Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist who
dominated the mathematical community during and after his lifetime. His
outstanding work includes the discovery of the method of least squares,
the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, and important contributions to
the theory of numbers.
Born in Brunswick, Germany, on April 30, 1777, Johann Friedrich
Carl Gauss showed early and unmistakable signs of being an extraordinary
youth. As a child prodigy, he was self taught in the fields of reading
and arithmetic. Recognizing his talent, his youthful studies were
accelerated by t…