Essay on Carl Friedrich Gauss

Attended Harvard and he graduated 21st of 177. He studied in the fields of sciences, German, rhetoric, philosophy, and ancient languages. (1876-1880)

(Page 79 The Republic and the School”) “our means of education are the grand machinery by which the raw material" of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science. By means of early education, these embryos of talent may be quickened, which will solve the difficult problems of political and economical law; and by them, too, the genius may be kindled which will blaze forth in the Poets of Humanity. Our schools, far more than they have done, may supply the Presidents and Professors of Colleges, and Superintendents of Public Instruction, all over the land; and send, not only into our sister states, but across the Atlantic, the men of practical science, to superintend the construction of the great works of art” (Page 79 The Republic and the School”). This exemplifies his believe in the balance wheel of the social

that college. Then in 1854 he started teaching at that college. When he was 26 he went to teach at

Before receiving his Ph.D., he had studied abroad in Germany for two years with the aid of a scholarship he had earned.

Being so busy for a child his age, he took a step that many of us would only dream of doing and left school to focus on his passion; music. For his next step, he learned the organ from Brother Willibald Koch in Bonn at the Franciscan monastery and was soon accepted as his assistant. Continuing with his training with the organ, he later studied under the organist of the Münsterkirche, Zenser. Finally, by 1783 he was proficient enough to seek paid appointments and in 1794 he was appointed assistant organist at court.

Johann Elert Bode was born in Hamburg, Germany on January 19, 1747. His father was a merchant and his mother stayed at home with him and his eight younger brothers and sisters. Bode never went to formal school, but his father was determined to teach him how to be a great merchant. However, Bode didn’t want to become a merchant. He was very interested in mathematics, geography, and astrology. He decided to go against what his father was teaching him and pursue a career in Astrology instead.

Galileo was born in Florence, Italy in 1564 to a poor family but among their people they were considered quite noble. His parents realized that Galileo possessed pronounced intellectual gifts. They made great sacrifices to give Galileo the education that he deserved. At the University of Pisa he studied medicine to grant his father’s wishes, while there he became interested in a wide range of other subjects. Even as a student at the University of Pisa he questioned many of Aristotle’s teachings, therefor, when he began to teach there himself he was left isolated from his fellow professor. Galileo worked at the University of Pisa for three years before he resigned and began his teachings as a math professor at the University of Padua. At that university he was a well-loved professor who attracted large

After five years at Technische Hochschule, Felix Klein went to the Universities of Leipzig (Felix Klein German Mathematician). At Leipzig he encountered Von Dyck, Rohn, Study, and Engel who were

In 1703 he graduated from St. Michael’s school. He was offered the job of and organist at Sangerhausen, but he turned that down. Then he got a job at Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar, which involved nothing

As he grew, so did his interest in plants and wildlife. When he was 7 years old, his father noticed that he was very talented and hired him a tutor. Despite the tutor being a professional, his studies bored Carl. When he was 10 years old, he started school. He was not a bad student, but he was not very good. Although he was smart, he did not excel in the most required courses. Fortunately, one of his teachers, Johan Rothman, who was

While known for his alchemy, he also dabbled in verse and biographical writing. He dedicated himself to the pursuit of knowledge from a young age and did not limit the subjects that he studied. Whether or not he was able to have tutors is debated (along with the

Otto grew up as the son of a middle class Glazier (Glass fitter) and attended the Goethe Gymnasium where he took an interest in classics. He grew up as many boys, collecting stamps and the like, but even at an early age he was finishing in the tops of all his classes. He struggled with illness as a child and at several instances almost died. Even when he was not plagued by sickness after having

The origin of this famed mathematician began in Brunswick, Germany on April 30th in the year of 1777. Gauss had humble beginnings, and lived in a small house with his parents. Gauss's parents were both peasant-laborers, which was expressed by the local dialect they spoke (West 15-16). Gauss's father, Gebhard Dietrich Gauss, worked in various areas; he worked as a "brick layer, gardener, canal-tender, street butcher, and accountant for funeral society" (West 16). Gauss's mother, when she was Dorothea Benze, worked for seven years as a maid before she married Gebhard. Gauss was Dorothea's only child, but he had a half-brother, Johann George Heinrich, who was the son of Gauss's father from an earlier marriage (West 16).

He was born on July 1st, 1646, his father was a professor and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy lawyer. Unfortunately his father died when he was very little, although his father had a time to teach him about history before he died in a school in which Gottfried attended called Nicolai school. He was a very smart guy, at the age of eight he already knew some Latin and when he turned twelve he mastered Latin so he started learning Greek. He wanted to learn about logic so started the efforts to learn about it. He attended the university of Leipzig as a law student when he was only fifteen years old, his firsts years where dedicated to learn philosophy and he was thought by Jakob Tho0masius. He had the chance to deal with the modern thinkers.

In 1856, his family moved to Germany because of his father’s poor health to stay away from Russia’s rough winters and to find warmer weather. Georg was never happy with the move but made the most out of it. They first moved to Wiesbaden, Germany than later moved to Frankfurt, where Georg studied at the Realschule in Darmstadt. In 1860, Georg graduated with a distinction from Realschule as an outstanding student in mathematics, especially trigonometry. In 1862, Georg asked his father for permission to study mathematics and was thrilled when his father consented and entered University of Zürich, but that was all cut short when his father passed a year later in 1863. Georg received a substantial amount of inheritance he left the University of Zürich and attended the University of