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Contributions:

· At 24 years of age, he wrote a book called Disquisitines Arithmeticae, which is regarded today as one of the most influential books written in math.

· He also wrote the first modern book on number theory, and proved the law of quadratic reciprocity.

· In 1801, Gauss discovered and developed the method of least squares fitting, 10 years before Legendre, unfortunately, he didn't publish it.

· Gauss proved that every number is the sum of at most three triangular numbers and developed the algebra of congruences.

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'Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.' Apparently said while working, and being informed that his wife was dying.

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