Life story: In his childhood, Gauss was the son of an ordinary couple.

His mother was the daughter of a poor mason. Although she was very smart, she had no education and was almost illiterate.

She worked as a maid before becoming the second wife of Gauss's father.

His father worked as a gardener, foreman, businessman's assistant and appraiser for a small insurance company.

It has become an anecdote that Gauss was able to correct his father's debt accounts at the age of 3.

He once said that he learned calculations on Mai Xianwengdui.

The ability to perform complex calculations in his head was a God-given gift throughout his life.

When Gauss was 9 years old, Gauss used a very short time to calculate the task assigned by his primary school teacher: the sum of the natural numbers from 1 to 100.

The method he used was to sum up 50 pairs of sequences that constituted the sum of 101 (1+100, 2+99, 3+98...), and got the result: 5050.

However, according to more detailed historical records of mathematics, what Gauss solved was not just as simple as adding 1 to 100, but an arithmetic sequence of 81297+81495+...+100899 (tolerance 198, number of terms 100)

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As a teenager, when Gauss was 12 years old, he had already begun to doubt the basic proofs in the geometry of elements.

When he was 16 years old, he predicted that there would be a completely different geometry beyond Euclidean geometry.

He derived the general form of the binomial theorem, successfully applied it to infinite series, and developed the theory of mathematical analysis.

Gauss's teacher Bruettner and his assistant Martin Bartels recognized Gauss's unusual talent in mathematics very early. At the same time, Herzog Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Braunschweig also left a deep impression on this genius child.

So they funded Gauss's study and life since he was 14 years old.

This also enabled Gauss to study at the Carolinum Academy (the predecessor of today's Braunschweig Academy) from 1792 to 1795 AD.

At the age of 18, Gauss transferred to the University of G?ttingen to study.

When he was 19 years old, he was the first to successfully construct a regular 17-gonal shape using a ruler and compass.

As an adult, Gauss married Miss Johanna Elisabeth Rosina Osthoff (1780-1809) from Braunschweig on October 5, 1805.

On August 21, 1806 AD, he welcomed his first child, Joseph.

He later had two more children.

Wilhelmine (1809-1840) and Louis (1809-1810).

In 1807 Gauss became a professor at the University of G?ttingen and director of the local observatory.

Although Gauss is best known as a mathematician, that doesn't mean he loved teaching.

Nonetheless, more and more of his students became influential mathematicians, such as the later world-famous Richard Dedekind and Riemann, who founded Riemannian geometry.