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Chapter 279 Gauss' determination! (7.2K)

University of Cambridge.

Trinity College.

Academic Affairs Building.

Faraday's office.

"Faraday, are you sorry for us???"

".You listen to my explanation."

"Excuse me, it's over!"

"Come on, get your money back!!!"

"I thought that someone who looked like Chang Jacobi would rebel, but I didn't expect, I didn't expect that you, Faraday, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would also rebel against the revolution."

"Sylvester, what's wrong with my appearance? Try to say it again?!"

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Looking at a group of big bosses with extremely angry faces in front of them, and Weber who was about to be drowned in saliva.

behind the desk.

Xu Yun and Mai Mai shrank their heads almost at the same time, and subconsciously glanced at Faraday who was as stable as a mountain on the main seat.

At this time, two days have passed since the telescope was debugged, and only four days are left before the final observation.

half an hour ago.

Xu Yun came to Faraday's office and was about to inquire about the progress of the 'foreign aid'.

As a result, I just said a few words.

Outside the house, a bunch of middle-aged people with strange faces rushed in, saying emotionally such things as "you're not dead", "liar", "heartbroker", "I won't get up until I kiss you".

Several of them also held fruit baskets, medicine boxes, blades, urns, and wreaths in their hands.

They opened their mouths in extremely standard German, it looked like a group of people were spitting together, Xu Yun wanted to cough twice

Then from the mouths of these people, Xu Yun knew two things:

One is that these people are the foreign aid he recruited. Twenty-seven Germans and four or five British people who met on the road are all well-known mathematics masters in later generations.

The second thing is

In order to get as many tool people as possible, Faraday lied that he was critically ill!

No wonder Faraday dared to say that he could attract most of the people on the list when the deal intention was reached that day.

Then Xu Yun glanced at Weber and Kirchhoff, who were arbitrarily trying to appease everyone, leaned over to Faraday, and whispered to him:

"Mr. Faraday, what shall we do now?"

Although I have all the big bosses I need right now, if I don't calm down their emotions, it is obviously impossible for these people to be willing to contribute.

"Why are you in a hurry?"

Faraday looked up at him, then coughed lightly, and said loudly:

"Okay, let's all be quiet!"

Although everyone at the scene wanted to hang Faraday up and beat him, he is, after all, the number one person in the physics world at present, and his current status is over there.

So as soon as he spoke, there was a short silence in the room.

Then Faraday turned his head to look at the crowd, shook his head, and said:

"Everyone came from afar from Germany. If you have anything to say, we can talk about it. There is no reason to be so angry, is it?"

"fart!"

As soon as Faraday finished speaking, a little old man in the room interrupted him, shouting angrily:

"Michael, look at the good things you have done, how dare you say such things?"

See this person speak.

Xu Yun at the side felt a tug in his heart.

Most of the photos of the big boss on the scene that have been circulated in the later generations are in the middle and late stages, so there are quite a few people who are not suitable for him for the time being, but this little old man is an exception.

Because his popularity is too high.

This man was the prince of mathematics, Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss.

It is also one of the most vicious people who sprayed Faraday before—or to be precise, one of the few people who are qualified to really confront Faraday.

At this time, Gauss was looking at Faraday angrily, and knocked his crutches on the ground:

"Michael, Bernhard and I rushed all the way from Göttingen to Cambridge. We didn't rest for two whole days, and even the wreaths are ready."

"The results of it?"

"In the end, you're alright, and you still have the heart to drink coffee here? I'm going to complain to Prince Albert and ask him to cancel your preferential treatment!"

Faraday's face remained unchanged, he stretched out his right hand and pressed down, and said to Gauss:

"Friedrich, calm down first, and listen to me, okay?"

"This time I invite you to Cambridge. The main reason is that there is a matter that requires the assistance of a large number of top mathematicians. I am worried about the lack of manpower, so I used a special method."

Looking at Faraday who was talking eloquently, Gauss was startled for a while, and then he was laughed angrily after recovering:

"Huh? Need our help? Let me tell you Michael, don't even think about it, there's no way!"

