With the help of the High Tower Spirit, the magicians who arrived first opened the closed door, allowing the scene in the room to be clearly displayed in Samantha and Rachel's eyes.
This is a refreshing and clean study, each book is neatly arranged, without the slightest confusion, the paper on the table is divided into several piles in an orderly manner, even the scratch paper is stacked meticulously, and every detail and corner of the rest fully reflects the strict and serious character of the owner Ha Wen.
On the chair behind the desk, Ha Wen sat there quietly, a layer of crystal clear ice crystals condensed on his body, even in the fiery temperature of July, they did not melt much, but turned the surrounding air into a trace of white frost.
Harvin in the ice cube sat very upright, wearing a gray pointed hat and a wide robe as a standard tower magician, and with arcane and other badges on his chest, it was as if he was going to participate in the "Evans Arcane Award" or "Arcane Scepter Award" award ceremony.
His face was pale, his stiff expression showed a faint sense of confusion, despair and relief, and he held a glass of red wine in his hand, as if he would stand up to welcome everyone at any time, but his eyes were empty and lifeless.
"This is really the way Harvin would choose to die, clean and refreshing, full of elegant demeanor......" Rachel whispered to Samantha.
They all knew Harvin, after all, they were both arcanists who had the hope of advancing to the sixth ring in the tower, and they both competed and inspired each other, and the relationship was quite harmonious, so they also knew Harvin's character better, but now, the two of them were already high-level arcanists and magicians, but Harvin ended his life with ice and snow magic, which had to be said to be two microcosms of the times.
Samantha thought of her wandering, confusion and frustration during this time, and said with emotion: "Actually, in another ten years, Harvin can also be promoted to a higher level...... In fact, no matter how desperate you are, you shouldn't give up easily, if it were me, I would live, live well, see what this arcane world will look like, and see if it's worth it for us to lose......"
"Harvin himself has severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression, and I've been trying to build corresponding hormone magic to help him, but unfortunately ......" Rachel said about herself, the teacher, and Lucian? Some of the concepts proposed by Evans separately.
In the past, although there was magic that could deal with this kind of psychological problem, it was only a short-term effect, such as using spells such as mechanized minds, unless a magician was willing to abandon normal feelings and maintain a constant resemblance to magic for a long time, it could be considered a "complete solution" problem, so there were not a few ancient magicians with extreme or crazy personalities!
Due to the relationship of good friends, Samantha is no stranger to the development of arcane psychology, and nodded slightly: "In addition to the help of magic, daily enlightenment is also needed, but there is always a lack of basic theories in psychotherapy, and it is impossible to gather the bits and pieces of research into a complete system."
As they spoke, the two walked into Harvin's room - as Harvin's friend and a high-level magician, the rest of the arcanists acquiesced to their authority to handle the matter.
Thanks to Harvin's "good habits", Rachel and Samantha didn't spend much time searching, and simply found an unsealed letter in the corresponding place on the desk.
The patterned paper inside the letter had a faint scent of books and was folded into a square shape.
Rachel didn't carelessly, after carefully checking it, opened the letter paper and read the content softly:
「…… The past period of debate has exhausted me, and I cannot imagine that the foundations of the entire astrological system will be subverted, no, the loss of certainty of the entire material world...... I kept arguing with people and arguing with people, but things went in the opposite direction......"
「…… Looking back on the rapid development of arcane in the past few years, I feel deeply confused, how ridiculous it is that what we are now afraid of, feared and desperately resisting happens to be the product of the theories we were happy and satisfied with before......
「…… My brain is constantly thinking about all kinds of difficult and even contradictory problems, and there is not a second of silence, but my thinking cannot solve any dilemma, I am tired, very tired, and I want to end this life......"
「…… I made a cowardly decision, I don't think I can keep up with the development of the arcane, and I can't accept this development either, I hope to return to the golden age of determinism in the 'dream'......"
After reading this letter, which was full of exhaustion, despair and confusion, Rachel suddenly felt a little empathetic, except for a few people, most of the arcanists probably had similar feelings, only in different depths.
"Harvin...... Alas......" She wanted to say something, but in the end it turned into a sigh.
All the magicians who came fell silent, as if mourning for Harvin and feeling sentimental for themselves.
Samantha withdrew her gaze from Harvin's corpse and looked out the window, the sun at noon in July was so brilliant, but so dazzling.
Time passed minute by minute, Rachel cleared her throat and prepared to arrange what was next, at this time, a tower magician came from the elevator, holding a thick book in his hand: "Nature has released a special issue "Mathematical Basics"!"
His voice was obviously joyful, and just a short flip through it seemed to give him a glimpse of a rigorously structured mathematical hall.
"Fundamentals of Mathematics"?" Samantha asked subconsciously.
The tower magician replied loudly with joy: "Yes, Your Excellency Evans' answers to many current mathematical questions. Through these answers, he has built a mathematical system with dense branches and solid foundations!"
He could only answer like this, because before he could read carefully, suddenly, he found the situation in the study: "Ha, what's wrong with Ha Wen?"
