“It’s not knowledge but the act of learning.” By Jacob Maschmann, Jacob Johnson, Britney Scheetz Carl F Gauss

Biography of Carl F Gauss  Born in Brunswick, Germany  Died February  Was born into a poor family  He had two wife’s and six kids  The duke of Brunswick financially supported him in his education  Gauss studied at 3 different colleges and universities

Biography (Continued)  Published over 150 works  Loved doing math  Earned doctorate from University of Helmstedt in 1799  Took up many different careers throughout his life

Math contributions  Advanced modular arithmetic(system of integer arithmetic)system with different number bases.  Discovered every integer can be representable by three triangular numbers

More math contributions  Developed least squares fitting method. A procedure for finding the best fitting curves to a given set of points

Even More Math contributions  Conjectured the prime number theorem, that gives a good understanding of how the prime numbers aare distributed among the integers  Gauss proved the fundamental theorem of algebra which states that every non-constant single variable polynomial with one complex co-efficients has at least one complex root

Famous Quotes of Carl F Gauss  “ God does arithmetic”  It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment  Mathematicians stand on each others shoulders

Facts *In 1807 he was was appointed director of the Gottingen observatory *Number theory was Gauss’s first and greatest love *Did not decide to become mathematician until age 17, when he solved a problem that hadnt been solved for 2,000 years

More Facts o First to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra that every polynomial with real or complex coefficient has at least one root gave four different proofs during his life o He was pictured on the german tenmark bill o He had to calculate his own birthdate

Even More Facts  Discovered Ceres the largest asteroid orbiting the sun  His second wife was his first wife’s best friend  He had only 1 frend at his university  Insisted on complete proof of his work before publishing it

Where you see his math now  In text books  Classrooms  In all the books that he published (over 150 works)  Mr.Fricke’s room

HHe had 5 jobs throughout his life HHe was called by 5 names  Thought of as the prince of math

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