Thursday 30 April 2015

This prince of mathematics found his own date of birth!!!





Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) 
He was born to poor working-class parents. His mother was illiterate and never recorded the date of his birth, remembering only that he had been born on a Wednesday, eight days before the Feast of the Ascension, which itself occurs 40 days after Easter. Gauss would later solve this puzzle about his birthdate in the context of finding the date of Easter, deriving methods to compute the date in both past and future years.


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