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Carl Gauss
Title: Carl Gauss
Category: Science & Technology / Mathematics
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Carl Gauss
Biography and Life Acomplishments of Carl Gauss Excellent, but forgot to cover one of Gauss's formulas
Karl Gauss
~Biography~
Karl Gauss lived from 1777 to 1855. He was a German mathematician, physician, and astronomer. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on April 30th, 1777. His family was poor and uneducated. His father was a gardener and a merchant's assistant.
At a young age, Gauss taught himself how to read and count, and it is said that he spotted …showed first 75 words of 662 total…
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Karl Gauss also pioneered in the field of topography, crystallography, optics, mechanics, and capillarity. While at the University, he invented a heliotrope, which was an instrument that allowed more precise calculations of the shape of the earth. Then, in 1831 he grouped with Wilhelm Weber, and together they produced an electromagnetic telegraph. Also, Gauss developed logical sets of units for magnetic phenomena, thus the unit of magnetic flux density is named after him.
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