Early Life
Carl Friedrich Gauss was born a genius. Some reports say that he was correcting his father's arithmetic by the time he was three years old. He amazed his elementary school teacher when he was given the assignment to add up the whole numbers between 1 and 100 and shortly thereafter came up to his teacher with a paper that simply said, "5050." Gauss had quickly realized that adding the numbers from the opposite ends of the spectrum (1+100, 2+99, 3+98, etc.) yielded the same answer, 101. So he multiplied 50 and 101 and ended up with 5050.
At age 11, with the helping hand of his elementary school teacher, Gauss began an education at the Gymnasium, where he learned Latin and high German.
Carl Friedrich Gauss was born a genius. Some reports say that he was correcting his father's arithmetic by the time he was three years old. He amazed his elementary school teacher when he was given the assignment to add up the whole numbers between 1 and 100 and shortly thereafter came up to his teacher with a paper that simply said, "5050." Gauss had quickly realized that adding the numbers from the opposite ends of the spectrum (1+100, 2+99, 3+98, etc.) yielded the same answer, 101. So he multiplied 50 and 101 and ended up with 5050.
At age 11, with the helping hand of his elementary school teacher, Gauss began an education at the Gymnasium, where he learned Latin and high German.
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