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Gauss's Life — Prince of Mathematics
The child remembered through a classroom-sum story grew into the mathematician of the regular 17-gon, modern number theory, Ceres’s orbit, geodesy, and intrinsic curvature. The journey separates later anecdotes from dated notebooks, publications, and observations.
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1777
Age 0
Braunschweig
Born into a Poor Family in Brunswick
Gauss was born to a working family in Braunschweig. His unusual ability with arithmetic attracted teachers and eventually the support of the Duke of Brunswick.
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