Gauss, Carl Friedrich

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This essay made me pass summer school. I did expect this much from you. Gauss was a German scientist and mathematician. People call him the founder of modern mathematics. He also worked in astronomy and physics. His work in astronomy and physics is nearly as significant as that in mathematics. Gauss also worked in crystallography, optics, biostatisics, and mechanics. Gauss was born on April 30, 1777 in Brunswick. Brunswick is what is now called West Germany, He …

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…elements of a planet's orbit from just three observations. He elaborated it in his second major work, a classic in astronomy, published in 1809. In 1807 he was appointed director of the University of Gottingen observatory and professor of mathematics, a position he held for life. Gauss research with Wilheim Weber after 1831. Gauss and Weber research was on electricity and magnetism. In 1833 they devised an electromagnetic telegraph. They observations and founded the Magnetic Union in 1836. In conclusion