Carl friedrich gauss mathematician biography
Carl friedrich gauss.
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Gauss, Carl Friedrich
(b. Brunswick, Germany, 30 April 1777; d. Göttingen, Germany, 23 February 1855)
mathematical sciences.
The life of Gauss was very simple in external form.
During an austere childhood in a poor and unlettered family he showed extraordinary precocity. Beginning when he was fourteen, a stipend from the duke of Brunswick permitted him to concentrate on intellectual interests for sixteen years.
Before the age of twenty-five he was famous as a mathematician and astronomer.
Carl friedrich gauss mathematician biography
At thirty he went to Göttingen as director of the observatory. There he worked for forty-seven years, seldom leaving the city except on scientific business, until his death at almost seventy-eight.
In marked contrast to this external simplicity, Gauss’s personal life was complicated and tragic.
He suffered from the political turmoil and financial insecurity associated with the French Revolution, the Napoleonic period, and the democratic revolutions in Germany. He found no mathematical co