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Karl Friedrich Gauss

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Noun1.Karl Friedrich Gauss - German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855)Karl Friedrich Gauss - German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855)
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Karl Friedrich Gauss, widely regarded as one of the world's three greatest mathematicians, grew up in a family of German peasants.
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Guidon says RhB engineers also owe much to the genius of 18th-century German mathematician Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss and his French contemporary Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
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In the meantime, German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss, probably the greatest mathematician of all time, discovered a very important and far reaching principle which came to be known as the principle of least squares.
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