Karl Friedrich Gauss

Karl Friedrich Gauss (1775-1855) was a celebrated German mathematician and astronomer, born at Brunswick. He was director of the observatory at Göttingen for 40 years. He was equally great on theory of numbers and practice of calculation. He made important discoveries in magnetism, and was pronounced by Laplace the greatest mathematician in Europe.

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