https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9 What is an interesting fact about this mathematician? en-us 2017-04-12 01:37:11 UTC 2021-03-16 02:41:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1252909386 Despite being born to poor, illiterate parents who were not able to even write down the date of his birth, Gauss was a child prodigy and was educated (thankfully, or who knows where math would be now!).]]> 2021-03-01 13:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1252909386 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1252944337 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science.]]> 2021-03-01 13:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1252944337 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1254111449 Carl Friedrich Gauss had 3  children

]]> 2021-03-01 16:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1254111449 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1254147573 He was a miser ]]> 2021-03-01 16:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1254147573 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1258151629 In addition to mathematics, Gauss made powerful contributions to a wide range of mathematical and physical sciences including astronomy, optics, electricity, magnetism, statistics, and surveying.]]> 2021-03-02 13:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1258151629 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1258390230 Gauss was the first mathematician to construct a 17-sided heptadecagon using a compass and a straight edge, and more importantly was the first to prove the laws of quadratic reciprocity.

]]> 2021-03-02 14:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1258390230 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1260394905 Along with Wilhelm Weber, Gauss invented the first electric telegraph.]]> 2021-03-02 19:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1260394905 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1263591765 Gauss discovered a construction of the heptadecagon on March 30th, 1796.]]> 2021-03-03 13:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1263591765 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1269181337 Gauss won the Copley Medal, the most prestigious scientific award in the United Kingdom, given annually by the Royal Society of London, in 1838 “for his inventions and mathematical researches in magnetism.” For his study of angle-preserving maps, he was awarded the prize of the Danish Academy of Sciences in 1823.]]> 2021-03-04 14:29:05 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1269181337 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1271047477 His brain was preserved and was studied by Rudolf Wagner who found its mass to be 1,492 grams (slightly above average) and the cerebral area equal to 219,588 square millimeters (340.362 square inches).]]> 2021-03-04 19:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1271047477 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1273342990 Gauss's work was instrumental to the understanding of algebra, as he proved its central theorem which states that "every non-constant single-variable polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root."]]> 2021-03-05 12:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1273342990 https://padlet.com/packsu/973r88ug99n9/wish/1313617871 Gauss was the first mathematician to construct a 17-sided heptadecagon using a compass and a straight edge, and more importantly was the first to prove the laws of quadratic reciprocity.

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