Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on April 30,1977 in Brunswick, Germany. Gauss was a mathematician and scientist who has had a major impact in mathematics during and after his lifetime and was also known as the “prince of mathematics“. At the age of seven, Carl Friedrich Gauss started elementary school and his potential was noticed immediately ,his teachers were amazed when Gauss summed the integers from one to one hundred instantly by spotting that the sum was fifty pairs of numbers each pair summing to one hundred one .The teachers at his school were so shocked that a seven year old boy could achieve this goal and it got him recognized by the Duke of Brunswick in 1792 when he was given a stipend to allow him to pursue his education .He continued his education in 1795 when he went to the University of Gottingen , but he did not earn his diploma there. However he left his mark at the university because he made a discovery of the construction of a regular 17-gon by ruler and compasses and that was a major discovery in the time of Greek mathematics. Gauss went back to Brunswick where he received his degree. The Duke of Brunswick believed in Gauss and wanted him to submit a dissertation to the University of Helmstedt .His dissertation was a discussion of the fundamental theorem of algebra. At the age of twenty four he published Disquisitions Arithmetic in which he formulated systematic and widely influential concepts and methods of number theory dealing with the relationships and properties of integers, this book set the pattern for many future researchers and won Gauss major recognition among mathematicians . Carl Friedrich Gauss was very smart as you can see and just because he wrote a book at the age of twenty four, he did not stop there. He made time to have a personal life being that he married Johanna Ostoff on October 9, 1805 and a year later his wife died