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Carl Friedrich Gauss

The 'Prince of Mathematicians': the schoolboy sum, the constructible 17-gon, modular arithmetic, finding Ceres with least squares, the normal distribution, curvature and the Theorema Egregium, magnetism and the telegraph.

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Prereqs: Euclid; Distributions. Next: Riemann. Sources: Gauss, *Disquisitiones Arithmeticae* (1801); MacTutor History of Mathematics biography; Dunnington, *Gauss: Titan of Science*.
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