Interesting short stories of successful mathematicians

There are many successful mathematicians all over the world, and some interesting stories behind them are also talked about by people. Let's take a look at the interesting stories of successful mathematicians I recommended for you. Welcome to collect.

The story of a successful mathematician 1 gauss is the son of a farmer. When he was young, he showed extraordinary talent in mathematics. 3 years old can correct the mistakes in father's calculation; 10 years old, independently found the sum formula of arithmetic sequence; The binomial theorem was discovered in 1 1 year.

Young Gauss's intelligence and early wisdom were favored and funded by the prestigious Duke Brick, enabling him to continue his studies. 19-year-old Gauss invented the method of making regular 17 polygons with only compasses and rulers, and solved the geometric problems that have been unresolved for two thousand years.

180 1 published "Arithmetic Research", and expounded some problems of number theory and higher algebra. He has made great contributions to hypergeometric series, complex variable function, statistical mathematics and elliptic function theory.

At the same time, as a physicist, he cooperated with wilhelm weber to study electromagnetism and invented the electrode. In order to carry out experiments, Gauss also invented the double-wire magnetometer, which is a very practical achievement of his research on electromagnetism.

At the age of 30, Gauss served as the director of the observatory of a famous German university, and worked in the observatory until his death. He also likes literature and linguistics all his life and knows more than a dozen foreign languages. In his life, he published 323 works, put forward 404 scientific ideas and completed four important inventions.

After Gauss died, a statue of him was erected in the city where he was born. To commemorate his discovery of the method of making 17 polygon, the base of the statue was modified to 17 polygon. It is universally acknowledged that he is a mathematician on par with Newton, Archimedes and Euler.

The Story of a Successful Mathematician 2 Su (1902.09.23 ~ 2003.03.17), an outstanding mathematician in China, is known as the king of mathematics, mainly engaged in the research of differential geometry and computational geometry.

At the invitation of famous mathematician Chen, Su returned to China with an honorary doctor of science from Imperial University of Tohoku, Japan, on March 193 1, and was employed by National Zhejiang University. He has served as an associate professor, professor, dean, supervisor and provost of the Department of Mathematics. Until June 1952, due to the adjustment of colleges and universities all over the country, he was a little reluctant to become a professor. He was the head of the Department of Mathematics at Fudan University in Shanghai, and later served as provost, vice president and principal. He has served many times as a member of the China People's Political Consultative Conference, a deputy to the National People's Congress, a vice-chairman of the 7th and 8th China People's Political Consultative Conference, and a vice-chairman of the NLD Central Committee.

Looking back on Su's life in the past century, it is also rugged and muddy, with many stories. Here are a few to comfort readers.

Story 1

September 23rd 1902 was an ordinary day, but it was a rare day for Su Zushan's family who fled from Tongan, Fujian to Daixi Village, Pingyang, Zhejiang. God knows, and God bless the people. Su Zushan's family added a ding, and the couple laughed from ear to ear. Finally, they were a farmer for generations. Successor? . However, Su Zushan and his wife have never been to school, and they have suffered from illiteracy. They were eager for success, so they chose their son. Qing Bu? In the name of a fortune teller, he said something nice. Qing Bu? In the name of the future? Climb high and look far, honor your ancestors? .

After all, the name is not right? Fame and fortune? Ladder. Just as his peers were carrying schoolbags to school, Su Zushan gave his son a bullwhip. From then on, Sue wore a big bamboo hat made by her father and coarse cloth sewn by her mother. He rode barefoot on the back of the cow and came to the foot of Woniu Mountain with a wave of his whip. Sue's family is a big buffalo, fat and strong, and never takes the short cowherd seriously. Once, when the buffalo got angry, it ran and jumped, throwing Sue into a newly cut bamboo garden. Blessed by God, he fell into several bamboo roots and survived.

When herding cattle home, Sue walked through the gate of the village private school and was often attracted by the sound of books. Once, the teacher was reading aloud: Su was twenty-seven years old and began to read angrily. ? After listening, he read it several times. From then on, he remembered the jingle and sang in the mountains when herding cattle.

