? Teacher, am I not fooling around with the prince of mathematics? The story of gauss
At the age of seven, little Gauss went to primary school. The teacher's name is Butner, and he is very famous in the local area? Mathematicians This young teacher from the city always thinks that children in the countryside are idiots and their talents can't be displayed. In a math class in grade three, Butner lost his temper with the children again, and then wrote a long list of formulas on the blackboard: 81297+81495+81693+100701+/kloc.
? Wow! How many figures are there in total? How to calculate? The more nervous the students are, the more they can't figure out how to calculate.
Butner is very proud. He knew that the last number was 100, which was larger than the previous number 198. Even if these naughty students do their calculations obediently all morning, they won't work out the results.
Unexpectedly, in a short time, little Gauss came over with a small slate with the answer written on it and said, Teacher, I have finished. ? Butler said angrily without looking up. Go ahead, don't be silly. Anyone who wants to write numbers casually must be careful! ? Say that finish, waved a hammer fist.
But little gauss insisted on not leaving and said, teacher, I'm not fooling around. ? And gently put the small slate on the platform. Butner took one look and was too surprised to speak. Unexpectedly, this 10-year-old child worked out the correct answer so quickly.
It turned out that little Gauss did not add one by one like other children, but observed carefully, used his head and found the law. He found that the sum of two numbers at the beginning and the end of a figure is the sum of 182 196,50, and182196 can be quickly calculated by multiplication.
Little Gauss's incredible mathematical talent made Butner admire and feel guilty. From then on, he never looked down on children from poor families. He bought many math books for little Gauss and asked his young assistant Battier to help little Gauss learn math.
The epitaph of a mathematician
Some mathematicians devoted themselves to mathematics before their death, and after their death, they carved symbols representing their life achievements on tombstones.
Archimedes, an ancient Greek scholar, died at the hands of Roman enemies who attacked Sicily. Don't break my circle? . ), 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. Swiss mathematician Jacob? Bernoulli 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:? I have changed, but I am still the same? . This is a pun, which not only describes the essence of spiral, but also symbolizes his love for mathematics.
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