Birth : April 30, 1777
Brunswick, Germany
Death: February 23, 1855
Göttingen, Germany
Profession: mathematician and physicist
Family relationship:
1. Wife: Johanna Osthoff (1780 - 1809)
2. Son: Joseph (1806 - 1873)
3. Daughter: Wilhelmina (1808 - 1846)
4. Son: Louis (1809 - 1810)
5. Wife: Friederica Wilhelmine Waldeck ( ? - 1831)
6. Son: Eugene (1811-1896)
7. Son: Wilhelm (1813 - 1879)
8. Daughter: Therese (1816 - 1864)
Attributions to science:
1. Any regular polygon with a number of sides which is a Fermat prime can be constructed by compass and straightedge
2. Invented modular arithmetic
3. Proved the quadratic reciprocity law
4. Discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers (with well known word : Heureka! )
5. If a random number nearby some large number N is selected, the chance of it being prime is about 1 / ln(N), where ln(N) denotes the natural logarithm of N
6. the construction of a regular 17-gon by ruler and compasses
7. wrote a book called Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)- quadratic reciprocity
8. Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum (theory of motion of the celestial bodies moving in conic sections around the sun).
9. non-Euclidean geometry
10. electromagnetic telegraph
1. Any regular polygon with a number of sides which is a Fermat prime can be constructed by compass and straightedge
2. Invented modular arithmetic
3. Proved the quadratic reciprocity law
4. Discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers (with well known word : Heureka! )
5. If a random number nearby some large number N is selected, the chance of it being prime is about 1 / ln(N), where ln(N) denotes the natural logarithm of N
6. the construction of a regular 17-gon by ruler and compasses
7. wrote a book called Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)- quadratic reciprocity
8. Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum (theory of motion of the celestial bodies moving in conic sections around the sun).
9. non-Euclidean geometry
10. electromagnetic telegraph
Honours awarded to Carl Friedrich Gauss :
Fellow of the Royal Society:
1804
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh:
1820
Royal Society Copley Medal:
1838
Lunar features:
Crater Gauss
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