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Carl Friedrich Gauss  

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  • Gauss, who was born April 30, 1777, in Brunswick, Germany, the child of a poor family, was a prodigy who became famous for his advances in many branches of science, but he was, above all else, a mathematician. Mathematics came naturally to Gauss, who is said to have corrected his father's wage calculations when he was aged three. [Source: Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics; Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777–1855)]

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