(1777 - 1855)
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| Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) |
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| Generally considered to be one of the three greatest mathematicians of all time, along with Archimedes and Newton. He is often called the �prince of mathematicians�. A child prodigy, Gauss reportedly could do arithmetic before he could talk. At the age of 3 he corrected an error in his father�s calculation for the company payroll. At the age of 7, he found the formula for the arithmetic sum of numbers. At the age of 17 he proved that a 17-sided polygon could be constructed using only a straightedge and a compass, and at the age of 21, in his doctoral dissertation, he proved the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, that all polynomials of degree n have exactly n complex roots. He made contributions to nearly every branch of mathematics and statistics, physics, astronomy and survying. | |||||||||||
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