![]() Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick (Braunschweig), in the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (now part of Lower Saxony, Germany), to a family of lower social status. He believed that the act of learning, not possession of knowledge, provided the greatest enjoyment.īiography Youth and education House of birth in Brunswick (destroyed in World War II) Caricature of Abraham Gotthelf Kästner by Gauss (1795) Although he published extensively during his life, he left behind several works to be published posthumously.Īlthough Gauss was known to dislike teaching, some of his students became influential mathematicians. Gauss invented the heliotrope in 1821, a magnetometer in 1833 and, alongside Wilhelm Eduard Weber, invented the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833. He is considered one of its discoverers alongside Nikolai Lobachevsky and János Bolyai. He also anticipated non-Euclidean geometry, and was the first to analyze it, even coining the term. His work on the motion of planetoids disturbed by large planets led to the introduction of the Gaussian gravitational constant and the method of least squares, which he discovered before Adrien-Marie Legendre published on the method, and which is still used in all sciences to minimize measurement error. He is credited with inventing the fast Fourier transform algorithm and was instrumental in the discovery of the dwarf planet Ceres. Gauss published the second and third complete proofs of the fundamental theorem of algebra, made contributions to number theory and developed the theories of binary and ternary quadratic forms. Later he was director of the Göttingen Observatory and professor at the university for nearly half a century, from 1807 until his death in 1855. ![]() Gauss completed his masterpieces Disquisitiones Arithmeticae and Theoria motus corporum coelestium as a private scholar. ![]() While still a student at the University of Göttingen, he propounded several mathematical theorems. Gauss was a child prodigy in mathematics. He has been referred to as the "Prince of Mathematicians". Gauss ranks among history's most influential mathematicians. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (German: Gauß ⓘ Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician, geodesist, and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. ![]()
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