Carl Friedrich Gauss
1777–1855
German mathematician known as the Prince of Mathematicians.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) was a mathematician, born in Brunswick and died in Göttingen, Germany.
- Known as
- Mathematician
- Category
- Scientists & Inventors
- Born
- 1777, Brunswick
- Died
- 1855, Göttingen, Germany
Alive at the same time as Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Portrait: Gottlieb Biermann / After Christian Albrecht Jensen, Public domain.
