The prince of math: Gaussian

  As you know, there are so many talent people in math, they have solved so many problems that almost any of these problem can suffer you all your life. Then Gaussian is called the prince of math. You can imagine how great he is.

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  Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 - February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. Although Gauss made many contributions to science and to the understanding of the nature of electricity and magnetism, his true passion was mathematics.

He referred to math as the “queen of sciences” and his influence on the field of mathematics was extraordinary. Gauss was, for example, the first mathematician to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra, and he proved it four different ways over the course of his lifetime. Gauss is widely celebrated as one of the greatest mathematicians in history.

When he was a child, he could add from 1 to 100 very quickly, he added 1 and 100 to 101, 2 and 99 to 101… At last times 101 with 50, then he got the answer 5050.

On his own as a teenager he began to discover advanced mathematic principles, and in 1795 – at the age of 18 – Gauss became the first person to prove the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity, a theory of math that allows us to determine whether quadratic equations can be solved. The same year he entered Gottingen University. While at the university, he made one of his most important discoveries. Using a ruler and compass, he constructed a regular 17-sided polygon.

He has so many achievement in his life: Primzahlverteilung und Methode der kleinsten Quadrate, Einführung der elliptischen Funktionen, Fundamentalsatz der Algebra, Beiträge zur Verwendung komplexer Zahlen, Beiträge zur Zahlentheorie...

Any of these work can make you the best mathematician all over the world.

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