Chapter five hundred and eighty sixth please enter the urn
Seeing Ye Mengqiu, the round-faced boy opposite, looking confused, he came to his senses and solemnly walked to the blackboard to read the question carefully, and then thoughtfully wrote on the other blackboard what Li Tianyuan Yiwei was.
A certain... Lu Sanlang couldn't help but sneer.
Are you still pretending to use quaternion to solve problems? Do you think I don’t know what the level of arithmetic is today?
You know, as the first chief of Jiuzhangtang, I endured a lot of hardships. The teacher was unavailable, so I went to find the founder Ge Yong in order to really study the Ten Books of Calculation, because he
Although he claims to have read through "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" at a young age, in fact, at his current level, he is still far from being able to fully understand every question in the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic.
As for the other nine books among the ten Suan Jing books, such as "Zhu Shu", which have been lost, where can he learn it? Even "Ji Gu Suan Jing", based on his previous level, is far behind. So.
Zhang Shou didn't talk about these old tricks in Jiuzhangtang. He often went to Ge Yong's place to study hard at night, learning from Tianyuan Shu to Four Yuan Shu. It turned out that Ge Yong only had a superficial knowledge!
I remember that after Ge Yong saw the first printed copy of "Four Yuan Jade" written by Zhu Yuanjie of the Yuan Dynasty at Ge Yong's place, there was a time when he was astonished by Zhu Yuanjie who invented the Four Yuan Technique, but he only hated the master of arithmetic for being vague about it.
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However, when he went to Zhang Yuan to meet Zhang Shou privately later, he got the unpublished manuscript of a new volume of "New Edition of Gurdjieff's Arithmetic" in Zhang Shou's study. The main content is easier to understand.
But it is somewhat similar to the elimination method of solving four-dimensional higher-order equations. If he had not learned it secretly from Ge Yong before, the little fat man would have really thought that Zhang Shou's book was written by Ge Yong.
But just because Ge Yong lamented to him that Tian Yuan Shu and Quan Yuan Shu were too difficult to understand, he mentioned to him that using the series of numerical symbol systems in "New Edition of Ge's Arithmetic" should be able to simplify things that ordinary people cannot understand at all.
He understood Tianyuan Shu and Quanyuan Shu. Therefore, when he found that the elimination method described in Zhang Shouna's manuscript was easy to understand, he realized who the real author of "New Edition of Gurdjieff's Arithmetic" was.
Because of the simpler and clearer symbol system, the little fat man who had been tortured by the Tianyuan Technique and the Four-Yuan Technique in the Ge family almost easily understood the essence of the elimination method. Therefore, in his mind now, the little teacher is the same as Ge.
The ancestors lined up together.
At least in arithmetic, the young man is already better than his master. As for Zhang Shou's claim to have borrowed some foreign arithmetic, in his opinion, it is nothing. If it were these guys now, foreign books would be placed in front of them.
, will they go and see it? Can they understand it?
At this moment, he saw the round-faced boy Ye Mengqiu concentrating on solving the problem. He didn't care whether the boy was pretending or really had such ability, but he said to the three elders behind him with a half-smile: "Everyone, since
I came here with Mr. Ye, how boring is it to just sit here and watch your companion solve problems?"
"It just so happens that our students in the first phase of Jiuzhangtang recently learned the factorization of quadratic equations. Do you want to give it a try? The teacher assigned one hundred and eighty exercises to everyone in one go."
"Oh, I forgot that you should be dissatisfied with the arithmetic symbol system promoted by Emperor Taizu and advocated by my ancestor Ge and my teacher successively. I happened to have nothing to do before and re-interpreted these one hundred and eighty questions using Tianyuan Technique.
For a moment.”
Hearing this, even Zhang Shou couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth. To decompose a simple quadratic equation into factors and rewrite it into a question using the extremely troublesome explanation of Tianyuan Shu, you call this idle.
Are you here for nothing? This is called being so idle that it hurts! He was about to laugh and scold, but he saw Ah Liu, who was standing next to him just now, actually came in from outside again!
However, this time, Ah Liu did not come in easily carrying two blackboards, but instead held a thick stack of manuscripts in his hands, and presented the manuscripts to Lu Sanlang with both hands with a serious face.
But Lu Sanlang didn't look at it, and said with a smile: "You three might as well take a look, this is the homework of our Jiuzhang Hall. In fact, after the students have become proficient in these 180 questions, they will spend one
The hour is almost done."
The three people who came with Ye Mengqiu looked at the exercise books handed over by Ah Liu with gloomy expressions. When they heard Lu Sanlang say that it only takes more than an hour to complete the one hundred and eighty exercises.
When the question came up, all three people's faces turned blue.
Even Ye Mengqiu, who was working hard to solve the problem, almost couldn't hold the white pen in his hand.
