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DATE OF DEATH: February 23, 1855
PROFESSIONS: Mathematician
Physicist
Scientist
Astronomer
EDUCATION: University of Helmstedt
Georg-August University of Göttingen
His father was regarded as an upright, honest man. He was a harsh parent who discouraged his young son from attending school. Gauss showed his genius through learning to read and write independently and doing elementary calculations at only three years old, his mother and uncle recognized Carl\'s genius early and knew that he must develop this gifted intelligence with education.When he attended school his class was assigned to \"Write down all the whole numbers from 1 to 100 and add up their sum.\" The teacher expected the beginner\'s class to take a while to finish this exercise but Gauss was one of the first and when the schoolmaster looked at Carl\'s paper, he was astounded to see only one number: 5,050 he was correct and later on explained to his teacher how he found the result.
Gauss left Brunswick to study at Göttingen University he left there in 1798 without a diploma he then made one of his most important discoveries and returned to Brunswick where he received a degree in 1799
WORK EXPERIENCE: He published the number theory book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae in 1801, In 1807 Gauss left Brunswick to take up the position of director of the Göttingen observatory, despite losing his father, his wife, and his child in all such a quick time He managed to publish his second book in 1809, a major two volume treatise on the motion of celestial bodies. He went on making observations until the age of 70.
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: He is considered, along with Archimedes and Newton, to be one of the three greatest mathematicians who ever lived.
He and an astronomer named Zach published predictions on where a planet called Ceres would be in the sky. Gauss took part in calculations for the project on December 7th, Ceres appeared exactly where they had predicted and it was made known that the predictions of where the planet Ceres was going to appear was due to Gauss’s method of least squares.
ACTIVITIES AND INTEREST: writing
