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Carl Friedrich Gauss

1777 – 1855 · Germany · Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics

The Prince of Mathematicians; number theory, geodesy, magnetism.

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Who shaped Carl Friedrich Gauss, and who they shaped

Inherited from2

  • Isaac Newton

    1643 – 1727 · Physics, Mathematics

    Celestial mechanics after Newton is the problem that produced Gauss's least squares.

  • Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

    780 – 850 · Mathematics, Astronomy

    Algebra as the manipulation of general quantity is the discipline Gauss inherits and completes.

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  • Emmy Noether

    1882 – 1935 · Mathematics, Physics

    Göttingen's algebraic tradition from Gauss onward is the school Noether transformed.

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