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Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)

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18th century

  • 1777April 30 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer and physicist (died 1855)source
  • 1784Carl Friedrich Gauss pioneers the field of summation with the formula summing at the age of 7.source
  • 1796March 30 – Carl Gauss obtains conditions for the constructibility by ruler and compass of regular polygons, and can announce that the regular 17-gon is constructible by ruler and compasses.source
  • 1796July 10 – Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most 3 triangular numbers.source

19th century

  • 1801The magnum opus Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of Carl Friedrich Gauss is published.source
  • 1808German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss publishes Theorematis arithmetici demonstratio nova, introducing Gauss's lemma in the third proof of quadratic reciprocity.source
  • 1833May 6 – In Germany, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen.source
  • 18336 May – Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen.source
  • 1855February 23 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (born 1777)source