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Chapter 103

After Calvin announced the end of the meeting, many scholars had stood up and prepared to leave.

That "wait" made everyone pause and look at the corner with their eyes in unison.

Chen Luo has long been used to being watched like this by everyone. Under the gaze of these honorary scholars, he slowly stood up.

"Blair..." Britney looked at her, and a look of surprise appeared on her face.

When he heard the familiar voice, Calvin's body was shocked and a glimmer of hope surged in his heart.

Although Blair is known as the devil in the mathematics world, he has always been a person who can create miracles. If anyone else in Yapo could stop the footsteps of those scholars of Gaya, besides the "God of Luo" who has not appeared for a long time, it is the devil Blair.

Although God is hard to find, the devil is by their side.

Calvin walked quickly to the corner, looked at Chen Luo with a burning gaze, and asked, "Hisser Blair, do you have a way?"

After living here for so long, Chen Luo still has some emotion about the Luolan Kingdom.

He is an honorary scholar in the Kingdom of Lorraine. Those scholars of Gaya hit the face of the mathematics community in the Kingdom of Lorraine.

What's more, the matter was originally caused by him, and the aftermath should have been handed over to him.

Originally, he planned to offer a low-key reward of anonymous question to help Yapo City and Lolan save some face.

After hearing Calvin say that the Kingdom rewarded 5,000 gold coins, Chen Luo knew that he could no longer be low-key.

As long as he gives enough money, even if he is a great scholar, Chen Luo will still teach him how to be a human being.

Chen Luo did not answer Calvin's question directly, and looked at him and asked, "As long as it can stop those scholars of Gaya, the kingdom will offer a reward of 5,000 gold coins?"

After saying that, he added: "Of course, gold coins are not important. What matters is that I come from the Kingdom of Lorraine. It is my unshirkable responsibility to protect Lorraine and maintain Lorraine's glory."

"As long as they can stop them, they can get the five thousand gold coins rewarded by His Majesty the King." Calvin nodded without hesitation and said, "This is the news that the kingdom just came. His Majesty the King is also very concerned about the affairs of Yabo City. If they are asked to leave Yabo City like this, from now on, the Mathematical World of Loran will become a joke..."

The mathematics community in a country was solved by the delegation from other countries and took away all the bounties. Once such a thing happened, the mathematics community in the Kingdom of Lora will never be able to raise its head.

Calvin thought for a while and added: "His Excellency Blair, if Loren wants to win, he must also win with dignity. He cannot maliciously make things difficult for Gaya's visiting scholars."

"I understand."

Chen Luo nodded. It would be not easy to make things difficult for the other party. Isn’t it enough to let them make ten thousand sides within half the time of the God’s grace? But in this way, the face that is still lost is Luo Lan. Not only can he not regain his dignity, but other countries will also be considered as unable to afford to lose.

The questions they raise must be research-oriented, theoretically accomplished, recognized and valuable questions by all scholars.

It is best to be the kind of classic problems that can look at anyone, and I can do it, but when I start to do it, I doubt the classic problems in life.

Chen Luo can publish a book on this kind of problem.

Chen Luo looked at Calvin and said, "It is not a problem to let those Gaya scholars stop at Yabo City."

Calvin said excitedly: "Really?"

“But I have a condition.”

Calvin hurriedly said, "Please say, Mr. Blair."

At this time, let alone a condition, even ten or one hundred, as long as this urgent problem can be solved, Calvin will agree without hesitation.

Chen Luo looked at the opposite side and said, "Let Eble Howard give me fifty gold coins."

Calvin was stunned, not knowing what this meant.

If he could really help the Yabo City Branch get through the difficulties, even if he asked for another five thousand gold coins, the scholars of the Kingdom of Lora would help him get it together, but he only had fifty ones and designated Eble Howard.

This Lord Blair, with the name of a devil, is indeed unpredictable to ordinary people.

When Eble heard Chen Luo's words, he was surprised for a moment, and then smiled and said, "If Your Excellency Blair can regain the glory of Lorraine's mathematics community, Eble is willing to give you five hundred gold coins."

Chen Luo shook his head and said, "I only need fifty."

He still has principles in life. Those fifty gold coins belong to him. Even if he won the 5,000 gold coins from the kingdom, he still lost the fifty gold coins. He lost his gold coins forever...

What Chen Luo wants is not gold coins, but a clear idea.

Eble looked at him and nodded, "I agree."

Chen Luo looked at Calvin and said, "Get the paper."

