Carl Friedrich Gauß

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
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gptkb:physicist
astronomer
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gptkbp:award gptkb:Copley_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate 1777-04-30
gptkbp:birthPlace Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick
gptkbp:child gptkb:Eugene_Gauß
gptkb:Joseph_Gauß
gptkb:Louis_Gauß
gptkb:Wilhelm_Gauß
gptkb:Wilhelmine_Gauß
gptkbp:deathDate 1855-02-23
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Göttingen,_Kingdom_of_Hanover
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Johann_Friedrich_Pfaff
gptkbp:field gptkb:astronomy
gptkb:mathematics
differential geometry
electromagnetism
geodesy
number theory
physics
statistics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Carl Friedrich Gauß
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Friedrich_Bessel
gptkb:Richard_Dedekind
gptkb:Sophie_Germain
gptkb:Bernhard_Riemann
gptkb:Peter_Gustav_Lejeune_Dirichlet
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkb:Joseph-Louis_Lagrange
gptkb:Leonhard_Euler
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Gaussian_distribution
gptkb:fundamental_theorem_of_algebra
gptkb:Gaussian_elimination
geodesy
magnetism
number theory
least squares method
modular arithmetic
Gaussian curvature
astronomical calculations
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:French_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Göttingen_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkb:Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Saint_Petersburg_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:German
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Disquisitiones_Arithmeticae
gptkb:General_Investigations_of_Curved_Surfaces
gptkb:Theoria_Motus_Corporum_Coelestium
gptkbp:otherName gptkb:Johann_Carl_Friedrich_Gauß
gptkbp:restingPlace gptkb:Albani_Cemetery,_Göttingen
gptkbp:signature Carl Friedrich Gauß signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Johanna_Osthoff
gptkb:Minna_Waldeck
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Physik
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4