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Carl Friedrich Gauss

died 169 years ago

23 February 1855

Carl Friedrich Gauss worked in a wide variety of fields in both mathematics and physics incuding number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics. His work has had an immense influence in many areas.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gauss/