A deacon had already brought the prepared paper and pen.

Chen Luo quickly wrote a few lines of words on the paper and handed them to Calvin.

Calvin and the scholars around him couldn't wait to look up, and after a moment of stunned silence, a blank expression appeared on his face.

It’s not that these questions are too difficult and make them unable to find a clue, but that it’s too simple.

It's so simple that it's hard to believe that this was proposed by the Edwin Prize winner.

There are three questions on the paper, all of which are the problems of drawing the ruler.

The so-called ruler is a ruler and compass without a scale. As early as hundreds of years ago, ancestors in the mathematics community discovered that using ruler and compass without a scale can draw various geometric figures that meet the requirements. Later, ruler drawing has formed a fashion in the mathematics community. Mathematicians are immersed in the limited times of using compass and ruler drawing without a scale, and called it the ruler drawing method.

Each of these three rulers has only one sentence for drawing questions.

Triple any given angle.

Find a square with an area equal to the circle.

Find the edge length of a cube so that the volume of this cube is twice that of a known cube.

On the surface, these three questions are too simple. According to their experience and intuitive feelings, this is almost the simplest type of ruler drawing problem.

Calvin was also worried that Chen Luo would raise some extremely complex, time-consuming and laborious questions to make the scholars of Gaya, which would make the Kingdom of Lora a joke.

He never expected that the question he asked was so simple.

He looked at Chen Luo and said unsure: "His Excellency Blair, are you serious?"

Chen Luo smiled and said, "You can try it first."

The three equal parts of angles, turning a circle into a square, and multiplying cube are three famous classical problems in ancient Greece. The wonderfulness of these three questions is that they look very simple and do not have any fancy things. They can be described in one sentence, but when you really do it, you will find their horror.

The three classical problems were proposed in ancient Greece BC. Since they were proposed, mathematicians of every era have tried to give perfect answers to these three questions.

It was not until more than 2,200 years later that mathematicians proved that these three seemingly outrageous problems are impossible to solve by just a ruler and a compass.

They are also called "the problem of drawing the ruler is not a problem".

For more than 2,000 years, generation after generation of mathematicians have tried their best to overcome the three major problems, and some people have questioned the significance of these three problems. In fact, when encountering three equal parts, cubic multiples of product, and turning a circle into a square, it can be solved by making drawings without the ruler. Why do mathematicians have to be stubborn?

What they don't understand is that this is actually the romance of classical mathematicians.

Mathematical research does not necessarily need to be practical. Mathematicians must understand every unknown mystery clearly. This stubborn spirit is the spirit of science.

More importantly, countless mathematicians have made countless breakthroughs in the process of trying to accomplish this impossible thing, discovered some new mathematical ideas and methods, providing more valuable parts of Greek mathematics and modern mathematical ideas.

Every breakthrough of theirs is a victory of human wisdom, and it will bring some new ideas and new methods to the world. This is the value of these three problems.

Calvin asked him to provide questions that seemed simple, could stump the scholars of Gaya and valuable, so Chen Luo had to move them out.

As for some other famous problems, they can either be completed in a short time at a glance, which means making things difficult for others, or they are too modern. When many mathematical concepts have not been proposed, mathematicians here may not be able to understand the questions, and are not suitable to take them out...

The Mathematics Association naturally has the tools such as ruler. These honorary scholars simply sat back in their seats and answered these three questions in the conference room.

In their opinion, such simple questions should be very soon to have results with so many honorary scholars present.

However, this sitting was a time when more than a dozen gods were grateful.

It was already midnight, and no scholar had yet to get up in the Mathematics Association and the conference room.

It was late at night, Chen Luo yawned, pushed the door and walked in from outside, walked to Britney, handed her the butter cake he had just gone out to buy, and said, "Teacher Britney, have something to eat."

When these scholars challenged the three classical problems, of course he would not wait here stupidly. He went to the Magic Association to read books early, and chatted with Jasmine for a while, invited her to have afternoon tea. In the middle, he brought lunch and supper for Teacher Britney. Now the small cake is already a midnight snack.

Calvin grabbed his hair, and his thoughts during the dozens of gods made his head almost explode.

He thought he would be able to solve these three problems soon, but the fact is that whenever he thought he had found a method, he would soon find that his method was wrong.

This feeling that he could almost touch the truth, but when he completed that little bit, he found that he was getting farther and farther away from the truth was enough to make people crazy.

At this moment, he deeply realized the horror of the devil Blair.
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