Are you kidding! When you use Tianyuan Technique to solve problems, shouldn't you be relieved and happy when you solve one problem? How come you can just do one hundred and eighty problems casually? And, one hundred and eighty.
Shouldn't the meaning of ten questions be one hundred questions or eighty questions? In short, it is not the actual meaning. Why did it suddenly become one hundred and eighty questions when I came to Lu Sanlang?
Seeing the four people who came in aggressively, one of them was standing in front of the blackboard with a gloomy look on his face, and the other three were flipping through the thick books, each looking uglier than the other. Liu
The waiter couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
He is not worried that his future son-in-law will be too powerful, so his daughter may be bullied after marrying him. He is only worried that his future son-in-law will be too useless, and his daughter will never be able to hold her head up in front of her sisters-in-law. Therefore, seeing Lu Sanlang just being in trouble for others
The answers were fluent, but at this moment, because others were in a dilemma, he couldn't help but give Lu Wan a thumbs up.
Although Lu Wan was laughing heartily and showing an expression of pride, when no one was paying attention, he made a gesture to a confidant at the door.
Even though the emperor had given instructions in advance, he expected that uninvited guests would come to the door, and most likely they would be malicious guests looking for trouble. However, without his knowing at all, the people actually barged directly into the banquet place after the crown ceremony.
In this place, has his Lu family become a sieve for anyone to come in and out?
If it is found out that it was specially arranged by the emperor, that's it. If it was Zhang Shou who planned it, that's it. If it was arranged by the Lu family themselves, no matter if it was his other two sons or Lu Sanlang who wanted to be in the limelight and went crazy.
He can't even spare them!
Lu Sanlang didn't know that his father was already getting mad and planned to thoroughly investigate the incident of these four people trespassing. At this moment, he was standing with his chest and belly protruding, and in the eyes of the emperor, he was simply a little tester.
A victorious cockfight.
Although it was a bit funny before that Lu Sanlang was pretending to be a public servant and using the opportunity of screening others to highlight his talents and abilities, the emperor no longer saw it that way. As an emperor with a master of arithmetic as a teacher, Tianyuan Shu and Si
Of course, he also dabbled in things like Yuan Shu when he was studying at Ge Yong, and then... of course there was nothing more.
The arithmetic classics passed down by the ancestors of arithmetic studies in the past dynasties, as far as the books he saw, most of them have the same purpose: that is, I am only responsible for raising a very difficult problem, and then outline the solution and briefly mention it, and then
I’ll give you an answer. As for you not understanding it, it’s because you have poor talent and ability, and it has nothing to do with me.
Those sutras were never intended to be understood by ordinary people! So at the end of the transmission, there are often only two words - lost.
Therefore, although he knew clearly that there were problems with Zhang Shou's teaching, he knew that Zhang Shou was able to use a system of symbols of unknown origin in addition to the Arabic numerals promoted by Emperor Taizu, and he knew that Ge Yong was taking over the job.
Zhang Shou covered it up, but he still selectively ignored these things because he was vaguely aware that these things were very useful.
Not only did the emperor leave the third prince to Zhang Shou to teach him, but he was also studying on his own with great interest, so that he could also tutor his two sons. At this time, he saw Lu Sanlang shaking his head and using the method of Tianyuan Shu to explain the truth.
The topic Ye Mengqiu was solving, including the Yuan of Heaven, Yuan of Earth, Yuan of Humanity, and Yuan of Matter, made countless guests present have stars in their eyes, and he started laughing.
"Okay, Gao Yuan, don't use what you are good at to bully our uninformed guests. I have read every volume of "New Edition of Gurdjieff's Arithmetic," although the numerical symbols from foreign countries in it are indeed confusing at first glance.
It is difficult to accept and understand, but as long as you use it properly, it is much easier to understand than calculations, and it is much simpler and easier to understand than those expressions such as heaven, earth, person, matter, and so on!"
"This gentleman is wrong!"
Next to Ye Mengqiu, a middle-aged man who was frowning and looking through the exercise book in his hand suddenly raised his head and said in a deep voice: "As Confucius said, it is better for Yi and Di to have kings than for all Xia to perish! The same principle can be proved,
The arithmetic of Yi and Di is not as far as the arithmetic of Zhu Xia..."
This time, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhang Shou's smile: "Sir... I would like to respect your age and call you sir. You are taking the words out of context and misinterpreting the saint's words.
The sage said that the Yi and Di had kings, but it was not as good as the Xia's death, because the Yi and Di were rude, so even though they had kings, it was not as good as the Xia's death, but the etiquette still existed."
"But what we are talking about now is not etiquette, but magic." Zhang Shou slowed down his speech and said word by word, "The progress of magic is not only related to itself, but also to the accuracy of the calendar and to the accuracy of the calendar.
Whether the profit and loss of the sun and the moon and the movements of the stars can be calculated accurately are related to the hydrology of the river, whether water control and water transportation are convenient, and whether the treasury surplus is balanced and whether the account books are balanced."
