Gauss
KARL FRIEDRICH (gous), German mathematician and astronomer; born in Brunswick, Germany, April 30, 1777. Aided by the Duke of Brunswick, GAUTAMA he studied at Brunswick and Göttingen.
Here he made several of his greatest discoveries in analysis, which induced him to make the cultivation of science the chief object of his life. He published "Arithmetical Disquisitions" in 1801. In 1807 he received the appointment of ordinary professor and director of the observatory at Göttingen, which situation he held for nearly 48 years. He gave to the world a host of treatises on pure mathematics, geodesy, astronomy, and the cognate sciences, besides making observations on terrestrial magnetism which have proved of great utility to the cultivation of science. He died in Göttingen, Germany, Feb. 23, 1855.