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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Collegium Carolinum
in 1792
now Braunschweig University of Technology
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750819
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Collegium Carolinum
in 1795
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750820
Carl Friedrich Gauss
University of Göttingen
in 1795
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750821
Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1796
regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
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750823
Carl Friedrich Gauss
the construction of the heptadecagon
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750824
Carl Friedrich Gauss
quadratic reciprocity law
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750825
Carl Friedrich Gauss
prime number theorem
which gave a good understanding of how the prime numbers are distributed among the integers.
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750826
Carl Friedrich Gauss
that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers
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750827

Carl Friedrich Gauss
" ΕΥΡΗΚΑ! num = Δ + Δ’ + Δ"

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750828
Carl Friedrich Gauss
a result on the number of solutions of polynomials with coefficients in finite fields, which 150 years later led to the Weil conjectures
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750829



1798
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
in 1798
his magnum opus
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750817
Carl Friedrich Gauss
University of Göttingen
in 1798
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750822
Carl Friedrich Gauss
fundamental theorem of algebra
in 1799
which states that every non-constant single-variable polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root
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750830
Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1799
that every integral rational algebraic function of one variable can be resolved into real factors of the first or second degree
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750831
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
in 1801
This work was fundamental in consolidating number theory as a discipline and has shaped the field to the present day.
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750818
Carl Friedrich Gauss
law of quadratic reciprocity
in 1801
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750833

Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1801
" regular heptadecagon (17-sided polygon) can be constructed with straightedge and compass"

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750834



1803
Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1803
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750854
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johanna Osthoff
in 1805
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750848
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Joseph Gauss
in 1806
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750850
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Wilhelmina Gauss
in 1808
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750851
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Louis Gauss
in 1809
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750852
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum
in 1809
(Theory of motion of the celestial bodies moving in conic sections around the Sun)
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750835
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Lalande Prize
in 1810
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750815



1815
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Friederica Wilhelmine Waldeck
in 1815
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750853
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Therese Gauss
in 1816
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750813
Carl Friedrich Gauss
to carry out geodetic survey of the Kingdom of Hanover
in 1818
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750836
Carl Friedrich Gauss
heliotrope
in 1818
an instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight over great distances, to measure positions.
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750837
Carl Friedrich Gauss
foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
in 1821
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750840
Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1828
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731464
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Theorema Egregium
in 1828
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750839



1831
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Wilhelm Weber
in 1831
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750841
Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1832
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750855

Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1832
to
Farkas Bolyai
" To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work ... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."

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750838
Carl Friedrich Gauss
electromechanical telegraph
in 1833
which connected the observatory with the institute for physics in Göttingen
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750842
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Copley Medal
in 1838
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750816
Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1840
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731463
Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1840
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750811
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Dioptrische Untersuchungen
in 1840
in which he gave the first systematic analysis on the formation of images under a paraxial approximation (Gaussian optics)
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750843



1845
Carl Friedrich Gauss
associated member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands
in 1845
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750844
Carl Friedrich Gauss
the fundamental theorem of algebra
in 1849
considered generally rigorous
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750832
Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1855
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731465
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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249535