9 January 2013 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait
Reading Time: 5 minutesOil painting of mathematician and philosopher Carl Friedrich Gauss by G. Biermann © Gauß-Gesellschaft Göttingen e.V. – Foto: A. Wittmann
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (* 30 April 1777 in
Braunschweig – † 23 February 1855 in
Göttingen) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including
number theory,
statistics,
analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics. read more…