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
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
Leonhard Euler
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Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and
Carl Friedrich Gauss
…development" with documented research since 1799, his wealth of new ideas, and his rigour of demonstration. In contrast to previous mathematicians like Leonhard Euler, who let their readers take part in their reasoning, including certain erroneous deviations from the correct path, Gauss introduced a new style of…
1753 portrait
1957 Soviet Union stamp commemorating the 250th birthday of Euler. The text says: 250 years from the birth of the great mathematician, academician Leonhard Euler.
Euler's grave at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery
Euler portrait on the sixth series of the 10 Franc banknote