How "crazy" are the top mathematicians?

Many people in the student era hated math, to learn it, lost a lot of hair, and originally thought that the college entrance examination math has been enough, there is still high math, and algebra, and many people shout: math out of my life!

However, mathematics has an irreplaceable position in the entire field of science, it is no exaggeration to say that without mathematics, there would be no subsequent physics, or chemistry, not to mention the theory of relativity and quantum physics. Many physicists have another identity, that of a mathematician, and it can be said that no natural scientist is bad at mathematics.

The mathematics that grinds in our eyes is like a toy in the eyes of top mathematicians. Perhaps we do not know how crazy these mathematicians are, just pick one thing the average person can not do.

Who faced the ferocious soldiers and did not change his face to calculate the problem? Who solved 2000 years of problems in one night? Who is blind and still works? And who has only a junior high school degree but shocked the world with his mathematical achievements? See how "crazy" these top mathematicians are? If mathematics is an abyss, we ordinary people can only float on the surface!

Who faced the fierce soldiers and did not change his face to calculate the problem?

Archimedes was a famous mathematician, physicist, inventor, and the earliest counterfeit expert in ancient Greece, who successfully used buoyancy to calculate the artisan's adulteration of gold. Oh yes, he was also the same age as Qin Shi Huang.

The most "crazy" thing Archimedes did was he did not forget to calculate the formula when the soldiers were under the city. The Roman soldiers were already in his city, and most of the people packed up and ran away, but Archimedes was sitting calmly in his house, calculating a formula that he had just obtained. The Roman soldier walked straight into his house with his sword, and to his surprise, Archimedes didn't even raise his head. He said to the Roman soldier, "Wait for me, I'll kill me when I've finished calculating."

This time the Roman soldier as a whole will not be, have seen the hide, run, and resistance, to mention this request or the first. But unfortunately, the soldier is an old man, who does not know that this is the famous Archimedes, not to mention what his brain is for humans and how important, not to mention that the formula has not finished calculating. The Roman soldiers raised their swords and ended the life of a generation of mathematics and physics gods in one fell swoop.

If the soldier had waited for Archimedes, a new mathematical theory might have been born in the world many years earlier. This great man of science, who once said he would pry the earth, finally retired in this way, leaving behind this "crazy" history and his endless contributions. Archimedes did not even blink in the face of death, just because he was full of his favorite mathematics. If Archimedes was "crazy" in his attitude toward life, then this one is "crazy" in his outstanding talent.

Who solved the 2000-year-old puzzle in one night?

Although Gauss was called the "Prince of Mathematics", he came from a poor family and his father did not think that studying would help his family solve anything, so he had to send Gauss to be an apprentice. His father did not think that studying would help the family solve anything, so he sent Gauss to be an apprentice. Luckily, Gauss's talent caught the attention of a duke at that time, who sponsored the 14-year-old Gauss to go to school, and then Gauss entered the university, and Gauss's "crazy" mathematical life, and thus began.

When Gauss was 19 years old, his teacher gave him the usual three problems, but when the teacher took the homework, he accidentally gave Gauss the ruler's rule method of graphing which he was studying, mixed with two problems. The first time the problem was solved by Gauss, he was still wondering how today there is a homework problem so difficult. Top mathematicians, that is, the more difficult the question the more excited he was, Gauss did not sleep one night, concentrating on solving the problem, and finally succeeded in drawing the orthogonality of the seventeen sides.

It is important to know that the ruler diagram of the square 17-sided shape was a world-class problem at that time, from the ancient Greek period to Gauss's time, more than 2000 years have passed, and no one has solved it. When Gauss handed in his homework the next day, the teacher was stunned to see that his inadvertent mistake had made the problem, which had been frozen for 2,000 years, meet the destined person. Quickly, immediately, let Gauss learn more difficult areas, he will be the future to change the mathematics of people!

At this moment Gauss is still a 19-year-old college student. This is the difference between top mathematicians and ordinary people, people stay up late to solve the world's problems, the general college students stay up late to brush their phones. Later Gauss not only became a famous mathematician but also a physicist, he and Weber presided over the drawing of the first magnetic field map of the Earth.

As the saying goes, people who are good at mathematics must not be too bad at physics. Gauss and Archimedes, were in good health when they made their achievements. But Euler was different. His "madness" was that he could write formulas even though he was blind!

When he was young, Euler was a workaholic, publishing an average of 800 pages per year, which many people could not achieve in their lifetime. Perhaps it was because of too much work that at the age of 28, Euler had problems with one eye and gradually lost his sight.

However, not long after losing sight of one eye, Euler's other eye began to develop lesions, and his vision became blurred day by day. He had no choice but to use dictation and let his assistants write to continue completing his writing. He was the most prolific mathematician ever, producing a paper every week. It was really hard but joyful to be his student because every week there was something new to learn.

Euler thus dragged his somewhat crippled body along the avenue of mathematics, making important achievements in geometry, calculus, and mechanics. His works inspired the mathematicians who came after him to add bricks to the edifice of mathematics.

It must be said that Euler's "madness" hurt his own body, but his "madness" also opened up a new path for future generations of mathematics. No one knows how much sweat is behind Euler's "madness".

Most of the mathematicians in history have received higher education, Gauss studied at the Carolinum, the predecessor of the Technical University of Braunschweig, and Euler enrolled in the University of Basel at the age of 13. But the next "crazy" mathematician, who only had a junior high school diploma, became an academic hangover. He is Ramanujan, known as the "God of mathematics favored person".

Ramanujan was born in India and grew up in a poor family, so he was forced to stop his education after he reached middle school. After that, he continued his study of mathematics by borrowing books. It was only by chance that he was given a job opportunity to communicate with scholars over in Cambridge, England, and his talent for mathematics was discovered.

This young man, who did not complete his formal studies, soon showed the mathematicians in England what it means to be open. From the age of 22, Ramanujan would write down hundreds of formulas every day, but he never proved them, he wrote them entirely by intuition. Such a "crazy" act shook the entire British mathematical community.

Each formula was enough to make the mathematics masters of the time write a thesis topic. Since Ramanujan never gave proof, many professors and scholars did not accept his formulas, but some said that perhaps we should not use the ordinary way to measure real genius. Some of his formulas were proved at that time and Ramanujan was found to be correct.

But unfortunately, God was jealous, and in his early 30s, Ramanujan contracted tuberculosis and died in 1920. This somewhat "crazy" mathematician left behind 3,900 formulas, of which only 50 or so have been proved until now. These formulas are used in mathematics, physics, astronomy, computers, and other fields. Ramanujan's mathematical intuition was so strong that he could calculate the multiplication and division of various complex numbers as fast as the average person could calculate 1+1.

It is said that mathematicians are half genius and half madness, but perhaps it is because of their "madness" that they have achieved scientific achievements today. We, ordinary people, are just swimming in the surface of the ocean of knowledge, these scientists are the real dive into the bottom of the sea to explore the people.