His writings on law and constitutionalism made him one of the world's leading political scientists in the post-World War II period. He is one of the most influential scholars of totalitarianism.
Biography
Born on June 5, 1901, in Leipzig, the site of the first significant defeat of the Napoleonic armies, Friedrich was the son of renowned professor of medicine Paul Leopold Friedrich, the inventor of the surgical rubber glove, and a Prussian countess of the von Bülow family. He attended the Gymnasium Philippinum from 1911 to 1919, where he received an elite German secondary education focusing on classical languages and literature (at his American naturalization proceeding, he described his religion as "Homer"). Friedrich studied under Alfred Weber, the brother of Max Weber, at the University of Heidelberg, where he graduated in 1925, having also attended several other universities and even put in a brief stint working in the Belgian coal mines.
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (German:Karl Friedrich, Großherzog Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) (2 February 1783 – 8 July 1853) was a Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
Charles Frederick succeeded his famous father as Grand Duke when he died, in 1828. His capital, Weimar, continued to be a cultural center of Central Europe, even after the death of Goethe, in 1832. Johann Nepomuk Hummel made his career in Weimar as Kapellmeister until his death in 1837. Franz Liszt settled in Weimar in 1848 as Kapellmeister and gathered about him a circle that kept the Weimar court a major musical centre. Due to the intervention of Liszt, the composer Richard Wagner found refuge in Weimar after he was forced to flee Saxony for his role in the revolutionary disturbances there in 1848-49. Wagner's opera Lohengrin was first performed in Weimar in August 1850.
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Unidad 1, Tema 3: Filosofía del Derecho según Carl Joachim Friederich (Primera parte)
Primera parte del capítulo introductorio del libro Filosofía del Derecho del alemán Carl Joachin Friederich. Se abordan ciertas precisiones conceptuales respecto del campo de estudio de la filosofía, así como definiciones básicas.
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Idioma : Español
Tapa blanda : 296 páginas
ISBN-10 : 8420614653
ISBN-13 : 978-8420614656
Peso del producto : 500 g
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Presentation by Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (IIASA) for the CMIP Seminar held on 27th November 2024 titled 'Overconfidence in climate overshoot'.
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This is the video of the 12th episode (seminar) of a talk series on History and Other Areas of Mathematics organized by the department of STEAM Education, Kathmandu University School of Education. In this series, Professor Bhadra Man Tuladhar (one of the living legends and renowned mathematicians/scientists in Nepal and beyond) is giving the lectures.
published: 23 Feb 2022
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A child prodigy: Carl Friedrich Gauss
A child prodigy: Carl Friedrich Gauss
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘅:
⏲ 0:00 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
⏲ 0:20 A child prodigy
⏲ 0:53 The problem
⏲ 1:45 The possible solutions
⏲ 3:24 Outro
📫𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐁 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞:
https://www.facebook.com/ScienceWorld-106933907791981
🎬𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬:
- Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World) by Detlev Buck
- Pexels
📚𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝'𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬
📕 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱
(https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Maths-Agnijo-Banerjee-Darling/dp/1786072645)
📙 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲
(https://www.amazon.com/Weirder-Maths-At-Edge-Possible/dp/1786075083/)
📗 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻
(https://www.amazon.com/Weirdest-Maths-David-Darling/dp/1786078058/)
** The kindle versions are available
*** For more details : http://weirdmaths.com/...
published: 05 Feb 2022
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Piers Morgan is joined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins to answer his questions about life after death.
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April 30: Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes
Physics Quote of the Day for April 30th.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 in Braunschweig -- 23 February 1855 in Göttingen)
Quotes can be looked up at wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. The never-satisfied man is so strange; if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another."
"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I ha...
Primera parte del capítulo introductorio del libro Filosofía del Derecho del alemán Carl Joachin Friederich. Se abordan ciertas precisiones conceptuales respect...
Primera parte del capítulo introductorio del libro Filosofía del Derecho del alemán Carl Joachin Friederich. Se abordan ciertas precisiones conceptuales respecto del campo de estudio de la filosofía, así como definiciones básicas.
