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Complex Numbers, Part 8 - Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Some comments on Carl Friedrich Gauss and his contributions. Part of the Algebra 2 course. By Derek Owens. The distance learning course is available at http://www.derekowens.com

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  • Gauss was great but Euler was a legend .

  • @theshllapi No arguments from me on that. Assessing who was actually the greatest is somewhat subjective, and is also probably left to better minds than I have. But Euler was certainly one the all time greatest, and is one of my personal favorites.

  • So in order to get a Ph. D in something you have to make an original contribution to said field? Then that means that people with a PhD are hard to come by... I know relatives who have PhDs in medicine and i dont think they revolutionised the field of medicine...

  • @MilitaryMan006 That's generally the idea. In reality, it may vary a lot from one university to another. The more rigorous and more prestigious universities will hold people to a higher standard. And it doesn't necessarily have to be revolutionary, just a meaningful contribution. Along with the coursework, of course, and passing the comprehensive exams.

  • Euler >>Gauss

  • @diama2 Euler was amazing, and is certainly one of my favorites. As to whether he was greater than Gauss or not, I'm not qualified to say. But I have heard it said that "Mathematicians are in the habit of naming their theorems and formulas after the first person other then Euler to have discovered them." Pretty telling statement!

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  • Gauss>>> Chuck Norris

  • he spent 50 years on this so that we don't have to ...

    thank you master gauss.

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  • Euler might be a legend but Gauss made a greater contribution in Mathematics. No wonder why our school named our first section after Gauss. :)

  • Gauss outranks Euler......

  • @theshllapi GAUSS was a legend too....!

  • why is so much time spent on talking about what a ph.d is if we're talking about gauss? obviously he had a ph.d...

  • @theshllapi was Euler Russian?

  • The most incredible brain ever

  • notable

  • lol :) :) :) :)

  • Karl Gauss : GOAT :)))

    what he did is simply Amazing !!!

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