As he spoke, he looked around for a few times, and suddenly pointed to something on Xu Yun's waist and said:

"I'll tell you straight away, if you can change our minds, Bernhard will eat that ax on the spot!"

"I, Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, would never do you any favors even if I jumped from here, never!"

Ignoring Gauss who was spitting wildly, Faraday leisurely took a sip from his teacup before continuing:

"Friedrich, I feel the need to tell you two things."

"The first thing is... According to the description in Chapter 233, this is the first floor of the building, and the grass is outside the window, and no one will be killed if you jump down."

"What about the second thing?"

After Faraday finished speaking, he reached out and dug a few times in the drawer.

After a few seconds.

He took out two poorly revised books, compared them for a few seconds, and threw one of them at Gauss.

Snapped--

Gauss was obviously unprepared for Faraday's action, and was hit in the middle by the document in a daze.

Europe is different from neon animations and Chinese web dramas, and belongs to the territory under Mavericks' jurisdiction. Therefore, under the action of gravity, books began to slide downward.

See this situation.

Gauss subconsciously reached out and grabbed the book.

After recovering.

Gauss's face turned red again, this time he was really angry, and he was about to continue spraying:

"It's worse than hanging."

The result is not finished.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a line of writing on the book:

"Experimental Research in Electricity" (Volume Three)

Ever since.

The second half of Gauss's sentence was stuck in his throat, his eyes widened.

The whole person is like a sculpture, staring at this crude book.

Then he flipped through the books a few times, and raised his head in astonishment:

"Why is there only one page?"

Faraday said that he raised another printed copy in his hand and said:

"Didn't I just say that the follow-up content needs to be paid to watch."

When Gauss heard this, the whole person suddenly fell silent.

A few more seconds passed.

He suddenly raised his head, looked at Faraday, and asked:

"Just wrote it?"

"It's been a few years since I finished writing it, and I coded the previous paragraph overnight."

"Is there a broken chapter?"

"No, this is the last volume, with the finale and extra episodes included."

Gauss' face immediately became cloudy and uncertain.

After a while.

He turned around slightly, and patted Riemann's shoulder with complicated eyes:

"Maybe you have to work hard, Bernhard."

Riemann: ".???"

all in all.

With the change of Gauss's attitude, the next thing is very simple.

Faraday asked Kirchhoff to distribute the prepared "Electrical Experimental Research" to everyone, and Gauss and others couldn't wait to read it immediately.

Don't look at these bigwigs as mathematics experts, in fact, the relationship between electromagnetism and mathematics is extremely close these days,

The research direction of many mathematicians in the field of physics is related to electric current.

In addition, "Experimental Research in Electricity" is recognized as the most important and greatest work in Farah's first life, and the third volume is the concluding part of the whole work, so the attraction is self-evident.

So under planned preparation.

Faraday successfully turned today's "memorial meeting" into a new work release.

A group of bigwigs applauded the work while watching the work among the wreaths and Faraday's portrait. Faraday even went up to take a photo with his portrait.

It is worth mentioning that.

Although there is already camera technology these days, the photos are solid black and white photos.

So the screen is still a little bit sanity.

It doesn't matter if it's Old Su or Faraday.

Why do these bosses always like to take photos with their own photos or portraits?

After the bosses at the scene finished reading the third volume of "Experimental Research on Electricity".

Gauss closed the document in his hand, looked at Faraday, and sighed:

"Michael, it would be great if you could update a volume of the same level of work every week."

Faraday glanced at him, but said nothing.

joke.

A few thousand words in five years is already fatal. Wouldn't it be exhausting to update 4,000 words a week?

It is better to expect that Gaul, which is now in full swing, will surrender without a fight one day to expect him to achieve this kind of renewal.

Then Gold paused and asked Faraday:

"Okay, Michael, can you tell us now what you're going to do to lure us to Cambridge?"

Seeing that Gauss mentioned the business, Faraday also looked serious, pointed at Xu Yun and said:

"Friedrich, let me introduce someone to you first, this is classmate Luo Feng."

