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A known prodigy by the age of three, Carl Friedrich Gauss fulfilled everyone’s hopes for him at an early age. Before his third birthday Gauss was said to have taught himself how to read and do arithmetic (Schlissel) and also was able to find an error in his father’s bookkeeping (Johnson 36). ...
Born on April 30, 1777 in Brunswick (now Germany), Gauss’ elementary teachers were the first ones to recognize his potential when he “summed the integers from 1 to 100 instantly by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to 101” (O’Connor and Robertson). ... With this money Gauss enrolled in Brunswick Collegium Carolinum where he rediscovered Bodes law, and created the binomial theorem, the arithmetic- geometric mean, the law of quadratic reciprocity, and the prime number theorem.
Gauss then went to study at Göttingen University where his most important discovery was that a regular polygon with seventeen sides could be made using only a compass and a ruler (Schlissel). ...
Gauss also further breeched the gap between math and the other sciences, mainly astronomy. ... In predicting Ceres’ flight and studying his measurements, Gauss “began to think of the inherent errors associated with the measuring process” (Johnson 37). ... Gauss also made three assumptions about the properties of the normal curve:
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