Karl Gauss

by Sheila Terry/science Photo Library

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Karl Gauss

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Sheila Terry/science Photo Library

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Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) German mathematician, astronomer and physicist. He contributed widely to various aspects of pure and applied mathematics including prime number theory, the study of elliptic functions, statistics and differential geometry. He had a strong interest in theoretical astronomy, electricity, mechanics, magnetism and optics. Before he was 20 he had completed much of his most important work in mathematics, and in 1801, at the age of 24, his discoveries in number theory were published in Disquisitiones Arithmeticae and revolutionised the field of number theory. With the German physicist Wilhelm Weber he took measurements of the Earth's magnetic field and invented the first electromagnetic telegraph. The international unit of magnetic induction is known as the gauss.

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February 24th, 2021

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