Su Zushan often listens to his son recite three-character classics and hundreds of surnames, which is puzzling. Once, I happened to see my son in front of a private school? Eavesdropping? The father's heart finally moved, and the husband and wife shared it and decided to tighten their belts and send Sue to a private school.

Story 2

At the age of 9, Su's father took a cart of rice as tuition, walked 50 kilometers of mountain roads and sent Su to Pingyang County, where he became a high school placement student. From the mountainous area to the county seat, Sue is really an eye-opener, and everything is novel. The first time I see minced meat in steamed bread, I often change my meal ticket into money. Meat steamed bread? Eat it. A month's meal ticket has been used up long ago, so I have to go hungry. When he saw the water boiling in the tiger's stove, he felt very interesting. He threw the eggs he brought from home into the pot, and a pot of boiling water turned into a pot of egg drop soup. When the boiler saw it, it grabbed him and hit him.

Sue plays all day and often takes exams? Red chair? At the end of the final exam, he came last in the class. However, his composition is not bad. Is he from a private school? Eavesdropping? It stimulated his interest in learning Chinese and laid a little foundation for his composition. However, the more Chinese teachers read it, the less they believe it. They always thought that Sue's composition was plagiarized. Therefore, he was awarded a low score. In this way, his stubbornness was even more aroused. The more the teacher says that he is not good, the less he studies hard. For three consecutive semesters, he was the last one. Classmates and teachers all say he is? Idiot? .

Once, the geography teacher Chen Yufeng called Sue to the office and told him a short story. Newton 12 years old, from rural primary schools to cities to study. His classmates looked down on him because of his poor grades. Once, a classmate bullied him rudely and kicked him in the stomach. He rolled in pain. That classmate is better than him in health and homework, and Newton is afraid of him at ordinary times. But at this moment, he couldn't bear it, jumped up and fought back, forcing the classmate into a corner and pressing it against the wall. This classmate saw that Newton was furious and had to give in. There are only so many reasons for Newton to learn from this incident: as long as he makes up his mind, he can subdue it. He worked hard and studied hard, and soon became the first in his class, and later became a great scientist. ?

Sue is very grateful to Mr. Chen for not criticizing him and telling him stories. Teacher Chen saw his drooping head, touched his head and said, I think you are a clever boy. If you are willing to work hard, you will definitely come first in the exam. ? Say it again: Your parents work hard and save money. I hope you can read this book well. As you are now, what can you do to repay them in the future? Sue couldn't hold back her shock any longer. Tears dripped on his chest like broken pearls, and for the first time he felt that he had done something wrong. Since then, he has completely become a sensible child, stopped playing, studied hard and won the first place in the final exam.

Story 3

A math class in Zhejiang 10 Middle School in Wenzhou led Su to the road to the kingdom of mathematics. Teacher Yang, who returned to Wenzhou from studying in Japan, is worried about the country and the people in math class. In today's world, the law of the jungle prevails. The world powers built cannons by ships, carved up China's beans and wolfed them down. The danger of national subjugation and extinction of the Chinese nation is imminent. In order to save the nation and survive, we must revitalize science. Mathematics is the pioneer of science. In order to develop science, we must learn math well. ? Teacher Yang's words touched Sue's heart. Since then, his interest has shifted from literature to mathematics. Once, Sue proved a geometric theorem in 20 different ways. When principal Hong Minchu learned about this, he called Sue to the office, patted him on the shoulder and said? Study hard and send you to study abroad in the future. ? When he graduated from Suzhou University, President Hong had been transferred to the Ministry of Education in Beijing, but he still cared about Su's study and sent 200 yuan money to help Su study abroad.

