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When I was a child, learning mathematics, science and chemistry to go all over the world is not afraid, is a familiar truth to everyone in our generation.
But it's just that, since I was a kid, math has always been my weakness.
The back leg dragged to the present, so that their own children from the upper elementary school, check the math homework of the heavy responsibility, I directly ceded to the child's father.
As a girl who admires the humanities and has more than enough sensibility, I've always had a less-than-friendly stereotype of math - boring, mechanical, and uninteresting (only representing the view of a mathematical and scientific scum).
The forces are mutual, so math is not so friendly to me.
I used to wonder if I could be slightly more optimistic about my math grades if my math teacher could tell a story about the knowledge points.
Unfortunately, I never met a math teacher who was as good as I wanted until I graduated from college.
Although I didn't have to worry about my test scores after work, my shortcomings in math thinking still made me cringe at some point in my work and life.
Until recently, I accidentally came across a book related to math - "The Beauty of Formulas", which completely changed my bias towards math.
It turns out that formulas can be so beautiful, math can be very interesting!
This is a book published by Peking University Press and edited by Quantum School of Mathematics.
Through 23 universal, profound, and practical formulas, the book writes about the brilliant history of mathematical geniuses in different periods, exploring nature and society, and shows the simple beauty and important value of formulas to people.
When a book is in your hands, texture is the first impression.
The first thing that attracted me to The Beauty of Formulas was its heavy feel, the beautiful binding, and the colorful printing of the illustrations and text, all of which reflect its value and connotation.
Thus, with a feeling of cherishing and caring, I carefully read this book, and unknowingly entered a mysterious and magical world of mathematics.
The second thing that attracted me to this book is the beauty of analyzing mathematics and science with humanities. Behind every refined formula is a microcosm of an era, and the crystallization of a lifetime of exploration by mathematical geniuses.
It is also worth mentioning that, while this is a book of academic interest, the authors have used both rigorous and popular language, and humorous and grounded narration, to popularize the professional knowledge of mathematics and science.
It can be said to be a visual feast and mind blowing book.
Previously, the understanding of the formula, limited to the formula, is a series of numbers, letters, symbols composed of the need to memorize the tool.
How do I know that there are Zeno's Turtle, Schr?dinger's Cat, and Maxwell's Demon hidden behind these strange formulas?
But when we explore math as an art, we find the hidden beauty and splendor.
The Beauty of Formulas is divided into 2 parts: Theory and Application. 23 formulas lead us to recognize 60 famous mathematical scientists from ancient and modern times, as well as their more exciting stories written behind the formulas.
The book is divided into 2 parts: theory and application. 23 formulas lead us to know 60 famous mathematical scientists in the past and present, as well as more wonderful stories behind their formulas. ", " gravity ", " mass-energy equation ", but also the most beautiful " Euler's formula ", as well as still widely discussed " Law of Entropy Increase " and so on.
The most shocking thing to me is the "law of entropy". This entropy increase, which has been proven to be universal, was extrapolated to the universe by scientists, who came up with the theory of the thermal silence of the universe.
If the entire universe eventually comes to a standstill because of the irreversible growth of entropy, then hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution will be lost. Then hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution and civilization will be wiped out, and this is a desperate situation that people can not do anything about.
However, the Austrian physicist Schr?dinger gave the exhilarating answer of " life feeds on negentropy". In the inevitable homecoming of everything in the universe to a hot silence, human beings have remained unstable against the increase of entropy for the limited duration of their lives.
The formula of the law of entropy increase
Even if it is the Fool's Gold that moves mountains, or Sisyphus, the tenacity to live towards death never timidly stops, and it is the source of power that makes us human beings unceasingly alive.
The spirit of perseverance is reflected in the scientific field of human civilization, which is the embodiment of countless mathematical geniuses from ancient times to the present day, who continue to explore and research.
A Fermat's Theorem has compelled countless mathematical geniuses to challenge it for more than 300 years, spanning several centuries, making Euler, Gauss, and other well-known mathematical scientists compete.
It was not until 1995 that Wiles finally ended this long and difficult relay race.
Throughout the history of civilization in these centuries, it is the result of those genius scientists who led the way.
The 17th century is a history of Newton's mechanics, leading mankind into the age of steam;
The 19th century is a history of Maxwell's electromagnetism, enlightenment Edison, leading mankind into the electrical age;
The 20th century is a history of Einstein's theory of relativity, mass-energy equations led mankind into the age of nuclear energy ... ...
In the 21st century, human beings are doing what kind of research in the hall of science, and the mathematical formulas are giving guidance in what way?
I'm sure many of you, like me, have wondered what physicists have been up to in the last half-century.
Here we have to mention a Chinese physicist, the famous Yang Zhenning.
Perhaps many people's understanding of this name is limited to the fact that he is a physicist, and that in his old age he married a young wife 50 years younger than himself.
But relatively little is known about the achievements and contributions of this great physicist in the field of science.
Yang's research in the field of "canonical field theory" is known as one of the three greatest achievements of 20th century physics, along with relativity and the new quantum theory. His creation of Yang-Mills theory laid the cornerstone of canonical field theory.
If canonical field theory finally ushers in the grand unified theory that Einstein spent the rest of his life pursuing, where will human civilization go from here? What is the ultimate meaning of science?
Just wait for my generation and the generations to swim in the ocean of science, and stand on the shoulders of the predecessors to explore the endless mysteries.
The Beauty of Formulas, in the second part of the book, shows us the practical application of many formulas in modern society and cutting-edge fields.
For example, "Shannon's Formula", the master behind 5G, "Black-Scholes Equation", the heart of a mechanical watch, "Hooke's Law". "Chaos Theory" that brought about the Butterfly Effect, "Kelly's Formula" that governs casinos, "Bayes' Theorem" behind AI and Big Data, and "The Three-Body Problem" and BitTorrent. Three-Body Problem" and Bitcoin's cornerstone "Elliptic Curve Equation" ......
All the changes of the times that are taking place or are coming soon cannot be separated from these big and small, even a hundred years ago, the born mathematical and scientific formulas.
This book is not only a popularization of science, but also a shock and a wake-up call.
At a time when we are addicted to the entertainment explosion every day, and when our children are only focused on games and the Internet world, it is so necessary to have such a good book to set things right.
As the book's preface concludes:
In these increasingly frenetic times, formulas are one of the most important pieces of knowledge for reshaping the sanity of our times.
As long as there are still people who believe that formulas have forged the ladder of human wisdom, it means that the ladder of civilization can be extended indefinitely.
If you have children in primary and secondary schools, whether or not you are studying mathematics, it is worthwhile to read The Beauty of Formulas to your children.
Discovering the beauty of formulas and the beauty of math is the only way to love and aspire to science.
Of course, if you are a math lover yourself, this is also a great book to treasure.