carl friedrich gauss blast from the past.ppt
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to occupy pupils by making themadd a list of integers. The youngGauss reputedly produced thecorrect answer within seconds, tothe astonishment of his teacher.Gauss' presumed method, which
supposes the list of numbers wasfrom 1 to 100, was to realise thatpairwise addition of terms from
opposite ends of the list yieldedidentical intermediate sums: 1 100 ! 101, " ## ! 101, $ #% !
101, and so on, for a total sum of&0 101 ! &0&0
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Helped his father with payroll
accounts at the age of 3
Remembers he could “reckon”
before he could talk
Knew seven languages
by the age of 19
roved construction of a 1! sidedpolygon with only a compass and
straight edge" thought impossible
for #$$$ years%
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"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. "while working, when informed that his wife is dying.
Gauss's personal life was overshadowed by the early death of his first
wife, Johanna Osthoff, in 1809, soon followed by the death of one child,
Louis. Gauss pluned into a depression fro! which he never fullyrecovered. "e !arried aain, to Johanna's best friend na!ed #riederica
$ilhel!ine $aldec% but co!!only %nown as &inna. his second
!arriae does not see! to have been very happy as it was plaued by
&inna's continuous illness. $hen his second wife died in 18(1 after a
lon illness,one of his dauhters, herese, too% over the household and
cared for Gauss until the end of his life.
Gauss had si) children with Johanna.
Gauss died in G*ttinen, "annover +now part of Lower a)ony,
Ger!any- in 18.
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&auss wanted a
heptadecagon placed on hisgravestone" but the carver
refused" saying it would look
like a circle% 'he
heptadecagon is used as
the shape of the pedestal
with a statue honoring
&auss in his home town of(raunschweig%
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&auss on the 1$ )ark note
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His diary that covered 20years of work only
contained 19 pages !a"ss
was a perfectionist #fter
his death it was discoveredthat $any discoveries
credited to others had first
%een worked on %y !a"ss
years earlier &"ch of hiswork was never p"%lished
%eca"se he felt it wasn't
finished yet
His $otto was (pa"ca sed $at"ra( )few %"t ripe*
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*ureka +num, - . .
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*ureka +num, - . .
1 3 / 1$ 10
'his entry from
&auss diary meantthat every number
could be written as a
sum of three or fewer
triangular numbers%
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