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Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). The German scientist and mathematician Gauss is frequently he was called the founder of modern mathematics. His work is astronomy and physics is nearly as significant as that in mathematics.         Gauss was born on April 30, 1777 in Brunswick (now it is Western Germany). Many biographists think that he got his good health from his father. Gauss said about himself that, he could count before he can talk.         When Gauss was 7 years old …

…observed that his clear blue eyes had not lost their gleam. The end came about a month later. In the morning of February 23, 1855 Gauss died peacefully in his sleep. He was seventy-seven years old.         BIBLIOGRAPHY Gindikin, S.G., Stories about physicists and mathematicians, Russia,         Moscow, 'Nauka', 1982 (in Russian). Hall, T., Carl Friedrich Gauss, The Massachusetts Institute of         Technology, 1970. Muir, Jane, Of Men and Numbers: The Story of Great Mathematicians.         Dodd, Mead, and Co, New York, 1961.