Another magician told him what happened and Harvin's last words in a simple way, and he said with annoyance and regret: "I should have come up earlier, if Harvin sees the book "Fundamentals of Mathematics", he will definitely rekindle his enthusiasm for studying mathematics. Some time ago, I had similar confusion and frustration, but now, these emotions can't extinguish my enthusiasm for mathematics, it turns out that we still have so much worth doing!"
Samantha and Rachel heard what he said a little exaggeratedly, and couldn't help but ask for the books he bought for others in his storage bag, and flipped through them directly in Harvin's study.
Although they did not have time to look at the specific derivation process, the proposal or redefinition of some concepts in the field of mathematics such as number theory, sets, groups, fields, and topology made them feel refreshed, as if the scattered and random research in the past had formed an inseparable whole, flesh and blood.
A lot of the content of this book does not exceed the scope of their knowledge, because it is based on various studies in the current field of mathematics, and has been integrated and further elaborated, and the new concepts proposed in it are not very difficult to understand, not only with a rigorous logical deduction process, but also just hit the difficulties encountered by the current tower arcanists.
Looking at this book, Samantha, Rachel and others seem to have seen the formation of new directions in the field of mathematics and science, and they have seen an unusually wide world!
"In the past, His Excellency Evans often said that mathematics cannot rely on arcane and magic, and cannot only serve the solution of their problems, it should be an independent theory based on rigorous derivation and deduction, with its own problems, and it cannot be ignored just because it is not used." Rachel suddenly sighed, "I remember these words very clearly and feel that they make sense, but in actual research, I still ignore many problems, and now, I completely understand the meaning."
She swept away the previous grief, confusion and confusion, and looked quite energetic, as if her passion had been rekindled.
Samantha also said with great emotion: "In the past, when I applied scattered mathematical knowledge to solve problems, although I finally achieved my goal, I always felt very obscure and difficult, as if there were invisible walls around me blocking our efforts, and now, those walls have disappeared ......."
"Well, His Excellency Evans also gave an in-depth explanation of axiomatization and gave a complete axiom system for tower geometry." Although Lucian had proposed the concept of axiomatization very early, and the arcanists had some research and application in practice, after seeing this tower geometric axiom system, he still vaguely felt that the basic view of mathematics seemed to have quietly changed.
In the atmosphere of heated discussion, Samantha suddenly stood up, rubbed a copy of the book in her hand and put it in front of Harvin, and then lit it with a flame.
"With the company of "Fundamentals of Mathematics and Physics", the world after your death will be full of color." She said in a low voice.
The other arcanists also quieted down, sighing in their hearts, but fortunately, "Fundamentals of Mathematics" was released at this time.
After dealing with Harvin's funeral, Rachel, Samantha, and others left his room one after another, and during the process, one arcanist hurriedly took the time to continue reading: "'Difficult problems in current mathematical research'?"
「…… Can any even number greater than 2 be written as the sum of two prime numbers......" After reading the question, he fell into a daze.
"Four-color problem?" The other arcanist turned to the next page.
After hearing their words, Samantha and Rachel looked at each other and quickly turned to the content at the back.
Suddenly, the corridor was filled with statue-like arcanists, who kept chanting something in their mouths, their expressions dazed and frantic.
After an unknown amount of time, the sound of footsteps woke Samantha and Rachel awake, and then they saw circles of "vertigo" in each other's eyes.
So, Rachel laughed and said: "These questions are so scary, they seem simple at first glance, but if you think about them deeply, you will find that they are extremely difficult......"
"So, even His Excellency Evans was stumped." Samantha smiled rarely.
"The last question, the barber paradox?" Rachel looked at the last few pages, "...... A barber in a small town made a promise after an incident, "I will only help all the people in the town who don't cut their own hair", should he cut his own hair? What is the problem?"
"This ......" After Samantha thought deeply for a while, the book in her hand fell to the ground with a bang.
Dong dong dong, the rest of the arcanists who heard Rachel's words also let the book fall to the ground in astonishment.
This is a famous paradox about set theory, which at the current level of research, means wavering in set theory, which is the foundation of the field of mathematics, so it can be said that this paradox makes people doubt the validity of the basic structure of the entire field of mathematics!
"I was just rejoicing at the perfection of the set theory, and now I have to face the horror and despair that comes with it......" an arcanist said something similar to Harvin's last words.
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Estine and Nordaniel wandered around the city of Alinge, and saw many arcanists studying leisurely and diligently under the shade of the trees.
"Really hard, no wonder the Magic Council has developed so quickly." Arestine sighed, and then looked curiously at one of the young magicians, "What book is he reading?"
"Mathematics...... "Basic ......," Noel Daniel recognized word by word with his strong eyesight.
"Mathematics ......" Arestine nodded, and was about to turn to leave, but heard Daniel Noh add suspiciously: "A red cross was drawn on these words, and there were other handwritten words underneath......"
Estine became more and more curious: "What word?"
Daniel Noh discerned carefully again: "Devil...... Book ......"
"The Devil's Book"?" Arestine repeated puzzledly.
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