Carl Friedrich Gauss
1777 – 1855 German mathematician, physicist
The Prince of Mathematicians, who touched nearly every field of the subject.
- Religion
- A Lutheran with a private, deeply held but unorthodox faith; he rarely discussed religion openly.
- Affiliations
- Director of the Gottingen observatory. No secret society.
Gauss made landmark advances in number theory, statistics, geometry, and astronomy, often years before others published the same ideas. The normal distribution and the unit of magnetism bear his name. He is ranked among the greatest mathematicians who ever lived.
In the timeline
- 1801 Gauss and the theory of numbers mentioned