19 19, 17-year-old Sue bought a boat ticket to Japan, and the rest 170 yuan could hardly support him for three months. He can only eat two meals a day and has no money to hire a Japanese teacher, so he has to learn from the landlord. Finally, I answered the examiner's questions in fluent Japanese, and got the first place in the Electrical Engineering Department of tokyo institute of technology, a famous school. 1924 was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of Imperial University in Tohoku, Japan with the first place, and studied under the famous geometer Professor Tadashian Watanabe. 1927, after graduating from college, I sold newspapers, delivered milk, proofread magazines and tutor after school, and paid tuition with the money I earned, so I was promoted to the graduate school of our school without an exam. And with a strong will, I studied hard and published 4 1 research papers on affine differential geometry and projective differential geometry, which opened up a new field of differential geometry research and was called? A new mathematical star rising from the eastern countries? . 193 1 in March, 2008, he obtained the doctor of science degree with excellent results, becoming the second foreigner to receive this degree after Chen. Since then, invitations from home and abroad have flown in like snowflakes, and Sue refused them one by one. Because two years ago, when Chen got his doctor of science degree, he sent Su to Zhejiang University, where the conditions were very poor. Sue said? You go first, and I'll come back after graduation. Let's make the mathematics department of Zhejiang University into a world-class mathematics department in 20 years? This may be the reason why Su did not want to leave Zhejiang University during the adjustment of colleges and universities nationwide.

After Su took office, except for the quartic (cubic) algebraic cone discovered by graduate students, it was praised by academic circles. Su Zhuo? Outside, behind? Projective curve theory? 、? Projective surface theory? 、? Conjugate network theory of high-dimensional projective space? 、? Differential geometry of general space? And then what? Computational geometry? Wait, it has made recognized achievements in the world, especially the second adjoint quadric surface in the famous Golde sequence is called? Sue's quadric surface? . He also proved that the closed Laplace sequence and structure (T4) are called? Su () chain? . Therefore, the famous German mathematician Brasuke called Sue? The first geometer in the East? Mathematicians in Europe, America and Japan called him and his colleagues? Zhejiang University School? . Indeed, during the period from 193 1 to 1952, Su trained nearly 100 students, of whom 25 served as deans and vice-presidents in more than 10 famous universities nationwide. Five of them were elected academicians of China Academy of Sciences. Together with the three academicians trained after liberation, a total of eight academicians were trained. In Fudan Institute of Mathematics, there are Gu Chaohao and Hu He in Suzhou, which is a rare gratifying phenomenon that three generations and four academicians work together.

Story 4

? Seven seven? After the incident, Zhejiang University was forced to move westward. At the head of this national disaster, Su received an urgent telegram: Mr. Matsumoto, his father-in-law, was critically ill and asked the Su couple to go to Sendai for the last time. Sue handed the telegram to her wife and said, Go ahead, I want to stay in my own country. ? Sue's wife Su Songben said? I will follow you. ? However, because his wife just gave birth to a baby and couldn't live with him, Sue sent her to Pingyang for refuge in the countryside. It was not until the summer vacation of 1940 that President Zhu Kezhen approved the special passage fee for his wife and daughter to Meitan.

During the days in Meitan, the life of teachers and students was extremely difficult, and it was difficult for university professors to make a living by salary. Sue bought a hoe, and every day when she came home from work or had a rest day, she opened up wasteland to grow vegetables. Once, the restaurant in Meitan Hotel was not available, so he had to buy several baskets of cauliflower from Su's vegetable field. Another night, President Zhu came to the ruined temple where he lived and saw Su carrying water to grow vegetables, while Su Songben was cooking with his son on his back. Careful President Zhu saw that the pot was full of radishes and dried sweet potatoes, so he asked Sue. Sue explained:? There are many children in my family, and my salary is not enough to buy rice. Dried sweet potatoes dipped in salt have been eaten for months. ? Zhu Kezhen was amazed. So, he chartered Sue's two middle school sons to make an exception and eat and live at home in middle school (because Sue's family couldn't come up with bedding).

The difficulties in life go from bad to worse. One of Sue's youngest sons died soon after his birth due to malnutrition. Su Qing Bu buried him in Meitan Mountain and carved it on a small stone tablet? Su Ying's tomb? A few words. However, the difficulties in life can't scare people with will and perseverance, and the teaching and scientific research of Zhejiang University is still proceeding in an orderly way. Sue also stepped onto the podium with difficulties. When he turns to draw geometric figures on the blackboard, the students will talk about Miss Su's clothes? Triangle, trapezoid? Patches, and butt patches? Spiral curve? ! In the evening, Su put the tung oil lamp on the incense table of the ruined temple to write a textbook, and finally finished the book Introduction to Projective Curves with her perseverance. 1in the summer of 994, the author was lucky enough to see the small temple where Su lived during his migration in Qingyan, and a feeling of reverence came to mind and was unforgettable.

