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Carl Friedrich Gauss, original name Johann Friedrich Carl Gauss (born April 30, 1777, Brunswick, Germany; died February 23, 1855, Göttingen, Germany) was a mathematician, who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy, matrix theory and optic.

Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum (Latin, “the Prince of Mathematicians”), Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history’s most influential mathematicians.
1. EARLY LIFE
Gauss was the only child of poor parents. He was rare among mathematicians in that he was a calculating prodigy, and he retained the ability to do elaborate calculations in his head most of his life.
His mother was illiterate and never recorded the date of his birth, remembering only that he had been born on a Wednesday, eight days before the Feast of the Ascension, which itself occurs 40 days after Easter. Gauss would later solve this puzzle about his birthdate in the context of finding the date of Easter, deriving methods to compute the date in both past and future years. He was christened and confirmed in a church near the school he attended as a child.

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