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	Carl Friedrich Gauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gauss was a child prodigy, of whom there are many anecdotes pertaining to his astounding precocity while a mere toddler, and made his first ground-breaking mathematical discoveries while still a teenager.
		Gauss predicted correctly the position at which it could be found again, and it was rediscovered by Franz Xaver von Zach on December 31, 1801 in Gotha, and one day later by Heinrich Olbers in Bremen.
		Gauss was an ardent perfectionist and a hard worker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss (2674 words)

	PlanetMath: Gauss, Carl Friedrich
		Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in Braunschweig on April the 30th 1777 as the son of a poor worker.
		Gauss also worked on the theory of magnetism and found a representation for the unit of magnetism by the units of mass, length and time.
		Gauss mourned over her very much and it was more due to a feeling of duty and sympathy that he took his wife's best friend Minna as his second wife.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/CarlFriedrichGauss.html (825 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss
		Gauss earned a scholarship, and in college, he independently rediscovered several important theorems; his breakthrough occurred in 1796 when he correctly characterized all the regular polygons that can be constructed by ruler and compass alone, thereby completing work started by classical Greek mathematicians.
		In 1818, Gauss started a geodesic survey of the state of Hanover, work which later lead to the development of the normal distribution for describing measurement errors and an interest in differential geometry and his theorema egregrium establishing an important property of the notion of curvature.
		Gauss' personal life was overshadowed by the early death of his beloved first wife, Johanna Osthoff, in 1809, soon followed by the death of one child, Louis.
	www.rare-earth-magnets.com /magnet_university/carl_friedrich_gauss.htm (777 words)

	Wikinfo \| Carl Friedrich Gauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß) (April 30, 1777 - February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist with a wide range of contributions; he is considered to be one of the leading mathematicians of all time.
		Gauss was born in Braunschweig, Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg (now part of Germany) as only son of lower-class uneducated parents.
		Gauss earned a scholarship and in college, he independently rediscovered several important theorems; his breakthrough occurred in 1796 when he was able to show that any regular polygon, each of whose odd factors are distinct Fermat primes, can be constructed by ruler and compass alone, thereby adding to work started by classical Greek mathematicians.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Carl_Friedrich_Gauss (956 words)

	PlanetPapers - Carl Gauss
		Carl Gauss was a man who is known for making a great deal breakthroughs in the wide variety of his work in both mathematics and physics.
		Carl Gauss was born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the thirtieth of April, 1777, in Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany).
		Carl came to the conclusion that the sum of the integers was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to one hundred and one, thus simple multiplication followed and the answer could be found.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/648.php (1567 words)

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		Gauss was born into a family of town workers ranging from the peasant to the lower middle-class status.
		Gauss "closed the angel eyes in which for five years I have found a heaven" and was then plunged into a loneliness from which he never fully recovered.
		Gauss published only about half of his recorded innovative ideas (see figures) and in a style so austere that his readers were few.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/Vines/2977/gauss/g_bio.html (8681 words)

	Gauss, Carl Friedrich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Gauss was educated at the Caroline College, Brunswick, and the Univ. of Göttingen, his education and early research being financed by the Duke of Brunswick.
		This led to his extensive investigations in the theory of space curves and surfaces and his important contributions to differential geometry as well as to such practical results as his invention of the heliotrope, a device used to measure distances by means of reflected sunlight.
		During the last years of his life Gauss was concerned with topics now falling under the general heading of topology, which had not yet been developed at that time, and he correctly predicted that this subject would become of great importance in mathematics.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ga/Gauss-Ca.html (539 words)

	Gauss
		Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) is considered to be the greatest German mathematician of the nineteenth century.
		Gauss was born in Brunswick, Germany, on April 30, 1777, to poor, working-class parents.
		Gauss was so happy about and proud of his discovery that he gave up his intention to study languages and turned to mathematics.
	www.math.wichita.edu /history/men/gauss.html (557 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss
		Gauss was shattered and wrote to Olbers asking him give him a home for a few weeks, to gather new strength in the arms of your friendship - strength for a life which is only valuable because it belongs to my three small children.
		Gauss was married for a second time the next year, to Minna the best friend of Johanna, and although they had three children, this marriage seemed to be one of convenience for Gauss.
		Gauss confided in Schumacher, telling him that he believed his reputation would suffer if he admitted in public that he believed in the existence of such a geometry.
	www.shsu.edu /~icc_cmf/bio/gauss.html (2215 words)

	List of topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) is the eponym of all of the topics listed below.
		Gauss (unit), a unit of magnetic flux density.
		Gauss' theorem may refer to the divergence theorem, which is also known as the Ostrogradsky-Gauss theorem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaussian (157 words)

	Gauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Carl Gauss, a German mathematician, is noted for a wide range of contributions to physics, particularly the study of electromagnetism.
		Born in Braunschweig on April 30, 1777, Gauss studied ancient languages in college, but at the age of 17 he became interested in mathematics and attempted a solution of the classical problem of constructing a regular heptagon, or seven-sided figure, with ruler and compass.
		In 1807 Gauss was appointed professor of mathematics and director of the observatory at Göttingen, holding both positions until his death there on February 23, 1855.
	www.newlisbon.k12.wi.us /physicists/gauss.html (460 words)

	The Sesquicentennial of the Birth of Gauss
		Carl August was the only grandchild of the mathematician living in Germany and died at his home in Hameln on January 22, 1927; his younger son Wilhelm lived at home with him, and his daughter is the wife of Judge Noeller in Gummersbach.
		Gauss was an excellent father to his family; he loved social intercourse and conversation; in his home he was always glad whenever the simple meal was accompanied by some discussion or poetic subject.
		Gauss did not like to travel, and from 1828 (his trip to Berlin) until his death, only once did he spend a night away from the observatory, it being in 1854 when he attended the opening of a railroad and saw a locomotive for the first time.
	www.mathsong.com /cfgauss/Dunnington/1927 (5078 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss
		His teacher, Büttner, and his assistant, Martin Bartels, were amazed when Gauss summed the integers from 1 to 100 instantly by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to 101.
		Gauss had been asked in 1818 to carry out a geodesic survey of the state of Hanover to link up with the existing Danish grid.
		Gauss was excited by this prospect and by 1840 he had written three important papers on the subject: Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata (1832), Allgemeine Theorie des Erdmagnetismus (1839) and Allgemeine Lehrsätze in Beziehung auf die im verkehrten Verhältnisse des Quadrats der Entfernung wirkenden Anziehungs- und Abstossungskräfte (1840).
	www.corrosion-doctors.org /Biographies/GaussBio.htm (987 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss
		Gauss would not publish a result until it was complete and he was entirely satisfied with its presentation; consequently, much of his work was unpublished with a considerable amount discovered only after his death.
		Gauss could be a stern, demanding individual, and it is reported that this resulted in friction with two of his sons that caused them to leave Germany and come to the United States; they settled in the midwest and have descendants throughout the plains states.
		Their father, Gauss' grandson, had been a Methodist missionary to the region, and he had felt it unseemly to take pride in his famous ancestor (maybe there were some remnants of his father's feelings on leaving Germany); they were nevertheless happy to talk Gauss and their family.
	www.math.wfu.edu /~kuz/Stamps/Gauss/Gauss.html (728 words)

	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		At the academy Gauss independently discovered Bode's law, the binomial theorem and the arithmetic-geometric mean, as well as the law of quadratic reciprocity and the prime number theorem.
		Gauss left there in 1798 without a diploma, but by this time he had made one of his most important discoveries - the construction of a regular 17-gon by ruler and compass.
		Gauss was excited by this prospect and by 1840 he had written three important papers on the subject.
	www.stetson.edu /~efriedma/periodictable/html/Ga.html (820 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss
		On the obverse was a portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss and the equation of his famous error curve.
		Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in 1777 into a poor family (his father was a gardener) in the German city of Braunschweig (Brunswick).
		Gauss was too much of a mathematician to fall in love with the mechanics of triangulation.
	www.surveyhistory.org /carl_friedric.htm (988 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss
		Gauss was able to prove that every number is the sum of at most three triangular numbers.
		Gauss employed his technique to calculate the oribit of the asteroid, Ceres.
		Gauss was infact the man who arrived at the conclusions about Euclid's Fifth Postulate and could disprove for certain cases.
	www.philosophyprofessor.com /philosophers/carl-friedrich-gauss.php (407 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss
		Gauss was born in Brunswick, Germany as the only son of poor peasants living in miserable conditions.
		When Gauss was ten years old he was allowed to attend an arithmetic class taught by a man (Buttner) who had a reputation for being cynical and having little respect for the peasant children he was teaching.
		In 1799, Gauss got his doctorate; his dissertation was a brilliant proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra.
	www.sonoma.edu /Math/faculty/falbo/gauss.html (809 words)

	Fermat's Last Theorem: Carl Friedrich Gauss
		Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on April 17, 1777 to poor, working class parents in Brauschweig, Germany.
		Gauss is considered to be one of the three greatest mathematicians of all time.
		Gauss studied data abouts its orbit and was able to predict a second possible sighting which was confirmed on December 31, 1801.
	fermatslasttheorem.blogspot.com /2005/06/carl-friedrich-gauss.html (710 words)

	Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
		German mathematician who is sometimes called the "prince of mathematics." He was a prodigious child, at the age of three informing his father of an arithmetical error in a complicated payroll calculation and stating the correct answer.
		Gauss proved that every number is the sum of at most three triangular numbers
		Gauss is reported to have said "There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians: Archimedes, Newton and Eisenstein" (Boyer 1968, p.
	www.treasure-troves.com /bios/Gauss.html (575 words)

	International Mathematical Union (IMU) Carl Friederich Gauss Prize for Application of Mathematics
		The Gauss Prize, to be awarded for the first time in 2006, has been created to help the rest of the world realize this fundamental fact.
		Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
		The method of least squares, developed by Gauss as an aid in his mapping of the state of Hannover, is still an indispensable tool for analyzing data.
	www.mathunion.org /medals/Gauss/index.html (389 words)

	AllRefer.com - Carl Friedrich Gauss (Mathematics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Carl Friedrich Gauss[kArl frE´drikh gous] Pronunciation Key, born Johann Friederich Carl Gauss, 1777–1855, German mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
		Gauss was educated at the Caroline College, Brunswick, and the Univ. of GOttingen, his education and early research being financed by the Duke of Brunswick.
		Following the death of the duke in 1806, Gauss became director (1807) of the astronomical observatory at GOttingen, a post he held until his death.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Gauss-Ca.html (604 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss - Wikiquote
		As quoted in Gauss zum Gedächtniss (1856) by Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen; Variants: Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
		For Gauss, the jewels in the crown were the primes, numbers which had fascinated and teased generations of mathematicians.
		Gauss gave an estimate for the number of primes, Riemann predicted that the guess is at worst the square root of N off its mark, Littlewood showed that you can't do better than this.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss (1524 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss Papers, Cammie G. Henry Research Center
		Gauss was appointed director of the University of Göttingen observatory and professor of mathematics.
		Gauss and Physicist Wilhelm Weber collaborated in 1833 to produce the electro-magnetic telegraph.
		Gauss and his achievements are commemorated in currency, stamps and monuments across Germany.
	www.nsula.edu /watson_library/gauss (333 words)

	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
		He showed sings of genius from a very early age; when he was only 3 years old Gauss was already able to read and on one occasion he spotted a calculation error his father made (when he was 3!!!).
		However, the Duke of Brunswick paid for Gauss to enter College when he was 15 years old.
		Gauss did work on proofs in number theory, and developed ideas for non-Euclidian geometry.
	www.bath.ac.uk /~ma3acma/g.html (422 words)

	Gauss, Carl Friedrich.
		While still attending Caroline College (1792-95), Gauss formulated the least-squares method and a conjecture on the distribution of prime numbers among all numbers; the latter was proved by Jacques Hadamard in 1896.
		In 1795, Gauss discovered the fundamental theorem of quadratic residues, which deals with the concept of congruence in number theory.
		In 1799 the University of Helmstedt granted Gauss a Ph.D. degree for a dissertation that gave the first proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra.
	euler.ciens.ucv.ve /English/mathematics/gauss.html (426 words)

	Schiller Institute -Pedagogy - Gauss's Fundamental Theorem of A;gebra
		It was Gauss' unique contribution, to devise a metaphor, from which to represent these higher forms of physical action, so those actions could be represented, by their reflections, in the visible domain.
		Gauss demonstrated the physical meaning of the [[square root of]] -1, not in the visible domain of squares, but in the cognitive domain, of the principle of squaring.
		Gauss demonstrated that all algebraic powers, of any degree, when projected onto his complex domain, could be represented by an action similar to that just demonstrated for squaring.
	www.schillerinstitute.org /educ/pedagogy/gauss_fund_bmd0402.html (3122 words)

	Amazon.com: Carl Friedrich Gauss: Books: Tord Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Gauss, in the eyes of Hall, was the third greatest mathematician of all time, behind only Archimedes and Isaac Newton.
		Gauss could not resolve the conflict of wanting to preserve the priority of his own work and yet also wanting to praise important work done independently.
		Carl Friedrich Gauss is undisputed one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262080400?v=glance (1004 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) - German Mathematician, Astronomer and Physicist
		Gauss earned a scholarship and in college, he independently rediscovered several important theorems.
		Gauss was the first to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra; in fact, he produced four entirely different proofs for this theorem over his lifetime, clarifying the concept of complex number considerably along the way.
		In 1818, Gauss started a geodesic survey of the state of Hanover, work which later led to the development of the normal distribution for describing measurement errors and an interest in differential geometry and his theorema egregrium establishing an important property of the notion of curvature.
	www.germannotes.com /hist_carl_gauss.shtml (824 words)

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