Carl Friedrich Gauss's Timeline: Life, Photos, and Key Events
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1792
1795
1796
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
on 5/31/1796
. which gave a good understanding of how the prime numbers are distributed among the integers.
on 7/10/1796
. that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers
on 10/1/1796
. a result on the number of solutions of polynomials with coefficients in finite fields, which 150 years later led to the Weil conjectures
1798
1799
in 1799
. which states that every non-constant single-variable polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root
in 1799
. that every integral rational algebraic function of one variable can be resolved into real factors of the first or second degree
1801
in 1801
. This work was fundamental in consolidating number theory as a discipline and has shaped the field to the present day.
1803
