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| The Prince of Mathematicians |
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In 1807 Carl Friedrich Gauss followed his calling to Göttingen to take up positions as director of the new observatory, professor of astronomy and member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Over the years many other cities had unsuccessfully tried to win him over for themselves.
Gauss, who jokingly said of himself that he learnt to calculate before he learnt to talk, had a lifelong attachment to Göttingen. After Gauss' death, King George V honored the mathematical genius with the title of ”Princeps mathematicorum” (Prince of Mathematicians).ematicorum" (Fürst der Mathematiker). | |
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