Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
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Abraham Gotthelf Kästner was a German mathematician and epigrammatist.
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
De habitu matheseos et physicae ad religionem, 1752
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. His mathematical contributions spanned the bran
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
…who became a colleague of his at Göttingen. Other notable doctoral students were Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Johann Pfaff (doctoral advisor of Carl Friedrich Gauss), Johann Tobias Mayer, Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, Farkas Bolyai (father of János Bolyai), and Georg Klügel. Kästner died in 1800 in Göttingen. Kästner…
Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen, 1840 (copy from Gottlieb Biermann, 1887)
Birthplace in Brunswick (destroyed in World War II)
Gauss's home as student in Göttingen
Old Göttingen observatory, c. 1800