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Karl Gauss: Biography
Karl Gauss lived from 1777 to 1855. He was a German mathematician,
physician, and astronomer. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on April 30th,
1777. His family was poor and uneducated. His father was a gardener and a
merchant's assistant.
At a young age, Gauss taught himself how to read and count, and it ....
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.... not be recognized for decades because of his lack of
publicity and publication experience. He discovered what we now call Bode's Law,
and the principle of squares, which we use to find the best fitting curve to a
group of observations.
Having just finished some work in quadratic residues in 1795, Karl Gauss
moved to the University to access the works of previous mathematicians. He
quickly began work on a book about the theory of numbers, which is seen as his
greatest accomplishment. This book was a summary of the work that had been
established up to the time, ....
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