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Birth
He was born in Brunswick, a city located in German. -
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Carolina School
He came in on Carolina School with 17 years, where he studied for 3 years and he surprised everyone with his facility for languages. He came to master Greek and Latin in a very short time and after those 3 years he still was not sure if he wanted to devote himself to mathematics or philology. -
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Göttingen University
Afterwards, he studied at this university from 1795 to 1798. -
A 17-sided polygon
He showed that you can draw a regular 17-sided polygon with ruler and compass. -
Theorem of algebra
Gauss was the first to rigorously prove the fundamental theorem of algebra. -
“Disquisitiones arithmeticae”
This book of mathematical number theory was published. He wrote it when he was 21 years old (1798). -
Wedding
He got married with Johanna Elizabeth Rosina Osthoff. -
1st son
The first son that he had with Johanna was Carl Joseph Gauss (1806-1873). -
Teacher of astronomy
He accepted the position of teacher of astronomy at the observatory in Göttingen. -
2nd son
He had another child with Johanna; in this case a girl whose name was Wilhelmine. -
3rd son
Louis was the third child Gauss had. This son caused the death of his mother the following month as a result of his childbirth. What’s more, Louis also he died in March 1810. -
2nd wedding
In August he remarried Johanna's best friend, Friederica Wilhelmine Waldeck, who died in 1831 after suffering from tuberculosis for thirteen years. -
4th son
He had 3 more children with Friederica. The first was Eugene, a mathematician who emigrated to America and founded a bank. -
5th son
The second one was Wilhelm, who followed his brother and also became rich. -
6th son
And the third and last child was Therese, who took care of the home after the death of his mother and until the death of Gaus. -
Gauss's law
In 1835 he formulated Gauss's law or Gauss's theorem, which nowadays we study in both physics and mathematics. -
Death
He died in Göttingen, German, at the age of 77.