John Karl Friedrich Gauss is a famous German mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and geodescendant.
1777 On April 30, 1777, Gauss was born in an ordinary and poor family in Brunswick, Germany. My father was engaged in gardening and worked as a handyman, a construction worker, etc.; my mother was the daughter of a stonemason.
1. Gauss has been smart since childhood.
When I was young, Gauss was greatly influenced by his knowledgeable uncle. His uncle had great expectations and patiently educated his clever nephew.
Gauss and his uncle (painting)
When Gauss was less than three years old, he because he fiddled with his father's account book to play, found that his father had calculated the wrong account . When his father learned about it, although he felt incredible, he did not attract his attention to Gauss.
When I was in elementary school, teacher asked everyone to calculate the sum from one plus to one hundred. After the teacher assigned the task for a while, and the students were still calculating nervously, Gauss wrote the answer on the stone slab: 5050.
teacher was surprised by Gauss' correct calculation speed, so he asked him: " how do you calculate so fast? How did you calculate it?"
Gauss first showed the equation to the teacher, and then explained: " I found the calculation rules for this type of question - add the sum of the first term and multiply the number of terms by the number of terms, divide the product by 2, and you can get the correct calculation result."
Teacher looked at Gauss' formula and listened to his explanation. He couldn't help but stroke his little head and exclaimed: "Dear Gauss, you are so smart!"
Smart Gauss (hold the author~painting)
Later, the teacher found that he could not teach Gauss anymore, so he bought a math book and gave it to him for researching it himself.
2. The hardworking and hardworking Gauss.
Gauss is not only smart since childhood, but also hardworking. No matter during the day or at night, he consciously studied and studied at school or at home.
It’s easy to say during the day. With the “gift” of the sun, you can read and study at any time. However, at night, because the family was financially struggling, they had no money to buy oil and light the lamp to stay up late. In this way, Gauss can't learn at night. What to do if
? Gauss, who was eager to read, finally came up with a solution. He stuffed cotton into a mustard head that had hollowed out his heart as a wick; after melting the oil picked from outside, as a lamp oil. In this way, the problem of reading lighting at night has been solved.
Gaus often uses this simple lamp to learn until late at night under the faint light.
3. Gauss who devote himself to it.
As long as you read and think about problems, under what circumstances, Gauss will concentrate and do his best.
Gauss is studying (painting)
Once, Gauss was on the way home from school on , while walking while holding a book. As a result, Gauss, who was highly focused on , unknowingly, walked into a duke's courtyard "naturally".
When the Duchess found him and greeted him enthusiastically, Gauss realized that he had gone the wrong way.
So, Gauss quickly apologized and explained the reason. Seeing that he loved reading so much, the Duchess started talking to him casually. During the conversation, the Duchess discovered that Gauss understood the inner mystery of the book he was reading very well, rather than reading it in general.
Gaussian's investment in scientific research is sometimes surprising and inexplicable.
In the early 1830s, when his wife was sick, Gauss was studying a profound question. One day, the family in told him that his wife was getting worse and worse. After hearing this, Gauss nodded to show that he knew. But he continued to work.
Gauss (image)
After a while, the family hurried to tell him: "Mrs. I am very ill, please go back immediately."Gaus replied without raising his head, "Okay, I'll come now!" "
However, he was still sitting there busy. When the family came to inform him for the third time: "Sir, Madam is about to die! " At this time, Gauss raised his head and said loudly: "Call her to wait a moment, I will definitely come! ”
4. Achievement of Excellent Gauss.
Gauss has a lifetime, and has rich learning and research experience and achieved outstanding results.
1792, 15-year-old Gauss , with the help of others, entered a famous college to study ancient and modern languages, and also studied advanced mathematics . At this time, he read the works of mathematicians Newton and Lagranges, and soon mastered Newton's calculus theory.
1795, Gauss went to the famous University of Göttingen, Germany to study again. Here, gauss read a lot of books, swam in the ocean of knowledge, eagerly Get it.
1796-March 30, Gauss, who was under nineteen years old, used compass and rulers to create a heptare, solving the unsolved geometric problems for two thousand years.
Gauss used compass and rulers to make a heptare (comic)
html When he was 124 years old, Gauss began to concentrate on studying astronomy. initially, he studied the movement laws of the moon. Later, he became interested in the problem of celestial trajectory. During
, Gauss created a method that can calculate the elliptical orbit of the planet. method can accurately predict the position of the planet.
Using his method, people successively found the positions of Ceres and Zhishen. People also used his method, calculated the orbit of the comet within one or two hours. If calculated using the old method, it would take three or four days to complete.
1807, Gauss went to the University of Göttingen to teach. In order to facilitate his astronomy research, the school specially established an observatory for him. Soon, based on his own research, wrote and published "Theory of the Operation of the Celestial Body", which elaborated on the perturbation theory of the planet.
1820 to 1830, Gauss studied geodesics, and invented the "Daily Observer ". In 1827, he wrote "General About Surfaces" for the research on the surface of the earth. Research.
Gauss's "General Research on Surfaces" (Image)
1826, he also published three works on "least squares method".
1830 to 1840, Gauss collaborated with physicist Weber to create the electromagnet telegraph machine . At the same time, he drew the world's first map of the earth's magnetic field and determined the location of the magnetic south pole and the magnetic north pole.
Gauss's life has many works and many achievements. However, he has never shown a trace of pride. He once said: "It is better to publish less than immature results. "
On February 23, 1855, the great scientist Gauss died of illness . In order to commemorate Gauss , the University of Göttingen established a commemorative image of a heptare pedestal on campus.
Main references: "100 Scientists Influencing World History"