Primera parte del capítulo introductorio del libro Filosofía del Derecho del alemán Carl Joachin Friederich. Se abordan ciertas precisiones conceptuales respecto del campo de estudio de la filosofía, así como definiciones básicas.
Presentation by Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (IIASA) for the CMIP Seminar held on 27th November 2024 titled 'Overconfidence in climate overshoot'.
Register to ...
Presentation by Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (IIASA) for the CMIP Seminar held on 27th November 2024 titled 'Overconfidence in climate overshoot'.
Register to present at a future CMIP seminar: bit.ly/CMIPSeminar-speaker-signup
Register to attend the seminars: bit.ly/CMIPSeminar-register
CMIP Seminars are held on the last Wednesday every month to showcase the breadth of science being done using the CMIP data. Anyone doing research involving CMIP data is encouraged to sign-up to present their results.carl-
Presentation by Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (IIASA) for the CMIP Seminar held on 27th November 2024 titled 'Overconfidence in climate overshoot'.
Register to present at a future CMIP seminar: bit.ly/CMIPSeminar-speaker-signup
Register to attend the seminars: bit.ly/CMIPSeminar-register
CMIP Seminars are held on the last Wednesday every month to showcase the breadth of science being done using the CMIP data. Anyone doing research involving CMIP data is encouraged to sign-up to present their results.carl-
This is the video of the 12th episode (seminar) of a talk series on History and Other Areas of Mathematics organized by the department of STEAM Education, Kathm...
This is the video of the 12th episode (seminar) of a talk series on History and Other Areas of Mathematics organized by the department of STEAM Education, Kathmandu University School of Education. In this series, Professor Bhadra Man Tuladhar (one of the living legends and renowned mathematicians/scientists in Nepal and beyond) is giving the lectures.
This is the video of the 12th episode (seminar) of a talk series on History and Other Areas of Mathematics organized by the department of STEAM Education, Kathmandu University School of Education. In this series, Professor Bhadra Man Tuladhar (one of the living legends and renowned mathematicians/scientists in Nepal and beyond) is giving the lectures.
A child prodigy: Carl Friedrich Gauss
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘅:
⏲ 0:00 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
⏲ 0:20 A child prodigy
⏲ 0:53 The problem
⏲ 1:45 The possible solutions
⏲ 3:24 O...
A child prodigy: Carl Friedrich Gauss
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘅:
⏲ 0:00 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
⏲ 0:20 A child prodigy
⏲ 0:53 The problem
⏲ 1:45 The possible solutions
⏲ 3:24 Outro
📫𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐁 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞:
https://www.facebook.com/ScienceWorld-106933907791981
🎬𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬:
- Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World) by Detlev Buck
- Pexels
📚𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝'𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬
📕 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱
(https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Maths-Agnijo-Banerjee-Darling/dp/1786072645)
📙 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲
(https://www.amazon.com/Weirder-Maths-At-Edge-Possible/dp/1786075083/)
📗 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻
(https://www.amazon.com/Weirdest-Maths-David-Darling/dp/1786078058/)
** The kindle versions are available
*** For more details : http://weirdmaths.com/
📄𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist, who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Because of his work, his name has been given to many rules, methods, and inventions.
After his death in 1855, Gauss’s friend, the geologist Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, wrote his biography. Waltershausen pointed out that even as a little boy, Gauss showed extraordinary mental powers. He learned to read by asking members of his family the sound of letters and learned to count before he could talk. When he was only 3 years old, he corrected a mistake in his father's business accounts.
According to Waltershausen, Gauss’ schoolteacher J. G. Büttner one day gave an arithmetic problem to the class. The task was to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 in one hour. Most of the pupils naturally began to add the numbers one by one on their slates, but Gauss wrote nothing. He just thought for a minute, wrote the answer to the question on his slate, stood up, and threw his slate on the table with the words "There it lies", while everyone else continued busily adding. After the hour was up, Büttner checked the pupils’ slates. He saw that Gauss’ result was correct whereas many of the others were wrong. How could a primary school child solve the problem so quickly?
