Gauss - Mathematician.
Date Submitted: 03/12/2004 17:38:12
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 2 pages (459 words)
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 2 pages (459 words)
Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855)
German mathematician who is sometimes called the "prince of mathematics."
He was a prodigious child, at the age of three informing his father of an arithmetical error in a complicated payroll calculation and stating the correct answer. In school, when his teacher gave the problem of summing the integers from 1 to 100 (an arithmetic series) to his students to keep them busy, Gauss immediately wrote down the correct answer 5050 on his slate.
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