Born
1777
Died
1855
Nationality
German
Events involving Carl Friedrich Gauss (5)
1796
ID: 659
19-year-old Gauss proves constructibility of regular 17-gon - decides to become mathematician
ID: 659
1801
ID: 676
Gauss publishes Disquisitiones Arithmeticae founding modern number theory with congruence notation
ID: 676
1801
ID: 677
Piazzi discovers Ceres; Gauss calculates orbit from minimal data, successfully predicts location
ID: 677
1809
ID: 695
Gauss publishes theory of planetary motion with mathematical justification for least squares
ID: 695
1833
ID: 797
Gauss and Weber develop mathematical theory of terrestrial magnetism - map Earth's magnetic field
ID: 797