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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss

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This resource, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, features biographical information about German mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. One of Gauss' most important contributions was the ruler and compass construction of a regular 17-gon, a seventeen-sided polygon that is also known as a heptadecagon. Links to biographies of other mathematicians are also available on this page.

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