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Although Zhang Shou had always required students to explain while answering questions on the blackboard, at this moment, even though the blond boy wrote a long list and only gave a few words of verbal explanation, none of the stunned students remembered to question him. They were all stunned by the boy's complex formulas and the string of beautiful italicized math formulas.
This kind of geometry proof problem, a foreign boy who claimed to be just here to listen to the lecture could actually solve it so easily? This is simply incredible!
The blond boy who put down his pen, turned around and clapped his hands, his face also full of excitement and joy. He quickly walked to Zhang Shou, and grabbed his hand and shook it vigorously: "Amazing, Master Zhang, you are really amazing! I didn't expect you to be so proficient in geometry! You have read the original version of "Στοιχε??α", right? You also understand Latino?"
Zhang Shou had already noticed that the blond boy would mix Italian and Greek into his speech when he was excited, so he was very calm at this moment. He had to be considerate, but he didn't burst out a long string of Italian or Tuscan, which was already very good. And it was obvious that this was a naughty Florentine kid with some math skills.
Therefore, although he had seen the Third Prince and others outside the door, he did not even blink, and remained calm and composed, as if he would not change his expression even if Mount Tai collapsed in front of him. Of course, if Mount Tai did not collapse, he really did not need to change his expression, because at this moment, it was just a small matter that this boy who obviously had extraordinary talents thought he knew everything.
"This word is so hard to pronounce that my tongue is almost stuck." After making a self-deprecating remark, he shook his head and said, "Of course I have never read the original version. I am only seventeen years old and from Gyeonggi Province. I have never even left Suncheon Prefecture in my life, let alone your distant hometown."
Although he didn't fully understand Zhang Shou's words, the blond boy still understood the core meaning, and he immediately showed a look of extreme disappointment. He had listened to Zhang Shou's class before, and at first he didn't understand those unheard-of terms, and he didn't have a textbook, so he felt quite bored. However, when Zhang Shou began to explain the questions on the blackboard, his boredom suddenly turned into surprise.
Although many of the symbols and letters written by Zhang Shou were different from what he knew and pronounced, the familiarity was real. After Zhang Shou finished explaining a problem on the blackboard, he couldn't hold back. This was a similar calculation he had seen on a desk in someone's study when he followed his father to visit a scholar!
Therefore, after Zhang Shou finished explaining the problem, he could not help but raise his hand to indicate that he had another method of calculation, and then he went up to calculate it again with great fanfare. Although he felt that the length of the article was much more complicated than Zhang Shou's, the excitement of meeting a fellow traveler in a foreign country overshadowed everything.
But now, his mood fell from the peak to the bottom. The young scholar in front of him actually said that he was only seventeen years old and had never left here. Therefore, it was unlikely that he knew Greek, and it was even less likely that he had read Euclid's original "Στοιχε??α". After all, even he saw the Latin text that his father had collected here.