María José Jaimes Rodríguez

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss Full name On April 30, 1777 In Braunschweig, Germany Born On February 23, 1855 In Göttigen, Kingdom of Hanover Death

 He learned to read only.  Was a child prodigy  When he was 17, he loved mathematics  He said “The mathematic is the queen of the sciences, and the arithmetic is the queen of the mathematic”

 In 1796 he demonstrated how to draw a polygon of 17 sides  In 1799 he was the first person who proved the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra  In 1801 predicted the approaching Ceres orbit parameters by least squares.  In 1809 he was appointed director of the Göttingen Observatory. In the same year deepened on differential equations and conic sections.  He was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis,differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.