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Carl Freidrich Gauss On April 30, 1777, Carl Freidrich Gauss was born into a lower class family of laborers. His mother was said to be highly intelligent however, only semi-literate. His father was a laborer of various trades. His mother was the only person to offer support in his family throughout his life. At the age of eight in elementary, his teacher, Büttner, assigned the class the task of finding the sum of all numbers up to 100. Gauss immediately saw that it was 50 pairs of 101. His teacher recognized his intelligence quickly and supplied him with books to encourage his mental