Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 157

If a person knows the greatness of science, then it may be difficult to immerse himself in love, especially those sad loves.

Lockhart didn't respond directly to Snape much, but took Snape back into the box and started playing him a documentary, this time about certain scientists.

First, Lockhart showed Snape a documentary called "The Origin of the Wolf Keller Award".

Wolf Keller, a German, is a college student majoring in mathematics. He was once obsessed with a beautiful girl. To his dismay, he was rejected countless times and felt helpless, so he decided to commit suicide.

As a strict German, he decided to end his life as soon as midnight the next day, not a minute or a second away.

On the same day, Wolf Keller finished dealing with some of his last business matters, made a will, arranged the inheritance, wrote a farewell letter to every relative and friend and sent it out, and then found that there was still a long way to go before zero. a couple of hours.

So Wolf Keller casually opened a book and read it. This book published a mathematical paper by Kummer, proving why Cauchy and Lame could not prove Fermat's last theorem.

At the moment when the zero o'clock was about to strike, Wolf Keller, a graduate of the Department of Mathematics, suddenly discovered that Kummer's proof was logically wrong!So he kept calculating until dawn, and finally helped Kummer make up for this loophole.

Wolf Keller was ecstatic, feeling that beauty and wealth were just floating clouds, decided not to commit suicide, and donated 10 marks as a reward for the first person to prove Fermat's last theorem.

This is the origin of the famous Wolf Keller Award in the history of mathematics. Later, Kummer's paper became a must-read paper for mathematics lovers before committing suicide.

Snape couldn't help but nodded, even though he didn't quite understand Fermat's Last Theorem.

Later, Lockhart showed Snape a documentary about Newton.

The famous British scientist, perhaps the greatest scientist in the world, Newton never married and even died a virgin.

Newton served as the director of the Royal Mint and the president of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom, which is equivalent to the governor of the central bank and the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Various European celebrities are flocking to Newton.

Rumor has it that a noblewoman tried to push Newton down by force, and Newton stuffed the noblewoman's finger into a pipe.

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Discover and prove the law of universal gravitation, know the law of the universe, and calculate the weight of the earth. Which of these is not more interesting than chatting, eating and walking with a girl?

Calculus, binomial theorem, various identities and cubic curves, these made Newton put it down. Mathematics can allow people to better explain the world, and women will only hinder these.

With a wave of your hand, you can decompose light from white to its other colors. This is also Newton's great achievement. Turning light from white to seven colors, how smart is it to see your girlfriend's face when she is angry?And this was just discovered by Newton.

Even things like the astronomical telescope were invented by Newton.

After Newton's death, he was buried in Westminster Abbey in London, and the funeral was also solemnly held in Westminster Abbey.

Thousands of ordinary citizens and palace nobles wept for him, and they poured into the streets and churches.

Kings, dukes, famous scholars, scientists, and generals competed to carry Newton's coffin, and regarded it as the greatest honor.

Voltaire, a French Enlightenment thinker, was visiting England, and he witnessed this touching scene with his own eyes.In his diary, he recorded: "I saw that the British mourned Newton as they mourned a king who benefited the people." "I saw that the big men in Britain were all vying to carry Newton's coffin."

Voltaire himself could not refrain from reverently plucking a leaf from Newton's laurel wreath as a memorial to his permanent collection.

On Newton's tombstone, there is an epitaph written by the poet Alexander Pope: Nature and the laws of nature are hidden in darkness; God said, "Let Newton come!" So, everything becomes light.

There is also a more localized translation of this sentence in China - Newton was not born in the sky, and natural science is like a long night.

Leibniz was Newton's enemy, and there was a very bitter dispute between them about who invented calculus first.But he wrote: "From the beginning of the world to the time of Newton's life, the contribution to the development of mathematics is overwhelmingly due to Newton."

A majestic monument was erected in his honor four years after Newton's death, with an epitaph summarizing his life;
Sir Isaac Newton,
Buried here.

With his superhuman intelligence,
The first to demonstrate the motion and shape of the planets;

Comet orbits and ocean tides.

He studied tirelessly,

various angles of refraction of light,
The various properties of color.

let the people cheer,
There was such a one,
The great light of humanity.

After Newton's documentary finished, Lockhart didn't play the next one immediately, because it seemed that there was no need for it.

Snape was so excited that he couldn't get any more excited. He was like a spring, bouncing up and down the room without stopping. He was still there, and even started to fiddle with various equipment and medicines on the laboratory table.

Lockhart knew that the real Snape was coming back for good.

What Snape really loves is not Lily, but the honors brought by various researches and follow-ups, which is why Snape ignored Lily's objection in the early days and joined the Death Eaters to follow Voldemort, because he loves these researches and honor.

Lily, it was just a kind of expectation and longing for beauty in his childhood, just like many people's first love or first secret love, what he loves is not that person, but a feeling at that time.

Between Lily and Research and Honor, Snape had made a choice back in Hogwarts.If Snape really loved Lily more than anything, why didn't he leave the Death Eaters and be generous with Lily long ago at Hogwarts?

It was never love that bothered Snape, but a regret that I could have, a regret that I missed.

Now, Snape once again threw himself into research and honor and arms.

(End of this chapter)