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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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  • Date Of Birth

    Born in Brunswick, Germany
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    Carl Friedrich Gauss

  • First Significant Discovery

    Regular Polygon of 17 sides can be constructed by a ruler and compass alone

  • First to prove quadratic reciprocity law

  • conjectured prime number theorem

  • Doctoral Thesis

    Gave proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra

  • Published Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

    First systematic textbook on algebraic number theory

  • Rediscovered asteriod Ceres

  • Invented Helitrope

  • Awarded the prize of the Danish Academy of Sciences

    For his study of angle-preserving maps

  • Constructed first electromechanical telegraph

  • Date Of Death

    Died in Gottengen, Hanover