The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize awards a 14 carat-gold medal and a prize worth around €10,000 ($14,000) every four years to "outstanding mathematical contributions with a significant and lasting ...

Enter Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß (or Gauss), who used math to find the lost Ceres and is honored today with a Google Doodle on what would be his 241st birthday.

Enlightenment mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was born on this day in Brunswick, Germany, 241 years ago.

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 241st birthday of mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss, who was among the first to explore non-Euclidean geometry, proved the fundamental theorem ...

Gauss noticed that if he was to split the numbers into two groups (1 to 50 and 51 to100), he could add them together vertically to get a sum of 101. Gauss realized then that his final total would ...

"Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß, known as the ""queen of the sciences,"" made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics, including his famous 17-sided shape." ...

Preserved specimens of the brains of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and Göttingen physician Conrad Heinrich Fuchs, taken over 150 years ago, were switched -- and this probably happened soon ...

The brains of Carl Friedrich Gauss and Conrad Heinrich Fuchs side by side. Wagner's lithograph of Fuchs's brain dating from 1862 (left) and his copperplate of Gauss's brain dating from 1860 (right) ...