Xueba's Sea of ​​Stars

Chapter 40 The Traits of a Great Man
On Sunday night, Wu Bin, who was sitting in front of the desk at home, was reading a book with great interest, but what was rare was that what he was holding in his hand was not a textbook, but a biography book given to him by Cai Guoping. Who is it?
It is the top figure in physics who often lifts the coffin board and wants to shout something, Isaac Newton.

The full title of the book is The Last Alchemist: A Biography of Newton

Written by British novelist Michael Connelly.

When Cai Guoping gave him this book, he said, "This is a biography of Newton that I personally like very much. I recommend you to read it, and it may have some influence on you."

Before reading this biography, what Wu Bin knew most about this great scientist was his three laws.

And how can a man who can lay the foundation of modern physics make a person who likes physics not be curious about him.

Therefore, in his intense study schedule, Wu Bin squeezed out some time to read this biography, but unexpectedly, he fell into it after reading it.

When he came to school the next day, Wu Bin returned the finished biography to Cai Guoping and said expectantly, "Teacher, do you have any other books about Newton?"

Cai Guoping, who took the book, smiled, "I can recommend a few more books to you. They are available in the school library, so you can borrow them."

"Okay, thank you teacher."

Cai Guoping nodded, took out a pen from the pen holder, and began to write the title of the book on the sticky note, asking while writing, "Tell me about your impressions after reading it?"

"In a sense, let me understand the upper limit of human beings?" Wu Bin replied after thinking about it.

"Haha, he does have the qualifications."

After Cai Guoping finished speaking, he tore off the sticky note and handed it to Wu Bin, "How are you doing in other subjects now? Teacher Bi has come to ask you several times, and she is even more anxious than me."

"Tomorrow, it took an unexpected amount of time to study chemistry, so it disrupted my plan a bit and caused the biology study to fall behind, but I should be able to finish it tomorrow."

"Wu Bin, what a big tone, let me tell you, if you can't pass 120 in English, I won't let you go."

At this time, Chen Fang, who was watering the flowers, raised her head and said to Wu Bin.

"Me too. If your score doesn't satisfy me, don't blame me for locking you in the office. Don't think that you passed the cell fusion question yesterday."

Jiang Lan also immediately added.

"Please rest assured, the two teachers, I... I will try my best to get a score that satisfies the two teachers."

Wu Bin originally wanted to say that he would pass the exam, but he was afraid of stimulating the two teachers. Otherwise, he would be a little timid if he went to find two sets of Hengshui legendary-level papers.

Taking advantage of the satisfied nods of the two teachers, Wu Bin quickly slipped out of the office.

During the lunch break, Wu Bin came to the school library after eating. He really couldn't wait for Newton's biography.

In fact, it's not that Wu Bin really admired Newton to this extent, but that he saw the direction he should move forward in Newton's biography.

That's right, Newton's biography does not tell you how to become a god of learning, but what you can do after becoming a god of learning.

Wu Bin read books like biographies very quickly. During a lunch break, Wu Bin had already read a lot of books recommended by Cai Guoping.

Genius, god, human limit, every line of several books reveals such information, and Wu Bin also feels that they are not wrong.

If you want to describe the extent of Newton's contribution, it is probably like this.

As long as there are Nobel Prizes in the 17th century, then Newton is at least the man who won four physics prizes. The construction of mechanical systems, spectrometers, reflecting telescopes, and gravitation are all far-reaching.

In addition, in the field of mathematics, Newton's "Fluency", oh, that is, the calculus that contemporary students hate and rack their brains, can easily conquer the highest award in mathematics, the Fields Medal of Mathematics.

There is a joke that Newton devoted himself to the study of calculus and used it to generate income for Cambridge. Of course, it is just a joke.

In the seventeenth century, there were many mathematical problems that required calculus to solve.

For example, when studying the motion of objects, find the instant speed, find the tangent of the curve, find the maximum value of the function, the minimum value problem, etc.

It can be said that calculus is the greatest creation in all mathematics after Euclidean geometry.

In fact, in the seventeenth century, calculus was studied by at least a dozen top mathematicians, such as Fermat, Wallis, Barrow, Kepler and so on.

But in the end, the founders are generally considered to be Newton and Leibniz, which shows their great contribution.

In addition, there is a little story in it. Looking at these two people as the creators of calculus, some people will think that they are a cooperative relationship, but in fact... it does not exist!
After Newton was 30 years old, in addition to pondering God and alchemy, the most he did was to slander and discredit Leibniz.

