Although this made Spisips and the others feel a little frustrated, it further inspired their determination to study hard.

In addition, what made Spisips and the others curious was that since the beginning of the scholars' conference, there have been a steady stream of people from Dionians who came to the college to listen to lectures, and the entire college was filled with people. Turiyi even had to send soldiers to the college to maintain order. Finally, the school forced the regulations, "only a fixed number of people who came to listen to the class will be given to the school every day." Even so, many people outside the school can still be seen wandering every day.

Oleas once talked to them, among these people, there were public officials, farmers, merchants, craftsmen... There were Turi'i people, there were also Campania, Great Greece, Apulia, Sicily... and not only Greeks, but also Lucanians, Brutis, and Mesapi people... Most of them have studied in schools in various cities in Dionia, and even if they are busy with life, they still desire knowledge.

From the questions they raised in the venue, we can see that their level of knowledge is not low, which surprised Spisips, Oleas and others, because speeches and communication at this level are often the affairs of a few people. Knowledge is not popular among many Greek city-states, even if it is prosperous like Athens. Every year at the Athenian Citizens' Conference elects generals or expels politicians, there are many cases where illiterate citizens ask others to help them write on pottery pieces... The Dionians' pursuit of knowledge is so enthusiastic that they are ashamed.

On the afternoon of that day, Aureas and the others rushed from the School of Philosophy to the School of Mathematics, because there was a speech from Fosterkada.

This scholars conference held in Dionia also provides a stage for young scholars. As long as their application is approved, they can also give speeches on stage, interspersed among the speeches of well-known scholars.

Of course, most of the young people who gave speeches on stage were students at Dionia Academy. After all, they were more prepared, so naturally more people passed the assessment.

As Spisips, Oleas and the others met the earliest and best-affiliated students of the Dionia Academy, they invited them to eat at the Cristoya Restaurant in the city last night. Therefore, Spisips and the others were of course to support them, and they were also curious about what Fosterkada would say, because during the chat last night, he was always tight-lipped.

When they entered the venue of the Mathematics Academy, Fosterkada's speech had already begun.

What they saw was an amazing scene: some viewers in the field were yelling and rushing to the stage, but were stopped by the soldiers, and some even threw stones on the stage. Fosterkada was surrounded by classmates. He resolutely told his point of view in a louder voice, and at the same time wrote the argumentation process on the dark wallboard with white pen made of limestone.

"What is the title of Fosterkada's speech?" Oleas hurriedly asked the audience next to him.

The listener said impatiently: "On the Existence of Numbers Except Integers and Integer Ratios"." Then he continued to listen intently.

Oleas felt that this topic was a bit familiar.

"Hippasos!" Spisips reminded him.

Oleas suddenly realized that the reason he felt familiar was because this topic involved an academic tragedy that occurred in Greater Greece decades ago.

Hipasos was a disciple of Metapontum and a disciple of the Pythagoras School. When he was studying regular pentagons, he found that their diagonals and side lengths could not be represented by integers or integer ratios. Then, he found that the same situation was found in the side lengths and diagonals of squares.

So, after repeated verification, he confirmed something: in addition to the integer ratio, there is also a number that cannot be divided, and cannot obtain accurate numbers, and cannot be separated, and cannot be looped.

He then put forward his own point of view at a discussion meeting of the members of the school.

The members of the Pythagoras school were panicked because if Hippas's discovery was confirmed and promoted, it overturned the philosophy proposed by Pythagoras, the founder of the school, that "everything is a number, one is the genesis of all numbers, and everything in the universe is attributed to the ratio of integers and integers." As a result, other members of the Pythagoras school imprisoned Hippas and eventually threw him into the sea and drowned alive.

But this incident eventually spread through the accusation of Hippassus's family.

Oleas knew about such an incident and did not know the detailed process. However, when he saw the angry protesters in the audience, he knew that they must be members of the Pythagoras school, and he couldn't help but feel worried about Fosterkada.

But Fosterkada did not take these people's clamor and continued to solve the problem calmly on the wall.

