| Birthday
|
30 April 1777 +
|
| Contributed significantly to
|
Number theory +
, Statistics +
, Analysis +
, Differential geometry +
, Geodesy +
, Electrostatics +
, Astronomy +
, Optics +
|
| Deathday
|
23 February 1855 +
|
| Influence in
|
Mathematics +
, Science +
|
| Known as
|
The prince of mathematicians +
, Greatest mathematician since antiquity +
|
| Modification date
|
|
| Name German
|
Gauß +
|
| Name in Latin
|
Carolus Fridericus Gauss +
|
| Nationality
|
German +
|
| Profession
|
mathematician +
, scientist +
|
| Ranked as
|
One of history's most influential mathematicians +
|
| Was
|
Child prodigy +
|
| Wrote
|
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae +
|
