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Mathematical celebrity stories
1. Archimedes, an ancient Greek scholar, died at the hands of the Roman enemy who attacked Sicily. He was in the Lord before he died: "Don't break my circle". ? To commemorate him, people carved the figure of the ball carved on the cylinder on his tombstone to commemorate his discovery that the volume and surface area of the ball are two-thirds of that of the circumscribed cylinder.

Galois was born in a town not far from Paris. His father is the principal of this school and has served as the mayor for many years. The influence of family makes Galois always brave and fearless. 1823, 12-year-old galois left his parents to study in Paris. Not content with boring classroom indoctrination, he went to find the most difficult mathematics original research by himself. Some teachers also helped him a lot. Teachers' evaluation of him is "only suitable for working in the frontier field of mathematics".

3. 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. When he grew up, he became the most outstanding astronomer and mathematician of our time. He made some contributions to physics electromagnetism, and now a unit of electromagnetism is named after him. Mathematicians call him "the prince of mathematics".

4./kloc-Rudolph, a German mathematician in the 6th century, spent his whole life calculating pi to 35 decimal places, which became Rudolph's number. After his death, someone else carved this number on his tombstone. ?

5. Jacques Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician, studied the spiral (known as the thread of life) before his death. After his death, a logarithmic spiral was carved on the tombstone, and the inscription also read: "Although I have changed, I am the same as before." This is a pun, which not only describes the essence of spiral, but also symbolizes his love for mathematics.

6. Von Neumann is one of the most outstanding mathematicians in the 20th century, which is well known. The electronic computer he invented in 1946 greatly promoted the progress of science and technology and social life. In view of his key role in the invention of electronic computers, von Neumann is praised as "the father of computers" by westerners. 1911-1921von Neumann made his mark when he was studying in Lu Se Lun Middle School in Budapest, and was highly valued by teachers. Under Fichte's individual guidance, he co-published his first mathematical paper, when von Neumann was less than 18 years old.