Mathematician · 1777 – 1855
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Little-Known Facts
- As a teenager he reportedly summed the integers from 1 to 100 instantly by pairing terms, foreshadowing his genius.
- He kept many discoveries unpublished, and his diaries later revealed results decades ahead of their formal announcement.
Myths & Misconceptions
Did Gauss invent the telegraph?
Not the modern telegraph, but with Wilhelm Weber he built one of the earliest working electromagnetic telegraphs for experimental communication in Göttingen.