Gauss is a German mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

When Gauss was born, he was curious about all phenomena and things and determined to get to the bottom of it. At the age of seven, Gauss went to school for the first time.

A story that is widely circulated all over the world says that when Gauss was 10, he worked out the arithmetic problem that Butner gave his students by adding all the integers from 1 to 100. Butner gave the children a difficult addition problem at that time: 81297+81495+865438+. After that, Gauss also finished the calculation, and handed in the slate and the answer together. Only his answer was correct at that time. Mathematical historians tend to think that Gauss had mastered arithmetic progression's summation method at that time. For a child as young as 10, it is unusual to discover this mathematical method independently.

Gauss's academic position has always been highly respected by people. He has the reputation of "prince of mathematics" and "king of mathematicians".

Mathematical story

One day, the Tang Priest told his disciples Wukong, Bajie and Friar Sand to go to Huaguoshan to pick peaches. Before long, the three disciples returned happily after picking peaches. The Tang Priest asked, "How many peaches did each of you pick?"

Pig said with a silly smile, "Master, let me test you. Each of us took the same amount of money. There are less than 65,438+000 peaches in my basket. If we count three peaches, there are 1 peach left in the end. You calculate, how many have we picked each? "

Friar Sand said mysteriously, "Master, I'll test you, too. If there are four peaches in my basket, there is 1 left in the end. You calculate, how many did each of us choose? "

Wukong smiled and said, "Master, I'll test you, too. If there are five peaches in my basket, there will be 1 in the end. Do the math. How many did each of us choose?

Tang Priest quickly said the number of peaches he had picked. Do you know how many peaches they each picked?

A short story of a mathematical scientist

Gauss was interested in mathematics when he was in elementary school. One day, Mr. Baxter, the math teacher, was a little unhappy. As soon as he entered the classroom, he said to his classmates with a straight face, "Today's class is calculated by yourself. Whoever finishes the calculation first will go home for dinner first. " With that, he wrote such a topic on the blackboard:

1+2+3+……+ 100=?

The students immediately took out their exercise books and bowed their heads and calculated carefully. Burt sat reading a novel. Who knows, he just finished reading a page when little Gauss raised his hand and reported to the teacher:

"Teacher, I have finished this problem."

"finished?" Bert waved angrily. "You must be so quick. Do it again! "

"Can't be wrong. I checked and checked. " Gauss said confidently. "Bert went to Gauss's seat and picked up his exercise book. The answer is "5050", which is obviously true.

"How do you calculate?" Bert asked in some surprise.

Gauss answered matter-of-factly: "I found that the sum of the two numbers in this question is 10 1, and the total is * * * 5010/,so the answer should be: 50×1= 5050."

"Great!" Baxter patted the table excitedly, and then loudly said to all the students, "I didn't expect that there would be a math prodigy among you!" " "

Since then, Mr Burt has completely changed his views on rural children, especially Gauss. Later, under the careful training of Mr. Bertrand, Gauss became more and more interested in mathematics and gained more and more accomplishments. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he discovered the quadratic reciprocity law in number theory.