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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß)
(30 Aprile, 1777 ? 23 Februar, 1855) wis a
German
mathematician
an
scientist
that eikit muckle ti monie fields, like
nummer theory
,
analysis
,
deifferential geometry
,
geodesy
,
magnetism
,
astronomy
an
optics
. Whiles kent as "the preince o mathemateicians", Gauss haed a profoond influence on monie fields o mathematics an science an is rankit alangside
Euler
,
Newton
an
Archimedes
as ane o history's greatest mathemateicians.
Gauss wis a child prodigy an made his first grund-brakkin mathematical discoveries whan yet a youngker. He feinished
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
, his
magnum opus
, at the age o twinty-fower. This wark wis fundamental in consolidatin nummer theory as a deiscipline an haes shapit the field til the day.
