{"id":32,"date":"2008-05-14T21:38:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T19:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zavie.free.fr\/lousodrome\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-05-14T21:38:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T19:38:39","slug":"anecdotes-de-la-science-le-petit-gauss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/anecdotes-de-la-science-le-petit-gauss\/","title":{"rendered":"Anecdotes de la Science &#8211; Le petit Gauss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nous sommes dans les ann\u00e9es 1780, en ce qui est aujourd&rsquo;hui l&rsquo;Allemagne. M. B\u00fcttner est instituteur. Ses \u00e9l\u00e8ves \u00e9tant ce jour l\u00e0 quelque peu dissip\u00e9s, il leur demande d&rsquo;additionner les nombres de 1 \u00e0 100, esp\u00e9rant bien obtenir un peu de calme.<\/p>\n<p>Seulement voil\u00e0, \u00e0 peine quelques instants plus tard, alors que tous devraient \u00eatre en train de plancher pour encore un moment sur le probl\u00e8me, l&rsquo;un deux pr\u00e9tend avoir le r\u00e9sultat&nbsp;: 5050. Le petit Carl Friedrich aura sans doute remarqu\u00e9 que si l&rsquo;on additionne 1 et 100, 2 et 99, 3 et 98, et ainsi de suite, on obtient toujours 101, et donc d\u00e9duit que la somme demand\u00e9e vaut 101 \u00d7 50. Il inventait alors malgr\u00e9 lui la m\u00e9thode de calcul de la somme des termes d&rsquo;une suite arithm\u00e9tique, aujourd&rsquo;hui enseign\u00e9e au lyc\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/Carl%20Friedrich%20Gauss.jpg\" alt=\"Carl Friedrich Gauss\" align=\"right\" height=\"192\" width=\"150\" \/>L&rsquo;histoire c\u00e9l\u00e8bre de ce gamin laissant son instituteur et son assistant stup\u00e9faits est peut-\u00eatre exag\u00e9r\u00e9e, voire tout simplement invent\u00e9e. Ce qui est certain par contre, c&rsquo;est que par la suite Gauss, auteur entre autres de th\u00e9or\u00e8mes majeurs et d&rsquo;une conjecture d\u00e9montr\u00e9e un si\u00e8cle plus tard, a fait avancer de fa\u00e7on consid\u00e9rable les math\u00e9matiques, au point d&rsquo;\u00eatre aujourd&rsquo;hui consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme l&rsquo;un des plus grands g\u00e9nies de l&rsquo;histoire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss\" title=\"Wikip\u00e9dia&nbsp;: Carl Friedrich Gauss\">Article \u00ab\u00a0Carl Friedrich Gauss\u00a0\u00bb sur Wikip\u00e9dia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>L&rsquo;histoire des sciences regorge d&rsquo;anecdotes de ce genre&nbsp;; je me propose d&rsquo;en rappeler quelques unes au cours des prochains billets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nous sommes dans les ann\u00e9es 1780, en ce qui est aujourd&rsquo;hui l&rsquo;Allemagne. M. B\u00fcttner est instituteur. Ses \u00e9l\u00e8ves \u00e9tant ce jour l\u00e0 quelque peu dissip\u00e9s, il leur demande d&rsquo;additionner les nombres de 1 \u00e0 100, esp\u00e9rant bien obtenir un peu &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/anecdotes-de-la-science-le-petit-gauss\/\">Continuer la lecture <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,20,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anecdotes de la Science - Le petit Gauss - Lousodrome<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/anecdotes-de-la-science-le-petit-gauss\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anecdotes de la Science - Le petit Gauss - Lousodrome\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nous sommes dans les ann\u00e9es 1780, en ce qui est aujourd&rsquo;hui l&rsquo;Allemagne. 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