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Genius or charlatan? The strange tale of a 19th-century polymath who left a trail of controversy across colonial Australia
Born in the Netherlands circa 1800, von Sommer studied mathematics at the University of Göttingen under the famous Carl Friedrich Gauss. After graduating in 1822, he claimed to have solved some ...
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Ancient Greek Mathematician Apollonius and His Insoluble Problem
All of history’s most brilliant mathematicians, including Sir Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Rene Descartes, worked on this problem in one form or another. In the end, it was ...
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GCS calls for “Gauss AI compute competition”
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing has partnered with German federal and state government funding agencies to promote the development of new generative artificial intelligence models through a ...