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Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss


 

30. April. 1777, Braunschweig- 23. February. 1855, Göttingen

  
 
     
  
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It is born in a family of laborers, the mother daughter of peasants, second wife of the father, the father was to gardener. In the 1792 it was enrolled to the Collegium Carolinum, that it would be   then become Gauss in the 1803 Techinische Hochschule of Braunschweig. The professor and. To. W. Zimmerman it made so that Gauss obtained a pension from duca the Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand that said the possibility to Gauss to continue the studies until to the university. In the 1795 Gauss it began the university studies to the faculty of Göttingen 30 March 1796 succeeded to construct a polygon to regulate of 17 sides with line and calipers. In this decided occasion he   definitively for the mathematics studies, in spite of its alive interest for the ancient languages.  In 1799 it obtained the doctorate to the university of Helmstedt, with an extraordinary containing dissertation the first exact demonstration   of the fundamental theorem of algebra. 1801 mark two extraordinary events, the publication of “Disquisitiones arithmetucae” and the calculation of the orbit of the asteroid Cerere (Ceres) observed from, G. Public squares in January of the same year. 9 October 1805 Gauss married Johanna Osthoff, of Braunschweig from which it had a son and a daughter. Their happy union however was interrupted in 1809 from birth of   third son who caused the dead women of the mother. In 1806, to the dead women of the ducat of Braunschweig, in spite of its natural aversion for the instruction, he accepted the director assignment   of the astronomical Observatory and ordinary of astronomy to the university of Göttingen, that he maintained until death. Bride in 1810 with the best friend of the wife Minna Waldeck from this new union they will be born one   male and a female (Teresa). In 1816 he was person in charge to carry out the geodetic measurements of the reign of Hannover, of which it made Göttingen part. In this occasion he invented the eliotropio, an optical telegraph; he developed geometry he differentiates them and he constructed   a theory for the elimination of the errors in the calculation. The measurement lasted in all twenty-five years. In 1821 to Berlin, in occasion of a conference of the scientists and the German doctors, Gauss knew the still young physicist W. and. Weber who Gauss made to call to Göttingen. Between the two one was settled down   exceptionally fecund collaboration in the study of the electromagnetic phenomena and the magnetism terrestrial1831 dies the second wife Minna Waldeck. The take daughter Teresa the reins of the domestic life. In 1833 they constructed a first electromagnetic telegraph, that it connected the observatory to the physical Institute of Göttingen. From their collaboration the system of physical measures absolute (known like c.g.s electrostatic and c.g.s electromagnetic gushed today) that Gauss proposed to the public in 1832. After the 1850 Gauss accusation you disturb to the heart, disease that will limit on the scientific engagements. 1854 mark several months of disease In 1855 it were conferred a medal with the honourable name of Princeps mathematicorum. Its works have exited in twelve volumes to Göttingen between 1863 and 1933.  It dies in the sleep in February 1855.