The Prince of Mathematics Passes Away.
On 23 February 1855, the German mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss died in Göttingen, Hanover, at the age of 77. Known worldwide as the ‘Prince of Mathematics’ due to his enormous contributions to mathematics, Gauss had an outstanding participation in fields as fundamental to mathematics as the following: Number theory, mathematical analysis, differential geometry, statistics, algebra, celestial mechanics, among other no less important fields.
Although many of his discoveries in mathematics and physics had to wait more than 100 years to be properly appreciated, Gauss's contributions in all fields are invaluable. He was the son of a humble German bricklayer, and from an early age he showed signs of genius, for example when he was only 3 years old he was already able to read and perform mental arithmetic calculations with such impressive speed that there is even a legend in which, at such a precocious age, he managed to notice some mistakes made by his paymaster when paying wages.
A significant fact to note is that in 1791, Gauss obtained the patronage of the Duke of Brunswick, Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand, who assumed financial responsibility for the young Gauss's education. During his doctoral thesis at the University of Helmstedt, he presented one of his most significant works in mathematics: the presentation of a first proof of the renowned Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. Gauss graduated from Göttingen in 1798, and the following year he received his doctorate from the University of Helmstedt.
It can be argued that the most significant work published by Gauss is Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, which was published in 1801. In this work, he studied the development of results related to the root of number theory, including the all-important convergent infinite series.
Some of his Greatest Contributions
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References
Weisstein, Eric W. "Gauss's Lemma." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/GausssLemma.html
Weisstein, Eric W. "Gaussian Integral." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianIntegral.html
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