Carl Friedrich Gauss Blast From The Past

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"Normal" Curve used in statistics

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His diary that covered 20 years of work only contained 19 pages. Gauss was a perfectionist. After his death it was discovered that many discoveries credited to others had first been worked on by Gauss years earlier. Much of his work was never published because he felt it wasn’t finished yet.

His motto was "pauca sed matura" (few but ripe).

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Eureka (num) = + +

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Triangular Numbers

1 3 6 10 15

This entry from Gauss’ diary meant that every number could be written as a sum of three or fewer triangular numbers.

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Triangular Numbers

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1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28…

6 + 1

6 + 1 + 1

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6 + 3

21 + 15 + 1

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