The famous German scientist Gauss (1777 ~ 1855) was born in a poor family. Gauss learned to calculate by himself before he could speak. When he was three years old, he watched his father calculate his salary one night and corrected his father's calculation mistakes.
When he grew up, he became the most outstanding astronomer and mathematician of our time. He made some contributions to physics electromagnetism, and now a unit of electromagnetism is named after him. Mathematicians call him "the prince of mathematics".
He entered a rural primary school at the age of eight. The teacher who teaches mathematics is from the city. He feels that teaching a few little lynx in remote places is really overqualified. Moreover, he has some prejudices: children from poor families are born fools, and there is no need to teach these stupid children to study hard. If there is an opportunity, they should be punished to add some fun to this boring life.
This day is a depressing day for the math teacher. The students cringed when they saw the teacher's depressed face, knowing that the teacher was going to arrest these students again today and punish them.
"You calculate for me today, from 1 plus 2 plus 3 to 100. Whoever can't figure it out will be punished for not going home for lunch. " The teacher said this, picked up a novel, sat in a chair and read it without saying a word.
The children in the classroom picked up the slate and began to calculate: "1 plus 2 equals 3, 3 plus 3 equals 6, 6 plus 4 equals10 …" Some children added a number to the slate and then erased the result. After adding it, the number is getting bigger and bigger, which is difficult to calculate. Some children's little faces turned red, and some children's palms and foreheads oozed sweat.
Less than half an hour later, little Gauss picked up the slate and stepped forward. "Teacher, is this the answer?"
Without looking up, the teacher waved his thick hand and said, "Go, go back!"! Wrong. " He thought it impossible to have an answer so soon.
But Gauss stood still and put the slate in front of the teacher: "Teacher! I think this answer is correct. "
The math teacher wanted to shout, but when he saw the number written on the slate: 5050, he was surprised because he calculated it himself and got the number of 5050. How did this 8-year-old child get this value so quickly?
Gauss explained a method he discovered, which was used by the ancient Greeks and China people to calculate the sequence1+2+3+…+n. Gauss's discovery made the teacher feel ashamed, and felt that his previous view of being arrogant and belittling poor children was wrong. He also taught seriously in the future, and often bought some math books from the city for his own study and lent them to Gauss. With his encouragement, Gauss later did some important research in mathematics.
For the prosperity of the Chinese nation-Su's story.
Su Yu 1902 was born in a mountain village in Pingyang County, Zhejiang Province in September. Although the family is poor, his parents scrimp and save, and they have to work hard to pay for his education. When he was in junior high school, he was not interested in mathematics. He thinks mathematics is too simple, and he will understand it as soon as he learns it. It can be measured that a later math class influenced his life.
That was when Su was in the third grade. He was studying in No.60 Middle School in Zhejiang Province. Teacher Yang teaches mathematics. He has just returned from studying in Tokyo. In the first class, Mr. Yang didn't talk about math, but told stories. He said: "In today's world, the law of the jungle, the world powers rely on their ships to build guns and gain benefits, and all want to eat and carve up China. The danger of China's national subjugation and extinction is imminent, so we must revitalize science, develop industry and save the nation. Every student here has a responsibility to' rise and fall in the world'. " He quoted and described the great role of mathematics in the development of modern science and technology. The last sentence of this class is: "In order to save the country and survive, we must revitalize science. Mathematics is the pioneer of science. In order to develop science, we must learn math well. "I don't know how many lessons Sue took in her life, but this lesson will never be forgotten.
Teacher Yang's class deeply touched him and injected new stimulants into his mind. Reading is not only to get rid of personal difficulties, but to save the suffering people in China; Reading is not only to find a way out for individuals, but to seek a new life for the Chinese nation. That night, Sue tossed and turned and stayed up all night. Under the influence of Teacher Yang, Su's interest shifted from literature to mathematics, and since then, she has set the motto "Never forget to save the country when reading, and never forget to save the country when reading". I am fascinated by mathematics. No matter it is the heat of winter or the snowy night in first frost, Sue only knows reading, thinking, solving problems and calculating, and has worked out tens of thousands of math exercises in four years. Now Wenzhou No.1 Middle School (that is, the provincial No.10 Middle School at that time) still treasures a Su's geometry exercise book, which is written with a brush and has fine workmanship. When I graduated from high school, my grades in all subjects were above 90.
