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Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 30 April 1777
- Died
- 23 February 1855
- Place of birth
- Brunswick
- Place of death
- Göttingen
- Sex or gender
- male
- Father
- Gebhard Dietrich Gauss
- Mother
- Dorthea Benze
- Field of work
- number theory, algebra, mathematical analysis, differential geometry, electrostatics, optics, mathematics, mechanics, astronomy, geodesy, physics, electromagnetism
- Occupation
- mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, science writer, physicist, surveyor, university teacher, statistician, geodesist
- Citizenship
- Confederation of the Rhine, Kingdom of Hanover
- Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Fellow of the Royal Society, Copley Medal, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Lalande Prize, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- archives at
- ETH Zurich University Archives, Göttingen State and University Library, Stadtarchiv Braunschweig
- birth name
- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Otto's encyclopedia, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Physicists: Biographical Dictionary, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference
- different from
- Gauss
- doctoral advisor
- Johann Friedrich Pfaff
- doctoral student
- Friedrich Bessel, Richard Dedekind, Bernhard Riemann, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Christian Ludwig Gerling, Johann Benedict Listing, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann, Sophie Germain, Moritz Abraham Stern, Friedrich Wilhelm Spehr, Karl Heinrich Gräffe
- employer
- University of Göttingen
- influenced by
- Leonhard Euler, Adrien-Marie Legendre
- member of
- Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Academy of Sciences of Turin
- name in native language
- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß
- notable work
- Gauss–Seidel method, Gauss's law, Gauss's law for magnetism, Gauss's law for gravity, normal distribution, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas, Atlas des Erdmagnetismus: nach den Elementen der Theorie entworfen
- partner in business or sport
- Farkas Bolyai
- place of burial
- Albanifriedhof
- related category
- Category:Things named after Carl Friedrich Gauß
- residence
- Kingdom of Hanover, Brunswick
- student of
- Johann Christian Martin Bartels
- topic's main category
- Category:Carl Friedrich Gauss
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