Carl Friedrich Gauss
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While studying at the University of Göttingen, he propounded several mathematical theorems. Gauss completed his masterpieces ''Disquisitiones Arithmeticae'' and ''Theoria motus corporum coelestium'' as a private scholar. He gave the second and third complete proofs of the fundamental theorem of algebra, made contributions to number theory, and developed the theories of binary and ternary quadratic forms.
Gauss was instrumental in the identification of Ceres as a dwarf planet. His work on the motion of planetoids disturbed by large planets led to the introduction of the Gaussian gravitational constant and the method of least squares, which he had discovered before Adrien-Marie Legendre published it.
Gauss was in charge of the extensive geodetic survey of the Kingdom of Hanover together with an arc measurement project from 1820 to 1844; he was one of the founders of geophysics and formulated the fundamental principles of magnetism. Fruits of his practical work were the inventions of the heliotrope in 1821, a magnetometer in 1833 and – alongside Wilhelm Eduard Weber – the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833.
Gauss refused to publish incomplete work and left several works to be edited posthumously. He believed that the act of learning, not possession of knowledge, provided the greatest enjoyment. Gauss confessed to disliking teaching, but some of his students became influential mathematicians. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 1900
Superior document: Werke 8
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Published: 1917
Superior document: Werke 10,1
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Published: 1924, -, 1929
Superior document: Werke 11,2
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Published: 1981
Superior document: Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften 256
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Published: 2002
Superior document: Algorismus 39
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Published: 1906
Superior document: Werke 7,2.Ausgabe
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Published: 1995
Superior document: Coleccion Enrique Perez Arbelaez 10
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Werke / Carl Friedrich Gauss. Hrsg. von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
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Published: 1903
Superior document: Werke 9
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Published: 1923
Superior document: Werke 10, 2. Abt., Abh. 4
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Published: 1922
Superior document: Werke 10, 2. Abt., [1]
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Published: 1977
Superior document: Beiträge zur Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschung 4
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Published: 2008
Superior document: Algorismus 63
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Published: 1987
Superior document: Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse Folge 3, Nr. 39
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Published: [2018];, [1822]
Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Reference Works <1990
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Published: 1981
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Published: 1978
Superior document: Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR : N 1978,3
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Published: [1917]
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