2. Hilbert once had a student who wrote a paper to prove Riemann conjecture, and Hilbert appreciated it very much. But later, the student died and Hilbert gave a speech at the funeral. It rained heavily that day and everyone was very sad. Hilbert first said that it is sad that such a genius died young. Then Hilbert said that although this person's proof is wrong, if we follow this road, we should be able to prove Riemann's conjecture. Then, Hilbert continued to preach enthusiastically in the rain: "Actually, let's consider the function of one variable complex."
3.3. Another Story of Hilbert Once in Hilbert's discussion class, a young man reported using a beautiful theorem. Hilbert said, "This is really a wonderful theorem. Who found it? " The young man stood blankly for a long time and said to Hilbert, "It's you."
4.L.V.Ahlfors and another American mathematician * * * both won the first Fields Prize. At that time, countries were blocked in World War II. When he went to Sweden from Finland to receive the prize, Ahlfors wanted to see his wife by train, but he only had 10 yuan on him. So he dug up Fields' medal and pawned it.
5. E. Landau has a strange working habit, working for six hours, resting for six hours, and so on. He received countless letters about proving Fermat's last theorem, but later he really didn't have the energy to deal with it, so he printed a batch of cards, which looked like this: Dear _ _ _ Thank you for sending me the proof of Fermat's last theorem. The first error occurred in line _ _ _ _ on page _ _, which made the proof invalid.
Eddington is a great astrophysicist. The following story is about how he boasted. Shortly after the publication of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, a reporter went to interview Eddington and said that only three people in the world understood this profound theory. I wonder who these three people are. Eddington bowed his head in thought and did not answer for a long time. The reporter couldn't help asking again, and Eddington said, "I wonder who the third person is."
7. Danzig was late for class once. Looking up, I found a few questions left on the blackboard, so I copied them down and went home to work hard. A few weeks later, I went to my teacher wearily and said, I'm really sorry about this. The homework seems too difficult, so I'm embarrassed to hand it in now. A few days later, his teacher called him over and told him excitedly that he was too excited. Dancziger later learned that the problem on the blackboard was not homework at all, but the unsolved problem in this field that the teacher said, and the solution he gave was the simplex method. Top ten algorithms of the last century.
8. In the 1920s, Moscow University required students to take 14 exams in different branches of mathematics before graduation. But the exam can be replaced by independent study in the corresponding field. Therefore, Kolmogorov never took the exam. He wrote fourteen innovative articles in different directions. Kolmogorov later said that there was an article written wrongly, but by then he had passed the exam.
9. Once in a physics lecture at Princeton University, the lecturer took out a slide with some experimental data arranged in a very scattered way. He tried to explain that these data were on a curve. Von Neumann was probably very uninterested and complained in a low voice: "At least they are on the same plane."
10. Riemann's father is a priest and his family is extremely poor. He has been ill since childhood and plans to become a priest. The headmaster of the middle school found that he had more potential in mathematics than in theology and gave him a Legendre book on number theory. Legendre is a great mathematician in France, and his books are very obscure. Six days later, Riemann found the man and returned the 859-page masterpiece, saying, "This book is really wonderful. I have understood it." Riemann was only 14 years old at this time.
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Mathematicians are people who have a deep understanding of mathematics and apply what they have learned to their work (especially to solve mathematical problems). Mathematicians focus on numbers, data, sets, structures, spaces and changes. Mathematicians who focus on solving problems outside the field of pure mathematics are called applied mathematicians. They used their special knowledge and professional methods to solve many remarkable problems in the field of science. Because of the wide range of concerns, theoretical system and fixed-point structure. Applied mathematicians often study and make mathematical models.