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Are there any short stories about mathematicians?
Gauss (1777- 1855) is a German mathematician. Gauss's most famous story is that when he was ten years old, the primary school teacher gave an arithmetic problem: "Calculate 1+2+3 …+ 100 =?" . This is difficult for beginners of arithmetic, but Gauss solved the answer in a few seconds. He used the symmetry of arithmetic progression (arithmetic progression) and then put the numbers together like a general arithmetic progression sum: 1+ 100, 2+99, 3+98, ... 49+52. In 180 1 year, Gauss Some mathematicians devoted themselves to mathematics before their death, and after their death, their tombstones were engraved with symbols representing their life achievements. Archimedes, an ancient Greek scholar, died at the hands of Roman enemy soldiers who attacked Sicily. ), people carved the figure of the ball in the cylinder on his tombstone to commemorate his discovery that the volume and surface area of the ball are two-thirds of that of the circumscribed cylinder. After discovering the regular practice of regular heptagon, German mathematician Gauss gave up the original intention of studying literature, devoted himself to mathematics, and even made many great contributions to mathematics. Even in his will, he suggested building a tombstone with a regular 17 prism as the base. /kloc-Rudolph, a German mathematician in the 6th century, spent his whole life calculating pi to 35 decimal places, which was later called Rudolph number. After his death, someone else carved this number on his tombstone. Jacques Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician, studied the spiral (known as the thread of life) before his death. After his death, a logarithmic spiral was carved on the tombstone, and the inscription also read: "Although I have changed, I am the same as before." This is a pun, which not only describes the spiral nature, but also symbolizes his love for mathematics.

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