/kloc-At the age of 0/7, Galileo was admitted to the University of Pisa as a medical major.
Once in class, Professor Biro gave a lecture on embryology. He said: "Whether a mother gives birth to a boy or a girl is determined by her father's strength. When the father is strong, the mother gives birth to a boy; If the father is weak, the mother will have a daughter. "
As soon as Professor Biro's voice dropped, Galileo raised his hand and said, "Teacher, I have a question. My neighbor, the man is very strong, but his wife has given birth to five daughters in a row. This is just the opposite of what the teacher said. How to explain this? "
"I said it according to Aristotle, a famous ancient Greek scholar, and it can't be wrong!" Professor Biro tried to subdue him.
Galileo went on to say, "Is it necessary for Aristotle to insist that what he said is true? Science must conform to the facts, otherwise it is not real science. " Professor Biro was stumped by this question and could not step down.
Later Galileo was criticized by the school, but his spirit of persistence, curiosity and pursuit of truth has not changed at all. Because of this, he finally became a generation of science masters.
Little Euler doubted God.
Little Euler is studying in a missionary school. Once, he asked the teacher how many stars there were in the sky. The teacher is a believer in theology. He doesn't know how many stars there are in the sky, and the Bible doesn't answer. Without pretending to understand, the teacher replied to Euler, "It doesn't matter how many stars there are in the sky, as long as you know that the stars in the sky are inlaid by God."
Euler felt very strange: "The sky is so big and so high, and there is no escalator on the ground. How did God embed the stars on the screen one by one? " God himself put them in the sky one by one. Why did he forget the number of stars? Could God be too careless? "
The teacher was stumped again. Anger suddenly rose in my heart, not only because the children's problems prevented the teacher from stepping down, but more importantly, the teacher regarded God above everything else. Little Euler blames God for not remembering the number of stars. The implication is that he doubts almighty god.
In Euler's time, there was absolutely no doubt about God. Little Euler didn't "keep in line" with the church and God, so the teacher told him to leave school and go home. However, in little Euler's mind, the sacred aura of God disappeared. God is a loser, he thought. Why can't he even remember the stars in the sky? He thought, God is a dictator, and even asking questions has become a crime. God may be a guy made up by others and doesn't exist at all.
Top 3: Little Euler becomes a sheepfold wit.
Little Euler helped his father herd sheep and became a shepherd boy. He read a book while herding sheep.
Dad's flock increased gradually, reaching 100. The original sheepfold was a little small, so my father decided to build a new sheepfold. He measured a rectangular piece of land with a ruler, 40 meters long and 15 meters wide. He calculated that the area is exactly 600 square meters, with an average of 6 square meters per sheep. He found that his materials were only enough to enclose the fence of 100 meters. If the sheepfold is 40m long and 15m wide, its circumference is110m (15+15+40 =1/0).
Little Euler told his father that there was no need to shrink the sheepfold, but he had an idea. Father didn't believe that little Euler would have a way. I thought, "How can there be such a cheap thing in the world?" However, little Euler insisted that he would be able to kill two birds with one stone. The father finally agreed to let his son try.
Little Euler saw his father agree, stood up and ran to the sheepfold to get ready to start work. He shortened the original side length of 40 meters to 25 meters centered on the stake. Run to the other side, extend the original side length15m, and increase10m to 25m. In this way, the original planned sheepfold has become a square with a side length of 25 meters.
Father built a fence according to the sheepfold designed by little Euler. 100 meter fence is really enough, no more, no less, all used up. The area is enough, a little bigger.
Father thinks it's a pity to let such a clever child herd sheep. Later, he tried to let little Euler know the great mathematician Bernoulli. On the recommendation of mathematicians, little Euler became a college student in university of basel on 1720. This year, little Euler 13 was the youngest student in this university.
Top 4: Eight-year-old Gauss discovered the mathematical theorem.
The famous German scientist Gauss (1777 ~ 1855) was born in a poor family. Gauss learned to calculate by himself before he could speak. When he was three years old, he watched his father calculate his salary one night and corrected his father's calculation mistakes.
One day, Gauss's math teacher was very depressed. Say to the students, "You calculated the sum of 1 plus 2 plus 3 to 100 for me today. Whoever can't figure it out will be punished for not going home for lunch. "
As a result, in less than half an hour, Xiao Gao Si picked up the slate and stepped forward. "Teacher, is this the answer?"
Without looking up, the teacher waved his thick hand and said, "Go, go back!"! Wrong. "
Gauss stood still and put the slate in front of the teacher: "Teacher! I think this answer is correct. "
The math teacher wanted to shout, but he was surprised when he saw the number written on the slate: 5050. How did this 8-year-old get the answer so quickly?
Gauss explained a method he discovered, which was used by the ancient Greeks and China people to calculate the sequence1+2+3+…+n. Gauss's discovery made the teacher feel ashamed, and felt that his previous view of being arrogant and belittling poor children was wrong. He also taught seriously in the future, and often bought some math books from the city for his own study and lent them to Gauss. With his encouragement, Gauss later did some important research in mathematics.
Top 5: Chen Jingrun conquers Goldbach conjecture.
Chen Jingrun, a famous mathematician, made great contributions to overcoming Goldbach's conjecture and founded the famous "Chen Theorem", so many people affectionately called him "the prince of mathematics". But who would have thought that his achievement originated from a story?
1937, diligent Chen Jingrun was admitted to Huaying College in Fuzhou. At this time, during the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Professor Shen Yuan, director of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering in Tsinghua University, returned to Fujian to attend the funeral, unwilling to stay in his hometown because of the war. Several universities got the news and wanted to invite Professor Shen to give lectures. He declined the invitation. As he is an alumnus of Huaying, he came to this middle school to teach mathematics to his classmates in order to report to his alma mater.
One day, Teacher Shen Yuan told us a story in math class: "A Frenchman discovered an interesting phenomenon 200 years ago: 6=3+3, 8=5+3, 10=5+5, 12=5+7, 28= 5+23. Every even number greater than 4 can be expressed as the sum of two odd numbers. Because this conclusion has not been proved, it is still a guess. Euler said: Although I can't prove it, I am sure this conclusion is correct.
It is like a beautiful light ring, shining with dazzling brilliance in front of us not far away. ..... "Chen Jingrun stare eyes, absorbed.