“You have no idea how much poetry there is in a table of logarithms.”
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. His mathematical contributions spanned the branches of number theory, algebra, analysis, geometry, statistics, and probability. Gauss was director of the Göttingen Observatory in Germany and professor of astronomy from 1807 until his death in 1855.
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“will surely open an entirely new field of analysis”
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Yahoo: Mathematicians make a breakthrough on Gauss’s riddle, unsolved for 200 years
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Carl Friedrich Gauss: 'Mathematics is the queen of the sciences, and number theory is
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A neurobiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen discovered that Gauss's brain had been mixed up soon after the first investigations, due to mislabelling, with that of the physician Con
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For research on the life and work of Carl Friedrich Gauss and related persons
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On the occasion of his golden doctor degree jubilee, he received honorary citizenship of both Brunswick and Göttingen
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Awarded Pour le Mérite.
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Well after Joseph Fourier's introduction of the subject in 1807
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Introduced the achromatic Steinheil doublet, partly based on Gauss's calculations
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But only the publication of Gauss's Nachlass in Volume VIII of the Collected Works (1900) showed Gauss's ideas on the matter, at a time when non-Euclidean geometry was still an object of some controversy
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Died 1855-02-23.
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“Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.”
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“I scarcely believe that in psychology data are present which can be mathematically evaluated. But one cannot know this with certainty, without having made the experiment. God alone is in possession of the mathematical bases of psychic phenomena.”
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“Yes! The world would be nonsense, the whole creation an absurdity without immortality.”
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“There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.”
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“You say that faith is a gift; this is perhaps the most correct thing that can be said about it.”
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1853).
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Gerling questioned Gauss for further explanations
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In the context of the discovery of the asteroid 7 Iris, he published a further qualitative discussion of the Zodiacus
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And known as the Gauss–Bonnet theorem
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And in January 1835 he wrote down an "induction law" equivalent to Faraday's law, which stated that the electromotive force at a given point in space is equal to the instantaneous rate of change (with respect to time) of
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And Gauss sent a final report of the project to the government; his method of projection was not edited until 1866
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As late effect of the Göttingen Seven affair marked the end of Magnetic Association activity
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Stated and proved several theorems connecting elliptic functions, Napier spherical pentagons, and Poncelet pentagons in the plane
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1842).
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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1839).
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Won Copley Medal (1838).
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For "his inventions and mathematical researches in magnetism"
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And became one of the first members of the Prussian Order Pour le Merite (Civil class) when it was established in 1842
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The new Hanoverian King Ernest Augustus annulled the 1833 constitution
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Humboldt suggested the establishment of a worldwide net of geomagnetic stations in the British dominions with a letter to the Duke of Sussex, then president of the Royal Society; he proposed that magnetic measures should
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Studied the railroad system in the US for some months
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And Weber himself connected the observatory with the institute for physics in the town centre of Göttingen, but they made no further commercial use of this invention
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Later applying one of his inventions, that of spherical harmonic analysis, to show that most of Earth's magnetic field was internal
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With the proof that a greatest packing density of spheres in the three-dimensional space is given when the centres of the spheres form a cubic face-centred arrangement, when he reviewed a book of Ludwig August Seeber on
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Both of them started a fruitful collaboration, leading to a new knowledge of magnetism with a representation for the unit of magnetism in terms of mass, charge, and time
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Minna Gauss died on 12 September 1831 after being seriously ill for more than a decade.
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Gauss was Humboldt's guest during the conference of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians in Berlin, where he got acquainted with the physicist Wilhelm Weber
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Gauss was appointed as head of the board for weights and measures of the Kingdom of Hanover
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To the publication of a work that marks the birth of modern differential geometry of surfaces, as it departed from the traditional ways of treating surfaces as cartesian graphs of functions of two variables, and that ini
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When studying differences in latitude, Gauss first defined a physical approximation for the figure of the Earth as the surface everywhere perpendicular to the direction of gravity; later his doctoral student Johann Bened
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“Gauss's Abstract of the Disquisitiones Generales circa Superficies Curvas presented to the Royal Society of Gottingen”
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Both scientists began intensive research on geomagnetism, partly independently, partly in productive cooperation
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Joseph joined the Hanoverian army and assisted in surveying again in 1829
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Gauss won the prize of the Danish Society with an essay on conformal mappings, which contains several developments that pertain to the field of complex analysis
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1822).
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A magnetometer in 1833 and – with Wilhelm Eduard Weber – the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833
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And used the result for the evaluation of the Hanoverian triangulation
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Gauss's mother Dorothea lived in his house from 1817 until she died in 1839.
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Olbers encouraged Gauss to compete for a prize from the French Academy for a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem; he refused, considering the topic uninteresting
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Without a result that seemed sufficient to him
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“Disquisitiones generales circa series infinitam...”
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“Summatio quarundam serierum singularium”
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It is clear that he knew the "fundamental theorem of complex analysis" – Cauchy's integral theorem – and understood the notion of complex residues when integrating around poles
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On 4 August 1810, Gauss married Wilhelmine (Minna) Waldeck, a friend of his first wife, with whom he had three more children: Eugen (later Eugene) (1811–1896), Wilhelm (later William) (1813–1879), and Therese (1816–1864).
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Who was in trouble at Königsberg University because of his lack of an academic title, Gauss provided a doctorate honoris causa for Bessel from the Philosophy Faculty of Göttingen in March 1811
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And 1825 to become a full member of the Prussian Academy without burdening lecturing duties, as well as from Leipzig University in 1810 and from Vienna University in 1842, perhaps because of the family's difficult situat
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To 2500 Reichsthaler in 1824, and in his later years he was one of the best-paid professors of the university
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Awarded Lalande Prize (1809).
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For his work on planetary theory and determination of orbits, and the Copley Medal in 1838 for his mathematical research in magnetism
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As Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum
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For the theory of planets and the means of determining their orbits from only three observations, the Danish Academy of Science prize in 1823 for his memoir on conformal projection, and the Copley Medal from the Royal So
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Of the later called Jacobi triple product identity, which includes Euler's theorem as a special case
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They had two sons and one daughter: Joseph (1806–1873), Wilhelmina (1808–1840), and Louis (1809–1810).
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Gauss married Johanna Osthoff on 9 October 1805 in St.
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But Gauss claimed in Theoria motus (1809) that he had been using it since 1794 or 1795
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160 years before Cooley and Tukey found their similar Cooley–Tukey algorithm
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1804).
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When he determined the limits of the region on the celestial sphere in which comets and asteroids might appear, and which he termed "Zodiacus"
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Taught himself some practical geodesy in Brunswick and Göttingen
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What today is known as the Coriolis force, he asked Gauss for a theory-based calculation of the values for comparison with the experimental ones
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Consolidated number theory as a discipline and covered both elementary and algebraic number theory
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Studied at University of Helmstedt (1799).
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Studied at University of Göttingen (1795–1798).
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Studied at Collegium Carolinum (1792–1795).
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Born 1777-04-30.
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