Carl Friedrich Gauss

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astronomer human mathematician physicist university teacher

Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist whose foundational contributions to number theory, geometry, statistics, and electromagnetism earned him the title "Prince of Mathematicians."

Aliases (3)

Gauss ×4
Carl Friedrich Gauss, a renowned German mathematician ×1
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss ×1

Statements (80)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	astronomer → human → mathematician → physicist → university teacher →
awardReceived	Copley Medal →
burialPlace	Albani Cemetery →
countryOfCitizenship	Duchy of Brunswick → Kingdom of Hanover →
dateOfBirth	1777-04-30 →
dateOfDeath	1855-02-23 →
educatedAt	Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick → University of Göttingen →
employer	University of Göttingen →
ethnicGroup	German →
familyName	Gauss →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → differential geometry → electromagnetism → geodesy → mathematics → number theory → physics → statistics →
fullName	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss →
givenName	Carl → Johann →
hasChild	Eugene Gauss → Joseph Gauss → Minna Gauss → Therese Gauss → Wilhelm Gauss →
hasConceptNamedAfter	Gauss map → Gaussian curvature → Gaussian distribution → Gaussian elimination → Gaussian integers → Gaussian units → Gauss–Bonnet theorem → Gauss–Jordan elimination → Gauss–Markov theorem → Gauss–Seidel method → Gauss’s constant → Gauss’s law → Gauss’s lemma in number theory → Gauss’s planetary equations →
influenced	Bernhard Riemann → Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi → David Hilbert → Sofia Kovalevskaya →
influencedBy	Joseph-Louis Lagrange → Leonhard Euler →
knownFor	contributions to celestial mechanics → foundations of statistics and probability theory → fundamental contributions to number theory → work in differential geometry of surfaces → work in potential theory and electromagnetism →
languageUsed	German → Latin →
nativeLanguage	German →
nickname	Prince of Mathematicians →
notableWork	Disquisitiones Arithmeticae → Gaussian curvature → Gaussian distribution → Gaussian elimination → Gaussian integral → Gaussian law of error → Gauss–Bonnet theorem (early form) → Gauss’s law → Theorema Egregium → construction of the regular 17-gon with straightedge and compass → method of least squares →
placeOfBirth	Brunswick → Duchy of Brunswick →
placeOfDeath	Göttingen → Kingdom of Hanover →
religion	Lutheranism →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Johanna Osthoff → Minna Waldeck →

Referenced by (63)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Gauss map → Gauss's law → Gauss's law for magnetism → Gaussian curvature → Gaussian elimination → Gaussian units → Gauss–Bonnet theorem (early form) → Gauss–Markov theorem → Gauss–Seidel method → Gauss’s constant → Gauss’s lemma (number theory) → Gauss’s planetary equations →	namedAfter
Bernhard Riemann → Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi → Leopold Kronecker → Évariste Galois → Über die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen →	influencedBy
Carl Friedrich Gauss ("Gauss") → Eugene Gauss ("Gauss") → Joseph Gauss ("Gauss") → Minna Gauss ("Gauss") →	familyName
Eugene Gauss → Joseph Gauss → Minna Gauss → Wilhelm Gauss →	father
Abraham de Moivre → Joseph-Louis Lagrange → Pierre-Simon Laplace →	influenced
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae → Theorema Egregium →	author
Joseph Gauss → Wilhelm Gauss →	notableRelative
Eugene Gauss → Minna Gauss →	relative
Johanna Osthoff → Minna Waldeck →	spouse
Bernhard Riemann →	academicAdvisor
Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick →	almaMaterOf
Prince of Mathematicians →	appliedTo
Brunswick →	birthplaceOf
Prince of Mathematicians →	describesReputationOf
Gauss–Bonnet theorem (early form) →	developedBy
Carl Friedrich Gauss ("Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss") →	fullName
Albani Cemetery →	hasGraveOf
central limit theorem →	hasHistoricalContributor
Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick →	hasStudent
Gaussian integral →	historicalAttribution
method of least squares →	historicalDeveloper
CLT →	historicallyAssociatedWith
Prince of Mathematicians →	honors
Gauss map →	introducedBy
Gauss’s constant →	namedInHonorOf
Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick →	notableAlumnus
University of Göttingen →	notableAssociatedScientist
Albani Cemetery →	notableBurial
Order of the Red Eagle →	notableRecipient
Prince of Mathematicians →	refersTo
Johanna Osthoff ("Carl Friedrich Gauss, a renowned German mathematician") →	spouseNotableAs
Theorema Egregium →	statedBy
Friedrich Bernhard Riemann →	studentOf
Über die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen →	supervisor
Prince of Mathematicians →	usedFor
construction of the regular 17-gon with straightedge and compass →	wasProvedPossibleBy