GAUSS, KARL FRIEDRICH

GAUSS, KARL FRIEDRICH
   a celebrated German mathematician and astronomer, born at Brunswick; was director of the observatory at Göttingen for 40 years; was equally great on theory of numbers and practice of calculation; he made important discoveries in magnetism, and was pronounced by Laplace the greatest mathematician in Europe (1775-1855).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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