Gauss

Gauss, Karl Friedrich, was born in BrUnswick in 1777, and devoted himself to astronomy. He won the Lalande medal of the French Institute for calculating the elements of the orbits of Ceres and Pallas, and in 1807 was appointed director of the Gottingen observatory. In 1821 he undertook the triangulation of Hanover. He next directed his attention to magnetic phenomena, created in 1833 a magnetic observatory at Gottingen, and an association which extended over Europe, and invented most of the instruments now in use for magnetic investigations. His works, which cover the whole field of pure and applied mathematics, have been collected in seven volumes. He died in 1855, and his centenary was celebrated at Brunswick in 1877.