Gauss: The Man, the Legend, the Boss

• 1796 was Carl's best year, The Boss advanced modular arithmetic and proved the quadratic reciprocity law. He discovered the Prime Number Theorem but didn't publish his results. He did publish a result on the number of solutions of polynomials with coeffeciants in finite years which would eventually lead to the much later discovery of the Weil Conjectures (Pretty influential)

•Gauss later made important contributions to number theory with his book Arithmetical Investigations which introduced the equal sign and developed modern modular arithmetic (*COUGH INFLUENTIAL *COUGH).

•Gauss believed that science and math were closely linked but that pure mathematics were not important so he decided to study Astronomy.

•Gauss used conic sections and mathematics to make a theory on the motion of planetoids and planets. This theory introduced the Gaussian Gravitational Constant.

•Gauss invented the heliotrope to carry out a survey of the Kingdom of Hanover.

•In 1833 he and William Weber created the first electromagnetical telegraph and in 1865 discovered Gauss's Law.

•In 1840 he published Dioptrische Untersuchungen which introduced some influential ideas about Geometrical Optics.

•In his later life, Gauss's activity decreased and did not make any new discoveries but built on and appreciated other new advancements as well as revealing he had discovered some of them first but not published them.

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