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Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in Brunswick on April 30, 1777. Gauss was a German mathematician and astronomer. Born to poor parents, he was a prodigy of astounding depth. By his early teens he hadalready performed astonishing proofs. He published over 150 works and made such important contributions as the fundamental theorem of algebra (in his doctoral dissertation), the least squares method,Gauss-Jordan elimination (for solving matrix equations), and the bell curve, or Gaussian error curve (see normal distribution). Gauss made important contributions to physics and astronomy and pioneeredthe application of mathematics to gravitation, electricity, and magnetism. He also developed the fields of potential theory and real analysis.
Gauss was responsible, in a paper published in 1809,for developing the statistical theory underlying the method of least squares. He was educated at U Göttingen and U Helmstedt, obtaining his doctorate from the latter in 1799. His work on least squares,which was a consequence of his appointment as director of the observatory at Göttingen in 1807, also entailed his deriving an appropriate error distribution — the distribution now called the normal orGaussian distribution.
Gauss—one of the greatest ever known—who devised a method for working out the orbit of a body from just three observations. Gauss turned his attention to mathematicalapplications for astronomy at about the same time that Guiseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid, Ceres, in 1801. By 1807 Gauss had become director of the Göttingen Observatory and in 1809 published hisquick method for calculating the asteroid's orbit. This enabled astronomers to recover Ceres after it had become “lost” behind the Sun following its discovery. Gauss also worked out the theories ofperturbations that were eventually used by Urbain Leverrier and John Adams in their independent calculations that led to the discovery of Neptune. After 1817 Gauss did no further work in theoretical...