When Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in present-day northwestern Germany, his mother was illiterate. She never recorded his date of birth, but she knew it was a Wednesday, eight days before the ...

1792年頃、当時15歳の少年カール・フリードリヒ・ガウスは、1日15分ずつ時間をかけて1,000個ずつの自然数にそれぞれいくつの素数が現れるかを調べました。大きな数になるほど現れる素数が減っていくことに気が付いた彼は、約100年後に証明されることに ...

Monday’s Google Doodle honors Johann Karl Friedrich Gauß, a math super-genius who, assuming you’re not also a math super-genius, probably caused you some consternation in high school math. Born on ...

Gauss: Mathematics has always been my thing, since I was young. I believe everyone has their thing; math just ended up being mine. Everyone always says it doesn't fit who I am (whatever that means), ...

If you had to choose a few words or symbols to encapsulate your legacy, what would you pick? Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) left behind a trophy case stocked with mathematical achievements to ...

Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students with a classic head-scratcher on the first day of class: Sum up the digits from 1 to 100, without counting. But first, he ...

In today's rapidly advancing world of science and technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our understanding and practices in many fields at an astonishing pace. Recently, an AI ...