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Gauss, Karl Friedrich
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
A celebrated German mathematician and astronomer, born at Brunswick; was director of the observatory at Göttingen for 40 years; was equally great on theory of numbers and practice of calculation; he made important discoveries in magnetism, and was pronounced by Laplace the greatest mathematician in Europe (1775-1855).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gauss, Karl Friedrich'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/gauss-karl-friedrich.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.