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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Born: 30 April 1777 in Town, Duchy discern Brunswick (now Germany)
Died: 23 Feb 1855 behave Göttingen, Royalty (now Germany)
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist (1777–1855)
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Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen, 1840 (copy from Gottlieb Biermann, 1887)[1] | |
| Born | Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-04-30)30 April 1777 Brunswick, Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire |
| Died | 23 February 1855(1855-02-23) (aged 77) Göttingen, Kingdom of Hanover, German Confederation |
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| Known for | Full list |
| Spouses | Johanna Osthoff (m. 1805; died 1809)Minna Waldeck (m. 1810; died 1831) |
| Children | 6 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Astronomy, Geodesy, Magnetism |
| Institutions | University of Göttingen |
| Thesis | Demonstratio nova... (1799) |
| Doctoral advisor | Johann Friedrich Pfaff |
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (;[2] German: Gauß[kaʁlˈfʁiːdʁɪçˈɡaʊs]ⓘ;[3][4]Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German math
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Birthdate
- 1777
- Birthplace
- Duchy of Braunschweig, Germany
- Death date
- 1855
Biography
Carl Friedrich Gauss was a scientist and mathematician at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Germany. He is most famous for his groundbreaking work in the fields of algebra, statistics, differential geometry, number theory, electrostatics and optics.
Gauss was born in the Duchy of Braunschweig, now in Lower Saxony, Germany in 1777. He was the son of poor working class parents who did not even note his exact date of birth, which Gauss later calculated on his own. Gauss was a prodigious child and started making mathematical discoveries from his teenage years. He finished his magnum opus on number theory titled Disquisitiones Arithmeticae when he was only twenty-one. The Duke of Braunschweig, very impressed upon meeting Gauss, sponsored him at the Collegium Carolinum and after that Gauss attended the University of Gottingen. While at university, Gauss made the discovery that regular polygons with a number of sides that is a Fermat prime can be constructed with a compass. Gauss himself considered this a very significant discovery and wanted a regular heptadecagon (a polygon with 17 sides) to be inscribed on his tombstone. Gauss also proved tha