
The SciencesJuly 1, 1977
Gauss
A child prodigy who became the leading mathematician of his age, he was equally at home with the abstractions of number theory, the long calculations of astronomy and the practicalities of applied physics

Gauss
A child prodigy who became the leading mathematician of his age, he was equally at home with the abstractions of number theory, the long calculations of astronomy and the practicalities of applied physics