Wang Qi's figure flashed through the street and vanished. Apart from those who had just been beside him, almost no one saw him appear. After only a few flashes, he had left the city's main thoroughfare.
Whenever he thought of those people at the Ronde branch altar, he could not help but shake his head slightly.
"How has my reputation gotten lately? Why do I suddenly feel like I've become someone 'whose name could stop a child from crying at night'?"
"Think about how you earned your prestige today!" Zhen Chanzi sneered. "Someone who climbed upward by stepping on others can only end up with a fierce reputation."
"That shouldn't be blamed on me. Mathematics has its own freedom; I merely discovered its nature," Wang Qi said. "Besides, those people were practically like they'd lost their minds."
Mathematics had always been developing. Even in Divine Land, the number of useful, effective, important formulas—including but not limited to equations, identities, and specific formulas—kept increasing every year.
Of course, the term "commonly used" meant something a little different here from its ordinary sense. For a formula in a particular field, as long as a small group of people used it repeatedly, it could be considered "commonly used." Such formulas generally would not be written into textbooks—especially not elementary textbooks that did not even cover advanced mathematics.
Using Earth's standards as an analogy, most of what high school mathematics taught had actually existed before the seventeenth century, while university advanced mathematics only entered the eighteenth century—though in form, modern university advanced mathematics textbooks were much simpler and more standardized than eighteenth-century mathematics.
Many people had no chance to come into contact with the most cutting-edge content.
The number of commonly used formulas was increasing at a rate of more than fifty per year.