Some researchers believe that Gauss folded the series like this (2). If we sum the numbers vertically, we end up with the same result, 101. Since there are 50 sums, the result is 101 times 50, or 5,050.
Other researchers think that Gauss wrote another series under the first in reverse order and added the numbers vertically as before, giving the result 101. Since there are 100 sums, that makes 100 times 101, but because there are two series Gauss divided the sum by 2 and found the result: again 5,050.
Another possible approach is averaging. If we consider the first and the last number, their average is (1 + 100)/2, which is 50.5. We get 100 times 50.5, which again leads us to the answer: 5,050
We’re not sure which method Gauss actually used. But the story illustrates a general point: problems in maths or science can be much easier to solve or understand if we manage to find the right approach.
#carl #gauss #series
A child prodigy: Carl Friedrich Gauss
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘅:
⏲ 0:00 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
⏲ 0:20 A child prodigy
⏲ 0:53 The problem
⏲ 1:45 The possible solutions
⏲ 3:24 Outro
📫𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐁 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞:
https://www.facebook.com/ScienceWorld-106933907791981
🎬𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬:
- Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World) by Detlev Buck
- Pexels
📚𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝'𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬
📕 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱
(https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Maths-Agnijo-Banerjee-Darling/dp/1786072645)
📙 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲
(https://www.amazon.com/Weirder-Maths-At-Edge-Possible/dp/1786075083/)
📗 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻
(https://www.amazon.com/Weirdest-Maths-David-Darling/dp/1786078058/)
** The kindle versions are available
*** For more details : http://weirdmaths.com/
📄𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist, who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Because of his work, his name has been given to many rules, methods, and inventions.
After his death in 1855, Gauss’s friend, the geologist Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, wrote his biography. Waltershausen pointed out that even as a little boy, Gauss showed extraordinary mental powers. He learned to read by asking members of his family the sound of letters and learned to count before he could talk. When he was only 3 years old, he corrected a mistake in his father's business accounts.
According to Waltershausen, Gauss’ schoolteacher J. G. Büttner one day gave an arithmetic problem to the class. The task was to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 in one hour. Most of the pupils naturally began to add the numbers one by one on their slates, but Gauss wrote nothing. He just thought for a minute, wrote the answer to the question on his slate, stood up, and threw his slate on the table with the words "There it lies", while everyone else continued busily adding. After the hour was up, Büttner checked the pupils’ slates. He saw that Gauss’ result was correct whereas many of the others were wrong. How could a primary school child solve the problem so quickly?
Some researchers believe that Gauss folded the series like this (2). If we sum the numbers vertically, we end up with the same result, 101. Since there are 50 sums, the result is 101 times 50, or 5,050.
Other researchers think that Gauss wrote another series under the first in reverse order and added the numbers vertically as before, giving the result 101. Since there are 100 sums, that makes 100 times 101, but because there are two series Gauss divided the sum by 2 and found the result: again 5,050.
Another possible approach is averaging. If we consider the first and the last number, their average is (1 + 100)/2, which is 50.5. We get 100 times 50.5, which again leads us to the answer: 5,050
We’re not sure which method Gauss actually used. But the story illustrates a general point: problems in maths or science can be much easier to solve or understand if we manage to find the right approach.
#carl #gauss #series
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Piers Morgan is joined by evolutionary biologist Richar...
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Piers Morgan is joined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins to answer his questions about life after death.
#shorts #shortsvideo #shortsfeed #piersmorgan #richarddawkins #afterlife #scientist #science #religion
Piers Morgan is joined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins to answer his questions about life after death.
Physics Quote of the Day for April 30th.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 in Braunschweig -- 23 February 1855 in Göttingen)
Quotes can be looked up at ...
Physics Quote of the Day for April 30th.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 in Braunschweig -- 23 February 1855 in Göttingen)
Quotes can be looked up at wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. The never-satisfied man is so strange; if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another."