"He is a descendant of that 'Mr. Fat Fish', and the last part of the experiment involving the 'photoelectric effect' in "Experimental Research on Electricity" was done by him."

"This time I invite everyone to come to Cambridge, mainly because Luo Feng has something to ask everyone for help."

"Mr. Fat Fish's descendants?"

Gauss was taken aback when he saw this, and turned his head to look at Xu Yun carefully.

Mentioned long ago.

The Maxwell equations written by Wheat were simplified into four expressions in later generations.

The corresponding ones are static electricity, magnetostatics, magnetoelectricity, and electromagnetism.

Magnetism is Faraday's law.

Electromagnetism is Ampere-Maxwell's law.

The remaining one or two, which correspond to static electricity and magnetostatics, are the Gaussian electric field law and Gaussian magnetic field law proposed by Gauss.

These two laws constitute a perfect duality, and in some cases of relativity, Gauss' law is still valid, but Coulomb's law in a narrow sense is no longer applicable. It can be seen that Gauss' law is more essential than Coulomb's law.

Therefore, as the proponent of the two laws, Gauss' understanding of electromagnetism is second only to Faraday among the people present.

Of course.

This statement does not include Xu Yun. After all, the knowledge system in 2022 is completely incomparable with the cognition in 1850.

So in the process of watching "Experimental Research on Electricity", Gauss discovered a situation:

The content of the four parts of "light speed measurement", "photovoltaic effect", "photoelectric effect" and "cathode ray conjecture" added at the end of the volume is a bit strange, or abnormal.

first.

They are incompatible with the content of the previous part, and appear a little abrupt.

But on the other hand.

The design of these four parts of the experiment was so ingenious that Gauss spent at least half of his time on these four parts.

Only after hearing Faraday's interception and killing him now did he realize that all of this was done by Xu Yun.

Considering the time when Faraday arrived in Cambridge, it is estimated that he will not be exposed to these four experiments for more than a month.

In this way, it is no wonder that there will be some violations in the connection of content.

Then Gauss touched his chin and murmured in a voice that only readers could hear:

"Fat fish. Fat fish again"

Everyone knows that Gauss was silent and seldom talked, and devoted himself to academics. The two anecdotes he made when he was three and nine years old are more famous:

He first corrected his father's debt accounts when he was three years old, and then calculated the summation of natural numbers from 1 to 100 with a sequence of numbers when he was nine years old.

No one can verify the authenticity of these two anecdotes, but from the fact that Gauss discovered the traces of non-Euclidean geometry at the age of 16 and derived the general form of the binomial theorem, the incident at the age of nine is probably more plausible Faithful.

But other than those two things.

Few people in later generations know that Gauss is actually a very, very proud person.

For example, the conflict between him and Legendre.

Legendre is also a well-known mathematician. He announced the principle of the least square method in 1806, earlier than Gauss.

But in "Theory of the Movement of Celestial Bodies", Gauss mentioned that he had actually applied this principle as early as 1794.

This remark annoyed Legendre greatly, thinking that Gauss had deprived himself of the priority of years of hard research.

Later, Legendre publicized the matter a lot, and public opinion was once biased towards Legendre, but Gauss did not say anything from the beginning to the end.

He only said one sentence in his letter to Dirichlet:

"In 1802, I told Olbers the whole thing. If Legendre doesn't believe it, you can ask Olbers. He has a record there, and Legendre is not qualified to let me take the credit."

The letter is now in the Gauss Gallery at the University of Göttingen, admission is free.

Later, public opinion began to criticize Gauss for not expressing himself when he saw Hamilton discussing quaternions, and even became Gauss's black spot for a time.

But it was discovered in the manuscript after Gauss' death that Gauss had written down the core of the quaternion theory more than thirty years ago.

Another example is an unlucky guy named Janos Bowyer.

This guy is the son of Gauss' old friend Farkas Bowyer, who discussed the ideas of non-Euclidean geometry.

