In the process of human development, there is a shadow of mathematics behind any social progress, and some top mathematicians have promoted the development of mathematics to an unprecedented height. Some research results at that time, even from the perspective of modern people, were extremely advanced in related mathematics fields. Today I'd like to introduce some top mathematicians to you.
Euler is a Swiss mathematician. We can often learn many formulas and theorems named after Euler in college textbooks. Euler's talent in mathematics is amazing. 1696, Euler's teacher Bernoulli once proposed a math problem to challenge other mathematicians to solve it. This problem is the originator of the variational problem, but I didn't expect that no one could solve it until half a year after it was put forward.
Finally, after Newton saw this problem, it took him one night to solve it and published it in a journal. The solution of this problem and other similar problems became the origin of variational method, and Euler found the basic equation of variational method, which was later called Euler equation. It can be said that Euler developed calculus.
Euler's passion for mathematics is world-famous. Even in the case of blindness, he is tirelessly pursuing mathematical truth. In fact, Euler's love life is also very rich. She was married twice in her life and had 13 children, but only five survived.
It is said that when working in Euler, children are often taken care of, so Euler's formulas for learning mathematics are written on paper towels and cloth to wipe children's mouths, and sometimes even math problems are calculated on their backs. It can be said that he is a workaholic through and through.
The second top mathematician is Riemann. I believe readers have all heard of Riemann conjecture, which was put forward by the German mathematician and is a genius conjecture that makes countless mathematicians crazy.
It is said that Riemann submitted a paper when he was elected as an academician of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, which contained this famous conjecture. Some research results of this paper occupy an important position in the history of mathematics. But who would have thought that many proof processes in this paper were extremely short, and it was precisely because of these short proof processes that later mathematicians spent countless hours and energy to complete, and some processes were not reasonably proved even today.
Riemann's contribution to mathematical analysis and differential geometry is quite remarkable, and the Riemann geometry he pioneered even made great contributions to the publication of general relativity later. Unfortunately, in 1866, Riemann died on the way to Italy for illness, and the fall of this master of mathematics became a great regret in the history of mathematics.
Finally, I want to talk about a mathematician named Tao Zhexuan from China. Tao Zhexuan was born in Australia on 1975, and was discovered by his parents as a talented mathematician at an early age. At the age of seven, he began to teach himself calculus. 265,438+0 years old received a doctorate. At the age of 24, he was hired as a university professor and even won the Fields Medal.
The Fields Prize can be said to be the highest prize in mathematics and the Nobel Prize in mathematics. There are important research results in important mathematical fields such as combinatorial theory and partial differential equations. Some achievements have also been made in the field of applied mathematics, such as focusing on the research of digital compression imaging technology, which was once rated as one of the top ten breakthrough technologies of the year.
At present, the field of mathematics has been highly divided, and it is impossible to master all the knowledge of mathematics. Tao Zhexuan is an exception. In-depth research has been carried out in many fields of mathematics, and some achievements have been made.
The advanced knowledge of mathematics is obscure to ordinary people, but for top mathematicians who really love mathematics and can calm down and dig deep, this is exactly what they have been tirelessly pursuing.