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Eight-year-old Gauss discovered the theorem of mathematics.

Gauss (1777-1855), a famous German scientist, was born into a poor family. Gauss learned to do arithmetic on his own before he could speak, and one night when he was three years old, he watched his father calculate wages and corrected his mistakes in calculations.

When he grew up, he became one of the most prominent astronomers and mathematicians of our time. He made some contributions to the electromagnetism of physics, and one of the units of electromagnetism is now named after him. Mathematicians called him the "Prince of Mathematics".

At the age of eight, he entered a rural primary school. The math teacher was a man from the city, and he thought it was useless to teach a few young people to read in a poor rural area. And he is a little biased:

The children of the poor are born stupid, and it is not necessary to teach these stupid children to read, and if there is an opportunity, they should be punished to add some fun to this boring life.

It was a day of low mood for math teachers. When the students saw the teacher's depressed face, they cringed in their hearts, knowing that the teacher would arrest these students and punish them today.

You will count for me today the sum from 1 plus 2 plus 3 all the way up to 100. Whoever can't figure it out will be punished for not being able to go home for lunch. After the teacher said this, he picked up a ** without saying a word, sat on a chair and read it.

The children in the classroom picked up the slate and began to calculate: "1 plus 2 equals 3, 3 plus 3 equals 6, 6 plus 4 equals 10 .......""Some children add a number and then erase the results on the slate, and then add more, the number gets bigger and bigger, which is very difficult to calculate. Some of the children's faces were red, and some of them were sweating from their palms and foreheads.

In less than half an hour, little Gauss picked up his slate and stepped forward. "Teacher, is the answer so? ”

The teacher didn't raise his head, waved his fat hand, and said, "Go, go back and count again!" Wrong. He didn't think he would have an answer so soon.

But Gauss stood still and stretched out the slate in front of the teacher: "Teacher! I guess the answer is right. ”

The math teacher wanted to roar, but when he saw that the number was neatly written on the slate: 5050, he was amazed, because he had calculated it himself, and the number he got was also 5050, how could this 8-year-old kid get this value so quickly?

Gauss explained a method he had discovered, which was used by the ancient Greeks and Chinese to calculate series 1+2+3+....+n. Gauss's discovery made the teacher feel ashamed that he had not been right to look at everything and despise children from poor families. He also began to teach seriously, and often bought some math books from the city to study and lend them to Gauss.

With his encouragement, Gauss later made some important research in mathematics.

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Mathematical magician.

One summer day in 1981, a mental arithmetic competition was held in India. The performer is a 37-year-old woman from India whose name is Shaguntana. On that day, she had to compete with an advanced electronic computer with amazing mental arithmetic skills.

The staff writes a large number of 201 digits and asks you to find the 23rd root of the number. As a result, it took only 50 seconds for Shaguntana to report the correct answer to the audience. In order to arrive at the same number of answers, the computer has to input 20,000 instructions and then calculate them, which takes much more time than Shagontana.

This anecdote caused an international sensation, and Shagontana was called the "mathematical magician".

News**: Der Spiegel on November 26, 2004 03:21:12 Please note: The news is taken from major news**, and the content of the news does not represent the position of this forum!

Germany's "Der Spiegel" weekly on November 25**, German math wizard Geert Mittling did a mental arithmetic performance in Giessen, a university city in central Germany, on the evening of November 23, and it took only a second to mentally calculate a 100-digit 13th power root, breaking the world mental arithmetic record, thus being included in the "Guinness Book of World Records" for the fifth time.

Faster than a calculator The 38-year-old Geert Mittling performed the record-breaking performance in front of an audience of 180 at the Mathematics Museum in Giessen. First, the computer randomly gives a 100-bit integer, which is the 13th power of another integer. The two Overseers gave the number to Geert Mittling, then announced the start and immediately pressed the stopwatch timer.

Before anyone seemed to see how Geert Mittling moved, he could be heard shouting "stop", and then Geert Mittering wrote his answer on the blackboard: 45347161 and noted the time shown on the stopwatch: seconds.

In this way, Geert Mittling broke the previous record of calculating a 100-digit root in seconds set by the Frenchman Alessis Lemaire, created a world record for the 25th time, and was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for the fifth time. Geert Mittling's speed of calculations is truly astonishing, and at the moment of his answer, some curious viewers have not yet fully entered the 100-digit number into their calculators, let alone the elaborate calculations of opening 13 roots.

In middle school, I didn't get good grades.

Geert Mittling has a high IQ, and according to his own introduction, he has an IQ of 145. He has three degrees, two PhDs (Education and Psychology) and one Master's degree (Informatics). But he said his grades in middle school were not outstanding.

When he was about to branch school after the fourth grade of elementary school, he was almost not assigned to the school after the fourth grade7。In the rating of German schools, 1 is the highest and 4 is passing.

However, at a very young age, he showed a keen interest in mathematics, especially numbers. At the age of 4, he learned to operate on integers below 1000, and at the age of 8, he learned to open squares. He said that after being given a question, he first had to judge the characteristics of the number that could be the answer, for example, in this performance, since the last digit of a given number is 1, the last digit of the answer must also be 1.

He then quickly found an algorithm to calculate and finally found the correct answer.

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One day in 1796, a young man began to work on math problems left by his mentor.

The first two questions were completed smoothly. There is only the third question left: it is required to draw a regular 17-sided shape using only a ruler and a gauge.

The young man racked his brains, but nothing was done.

Difficulties stir up fighting spirit. He finally got the job done.

The tutor was stunned to see the student's assignment. He said excitedly, "You know what? You've solved a math puzzle that's been left over 2,000 years ago! ”

It turned out that the tutor handed the note to the student because of a mistake.

Whenever he recalled, the young man always said, "If someone had told me that this was a mathematical problem that was more than 2,000 years old, I might never have the confidence to solve it." ”

This young man was Gauss, the prince of mathematics.