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1) Newton
cooks an egg
The English
physicist Isaac Newton at work often forgot everything else, even eating and
drinking. One morning he again did not come for breakfast. Then his wife
brought a pot of water and an egg in the study, where the scholar had a small
stove for his experiments. The woman took Newton’s clock, put it next to the
egg and said, "Here is an egg and here your clock. Place the pot on the
stove and cook the egg 3 minutes!" Then she went out. After some time she
came back into the room. Newton was sitting at the table reading. In his left
hand he held the book in his right he held the egg. In the pot on the stove
............... cooked his clock.
2) The
first honestly earned coin
The great
German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss was, of course, once a child like all
people. Gauss’ father was a bricklayer. Since he was always industrious, he
soon became foreman. Now he had to calculate the wages of masons every evening
after work. For the three-year-old Karl Friedrich, this was the finest time of
the evening, when the father was sitting at the table and counted. He climbed
on his father's knees, looked at the paper with the lot of numbers and
calculated with him. The three- year-old could really already count! He often
painted numbers on the house wall with chalk, or wrote them in the sand with a
stick. Numbers were his favourite toys. One evening father Gauss was very tired
and while counting he fell asleep. While he was sleeping, his son continued the
calculation. Suddenly the boy cried! "Father, look, you've made a
mistake: A five must stand here. You've written a three!" Shocked Gauss
opened his eyes. He considered the calculation, and really, Karl Friedrich, his
three- year-old son had found an error! He stroked his boy tenderly, reached
into his pocket and gave him a new coin. Karl Friedrich did not buy any candy
for it. He kept it well. Later, as a famous man, he had this coin still with
him, in memory of his first mathematical performance.
3) Race
with the wire
Karl
Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber worked in Gottingen, among others, on
the invention of telegraphy by means of the magnetic needle. Most of the time professor
Gauss stayed in the observatory, which was on the periphery, and Professor Weber in his laboratory in the city centre.
Mickelmann, the servant of the observatory had to run constantly with messages
from one to the other. Finally the big day arrived. The first telegram at high
voltage should be sent from the observatory to the laboratory. Gauss sent
Mickelmann to his colleagues to learn the result. The good servant hurried
himself quite excited. When he arrived in the laboratory, out of breath, the
magnetic needle had not stirred. But a few minutes later, it hit out. The
historic telegram read: "Mickelmann is coming!"
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