"Didn't the Tian Yuan Shu and Four Yuan Shu of the Yuan Dynasty surpass those of the previous dynasties? But now, can this young master who admired Wang Xiaotong of the Tang Dynasty solve the cubic equation of one yuan in the "Ji Gu Suan Jing"?
Of course, in Jigu Suanjing, it should not be called like this. I think you will know what it is after reading this book. And how long will it take you to figure it out?"
"Nowadays, the Four Books and Five Classics are deeply rooted in people's hearts. Even a seven-year-old boy can say a few sentences and poems. But in the past, how many people in the world can understand the books written by masters of mathematics?"
""Zui Shu" was lost; "Xia Houyang Suan Jing" was lost; "Five Classics Arithmetic" was almost lost if Emperor Taizu had not ordered people to revisit it and copy it; this was once among the ten books on calculation. And the "Shu Shu" of Yuan Dynasty was
"Four Yuan Jade Mirror", "Measuring the Circle Sea Mirror", etc. were also promoted by Emperor Taizu after being recommended by the ancestor Ge Taishi. However, astronomical calculations were banned for a time and were almost lost among the people."
"Although the ban has been lifted now, ordinary scholars cannot understand it. The bookshop cannot make money and refuses to print because few people are willing to buy it. The library in the palace is shelved in a high cabinet. Scholars who really want to study the sutras can even
I can’t find a decent arithmetic book at all. So, this is not just a matter of highbrow!”
"Since this gentleman has just gone through the exercises explained by Lu Gaoyuan using Tianyuan Shu, I would like to ask, how many of them can you solve?"
Seeing that his barrage of questions silenced the middle-aged man, Zhang Shou sighed and said: "From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and then to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, countless books were lost, but it's understandable.
It turns out that at that time, more books were copied by hand rather than printed."
"It was not until the late Tang Dynasty that there were more and more engraving printings, and in the Song Dynasty, there were more movable types, so that bookshops flourished and ordinary people could afford books. At this time, those great mathematicians who have left their names in history clearly have their works handed down to the world.
In the end, the manuscript was lost. Is this a warning to future generations like me?"
He paused for a moment as he spoke, and after thinking for a while he decided not to criticize the imperial court - in fact, the most important reason for the poor performance of arithmetic is none other than the fact that in the past dynasties, the imperial court strictly prohibited astronomy and also banned arithmetic! If it weren't for the imperial court's
Under high pressure, why are mathematicians all imperial officials? Why are mathematical talents and achievements declining like a cliff now?
The little fat man pricked up his ears and listened to Zhang Shou's words. Seeing that Zhang Shou had killed people and left them without armor, he immediately shouted for a last hit and said: "I heard that Yuanshi, such as Tianyuan Technique and Siyuan Technique,
The skill of arithmetic was invented by everyone and is very good at it. There are many pretentious guys in this dynasty who claim to be the master of arithmetic, but few are good at it!"
"No, I can't say I'm not good at it, I should say I'm not good at it at all!"
"You... are arrogant!" The middle-aged man who had criticized Zhang Shou just now was finally completely irritated. He dropped the book in his hand angrily and protested angrily, "You are in the capital, in the home of an official.
, The first to come first is the moon near the water. Who knows the difficulties of folk learning arithmetic! Even "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" has to be collected with great hardships, so where can I go to read other books!"
"You are blessed and don't know how blessed you are. You have access to the scriptures of great masters from all dynasties, but you don't know how to cherish them, and you don't know how to use them carefully. Instead, you study the scriptures of some small foreign country. This is simply a waste of natural resources!"
After he expressed the deepest resentment in his heart in anger, he saw the four brightly dressed guests looking at them with very subtle expressions, and he suddenly felt a little disheartened.
At that moment, he said with waning interest: "Among the four of us, Meng Qiu is extremely talented. He can use the Four Elements Technique to solve some of the simplest problems, but he is completely unable to solve more complex problems. Our ancestor once served as an imperial minister during the reign of Yingzong.
The Heavenly Supervisor oversees the upright affairs, but he left the capital sadly when the princes were in chaos. He was passed down again and again, and only then did we, the disciples, come to be."
"What we have learned cannot be compared to the manuscripts. He has painstakingly memorized everything! Now the emperor is gradually banning astronomical calculations. Dr. Zhang, you clearly know how many arithmetic scriptures have been lost throughout the ages. Why can't you carry forward these ancestors' things, but you have to learn them?
Those unattractive things from small foreign countries!”
At this moment, Zhang Shou finally understood that what these four people said when they broke in was not a pretext for provocation, but was actually what they said from the bottom of their hearts. This is their simple and stubborn understanding that Huaxia arithmetic is unique in the world!
It's a pity that this mentality of being self-centered is really unacceptable both in academics and in governing the country!