Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 1087 Mathematics Temple
The location of the Department of Mathematics was originally the residence of a high-ranking official, but it was confiscated as government land, and then used as a special land for mathematics.

At this time, it was the time of enrollment in the Imperial University, and according to the gradually formed practice, the lecturers of each department had to meet the new students.

"The number of people in our mathematics department is still so small. This year, only a dozen or so people signed up, and I asked Mr. Junzhu to ask for [-] people from other departments. Seeing that the students of other departments are growing, our mathematics department is very small. Few, is it true that the world is not interested in this subject?"

"The only surprise this time is that after three years, our mathematics department has another female student, which may be the third female student since the establishment of our mathematics department. Agnesi, do you have the intention to introduce her? Your "Analysis Lectures" is easy for people to understand, and it is most suitable for students who have just entered the university."

A group of lecturers from the mathematics department had gathered in the back hall to meet the incoming students.They all looked at a 30-year-old female lecturer when they talked about another female student in three years.

This female lecturer has a good face, a good figure, and an intellectual temperament, which is different from the group of lecturers in the Mathematics School.

Italian female mathematician Agnesi, whose father is a professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna, she understands Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, German and Latin, learned ballistics and geometry very early, and compiled thousands of pages The teaching material about calculus can be said to be a strange woman.

Of course, there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the Department of Mathematics, with an unprecedentedly luxurious lineup, and Agnesi's achievements are lower than most of the scientists present.But as a woman, it was unimaginable for her to achieve such feats in her day.Also because of her female identity, the first two female students in the Department of Mathematics were led by Agnesi herself.This time the third female student entered the mathematics department, and all the lecturers followed the usual practice to ask Agnesi, the only female lecturer in the mathematics department.

"Are you mocking me for my lack of scholarship?" Agnesi said coldly.

"How dare we, every time we want to recruit in-person students, don't we let you choose first?" The male lecturers around said one after another.

"Pure mathematics is a very painful thing. It requires talent and hard work to achieve something. Many of us have a love of mathematics since childhood to be able to get to where we are today. The field of study is even more than limited. In addition to mathematics, there are also physics and astronomy. For ordinary people in this era, especially in the more practical East, it is difficult to find people who are really interested in this subject. Many of them just want to enter the university. Tang can embark on an official career or make visible and tangible contributions. Although the two students I lead are qualified, they still lack something. As you said, I can guide them to the beginning." Agnesi said.

In any field, a bunch of people go in, and there are only a few people who can really stand out.

"Don't be so discouraged. This is the first time that the East has set up a subject such as mathematics independently. In the past, they focused on arithmetic and did not pay enough attention to mathematics. But their population is large. Once they realize the importance of mathematics to astronomy, physics, and medicine, they will definitely Pay attention to the cultivation of mathematical talents, and after one or two generations of accumulation, a group of outstanding mathematicians will emerge. By then, our mathematics department will definitely become an important department of the Jingshi University." The current director of the mathematics department is Swiss Mathematics Euler, the central figure in the 18th century mathematics, inherited the achievements of Newton, Leibniz and others, and at the same time started the development of mathematics in the 19th century.

"I don't know how qualified the new female student is. Since I came to this world, it is my mission to spread the knowledge I have learned... Passing it down from generation to generation, this land should be able to produce mathematicians much better than us in the future. said Agnesi.

The new students in the mathematics department were whispering in the front hall, discussing how many lecturers there are in the mathematics department and what kind of personality they have.

Liu Rushi was also among them, and she was a little embarrassed to be surrounded by many male students like stars.

"It is said that Euler, the head of our department, has many works, but he has bad eyesight. There is also a lecturer named Cauchy, whose speech is very short, often intermittent, and confusing. It is very painful to communicate with this kind of person. There is also a lecturer named Riemann, who likes to be alone, and may have hypochondria..."

"These lecturers have a lot of personal research results, but I heard that many lecturers don't like to give lectures. They may feel that the understanding of junior students is limited. Some lecturers simply don't like to communicate with people."

Some of the new students, who had already learned about the characters of the lecturers from the senior students, whispered privately.

Liu Rushi was a little overwhelmed when he heard it. Why did the mathematics department seem to be a gathering place for weirdos from the personalities of these lecturers?Will I become such a weirdo in the future?
"The only female lecturer is Agnesi. It seems that she has a lot of experience in guiding us students into advanced mathematics. If she can teach us in person, maybe we can get started faster." Another student talked about the lonely Mathematicians think that a female lecturer named Agnesi will be more patient when dealing with low-level students.

While the new students were discussing the lecturers, dozens of mathematicians gathered in the back hall came out to meet the new students.There are even more mathematicians than new trainees.

"I am Euler, the director of the mathematics department. Welcome to the palace of mathematics. Maybe there are not many people in our mathematics department at this time, and most of the students are still assigned... Cough cough, but the teachers in our mathematics department are more than excellent. Most departments have strong teachers." Euler, the head of the department, introduced the lecturers of the Department of Mathematics to everyone, "Bernoulli, Gauss, Lagrange, Fermat, Laplace, Cauchy, Riemann, Poisson... …Originally, there is Mr. Newton to introduce to you, he is also a lecturer in our mathematics department, but he is now the head of the physics department, and he wants to meet new students in physics.”

Liu Rushi and other new students don't know how luxurious the lineup is before them. In order to train local mathematicians, Chu Yun has already wiped out mathematicians from various countries in the 18th and 19th centuries.Except for the absence of mathematicians in the 20th century, the group of mathematicians in front of them is already top-level configuration, and almost all of them are the ancestors of various genres.

Agnesi is observing Liu Rushi among the new students.Because only Liu Ru was a woman, Agnesi saw her right away.Would it be a suitable person to be a mathematician?Agnesi murmured.

(End of this chapter)