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Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)

6 dated entries naming Carl Friedrich Gauss, drawn from 6 separate years between 1777 CE and 1855 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1777April 30 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer and physicist (d. 1855)source
  • 1784Carl Friedrich Gauss pioneers the field of summation with the formula summing at the age of 7.source
  • 1796July 10 – Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most 3 triangular numbers.source

19th century

  • 1801The magnum opus Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of Carl Friedrich Gauss is published.source
  • 1833May 6 – In Germany, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen.source
  • 1855February 23 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)source