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astronomy. Gauss was born on April 30, 1777 in mathematics and humanities. Six months
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Brunswick, Germany. His mother was Dorothea later, Gauss solved a problem that bothered
Benze. His father was Gebhard Gauss. His mathematicians for 2000 years— about a
father handled many part-time jobs at the regular 7-sided shape. He also found more
same time. formulas for graphics in turn.
Gauss has a great talent for mathematics Number theory is Gauss' favourite field.
and knew how to calculate before he learned He also said a famous saying based on this:
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to speak. At the age of 7, Gauss started at St. mathematics is the queen of sciences and
Katherine ’s Public School. He often tells number theory is the queen of mathematics.
humorous things in school; his teacher Mr. In 1801, he published one of the greatest
Buttner saw the talent of Gauss and felt that books in the history of mathematics—-
he should be given a chance to show, so he Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, he used
called Gauss’s father to discuss this matter. classical Latin to write this book. This book
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Gauss’s father didn't know much about Gauss's recorded some proof of his earlier
talents, but he agreed and waived Gauss's discoveries. Gauss only published works that
part-time job. Mr. Buttner promised that he he thought were perfect, which led to many
could find a wealthy donor to allow Gauss to great works of Gauss being updated after his
continue his studies because Gauss was a death. In 1809, he published a very
talented mathematician. When Gauss was 10 important book on celestial movement --
years old, he could independently derive the theory of motion of the celestial bodies. In
binomial theorem, which is a very amazing 1831, Gauss began applying mathematical
thing. At the age of 11, Gauss was studying at problems to the real world and studied
the Martino-Katharineum grammar school. He physics. In 1832, Gauss conducted an
mastered mathematics, ancient Greek, latin experiment demonstrating that the Earth's
and modern languages. Gauss had a college magnetic field can be defined in a purely
degree when he was 15 years old and mechanical dimension. There were many
completed a mathematics degree when he was inventions in Gauss' life, such as: one of the
18 years old. earliest telegraph systems in the world, and
After graduating, Gauss began to pursue a a letter code, he discovered the voltage and
doctorate. He had more knowledge than most prime number theorem. Gaussian theorem,
people, and he stayed in a reading room every Gaussian distribution, and Gaussian
day and read books about modern magnetic theorem were created.
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