Spisips looked at the siding. He saw that the numbers and symbols used by Fosterkada were exactly the "Davers number". It is said that King Davers was invented by Hades. This "Davers number" was only popular in the Kingdom of Dionys at first, but later it was spread to other city-states through merchants, and gradually accepted by other city-states and even scholars. After all, it was too convenient and fast in counting and computing, especially eliminating the trouble of counting large numbers by the Greeks, so the scholars and people here today can basically understand it.

Fosterkada drew a square on the wall. He sets each side length to one, and then he solves the length of the diagonal line. Ironically, Fosterkada uses the Pythagorean theorem invented by Pythagoras. The calculation result is that the length of the diagonal line becomes the square of two.

Fosterkada then used the method commonly used by the Pythagoras School, the inverse method, to prove that this number cannot be represented by two integer ratios. After his successful argumentation, he continued to try to square the two.

At this time, he used an algorithm he called "duality". Seeing that the entire wall was almost full, he threw away his white pen, wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned to face the audience in the audience, and said loudly: "After my calculations, the length of the diagonal line of this square should be 1.4142... This number has not ended. It will be endless and not looped. It cannot be written as the ratio of two integers. Therefore, it is not a natural number. I call it a non-natural number..."

"Shut up!"

“Bad talk!”

"Everything you said is wrong, there is no such number at all! What right does a small student have to slander the great Pythagoras! Insult our school! Get out of here, let us teach you a good lesson!..." The members of the Pythagoras school shouted loudly.

Marty Coris, the vice president of the School of Mathematics in the front row of the venue, stood up angrily and shouted: "What's the trouble! This is the Dionys Academy, not Tarantum! Soldiers drove out these stupid people who didn't listen to the class carefully but made trouble!"

Matikoris had the identity of a kingdom elder. After he said that, the soldiers rushed up immediately to arrest these troublemakers.

The venue was in chaos, and members of the Pythagoras school shouted: "Matikoris, you traitor! I knew you would use the power of Dionia to suppress our Pythagoras school because you can't compare to us in academics! Originally, when we came to Turiyi this time, we wanted to see what new ideas you have, but I didn't expect... I'm a big shot of Greek scholars! I think it's just a splash of shit!"

"Is the "All Greek Scholars Conference" good? It's not your turn to evaluate it!" A loud voice came from the door of the venue.

"His Majesty Davers!!"

"His Majesty!!!"

...

Amid the audience's exclamations, Davers strides towards the podium.

Taking the power of Davers, members of the Pythagoras School also stopped shouting, and a strange silence soon appeared in the venue.

Davers walked onto the podium, and Fosterkada saluted him respectfully.

Davers patted his shoulder lightly, then faced the audience and said in a deep voice: "This is a sacred place for imparting knowledge and exchanging knowledge. Insults and fights are prohibited. Violators will be punished. This is the provision of the "Dionia Law". I hope you do not violate it, otherwise it does not matter who you are, and you will be punished by the law!"

"Your Majesty, we have no intention of violating the laws of Dionia. However, at such a hugely influential conference, the Dionian Mathematical Academy deliberately chose such a topic to discredit and slander Pythagoras, the respected ancestor of our school, and 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 that your Majesty, you can deal with the perpetrators of this matter seriously!" As an important member of the Pythagoras school, Lucis did not make a big fuss like others, but instead protested with his sharp eloquence and righteousness.

"Your Majesty, listen to me..." Martycoris was anxious to argue, and Davers glanced at him with a sharp look like a knife, and he was guilty and stopped talking.

Davers had coordinated the schedule of the conference before. He knew roughly the topics of the speeches of well-known scholars, but he didn't understand the contents of the speeches of young scholars, because they were reviewed and arranged by each college. But as a disciple of the Pythagoras school, how could Martykoris not know the possible impact of this matter? He did not inform himself and quietly arranged for students to give such a topic. Davers would of course be dissatisfied with him, because it might ruin such a conference that was not easy to organize.

If Henipolis hadn't been anxious to go to the School of Literature in the morning to listen to a speech, Davers asked by the way what the conference was about today. Aristillas sent someone to the school to inquire and came back to tell him that he might have to wait until the conflict got worse before he knew.
Chapter completed!