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Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick (Germany). He was the son of a bricklayer and gardener who also kept the accounts of a local insurance company. Gauss received his elementary education at St. Katharine’s School in Brunswick. In 1791, his evident talent for mathematics was brought to the attention of the Duke of Brunswick, who undertook to support his continuing education, at first at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick and later at the University of Göttingen1. Gauss was awarded his doctor’s degree in absentia by the University of Helmstedt in 1801.
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Farebrother, R.W. (1999). Gauss’s Most Probable Values. In: Fitting Linear Relationships. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0545-6_8
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