknown to almost everyone in the entire Divine Grace Continent.
Lord Blair's question is described as follows: If there is a turtle that is some distance ahead of the archmage Achilles, how long will it take for Achilles to catch up with the turtle?
This is a simple question, as long as you give the speed of the turtle, the speed of the archmage Achilles, and the distance between the two, any mathematician can give the correct answer.
However, the devil Blair gave them another answer.
No matter how fast Archmagist Achilles was, he would never be able to catch up with the turtle.
Because when Achilles catches up with the tortoise, the tortoise has already moved forward for a distance, and when Achilles passes this distance, the tortoise will advance another distance, and so on, and the process can continue indefinitely, and Achilles wants to catch up with the tortoise, then he must reach the starting position of the tortoise, but during this time, the tortoise has already climbed forward for a short time......
The conclusion is that Achilles, the Wind-based Grand Magister known for his speed, will never be able to catch up with a slow-moving turtle.
This conclusion seems ridiculous, not to mention the Wind Archmage Achilles, even a three-year-old child can catch up with the turtle and step on its head.
But what they all know, don't the Edwin Award winners know?
After careful consideration, they discovered the horror of the problem.
The logic of this question is self-consistent.
They could find out when Achilles would catch up with the tortoise, but only if they knew Achilles would be able to catch up with the tortoise.
But the problem is, they can't explain how Achilles caught up with the turtle......
Blair divided Achilles' pursuit of the tortoise into infinitely many parts, and by the time Achilles had reached the tortoise, the time it took to catch up was infinitely short.
But even if this period is short, it can continue to be divided.
If time and space could be divided like this forever, Achilles would never be able to catch up with the tortoise.
And time and space can be divided infinitely------ which is exactly what the Gallians claimed.
The Gaya school believes that time and space can be infinitely divided, which is an important proposition of the Gaya school, and it is also the consensus of the mathematical community, the scientific community, and the human beings in the Divine Grace Continent.
To overturn Blair's conclusion, we must first overturn the premise that time and space can be infinitely divided, and we must overturn the claims of the Gaya school, and rebuild a new worldview for Gaya, for Loland, and for all the scholars in the Divine Grace Continent.
The continuity of time and space is the consensus of the whole human race, just imagine, if even it is wrong, then what else is true?
The emergence of this problem made many visiting scholars in Gaya no longer care about the three questions, the question of Lord Achilles and the tortoise, and directly attacked the beliefs of many schools of Gaya, and their schools encountered the greatest crisis in history.
Obviously, Lord Achilles will be able to catch up with the damned turtle, and Blair the devil is wrong!
But do they dare to say that Blair is wrong?
They didn't dare.
If Blair is wrong, so is the claims of the Gaya schools.
It's a paradox!
Don looked at the question on the paper, his lips trembled, his face turned blue, and he said in a trembling voice: "Devil, he is the real devil!"
[NOTE: THE INFORMATION IN THIS CHAPTER IS QUOTED FROM THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS I, AUTHOR: CARL.B. BOYER, TRANSLATED BY QIN CHUAN'AN.] γ
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