Farkas also wrote a letter specifically to ask for Gauss's opinion. Gauss first praised Janos's creative spirit, and then changed the subject, saying that he had such an idea many years ago.

The ambitious Janos was hit by this, felt disheartened, and vowed never to engage in mathematical writings.

Therefore, Gauss is a very arrogant person. Or in other words, he is unwilling to be inferior to others.

So all the time.

While he felt admiration for that 'Mr. Fat Fish', he also felt a little dissatisfied in his heart.

This kind of dissatisfaction is not a question of Fat Yu's status, but a simple belief that his ability is not inferior to the other party.

But now after seeing the content of the photoelectric effect.

Gauss suddenly discovered

His confidence seemed to have been shaken.

If one or two experiments can be attributed to a "flash of inspiration".

Then when the number changed to 'four', it would be a bit self-deceiving to explain it by coincidence.

Think here.

Gauss couldn't help being interested in what Xu Yun was going to do to himself, or the fighting spirit of self-proving:

"Student Luo Feng, do you need our help?"

Xu Yun raised his eyelids and glanced at him, saying:

"Mr. Gauss, if I say that I want to lock the ninth planet in the solar system by calculating the orbit. Do you believe it?"

Gauss was taken aback when he heard the words:

"The ninth planet?"

The other mathematicians at the scene seemed to be aroused by this sentence, and there was a buzzing discussion.

Xu Yun nodded and explained:

"According to the manuscript records left by the ancestor of Fat Fish, he once observed and calculated the orbit of the trans-Neptunian object, and found that its numerical value is somewhat abnormal."

"So he believes that there may be another planet on the outer side of Neptune, exerting force extremely far away."

"It's a pity that the ancestors of Fat Fish have limited information, and the accuracy of the equipment is far from what it is today. Therefore, no trace of this planet was found in the end."

"This time, I asked Mr. Faraday to invite you here just to calculate the orbit of the unknown ninth planet."

After listening to these words quietly, Gauss pondered for a moment and asked:

"That planet has no observation records?"

Xu Yun shook his head:

"It may have been photographed, but no one ever noticed that it was a planet."

Gauss nodded slightly.

Xu Yun's words are easy to understand.

Just like in the future, you take a picture of the sky with your mobile phone, let alone planets or stars, meteors or even black holes may be photographed by you.

However, due to the current technical level, it may take hundreds or even thousands of years before someone discovers that there is such an undiscovered celestial body in the photo you took today.

Like the aforementioned Uranus, Hipparchus recorded it in 128 BC, but it wasn't identified as a planet until 1781.

Without specific observation records, it means that Gauss's method of calculating Ceres is temporarily invalid:

The way Gauss calculates Ceres is actually to use the least squares method to fit the trajectory line. In theory, three observation records can lock its position.

If there is no observation record now, the difficulty will obviously increase countless times.

Then Gauss thought about it, and asked Xu Yun again:

"Student Luo Feng, are you sure Mr. Fat Yu hasn't found any trace of that planet?"

Xu Yun looked at Gauss in surprise. For some reason, he always felt that the other party's tone was a bit strange.

However, out of respect for Gauss, he answered honestly:

"No."

"Is it possible to observe it but not publish it? Like write it in some manuscript? Heck, a friend of mine likes to do it."

"nor."

Gauss stared at Xu Yun seriously for a few seconds, and after a while, he nodded sharply:

"Okay, I'll take this matter."

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Xu Yun always felt that something strange happened to this prince of mathematics, but since the other party agreed, it was always a good thing.

After all, Gauss' status is there.

As soon as he agreed, the other mathematicians were basically fine.

as expected.

After Gauss made a statement.

Riemann, Jacobi, Dirichlet and others have also expressed their views.

In the end, none of the more than 30 people expressed objection.

Big guy tool man team, so far done!

in the next time.

Gauss and others practiced the photoelectric effect in person, and conducted industry exchanges with several teachers from the Department of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.

Four days passed in a flash.

With the flip of the calendar, the time has finally arrived.

Crazy Thursday.