"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."
"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."
Physics Quote of the Day for April 30th.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 in Braunschweig -- 23 February 1855 in Göttingen)
Quotes can be looked up at wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. The never-satisfied man is so strange; if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another."
"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."
"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."
Primera parte del capítulo introductorio del libro Filosofía del Derecho del alemán Carl Joachin Friederich. Se abordan ciertas precisiones conceptuales respecto del campo de estudio de la filosofía, así como definiciones básicas.
Presentation by Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (IIASA) for the CMIP Seminar held on 27th November 2024 titled 'Overconfidence in climate overshoot'.
Register to present at a future CMIP seminar: bit.ly/CMIPSeminar-speaker-signup
Register to attend the seminars: bit.ly/CMIPSeminar-register
CMIP Seminars are held on the last Wednesday every month to showcase the breadth of science being done using the CMIP data. Anyone doing research involving CMIP data is encouraged to sign-up to present their results.carl-
This is the video of the 12th episode (seminar) of a talk series on History and Other Areas of Mathematics organized by the department of STEAM Education, Kathmandu University School of Education. In this series, Professor Bhadra Man Tuladhar (one of the living legends and renowned mathematicians/scientists in Nepal and beyond) is giving the lectures.
A child prodigy: Carl Friedrich Gauss
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘅:
⏲ 0:00 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
⏲ 0:20 A child prodigy
⏲ 0:53 The problem
⏲ 1:45 The possible solutions
⏲ 3:24 Outro
📫𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐁 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞:
https://www.facebook.com/ScienceWorld-106933907791981
🎬𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬:
- Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World) by Detlev Buck
- Pexels
📚𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝'𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬
📕 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱
(https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Maths-Agnijo-Banerjee-Darling/dp/1786072645)
📙 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲
(https://www.amazon.com/Weirder-Maths-At-Edge-Possible/dp/1786075083/)
📗 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻
(https://www.amazon.com/Weirdest-Maths-David-Darling/dp/1786078058/)
** The kindle versions are available
*** For more details : http://weirdmaths.com/
📄𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist, who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Because of his work, his name has been given to many rules, methods, and inventions.
After his death in 1855, Gauss’s friend, the geologist Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, wrote his biography. Waltershausen pointed out that even as a little boy, Gauss showed extraordinary mental powers. He learned to read by asking members of his family the sound of letters and learned to count before he could talk. When he was only 3 years old, he corrected a mistake in his father's business accounts.
According to Waltershausen, Gauss’ schoolteacher J. G. Büttner one day gave an arithmetic problem to the class. The task was to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 in one hour. Most of the pupils naturally began to add the numbers one by one on their slates, but Gauss wrote nothing. He just thought for a minute, wrote the answer to the question on his slate, stood up, and threw his slate on the table with the words "There it lies", while everyone else continued busily adding. After the hour was up, Büttner checked the pupils’ slates. He saw that Gauss’ result was correct whereas many of the others were wrong. How could a primary school child solve the problem so quickly?
Some researchers believe that Gauss folded the series like this (2). If we sum the numbers vertically, we end up with the same result, 101. Since there are 50 sums, the result is 101 times 50, or 5,050.
Other researchers think that Gauss wrote another series under the first in reverse order and added the numbers vertically as before, giving the result 101. Since there are 100 sums, that makes 100 times 101, but because there are two series Gauss divided the sum by 2 and found the result: again 5,050.
Another possible approach is averaging. If we consider the first and the last number, their average is (1 + 100)/2, which is 50.5. We get 100 times 50.5, which again leads us to the answer: 5,050
We’re not sure which method Gauss actually used. But the story illustrates a general point: problems in maths or science can be much easier to solve or understand if we manage to find the right approach.
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Physics Quote of the Day for April 30th.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 in Braunschweig -- 23 February 1855 in Göttingen)
Quotes can be looked up at wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. The never-satisfied man is so strange; if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another."
"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."
"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."