Story 5

197265438+On February 7th, Zhang Su, a famous mathematician and a student of Soviet Union, visited mathematicians all over the world for the need of publishing Mathematics Magazine again. He should have visited Mr. Su in Shanghai. Unexpectedly, in the book Introduction to Projective Geometry (English version) presented by Teacher Su, he wrote a poem on the title page:

Thirty years ago in Guizhou,

I'm worried about singularity,

Now I am old enough to go to Shenjiang Day.

It's nice to see old friends fighting for the upper reaches.

This not only breaks the stereotype of ordinary people's inscriptions, but also tells the whole picture of teachers' and students' feelings, which shows that Su Lao's poetic skills are superb and his writing is profound.

Many people know that Sue is a master of mathematics, but they don't know that he is also a master of literature, a writer and a poet. He loved ancient poetry since he was a child, and learned to write poetry at the age of 13. When I was a child, I used to ride on the back of an ox and read Poems of a Thousand Families. For decades, he has been accompanied by poetry and walked with poetry books. Every time he goes on a business trip, he always puts one or two poems in his bag, such as Selected Poems of Du Fu. Sue not only reads poems, but also is interested in writing them. He has been writing for decades and has written nearly a thousand poems. At the age of 96, Su's amateur poems were published by Beijing Publishing House, which included 444 modern poems with 60 words in handwritten and photocopied versions of Su's poems, including 193 1 ~ 1949 early works 19 1 47 words. From this, we can appreciate the light reflected by Su Lao's academic career and poetry and calligraphy skills in the past 60 years, which is full of the breath of the times and gives people a lot of inspiration.

Looking back at the time when Zhejiang University moved to Meitan, he and Qian Baoyu, a master of mathematics, founded Meitan Printing Society. Under extremely difficult circumstances, he published the first Poem Collection of Meitan Press at his own expense, which included about 65,438+000 poems of various schools. In the days of national disaster, poets often drink tea and recite poems, or talk about the road, or comment on the current situation, and their feelings of worrying about the country and homesickness are often revealed in their works.

1944, Su Dao? Visit Qiqi Pavilion? Write a poem for the title of this poem:

Climb the path with a single coat, and lean on a stick to pass the light.

Road protection tree, Linjiang Qiqi Pavilion.

Guests are always traveling far away, and their hometown is green.

Looking north without tears, blood shed in the Central Plains.

This is Su Bu's expression of affection for things, nostalgia for the fall of his hometown and the broken mountains and rivers of the motherland, and praise for the people's rise to the war of resistance. Patriotism and concern for the world welled up from his heart.

Su's poetic skills are superb and breathtaking. His poems are lofty in artistic conception, fresh in style and full of allusions and philosophies.

Reading many of Su's poems not only makes people feel that Su Lao often inculcates the knowledge of later generations? Pyramid? The importance of general knowledge foundation is the highlight of arts and sciences exchange. He has been calling himself that for decades. Kibo? Reading and studying (in spare time), these immortal poems are not the evidence that Sue makes full use of her spare time.

Pythagoras was born in Samos Island near Miletus around 570 BC. He was the first to sum up? Math? And then what? Philosophy? Two studies and one calculation? Is the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle equal to the sum of the squares of two right angles? Theorem.

The ancient Greeks loved sports, advocated strong physique and appreciated superb competitive ability. Once, Filos tyrant Leon invited Pythagoras to watch a competitive game. Circus Maximus is a sea of people, and the scene is spectacular. Pythagoras and Leon chatted with each other in a harmonious atmosphere. Leon admired Pythagoras' knowledge and knowledge. Seeing all kinds of people in the arena, warriors with unique skills in the arena, he turned to ask Pythagoras what kind of person he was.

Pythagoras said: I am a philosopher (Greek philosophy means to love wisdom, and a philosopher is a person who loves wisdom). This is also the first time that human beings have used the word philosophy.

