Swiss mathematician Jacob worked hard and studied spirals before his death. After his death, his tombstone was engraved with a logarithmic spiral, and the inscription also said, "Although I have changed, I am the same as before." This is a pun, which not only depicts the nature of spiral, but also symbolizes his love for mathematics.

2 mathematician's epitaph (2)

/kloc-Rudolph, a German mathematician in the 6th century, spent his whole life calculating pi to 35 decimal places. Later, people called it Rudolph, and after his death, others carved this number on his tombstone.

3 amazing calculation

Mathematician Chen Jingrun calculated completely with a pen and wrote more than 200 pages of proof papers; Zu Chongzhi's calculation range of pi should be 24,576 polygons inscribed in a circle, and at least 130 times of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and square root operations should be repeated; Rudolph, a German mathematician, has been calculating pi to 35 decimal places all his life. Leonard Eliel, an academician of Petersburg Academy of Sciences, spent forty years in solving the three-body problem (the sun, the earth and the moon), and all the calculations occupied 490 pages. The invention and use of computers finally liberated mathematicians from tedious calculations.

4 Euler blindness

When Euler was completely blind, he still fought against the darkness with amazing perseverance and studied with memory and mental arithmetic until his death. Euler's memory and mental arithmetic are rare. He can repeat the contents of his notes when he was young, and he can recite advanced mathematics like the back of his hand. On one occasion, two students of Euler added up the 17 terms of a very complicated convergence series, and when they reached the 50th place, the difference was one unit. In order to determine who is right, Euler calculated all the calculations himself and finally found out the mistakes.

Einstein and Relativity

Einstein once explained his special theory of relativity to people in popular language. Once, a group of students surrounded Einstein and asked him to explain the theory of relativity. Einstein thought for a moment and said humorously, "Let me make an analogy. For example, if you sit on the stove and bake something, and sit under the green tree in the park and have a love affair with a girl, which time do you think is longer? " The student replied, "of course, I feel like I've been sitting on the stove for a long time." Einstein smiled and said, "This is the content of relativity." This story vividly illustrates the relativity of time and space.

6 Liu Hui's contribution and position

Liu Hui's work not only had a far-reaching impact on the development of ancient mathematics in China, but also influenced nine chapters of arithmetic in the world, leading the development of ancient mathematics in China for more than 1000 years. Liu Hui is one of the models of oriental mathematics and a supplement to ancient western mathematics represented by Greek Euclid's Elements of Geometry. In view of Liu Hui's great contribution, many books call him "Newton in the history of Chinese mathematics".

7 Yang Hui

Mathematician of Southern Song Dynasty, author of Nine Chapters of Arithmetic Detailed Explanation, etc. His research work is mainly in computing technology. He reclassified nine chapters of arithmetic into nine categories: multiplication, division, combination, interchange, equation and Pythagoras. Yang Hui attaches great importance to the popularization and development of mathematics education, and his "Calculation Outline for Beginners" is an important document in the history of Chinese mathematics.

Eight top mathematicians

French mathematician and physicist Poincare made important contributions to almost all branches of mathematics. He studied automorphism function in his early days, and later became a pioneer of topology, astronomer, probability scientist, philosopher, academician of French Academy and president of French Academy of Sciences. Poincare published 500 papers in his life. There are about 30 books, covering almost all fields of mathematics and many important fields such as theoretical physics and astrophysics. Poincare is recognized as the leading mathematician at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, and the last person who has a comprehensive understanding of mathematics and its applications.

The founder of mathematicians

Plato, a famous ancient Greek philosopher, influenced the development of European philosophy and even the whole culture, especially his epistemology, mathematical philosophy and mathematical education thought played an indelible role in the formation of science and the development of mathematics. Plato school, which takes academy as the core of teaching activities, advocates strict definition and logical proof, which is helpful to the scientific mathematics. Plato also first put forward the idea of universal education. Plato did not make outstanding achievements in mathematics, but he won the reputation of "the founder of mathematicians"

10 gifted mathematician Abel

Abel, recognized as one of the founders of elliptic function theory, is an advocate of strict analysis. The addition theorem of elliptic function and the discovery of biperiodicity have also made great contributions to the strict theory of commutative groups and binomial series and the summation of series. However, Abel was not appreciated by the authorities at that time, which led to poverty and illness and died young. Abel integral, Abel integral equation, Abel function, Abel group, Abel series, Abel partial sum formula, Abel convergence criterion, Abel additivity-these are the best memorials to Abel.