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1) Newton cooks an egg

The English physicist Isaac Newton at work often forgot everything else, even eating and drinking. One morning he again did not come for breakfast. Then his wife brought a pot of water and an egg in the study, where the scholar had a small stove for his experiments. The woman took Newton’s clock, put it next to the egg and said, "Here is an egg and here your clock. Place the pot on the stove and cook the egg 3 minutes!" Then she went out. After some time she came back into the room. Newton was sitting at the table reading. In his left hand he held the book in his right he held the egg. In the pot on the stove ............... cooked his clock.

2) The first honestly earned coin

The great German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss was, of course, once a child like all people. Gauss’ father was a bricklayer. Since he was always industrious, he soon became foreman. Now he had to calculate the wages of masons every evening after work. For the three-year-old Karl Friedrich, this was the finest time of the evening, when the father was sitting at the table and counted. He climbed on his father's knees, looked at the paper with the lot of numbers and calculated with him. The three- year-old could really already count! He often painted numbers on the house wall with chalk, or wrote them in the sand with a stick. Numbers were his favourite toys. One evening father Gauss was very tired and while counting he fell asleep. While he was sleeping, his son continued the calculation. Suddenly the boy cried! "Father, look, you've made ​​a mistake: A five must stand here. You've written a three!" Shocked Gauss opened his eyes. He considered the calculation, and really, Karl Friedrich, his three- year-old son had found an error! He stroked his boy tenderly, reached into his pocket and gave him a new coin. Karl Friedrich did not buy any candy for it. He kept it well. Later, as a famous man, he had this coin still with him, in memory of his first mathematical performance.

3) Race with the wire

Karl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber worked in Gottingen, among others, on the invention of telegraphy by means of the magnetic needle. Most of the time professor Gauss stayed in the observatory, which was on the periphery, and Professor Weber in his laboratory in the city centre. Mickelmann, the servant of the observatory had to run constantly with messages from one to the other. Finally the big day arrived. The first telegram at high voltage should be sent from the observatory to the laboratory. Gauss sent Mickelmann to his colleagues to learn the result. The good servant hurried himself quite excited. When he arrived in the laboratory, out of breath, the magnetic needle had not stirred. But a few minutes later, it hit out. The historic telegram read: "Mickelmann is coming!"

 

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