Leon asked why he loves wisdom, but not wisdom.

Pythagoras said that only God is wise, and human beings love wisdom at most. Just like all kinds of people who come to the arena today, some come to do business to make money, some are idle, and the best people are thoughtful spectators. Just like in life, many people pursue fame and fortune for humble desires, and only philosophers seek truth.

Since then, philosophers have appeared in the world, and the pursuit of truth has become the goal and belief that philosophers will never give up.

Confucius and Pythagoras are contemporaries, founders and representatives of two different cultural traditions (Confucianism in ancient China and Pythagoras School in ancient Greece). Although the cultural environment and geographical environment of these two thinkers are far apart, they are related? And then what? However, their thoughts and understanding of music functions show great similarity.

One day, Pythagoras passed by a blacksmith's shop and heard the sound of a hammer striking the anvil. He recognized three kinds of harmony: fourth, fifth and eighth. He guessed that different weights of hammers caused different sounds, so he confirmed this relationship by weighing different hammers.

Later, he did further experiments on the harp. According to the vibration of strings with different lengths, find out the relationship between the length of strings and harmony. It is proved that music contains the mystery of numbers, and the harp can produce pleasant tones because it conforms to certain numbers. He even thinks that the soul is a kind of harmony. So? Pythagoras was the first to express the corresponding relationship between sound and number, and quantified the harmony of a seemingly qualitative phenomenon sound earlier than anyone else, thus taking the lead in establishing the mathematical theory that will become the basis of western music in the future. ?

Pythagoras believes that number is the origin of all things, and everything is made up of numbers.

He is full of awe. It is believed that numbers create the world, and the mystery of the universe can be understood through the study of logarithm. And then what? One? The most basic thing is not only the beginning of all numbers, but also the unit to measure all numbers, which is the same as reason, soul and ontology.

He found that anything specific has certain rules. He was the first person to introduce scales and rulers to the Greeks.

He applied the harmony of a certain number of proportional relations in music to the observation of celestial motion. The distance and size of celestial bodies are also arranged and combined according to the proportion of numbers. The structure of the universe is as harmonious as music, and celestial bodies are as harmonious and orderly as human souls.

One day, Pythagoras was invited to visit a friend's house. The man used to observing and thinking suddenly became interested in the beautiful square marble on the ground of his master's house. He has no mind to listen to other people's small talk, but is absorbed in the relationship between the numbers generated by marbles with the same size and regular arrangement under his feet.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Completely fascinated by his own thinking, he simply squatted on the ground and took out his pen ruler. Draw a new square on the big square composed of four marbles, with the diagonal of each marbles as the side. He found that the area of this square is exactly equal to the area of two marbles. He drew a bigger square with the diagonal of the rectangle composed of two marbles as the side, which is exactly equal to the area of five marbles. So Pythagoras got the result according to his own calculation: the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of two right angles.

The famous Pythagorean theorem comes from this.

To celebrate his discovery, Pythagoras sacrificed a bull to the gods in the temple.

Pythagoras wears simple clothes, eats simple food, and mostly walks barefoot, saying that he wants to live a simple and pure life. In his club, there were men and women, which broke the rule that women were forbidden to appear in public places at that time. And all the property belongs to the public, and everyone enjoys it together and has equal status. There are various commandments for yourself and your disciples, such as not eating heart, not eating beans, not looking in the mirror under the lamp and so on.

He is also very strict in recruiting apprentices. If you want to be his disciple, you have to listen to his lecture through the curtain first. Five years later, he thought it was mysterious that he could meet the students only after reaching the required level.

A man listened to his class for five years, and finally he refused to see him. This man, with strong jealousy, set fire to Pythagoras' house, and those who were dissatisfied with his words and deeds in krohne took the opportunity to attack him. He could have run away, but he stopped when he met a bean field on the road. He would rather be caught than cross the bean field, which violated his taboo, and he would rather be killed than defile what he had learned. In this way, he was cut off by the pursuers.

Pythagoras died, but his school continued to prosper for more than 800 years, and it was not until the 3rd century that it was integrated into the Neo-Platonic school.

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