Thanks C19fan.
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Posted on 04/30/2018 5:08:14 AM PDT by C19fan
A German mathematician, physicist and astronomer, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss rose from humble origins to become one of the world’s greatest minds.
Born in 1777 in Brunswick, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, Gauss was the only child of poor parents who had received little or no formal education. His mother was illiterate. But when Gauss started school at age seven, he was quickly recognized as a child prodigy who could solve complex math problems in his head.
While still a teenager, Gauss became the first person to prove the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity, a math theory to determine whether quadratic equations can be solved.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Time Magazine is now publishing articles about Google “doodles”?
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Thanks C19fan.
Thanks, SC, for the ping. As a control engineer, I use quadratic equations often enough.
Gause was a genius.
Googos is a slimy goofus.
Eff them and the horse they rode in on.
Gauss’ birth is a lot more worthy of celebration than the recent bicentennial anniversary of Karl Marx’s birthday.
You are so, so correct! But it was good to finally see something complimentary about a successful, intelligent white male!
:^) My pleasure.
Hey, next time they might even commemorate Johnny von Neumann, one of the fathers of computing and a straight white male, to boot!
“Measuring the World” by Daniel Kehlmann - good read about Gauss and Humboldt.
You raise a good question. There have been lots of Google doodles. I wonder how many have paid tribute to a successful white male?
I thought they were honoring Papa Smurf?
Was not easy growing up blue.
Question: Were U.S. Navy degaussing stations named after Gauss’ Italian cousin De Gauss?
There have been lots of Google doodles. I wonder how many have paid tribute to a successful white male?
I wrote "finally" seeing a white male on "Google Doodle." I can't recall ever seeing a complimentary word posted about men!
He had realized that there were 50 pairs of numbers so the right answer was 50 times 101 or 5050 (1 plus 100, 2 plus 99, 3 plus 98, etc.).
The teacher asked for the total of the numbers 1 to 100.
Gauss gave the answer within seconds.
When the teacher asked him how he did that,
he said he saw two two verrtical rows of numbers side by side,
the first row 1, 2, 3, etc down to 100
and the second row 100 going backwards down to 1-— 100, 99, 98 etc
He said he noticed that the top two numbers on the two rows, 1 and 100 totalled 101.
So did the next two down: 99 and 2 equal 101
So did the next two: 98 and 3 equal 101
Etc
So he had one hundred 101’s in the two vertical rows
which equalled 10,100
But he only needed on such vertical row-—not two
so he divided the 10,100 by 2
which equalled 5,050.
He was SIX YEARS OLD when he did that.
But can they derive it?
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