Carl Friedrich Gauss

The Prince of Mathematicians, whose Disquisitiones rebuilt number theory and whose methods rebuilt every science he touched.

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1777 – 1855

Core Principles & Analysis

• He rediscovered the construction of the 17-gon at nineteen, choosing mathematics over languages.
• Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) founded modern number theory at age 24.
• He kept a private notebook of discoveries, many published only posthumously.