Ella wondered for a long time: Is she a snail or a turtle?
No one had told her the answer to this question. From the moment she regained consciousness, she was in a large room with shelves filled with books. But she couldn't remember who she was or how she got here.
Having had a small house since birth, she could only think of snails and turtles.
So is she a snail or a turtle?
This question is critical. If she were a snail, she would be careful not to get eaten by chickens, ducks, and birds.
Fortunately, this room looks pretty solid and there are no birds visible outside. So she hid in this big room and worked on her math problems with peace of mind.
Jochebed’s frantic prayers were heard outside the room all the time:
“His throne shines before him, and his palaces shine with splendor.”
"How modest his majesty is, how well adorned he is by his divine light."
“His servants counted his mighty powers and his wonders, and sang to her: Lord of lords, King of kings.”
“He surrounds the sky with a halo, and his brightness flows from on high.”
“Boundless fire bursts out of his mouth, and the sky shines from him.”
Fire and storms held back the spirit of Jochebed, but with the help of incantations and prayers, he struggled to ascend to the heavenly palaces one after another. As the journey continued, a fire was ignited within him, his body became a torch, and he had to stand without his hands and feet, because they had been burned off - a test that must be passed through, without the necessary knowledge , he will be burned to death in the flames.
Ella's house was built on Jochebed's right shoulder, and together they rose up into the sky under Jochebed's protection. Because she was so small, Jochebed didn't notice her at all. This kind of Ella really looks like a little snail climbing the stems and leaves of plants.
Although she had forgotten her own species, Ella still vaguely remembered the destination and purpose of their trip: it was the seventh heaven. There they will measure infinity.
The long journey and the burning of the fire made Jochebed feel thirsty. When he was about to reach the supreme throne, he suddenly heard a sound - like the sound of countless rapids, or like the sound of a storm causing the sea to churn.
He walked towards the direction of the sound, where the waves surged up and almost drowned him. His thirst for water made him almost jump into the water.
However, he suddenly remembered a warning in "The Technique of Chariots Ascending to the Sky":
"When you come to a place where there is shining marble, do not say, 'Water! Water!' for it is written, A liar will not be allowed to remain."
He gritted his teeth and stepped directly towards the water as if he hadn't seen the water. Then, the illusory water disappeared, leaving only the ground inlaid with marble slabs.
In 600 BC, philosophers first began to think about the origin of all things. Thales was the first to propose the answer to this question. He told people: The origin of all things is water. This is unacceptable to those who believe in one God.
Deny the water, this is the final test.
They had reached the palace of the Infinite One.
Ella carefully walked out of the library. A heavy curtain stood between them and the Most High.
Two straws slowly fell from the sky and fell into the hands of Jochebed and Ella respectively. A voice said to them: Go and measure the gods.
Jokibe excitedly grabbed the straw and rushed towards the curtain. Due to the big movement, Ella and her library were thrown directly down. "It hurts..." Ella shouted. In fact, she felt no pain in her spirit state, but she wanted to express her protest against Jochebed in this way.
As soon as it fell from Jochebed, Jochebed disappeared from her sight. This meant that she was free from the interference of the spirit body of Jochebed. In an instant, the marble floor and the curtain that blocked the god disappeared, and she stood alone on a small piece of scorching earth, surrounded by a huge abyss.
The abyss stretches to the end of the world, and the abyss drops to the bottom of the endless earth. Everything was an abyss except the tiny patch of land where Ella was.
A monster's roar came from beneath the abyss. Its screams penetrated Ella's eardrums, showing Ella a clear concept - that is its name: INTEGRAL.
Integral, which means complete. That is an infinitely important quality. Because only the infinite that contains all possibilities is complete. In the teachings of the Abrahamic Church, this nature is exclusive to God.
Recently, Gottfried gave the word Integral a new meaning: integral.
Ella nervously grabbed the straw and walked to the edge of the earth. She looked down. At that moment, the beast opened its eyes—not one, not two, but the entire abyss from directly below Ella to the farthest horizon was filled with eyes.
The countless pairs of eyes slowly squirmed, crawling towards the top of the abyss and towards Ella.
Ella screamed and ran back to her library.
"Why do you need to measure something like this?"
The monster's terrifying screams penetrated the walls of the room and continued to reach her ears. Ella knelt on the ground, covering her ears and shaking her head vigorously.
Not to mention measuring, even getting slightly closer to this monster made her hair stand on end.
She gave up. In front of the infinite monster, she felt her own personal insignificance. Even the earth she was standing on was nothing in front of the infinite abyss.
She started reading. She does this whenever she wants to calm down. She aimlessly took out the book from the bookshelf and flipped through it aimlessly. From "How to Build a Well" and "Isaurian Recipes" to "Introduction to Fishing" and "Common Beasts and How to Avoid Them"
Of course she knew the monster was outside the room, but she could pretend it wasn't there by closing the door and not thinking about it.
Her spirit body slowly recovered over time. She thought of differential calculus, integral calculus, Gottfried, and Sibersos who was thrown into the sea.
Before her eyes passed the sea and the ship full of mathematicians. Yes... not just her, all mathematicians and everyone are running away from infinity.
It is natural to fear the infinite. Get too involved and you will awaken the devil.
Ella suddenly wiped her eyes.
What she was holding in her hands was an ordinary prayer book. This is a palimpsest. Its parchment roll has been cleaned once, the original text has been erased, and the current content has been replaced.
She had opened this book once before, but didn't pay much attention to it. But now, she suddenly noticed: Under the words of these prayers, some vague geometric figures and mathematical texts were vaguely visible.
She keenly recognized the incomplete signature: Archimedes.
"This is a method that has not yet been truly proven." Archimedes wrote in the opening book.
"The reason why I wrote it down is because for future generations, if someone has used this method to obtain some knowledge related to the problem, it will be easier to argue than if there is no knowledge basis. It’s easier.”
In the following text, Archimedes explains an incredible, even deviant mathematical method. He integrated his lever principle into mathematics and calculated the area of curves and the volume of spheres by imagining a lever, cutting and placing figures, and keeping the balance on both sides of the lever.
In this method, Ella vaguely saw the shadow of points.
Integral calculus a thousand years ago.
"A 'crowbar' for solving mathematical problems. I have transcribed this method on parchment that is impervious to damage and decay, hoping it will survive the sea of time."
Archimedes wrote this at the end of his manuscript.
"People in front of the parchment, if you understand what I am trying to do, then I still have something to say to you."
"I have never been afraid of infinity. However, the field of mathematics never ends. Even I have to bow before infinity in the end."
"So, I choose to hand this 'crowbar' into your hands. I hope you can make good use of it and find many other theorems that I have not been able to discover. Then, use this crowbar from generation to generation. Pass it on."
"Please believe that humans will eventually be able to control infinity."
"Because it's there."
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