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Actually he did not invent arithmetic progression, but he had this insight as a 7 years old young student. When his teacher asked the class to sum all numbers from 1 to 100, the young Gauss did not need more than a few seconds to write "5050" in his slate. he noticed that 1+100=101, 2+99=101, 3+98=101, ... formed a sequence of 50 pairs that could summarize the calculation to 50x101= 5050.
Gauss is today considered by many as the greatest mathematician that ever lived.
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Dorothea Benze and Gebhard Dietrich Gauss.
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Gauss went to the Collegium Carolinum and then the University of Gottingen
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