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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss early years

• He was born on April 30th 1777 , in Brunswick Germany.

• At the age of 7 he started public school.• His teacher was amazed that young Johann had

answered every single question right.• He was remarkable admitted to high school but of to

many good degrees he had succeed to attended University of Gottingen from 1795 to 1798.

His work/ mathematical discoveries

In 1796, he was able to show a 17-slided polygon could be constructed as a compass and straightedge.

He had done some mistakes and fixed them but at the same time he learned the method of a square.

A regular heptadecagon was one of his inventions he was so pleaded of what he invented.

Gauss loved working with numbers and also because it led to discovery.

his middle years• Gauss was a hard worker, everything he did he proved it that

it was right.• Gauss also made important contributions with his 1801 book.• Gauss also claimed to have discovered the possibility of non-

Euclidean geometries but never published it, this was a major discovery in math.

• In 1807, he was appointed to professor astronomy and director of the astronomical observation in Gottingen and held a post that remained his life.

• Janos bolyai thought that gauss had stolen his idea but it was now taken as a place value.

HIs latest years / work• In 1831, Johann Gauss developed a fruitful collaboration with the

physics director leading to new knowledge in magnetism and the discovery of circuit laws in electricity.

• His religion was based upon the truth, he believed the immortality of the spiritual individual after a death in order of things, in an eternal, omniscient and omnipotent God.

• When his first wife died he got married again with a woman named Frederica she was Johanna's best friend (the 1st wife).

• Johann had 6 sons with his first wife Johanna. • One of Johann sons had a great talent but he died after his mother.

The Frederica died and one of the youngest daughters then took household and took care of gauss until it was the end of his life.