Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in Braunshweigh, Germany, now lower Saxon Germany, where his parents lived and they were considered a pretty poor family during their time. His father worked many jobs as a gardener and many other trades such as: an assistant to a merchant and a treasurer of a small insurance fund. While his mother on the other hand was a fairly smart person but semiliterate, and before she married her husband she was a maid, the only reason for marrying him was to get out of the job because she was so tired of it. She was very unhappy in the marriage trying her hardest to put the unhappiness behind her, so that she could make sure that Carl always had her loving devoted attention and support at whatever he did and was sure to succeed.

Carl himself had many accomplishments throughout his life that began at all ages. Such as when he was young he calculated when his own birthday was since his mother did not write it down or ever have it recorded. All she remembered was that “He had been born on a Wednesday, eight days before the feast of the Ascension, which occurs forty days after Easter (Wikipedia)”. Carl solved this brainteaser of a puzzle by finding the date of Easter and then took the methods he came up with to cipher the date in both past and future years. Until he finally solved his birthday puzzle and concluded he was born on April 30, 1777.

He also as a young boy about in primary school had many amazing intellectual breakthroughs, at least for a young boy of his age, such as when his teacher, Mr. Buttner, in order to punish him for miss behaving gave him an assignment that he figured would take up most of the class. His assignment was to add up all the numbers on to one-hundred on his slate in arithmetic prog...

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...her attention so she would not have to focus on other things. His life was full of hard work and many accomplishments. Family life for him was never the greatest but he overcame it and even though some of it was his fault, he never let it get to him. He always was ready for the next hit in life until the end.

Works Cited

Allen, James. “Carl Friedrich Gauss.” Fabpedigree. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 May 2011. .

“Carl Friedrich Gauss.” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikimedia inc. 26 May 2011. Web 11 May 2011 .

May, Kenneth. “Carl Friedrich Gauss.” Encyclopedia. N.p., 2008 Web 15 May 2011 .

Weller, Karolee. “Carl Friedrich Gauss.” Math. N.p.,n.d.Web 11 May 2011.

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