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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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