/kloc-At the age of 0/7, Su went to Japan to study, and won the first place in Tokyo Technical School, where she studied eagerly. The belief of winning glory for our country drove Su to enter the field of mathematics research earlier. At the same time, he has written more than 30 papers, and made great achievements in differential geometry, and obtained the doctor of science degree in 193 1. Before receiving her doctorate, Su was a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics of Imperial University of Japan. Just as a Japanese university was preparing to hire him as an associate professor with a high salary, Su decided to return to China to teach with his ancestors. After the professor of Zhejiang University returned to Suzhou, his life was very hard. In the face of difficulties, Su's answer is, "Suffering is nothing, I am willing, because I have chosen the right road, which is a patriotic and bright road!" "
This is the patriotism of the older generation of mathematicians.
Determined to save the country by science since childhood —— The story of Xiong Qinglai.
Xiong Qinglai (1893- 1969), a native of Mile County, Yunnan Province, was a pioneer of modern mathematics in China and made outstanding contributions to the development of mathematics in China.
Xiong Qinglai's father Xiong Guodong is proficient in Confucianism, but he prefers new learning. He is very open-minded and has a great influence on Xiong Qinglai. As a teenager, Xiong Qinglai often heard about Sun Yat-sen's democratic revolution from his father, which planted the seeds of patriotism in his childhood.
1907, Xiong qinglai was admitted to Kunming Yunnan dialect school and soon went to Yunnan higher education school. At that time, the Manchu dynasty was dying, and anti-Qing struggles were surging everywhere. Anti-donation, anti-tax, strike, strike and mutiny spread all over the country, and the Qing government was caught in a storm. Xiong Qinglai was punished by the school for participating in the anti-French and anti-Qing demonstrations of "recovering mining rights". Xiong Qinglai, named after his real life and struggle, realized that to make the country rich and strong, he must master science, and science can make the country rich and strong.
19 13, Xiong Qing went to study in Europe. 19 14. When World War I broke out, he moved from Belgium to Paris, France via the Netherlands and Britain. In the past eight years, he has successively obtained certificates in advanced mathematics, mechanics and astronomy, and obtained a master's degree in science. 192 1 year, 28-year-old Xiong Qinglai returned to China, bent on applying what he had learned to save the people in from the mire. 1in June, 949, the reactionary Kuomintang government took advantage of Xiong qinglai's attendance at an international conference in Paris and dissolved Yunnan university, which Xiong qinglai painstakingly managed in 12. Xiong Qinglai, who is nearly sixty years old, decided to stay in France to continue the study of function theory with the feeling that his ambition is hard to pay and there is no way to serve the country.
"... the motherland welcomes you and the people welcome you! Welcome you back to the great cause of socialist construction ... "1In April 1957, Premier Zhou wrote to Xiong Qinglai to mobilize him to return home. In June of the same year, after completing the monograph on function theory, Xiong Qinglai resolutely set out and returned to the embrace of the motherland. He expressed his willingness to devote himself to the academic construction of the motherland in accordance with the requirements of socialism. In the seven years after returning to China, he published nearly 20 world-class mathematical papers in academic magazines at home and abroad. It has also trained a number of mathematical talents such as Yang Le and Zhang Guanghou, winning glory for the motherland, showing the childlike innocence of the 70-year-old man who loves the motherland.
1969, Mr. Xiong Qinglai, a great master and mathematician, passed away. Before he died, he said that he would do his best for the people and die. A mathematical wizard-Naipur, do you remember the four great inventions? They are Indo-Arabic notation, decimal fraction, logarithm and computer. Logarithm was invented by Naipur in17th century. 1550 was born in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. He liked mathematics and science since he was a child, and was recorded in the history of mathematics with his four great achievements of genius. The invention of logarithm made the whole of Europe boil. Laplace believes that "the discovery of logarithm prolongs the life of astronomers by saving labor." It can be said that the discovery of logarithm has advanced modernization by at least 200 years. Next, I will tell you two short stories about him: once, he claimed that his black-haired penis could prove for him: which of his servants stole from him. Servants were sent to the darkroom one by one to pat the cock on the back. The servants didn't know that Naipur painted the cock's back smoky black. The servant who felt guilty was afraid to be next to the rooster and came back with clean hands. On another occasion, Naipur was upset because his neighbor's pigeons ate his food. He threatened to confiscate some pigeons if his neighbors didn't restrict them from flying around. Neighbors thought it was impossible to catch his pigeon, so they told Naipur that if he could catch it, he would do it. The next day, the neighbor was surprised to see his pigeon swaying on the lawn in Naipur. Naipur calmly put them in a big bag. It turned out that Naipur sprinkled some peas soaked in brandy on his lawn, which made these pigeons drunk.