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Carl Friedrich Gauss

1777 - 1855

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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss ( ; German: Gauß [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɡaʊs] ; Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. He was director of the Göttingen Observatory in Germany and professor of astronomy from 1807 until his death in 1855. While studying at the University of Göttingen, he propounded several mathematical theorems. As an independent scholar, he wrote the masterpieces Disquisitiones Arithmeticae and Theoria motus corporum coelestium. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Friedrich Gauss is the 3rd most popular mathematician, the 8th most popular biography from Germany and the 2nd most popular German Mathematician.

Carl Friedrich Gauss is most famous for his contributions to mathematics, specifically in the fields of number theory and geometry. He also made contributions to astronomy, statistics, and geodesy.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks 3 out of 1,004. Before him are Archimedes, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. After him are Blaise Pascal, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, Fibonacci, Ada Lovelace, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, John Forbes Nash Jr., and Bernhard Riemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks 1. After him are Hans Christian Ørsted, Alexander I of Russia, Désirée Clary, Henry Clay, Heinrich von Kleist, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Elisa Bonaparte, John Ross, Philipp Otto Runge, Juliette Récamier, and Louis Jacques Thénard. Among people deceased in 1855, Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks 1. After him are Søren Kierkegaard, Nicholas I of Russia, Charlotte Brontë, Adam Mickiewicz, Gérard de Nerval, William John Swainson, Adelaide of Austria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Maria Theresa of Austria, William Parry, and Pavel Nakhimov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks 8 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert Einstein (1879), Pope Benedict XVI (1927), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Martin Luther (1483), Karl Marx (1818), and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646). After him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Charlemagne (748), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), and Albrecht Dürer (1471).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks 2. Before him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646). After him are Bernhard Riemann (1826), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Gottlob Frege (1848), Emmy Noether (1882), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Friedrich Bessel (1784), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), and Regiomontanus (1436).

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