Mathematical celebrities:

Domestic: Zu Chongzhi, Hua Luogeng

Foreign: Pythagoras, Newton

Brief introduction of the above mathematical celebrities:

1. Zu Chongzhi

Zu Chongzhi was born in Jiankang (now Nanjing), and his ancestral home is Laishui County, Fanyang County (now Laishui County, Hebei Province) He studied natural science all his life, and his main contributions were in mathematics, astronomical calendar and mechanical manufacturing. On the basis of exploring the precise method of pi pioneered by Liu Hui, he calculated the "pi" to the seventh decimal place for the first time, that is, between 3.145926 and 3.45927, and his "ancestral rate" made a great contribution to the study of mathematics.

2. Hua Luogeng

Hua Luogeng was born in Jintan District, Changzhou, Jiangsu, and his ancestral home was Danyang, Jiangsu. Mathematician, academician of China Academy of Sciences, foreign academician of American National Academy of Sciences, academician of Third World Academy of Sciences, and academician of Bavarian Academy of Sciences of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is the founder and pioneer of China's analytic number theory, matrix geometry, canonical group, automorphic function theory and multivariate complex variable function theory, and is listed as one of the 88 great mathematicians in the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology. The international achievements in mathematical research named Fahrenheit include Fahrenheit Theorem, Fahrenheit Inequality and Hua-Wang Method.

3. Pythagoras

Pythagoras was born in a noble family on Samos Island in the Aegean Sea (now an island in eastern Greece). He was smart and studious since childhood and studied geometry, natural science and philosophy under famous teachers. He himself is famous for discovering Pythagorean theorem (Pythagorean theorem in the west).

4. Newton

Newton was born in Woolsop Manor, a small village in rural Lincolnshire, England. He is a knight, the president of the Royal Society, a famous British physicist, an encyclopedic "all-rounder", and the author of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and Optics. In mathematics, Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz shared the honor of developing calculus. He also proved the generalized binomial theorem, put forward the Newton method to approach the zero point of the function, and made contributions to the study of power series.

References:

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy-Xinhuanet

Hua Luogeng-Science and Technology-People's Network

Mathematics has become intimate-Xinhuanet

One-stop learning-from Zu Chongzhi to Zu Xuan Theorem _ Xinhua