Brief biography of mathematicians gauss
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| Carl Friedrich Gauss | |
|---|---|
| Mathematician | |
| Specialty | Math & physics |
| Born | Apr.
30, 1777 |
| Died | Feb.Brief biography of mathematicians gauss23, 1855 (at age 77) |
| Nationality | German |
Born on April 30, 1777, in Brunswick, (then part of the Holy Roman Empire, now in Lower Saxony, Germany), Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss became one of the most prominent mathematicians since the classic Greek mathematicians.
Gauss wrote pivotal works in diverse scientific fields such as differential geometry, algebra, analysis, modular arithmetic, statistics, geophysics, geodesy, optics, planetary astronomy, electromagnetism and number theory, to which he remained devoted until his death.
Early Life
Widely known as the “prince of mathematicians,” Gauss was the only child and the child prodigy of a poor yet close-knit German working-class family. He pioneered the proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra, which consists of the