During the summer vacation, I read a book called The Mathematician's Story, which told many stories of famous mathematicians. Such as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Gauss ... Among them, I am most interested in the story about Zu Chongzhi.

Zu Chongzhi was a great scientist in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and his calculation of pi was very accurate. This article is about Zu Chongzhi's Da Li Ming, which was written a long time later. He wrote to the emperor asking for its promulgation and implementation. The emperor ordered Dai Faxing, a favorite in charge of astronomical calendar, to conduct a review. However, Dai Faxing is conservative and a defender of decadent forces. He is strongly opposed to the new calendar. In the face of Dai Faxing's difficulties and attacks, Zu Chongzhi was unmoved and argued with him. In the end, Daming Calendar was not passed, and it was promulgated and implemented in 10 after Zu Chongzhi's death.

I admire Zu Chongzhi's indomitable spirit after reading this story. It is because of this spirit that he can persist. Yes, anything can be successful without the word "persistence". I can't help thinking of many people, including cultural celebrities, patriotic soldiers and classmates around me.

Reading "The Mathematician's Story" makes me like mathematics more and makes me understand a lot of truth.

I read an article on the Internet the other day called "The Prince of Mathematics-Gauss". This article tells the story of a great and outstanding mathematician Gauss, who comes from a poor family and his childhood.

Gauss's father works as a foreman in a tile factory. He always pays his workers every Saturday. When Gauss was three years old in the summer, when he was about to get paid, Little Gauss stood up and said, "Dad, you are mistaken." Then he said another number. It turned out that three-year-old Gauss was lying on the floor, secretly following his father to calculate who to pay. The results of recalculation proved that little Gauss was right, which made the adults standing there dumbfounded.

Gauss was smart and studious since childhood. Once, the teacher asked a famous question, what is the sum of 1+2+3 until 100? Soon, Gauss worked out the correct answer "5050". The teacher was surprised. He didn't expect a 7-year-old child to write such a difficult problem in one minute, because he calculated it three times before he got it right.

Besides, Gauss is diligent. His family was poor in the past. On winter nights, after their family had finished eating, his father would ask Gauss to go to bed, because it would save fuel and lamp oil. Gauss likes reading very much, but he doesn't want to go against his father's words, so he often takes a radish to his attic. He hollowed out the radish, stuffed it into a wick made of coarse cotton, and made wax oil with some oil to make a "lamp". Then, in this dim light, I absorbed in reading. He didn't go to bed until fatigue and cold overwhelmed him. ……

I feel that Gauss has many good qualities.