1840Indian rebirth

Later, the Apache soldiers did discuss mathematics and physics with the captured white artillerymen.

Of course, they sent the most outstanding person in this field - they were not so confident that they thought that any person's level of mathematics and physics could defeat the white artillery.

"The forehead lines are up to you." The Apache soldiers patted a young man on the shoulder, "You are one of the top five men in the mathematics and physics training class. Don't let down the chief's teachings."

"It's not the top five, it's the fifth place." He corrected his forehead. He frowned, making his forehead full of wrinkles.

He looked at the white artillerymen in front of him: "Let's make a bet."

"What's the bet?" the white artillerymen looked at each other and then asked.

Head tattoo: "You also send a representative out, and then he and I will give each other questions. Whoever can't answer the question will have to admit defeat and pay one dollar."

"Ten dollars!" the Apache soldier behind him shouted, "One dollar is too stingy. If you don't have any money, I'll give it to you!"

"That's right, ten dollars!"

The forehead lines were heckled by their companions. Seeing their confident appearance, the white artillerymen were a little unconvinced and pushed out a young man: "Gauss, let them see how powerful you are!"

The forehead tattoo was startled by the name: "You...are you Gauss?"

Gauss seemed a little reluctant, but decided to fight: "It seems that you are not ignorant of mathematics, but I am not the great Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, but Hans Gauss. It is an honor.

It’s just a coincidence.”

Gauss is still alive and has completed most of his contributions. He is a living god in the academic world at this time. Anyone who has a little understanding of mathematics must have heard of his reputation.

The wrinkles on his forehead showed embarrassment, and he felt that his reaction just now was a bit embarrassing. You should have thought with your toes, how could Gauss appear among the prisoners of Sutter Castle?

His reaction was truly embarrassing.

The artilleryman Gauss in front of him had undoubtedly secretly despised him, so he said casually: "Okay, let me ask you to prove the Pythagorean theorem."

Gauss felt that proving the Pythagorean Theorem should be the insurmountable limit for this Indian.

Other artillerymen thought so too.

If it weren't for the identity of the prisoners, they might have laughed openly in advance.

Even so, there was still a faint look on their faces that looked forward to making a fool of themselves, as if they would soon see the embarrassment they would feel when they couldn't answer the question.

However, what happened next was far beyond their expectations.

He took a pen and paper and completed the proof of the Pythagorean Theorem without saying a word, using a schematic diagram and just a few lines of words.

Moreover, a new method was used to complete a simple and efficient proof using the area of ​​a right-angled trapezoid.

Gauss looked at the short proof on the paper and his eyes widened in disbelief: "Who taught you this... this proof?"

"Of course it's our great chief, the one who left just now." Qianwen said, "I'm just an ordinary student of the great chief."

The method used to prove forehead tattoos is actually the later "Presidential Certificate", proposed by US President James Garfield in 1876.

To people in the 19th century, proving the Pythagorean theorem was not a big deal, but the proof was novel and simple, and it also won Garfield some good reputations.

The President of the United States can still gain a good reputation through this. It is obviously a bit of a miracle that an Indian came up with this proof.

Looking at the proof in front of him, Gauss fell into silence.

He realized that these Indians were really different, much more different than he had imagined.

"Okay... now it's your turn to ask the question." Gauss said a little reluctantly, he had a premonition that something might be wrong with him.

The wrinkles on the forehead smiled slightly, and the starting point was a physics problem.

A simple application question on the law of conservation of energy.

If Ma Shao were asked to evaluate this question, there is no doubt that it would be a question of giving points.

However, people in this era basically do not know the law of conservation of energy.

It cannot be said that it does not exist. Strictly speaking, this law existed several years ago.

However, the law of conservation of energy at this time is not perfect enough and not popular enough. At least it has not yet become one of the most recognized and basic physical laws.

Top physicists know this law, but this artilleryman with the same name as Gauss is obviously not one of them.

So when he tried to solve the problem, he just felt that his mind was in a mess and he didn't know where to start, as if this was an unsolvable problem at all.

He wrote a lot on paper and listed various equations, but when simplified, they all ended up with results like "x=x".

Gauss took a deep breath: "The question maker cannot ask questions that he does not know. I think this should be a self-evident basic rule, right?"

The forehead wrinkles nodded: "That's right."

Gauss asked again: "So, can you do this question?"

Head wrinkles: "Of course, this is very simple... You admit that you can't solve this question, right?"

Gauss was silent for a moment: "Yes... then, tell me your answer."

I solved the problem with three clicks, five and two divisions. In just a few lines, I got the result: "This is the law of conservation of energy. In fact, if you pay more attention to the news about physics, you should have heard of it."

"Energy...conservation?" Gauss looked confused, unable to understand this concept.

However, this does not prevent him from performing calculations and verifying the correctness of the answers.

"You lost, right?" forehead wrinkles said with a smile.

"I..." Gauss was speechless.

Several white artillerymen couldn't help but said: "No way, Gauss, you actually lost? Are you worthy of your last name?"

"God, you lost to the Indians!"

"Aren't you always very confident in your mathematics and physics?"

Gauss grabbed his hair and said distressedly: "I really can't grasp this question...Conservation? What does this mean?"

"I'll do it!" The other artillerymen couldn't hold themselves back and tried to solve the problem, but they were as confused as Gauss and couldn't come up with the answer.

The forehead tattoo said: "White people, do you still think that we are illiterate and barbarians? Or, if we are illiterate and barbarians, who are you?"

Several artillerymen were speechless.

The mental blow is often more severe than the physical blow.

They can be forced to submit to the barbarians by force. In their view, the barbarians are like wild beasts, and humans will not be ashamed of being defeated by strong beasts.

But now, the beasts that had just defeated them with force defeated them with mathematics and physics.

This gave them a feeling of being shattered.

"Arrogant but stupid idiots, your level of mathematics and physics is lower than I thought. You are not even qualified to be a student of the Great Chief!" He said with contempt. He felt that this was better than killing the enemy with bullets.

More enjoyable.