Because it was Leibniz who published the first paper on calculus.

So many people later said that for the honor of "the founder of calculus", Newton used the power of the president of the Royal Society to continuously suppress the weak and weak Breinitz.

This is also one of the arguments most often used by scholars of Newton Black to bombard his character.

After finishing the short story, he continued to talk about his academics.

The discoveries and studies mentioned above were all completed by Newton before he was 26 years old. It can be said that it is difficult to express Wu Bin’s feelings in four words, I just want to ask if the system has ever been possessed by Newton. body.

Oh, by the way, I just said that after the age of 30, Newton has been tinkering with alchemy, and alchemy is actually the chemistry of their century, but it is too simple. At that time, there was no concept of elements, and oxygen was called "phlogiston"

This is also the reason why Newton did not make much discovery in chemistry, mainly because they were all on the wrong path at that time.

Wu Bin firmly believes that if Newton was born in the era when there were microscopes and the "Periodic Table of Elements", then it is probably easy to win several chemistry awards.

Of course, in addition to touting Newton's great contribution in academia, the biography still brings some private goods, such as

"If I see further than others, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants."

"I was like a child playing on the seashore, rejoicing now and then to pick up a smoother pebble or a more beautiful shell than usual, while a sea of ​​truths utterly undiscovered lay before me."

I believe that most people have heard these two sentences. They all came from Newton’s mouth, and later generations like to use these two sentences to describe Newton’s humility. The context of the sentence does not mean that at all.

For example, the context of the phrase standing on the shoulders of giants is actually like this.

In fact, British scientist Hooke had discovered the law of universal gravitation long ago and derived the correct formula. However, due to poor mathematics, he could only barely explain the circular motion of the planets around the sun, and he did not realize that the forces that govern the movement of celestial bodies are actually universal. What exists is "all that is".

In addition, Tycho discovered that the revolution of planets is actually an elliptical motion 100 years ago, and Kepler even proposed the three laws of planetary motion.Therefore, the scientific community does not pay much attention to Hooke's results.

But later, Newton, a madman in mathematics, solved this problem very satisfactorily with calculus and successfully extended his three laws of mechanics to the space of galaxies. Considered by the scientific community as the greatest discovery.

This result made Hooker furious, accusing Newton of plagiarizing his own results.

The next thing is when the classic sentence comes on stage. According to Wu Bin's description in the book, Newton's tone at that time is estimated to be like this.

"Yeah, I'm really standing on the shoulders of giants."

What I thought in my heart was probably, you can't blame me for being bad at math?
When Wu Bin found out this passage, he almost burst out laughing. Unexpectedly, such things as partial subjects would also appear among top scientists, which made him more determined to make all disciplines go hand in hand.

Later, the context of this sentence was removed, and it became a very classic modest speech, which is also very interesting.

The second sentence is similar to picking up shells.

When Newton was in his later years, he was definitely not a god of physics who was confessed by others. He had been in the officialdom for decades and naturally made many enemies. Hehe, it can be said that there are many people in him.

At a party, several cutting-edge scientists questioned him, physics is getting wider and wider, but you have not discovered anything new for so long, what else is so awesome?
Then Newton dumped this sentence to them, meaning in fact, what qualifications do you scumbags who can't even pick up shells have to come to BB me?
It has to be said that Newton's speaking art, which has been in the officialdom for decades, is really at its peak, and it has become such a legendary classic when he casually sprays someone.

I believe that people who do not understand the context can only feel the poetic artistic conception.

Jieao, this is what Wu Bin read from a few short stories. After reading this paragraph, Wu Bin couldn't help but glance at Gu Fan who was sitting next to him. Could it be that he likes to mock him so much because great people are destined to have no friends? ?

Newton's life was a life of genius and a pioneering life, but it was probably a life without friends, not even a wife.

But on this point, Wu Bin actually quite resonates.

"How can learning be fun when you are in love?"

"At this point, I do think the host has the potential to be a great scientist."

Wu Bin was a little surprised when he heard the system take the initiative to talk to him for the first time, so he asked, "What do you say?" '

"When the host's brain area of ​​interest was initially scanned, the host's interest in the opposite sex was almost zero, which is rare in humans, and this is a very good potential for becoming a great man."

'oh?Really, it's rare to hear you praise me, so is there any reward for that? '

"Sorry, this question is not within the scope of query."

'Oh, the system. '

(End of this chapter)