1777 - 1855
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (German: Gauß [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɡaʊs] ; Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who made contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Gauss ranks among history's most influential mathematicians and has been referred to as the "Prince of Mathematicians". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Friedrich Gauss has received more than 5,820,135 page views. His biography is available in 148 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 141 in 2019). Carl Friedrich Gauss is the 3rd most popular mathematician, the 10th most popular biography from Germany (up from 15th in 2019) and the most popular German Mathematician.
Carl Friedrich Gauss is most famous for his contributions to mathematics, specifically in the fields of number theory and geometry. He also made contributions to astronomy, statistics, and geodesy.
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Among mathematicians, Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks 3 out of 823. Before him are Archimedes and Blaise Pascal. After him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, Euclid, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell, Al-Biruni, and Bernhard Riemann.
287 BC - 212 BC
HPI: 91.69
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1623 - 1662
HPI: 88.71
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1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
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1646 - 1716
HPI: 85.38
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780 - 850
HPI: 85.05
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1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
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1048 - 1131
HPI: 83.59
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350 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 83.48
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350 - 415
HPI: 81.91
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1872 - 1970
HPI: 79.79
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973 - 1048
HPI: 79.68
Rank: 11
1826 - 1866
HPI: 79.62
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Among people born in 1777, Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks 1. After him are Hans Christian Ørsted, Alexander I of Russia, Désirée Clary, Heinrich von Kleist, Henry Clay, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Elisa Bonaparte, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, Juliette Récamier, Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Philipp Otto Runge. Among people deceased in 1855, Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks 1. After him are Søren Kierkegaard, Nicholas I of Russia, Charlotte Brontë, Adam Mickiewicz, Gérard de Nerval, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Adelaide of Austria, Pavel Nakhimov, François Rude, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, and François Magendie.
1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
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1777 - 1851
HPI: 81.20
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1777 - 1825
HPI: 78.54
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1777 - 1860
HPI: 71.43
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1777 - 1811
HPI: 69.83
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1777 - 1852
HPI: 68.10
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1777 - 1830
HPI: 67.90
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1777 - 1820
HPI: 67.03
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1777 - 1801
HPI: 62.72
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1777 - 1849
HPI: 62.66
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1777 - 1848
HPI: 62.06
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1777 - 1810
HPI: 62.04
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1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
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1813 - 1855
HPI: 81.07
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1796 - 1855
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1816 - 1855
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1798 - 1855
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1808 - 1855
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1788 - 1855
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1822 - 1855
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1802 - 1855
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1784 - 1855
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1797 - 1855
HPI: 59.16
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1783 - 1855
HPI: 56.92
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Among people born in Germany, Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks 10 out of 6,142. Before him are Martin Luther (1483), Karl Marx (1818), Charlemagne (748), Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844). After him are Johannes Kepler (1571), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Max Weber (1864), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), and Richard Wagner (1813).
1483 - 1546
HPI: 92.12
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1818 - 1883
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748 - 814
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1394 - 1468
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1749 - 1832
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1844 - 1900
HPI: 87.93
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1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
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1571 - 1630
HPI: 87.17
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1815 - 1898
HPI: 86.51
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1864 - 1920
HPI: 86.05
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1770 - 1831
HPI: 85.96
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1646 - 1716
HPI: 85.38
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1813 - 1883
HPI: 85.34
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Among mathematicians born in Germany, Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks 1. After him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Gottlob Frege (1848), Emmy Noether (1882), Karl Weierstrass (1815), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), Regiomontanus (1436), and Alexander Grothendieck (1928).
1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
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1646 - 1716
HPI: 85.38
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1826 - 1866
HPI: 79.62
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1805 - 1859
HPI: 72.67
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1848 - 1925
HPI: 72.19
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1882 - 1935
HPI: 71.39
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1815 - 1897
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 7
1790 - 1868
HPI: 68.49
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1540 - 1610
HPI: 68.20
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1831 - 1916
HPI: 67.33
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1436 - 1476
HPI: 67.06
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1928 - 2014
HPI: 67.05
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