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Carl Gauss Carl Gauss was a man who is known for making a great deal breakthroughs in the wide variety of his work in both mathematics and physics. He is responsible for immeasurable contributions to the fields of number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy, and optics, as well as many more. The concepts that he himself created have had an immense influence in many areas of the mathematic and scientific world. Carl Gauss was born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss

boundaries of space and technology. The life of Carl Friedrich Gauss was full of phenomenal adventures and discoveries. He was born in Brunswick, Germany on April 30th, 1777 to poor working class parents. Gauss’ father was known as a hard worker and an honest man but heavily discouraged Gauss from attending school to follow a family trade. On the other hand, Gauss’ mother and uncle recognized his remarkable intelligence at an early age. Gauss’ intelligence was so powerful that one day at the age ten

Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in Braunshweigh, Germany, now lower Saxon Germany, where his parents lived and they were considered a pretty poor family during their time. His father worked many jobs as a gardener and many other trades such as: an assistant to a merchant and a treasurer of a small insurance fund. While his mother on the other hand was a fairly smart person but semiliterate, and before she married her husband she was a maid, the only reason for marrying him was to get out of the job

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) Introduction: Carl Friedrich Gauss is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He is a creator in the logical-mathematical domain as he contributed many ideas to the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and physics. Being a math education major, I have come into contact with Gauss’ work quite a few times. He contributed greatly to the different areas of mathematics like linear algebra, calculus, and number theory. Creativity can be seen

As a final example of the application of the Gauss-Newton method, we attempted to find the best fit for a set of data with a sinusoidal function. This example illustrates how the Gauss-Newton method can applied to functions with more that just two variables, and that it can be applied to an equation of any form. In it, will attempt to model temperature data with a sinusoidal function. Below is a chart of the average high temperatures per month of the city of Monroe Louisiana (courtesy of weather

The Gauss Rifle: A Magnetic Linear Accelerator Macalino, D. M. D. Magpantay, J. M. Recto, I. J. Reyes, R. Francisco, P. V. 4 – 5 Zatti IDT 4 In partial fulfilment for the requirement in Physics Don Bosco Technical Institute – Makati SY 2011-2012 Ms. April J. Cruz Research Adviser Chapter I – Introduction I. Background of the Study It was either the Chinese or the Greeks who discovered

Carl Friedrich Gauss, from his youth, was destined to be a great mathematician. By the time Gauss turned three, he had already taught himself to read and write. Additionally, Gauss often told acquaintances and friends that before he learned to speak, he learned to make mental calculations. Throughout his lifetime, Gauss made discoveries which would benefit many fields within mathematics. Gauss contributed greatly to the fields of arithmetic, statistics, geometry, algebra, and astronomy. The origin

The Gauss Rifle experiment ended just as my hypothesis predicted, as I added more stages, the steel ball went farther. I determined this by looking at the distance the balls traveled per stage. I performed 5 trials per stage, my average for one stage was 36.9 inches, my average for 2 stages was 48.3 inches, my average for 3 stages was 54.4 and finally, my average for 4 stages was 60.2. This proves that my hypothesis was correct. One of the errors that I probably made during the experiment was lifting

for us much of the science behind what we do. In this article we’re going to take a brief look at Carl Friedrich Gauss. Gauss was born in Germany in 1777. Interestingly, his mother (who happened to be illiterate) didn’t take note of the exact date he was born. She did, however, remember the day he was born in relation to the Christian holy days surrounding Easter. This provided Gauss a problem to work on in his early twenties – that of determining the correct day Easter should for any year. It was

Georgii Gauss was a Russian Ecologist who wanted to investigate if two species that share the same niche would be able to coexist. Gauss set an experiment where he had two single-celled species of Paramecium, P. aurelia and P. caudatum, growing in test tubes. He fed them a bacterial culture called oaten medium and added fresh water to the test tubes. He measured the population of the species by themselves and while both species were growing together. The results indicated that both species of Paramecium