1777 On April 30th, a new boy was born in the home of the stationmaster of a water diversion station in Brunswick, Germany. He is C.F. Gauss, a gifted mathematician.

Gauss was smart and studious since he was a child, and he had a unique talent for mathematics. When he was 3 years old, whenever his father and other adults calculated the water bill, he listened attentively and was infinitely interested in boring figures. Once, his father Bouchard had just finished calculating an expense account when he heard Gauss say, "Dad, you didn't calculate this account correctly!" " "

Dad looked at his 3-year-old son in surprise and recalculated the account incredibly. To his surprise, the account he calculated was really wrong! But he thought to himself, "This may be a coincidence."

Later, this kind of "coincidence" became more and more, and Brother Bouchard realized that his son was a genius. Because of the frustration in business, the old Gauss gradually degenerated and often used wine to kill time, so he pushed all the accounting work to the young Gauss under 10. However, no matter how complicated the accounts are, little Gauss can operate freely, showing extraordinary computing power.

When he was in elementary school, Xiao Gao Si was particularly obsessed with arithmetic classes. One day, Boetner, a math teacher, came to the arithmetic classroom with a cane. He said to his classmates, "Now I'll give you a question. Please calculate the sum of all the numbers between 1 and 40. Whoever does, send the answer to my desk. "

As a result, the children were buried in the desks, and the classroom was silent. Teacher Boetner laid down her crutches leisurely and sat at the lecture table watching the children.

Who knows, just sitting firmly, I saw little Gauss coming to him with an exercise book and said happily, "Teacher, I'm ready."

Boetner thinks that he must have made many mistakes in doing it so quickly. He said, "Put it down!" I thought to myself, when all this is paid, I will teach this careless and arrogant child a lesson.

It was a long time before the children handed in all their exercise books, and Botner specially picked up the first Gauss exercise book. He watched it for a while, and then he was shocked! I saw 20 groups of additions neatly arranged in little Gauss's exercise book: 1+40, 2+39, 3+38, 4+37, ... and then used a group of multiplications: 4 1×20. Get the correct answer: 820. There is no doubt that this answer is correct. The teacher glanced at Gauss. He wanted to criticize but couldn't, but his heart was greatly shocked. In fact, little Gauss discovered arithmetic progression's laws and calculation methods without any concept.

From then on, Mr. Boetner looked at little Gauss with new eyes and tried his best to cultivate him. Every time I go to Hamburg, I have to buy back all kinds of math textbooks for Gauss to read. All this greatly increased the mathematical ability of little Gauss. Soon, Gauss, who had not graduated from primary school, attracted the attention of local people from all walks of life because of his computing ability. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, Gauss was introduced to Carl Fernando, the most famous local figure, and Fernando became Gauss's long-term protector.

During the years when Archduke Fernando was alive, Gauss was paid every year. With this money and a stable life, Gauss devoted himself to his research work.

180 1 year, 24-year-old gauss published his scientific masterpiece "Arithmetic Research", which initiated modern number theory, won unanimous praise from the mathematical community, and established his position as the greatest mathematician in18th century.

Before that, Gauss had many achievements. 1 1 years old, he discovered the binomial theorem; 17 years old, put forward the least square method; At the age of 22, he proved the root theorem of algebraic equations ... People unanimously praised him as a well-deserved "prince of mathematics".

From 65438 to 0807, at the invitation of the University of G? ttingen, Gauss became a professor of mathematics and director of the Observatory. Since then, he has been engaged in research work at the University of G? ttingen until the end of his life. In his later years, he made great contributions to non-Euclidean geometry, complex variable function, probability theory, elliptic function theory, mathematical statistics and so on. He is famous for his serious and rigorous attitude towards his studies. Although he discovered elliptic functions as early as 1800, he discovered non-euclidean geometry in 18 16. But he has been perfecting these important discoveries and never made them public. It was not until his death that people discovered all this from his diary manuscript.

Gauss's works are very rich, but not all of them were published before his death. It was not until the eve of World War II that scholars at the University of G? ttingen sorted out and studied his works and published the Complete Works of Gauss with a volume of 1 1.

Gauss has also made great achievements in astronomy and physics. He created a method to calculate the elliptical orbit of the planet, which can predict the position of the moving star very accurately. He calculated the vanishing orbit of Ceres, which caused a sensation in astronomy. Gauss also made great contributions to electromagnetism. He put forward the "Gauss Law" of magnetic field.

Gauss died in 1855 at the age of 78. Almost all his contemporaries have learned from him. A scientist once spoke highly of him and said, "If we imagine scientists in the19th century as a series of high mountains, then the awe-inspiring mountain peak is Gauss." People often compare Gauss to a bridge, and think that mathematicians have to cross this bridge no matter where they come from or where they go.

After Gauss's death, the University of G? ttingen built a statue for him on campus, and the base was a regular 17 abutment. It turns out that Gauss left a will when he died, hoping to carve a figure with 17 sides on his tombstone. Because he made a regular 17 polygon with a ruler and compasses, he devoted himself to mathematics.