Johann Friederich Carl Gauss

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Johann Friederich Carl Gauss, Born in Germany # Brunswick #, was from a low-income family, but his mother encouraged him in his career. Studying in the city where he was born, the teacher ordered the students to add the numbers from 1 to 100. This was common, for the teacher to do other things, which was a way that did not serve anything for education. And all teachers who use these subterfuge are going against education.

But Gauss was able to observe a sequence in the characteristic of this sum. And so he developed a function for any sum. And used, reaching the value of 5050, this formula became known as Arithmetic Progression.

Gauss went to another city - Göttingen - because a Duke - Brunswick - helped him financially. Thus, Gauss decided on mathematics in 1796, when he was the first to build a regular polygon of sixteen sides, with ruler and compass.

Gauss became a doctor in 1798 at a University # Helmstädt #, and his thesis was to demonstrate the "fundamental theorem of Algebra", and proved that every polynomial equation has at least one real or imaginary root, for this he used geometric means.

Gauss represented the complex numbers, separating in real and imaginary parts, in coordinates of a plane.

He wrote the book "Arithmetic Research" developing the notation of Number Theory, defining the congruence relation, which is an equivalence relation. He also presented the law of quadratic reciprocity, defining it as a "jewel of arithmetic" and demonstrated that every positive integer is a product of prime numbers.

He considered mathematics as the "queen of sciences" and arithmetic as the "queen of mathematics".

In a period of his life he dedicated himself to Astronomy, creating the method to monitor the orbit of satellites, which is still used, and for that reason in 1807 he was granted the post of director of the observatory # Göttingen #.

Researched on functions and geometry applied to Newton's theory. He invented the helitrope, the bifilar magnetometer, and the electric telegraph.

He only stopped when he saw his end due to cardiac dilation. He died at 78, and was considered, "prince of mathematics".