Carl Friedrich Gauss is revered as a very important man in the world of mathematics. The discoveries he completed while he was alive contributed to many areas of mathematics such as geometry, statistics, number theory, statistics, and more. Gauss was an extremely brilliant mathematician and that is precisely why he is still remembered today. Although Gauss left many contributions in each of the fields mentioned above, two of his discoveries in the fields of mathematics and astronomy appear to have had the most extraordinary effect on modern mathematics. Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on April 30, 1777 in Brunswick, Germany. a strict father and a loving mother. At a young age, his mother sensed how intelligent her son was and insisted on sending him to school to develop, even though his father showed a lot of resistance to the idea. The first test of Gauss's brilliance was at the age of ten, in his arithmetic class, when the teacher asked the students to find the sum of all the integers from 1 to 100. In his mind, Gauss was able to connect that 1+100=101, 2+99=101, and so on, deducing that all 50 pairs of numbers would equal 101. According to this logic, all Gauss had to do was multiply 50 by 101 and get the response of 5,050. Gauss was linked to the field of mathematics when at the age of 14 he met the Duke of Brunswick. The Duke was so amazed by Gauss's photographic memory that he supported him financially during his studies at Caroline College and later at other universities. An important feat that Gauss accomplished while enrolled in college helped him decide that he wanted to focus on studying mathematics instead of languages. In addition to his life of mathematics, Gauss also had six children, three with Johanna Osthoff and three with his deceased first wife's best friend......middle of paper......Gauss was an incredible mathematician who founded ideas in the fields of geometry, statistics, number theory, statistics and more. He was able to change the attitudes of mathematicians everywhere with his curious, yet brilliant and logical mind and find solutions to problems they have had for hundreds of years. His work is so important and useful that it is still used today in mathematics fields and classrooms around the world. The inclusion of Gauss in the history of mathematics is important and without his exceptional mind modern mathematics would be almost completely different than it is. Works Cited, N. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.rare-earth-magnets.com/t-johann-carl-friedrich-gauss.aspxMastin, L. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.storyofmathematics.com/19th_gauss.htmlWeller, K. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/men/gauss.html