Euclid

Euclid (Greek: ε υ κ λ ε ι δ η? , about 33 BC-275 BC, Alexandria), an ancient Greek mathematician, was called "the father of geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the period of Ptolemy I Soter (323 BC-283 BC). His most famous book, The Elements of Geometry, was the foundation of European mathematics, put forward five postulates and developed Euclidean geometry, which was widely regarded as the most successful textbook in history. Euclid also wrote some works about perspective, conic, geometry of spheres and number theory, and was the founder of geometry.

Archimedes

Archimedes (287-212 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician and physicist. Born in Syracuse, Sicily. Archimedes has been to Alexandria, and it is said that he invented the Archimedean spiral water pump when he lived in Alexandria. Later, Archimedes became a great scholar who was both a mathematician and a mechanic, and enjoyed the reputation of "the father of mechanics". There are more than 1 kinds of mathematical works handed down by Archimedes, most of which are Greek manuscripts. Archimedes once said: Give me a fulcrum and I can tilt the earth. This sentence tells us: we should have the courage to find this fulcrum and the courage to find the truth.

Gauss

A mathematical genius ── C.F. Gauss

Gauss is a German mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

gauss was very curious about all phenomena and things since he was born, and he was determined to get to the bottom of it. At the age of seven, Gauss went to school for the first time.

A story that is widely circulated all over the world says that when Gauss was 1 years old, he worked out the arithmetic problem that Butner gave his students to add up all the integers from 1 to 1. Butner gave them a more difficult addition problem at that time: 81297+81495+81693+…+1899. After that, Gauss also finished the calculation and handed in the small slate with the answer. At that time, only his answer was correct. Mathematical historians tend to think that Gauss had mastered arithmetic progression's summation method at that time. It is unusual for a child who is only 1 years old to discover this mathematical method independently.

Gaussian's academic status has always been highly regarded by people. He has the reputation of "prince of mathematics" and "king of mathematicians".

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton is a famous physicist and mathematician in Britain. At school, Newton was an eccentric boy, and he liked to design and make kites, sundials, dripping and other utensils by himself. He is curious about everything around him, but he doesn't seem particularly clever.

In 1665 ~ 1666, the severe plague swept through London, and Cambridge was not far from London. Because of the fear of contagion, the school was closed, and Newton left school and returned home in June 1665. One day, sitting under a tree and seeing an apple fall to the ground, I began to wonder if this force pulling the apple down would also control the moon. From this, Newton deduced that the change rate of falling speed of an object is directly proportional to the magnitude of gravity, and the magnitude of gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the center of the earth. Later, Newton's prism experiment also made him famous.

Newton's most outstanding mathematical achievement is the establishment of calculus, and he has made remarkable contributions to both analytic geometry and comprehensive geometry.

Newton's two famous sayings are well known. He wrote in a letter: "If I see farther than others, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants." It is said that he also said: "I don't know what the world thinks of me;" But it seems to me that I am just a child playing on the seashore, and I am happy to find a smooth pebble or a more beautiful shell than others from time to time, but the vast ocean of truth in front of me is still a complete mystery. "

Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (July 1, 1646 ~ November 14, 1716) was the most important German natural scientist, mathematician, physicist, historian and philosopher, a rare scientific genius in the world, and Newton (January 4, 1643). He read widely and dabbled in encyclopedias, and made immortal contributions to enriching the treasure house of human scientific knowledge.

Leonhard Euler

leonhard euler (April 5, 177 ~ September 18, 1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist. He is called one of the two greatest mathematicians in history by some mathematical historians (the other is Karl Friedrich Gauss). Euler was the first person to use the word "function" to describe expressions with various parameters, such as y = F(x) (the definition of function was given by Leibniz in 1694). He was one of the pioneers who applied calculus to physics.

Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes was born on March 31st, 1596 in Dulan, France. Descartes was a great philosopher, physicist, mathematician and physiologist. The founder of analytic geometry. Descartes was one of the founders of modern European bourgeois philosophy, and Hegel called him "the father of modern philosophy". He formed his own system, integrating materialism and idealism, and had a far-reaching influence in the history of philosophy. At the same time, he is a scientist who dares to explore, and his analytic geometry is of epoch-making significance in the history of mathematics. Descartes can be regarded as one of the most influential masters of European philosophy and science in the 17th century, and is known as "the ancestor of modern science".