Historedia
Person

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Events
4
Episodes
8
Years
1795–1833

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Carl Friedrich Gauss, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Gauss publishes Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

    1795–1801

    Role: Author

    1. 1795–1798 · Collegium Carolinum (Brunswick) and University of GöttingenIntellectual Origins

      Ideas for the Disquisitiones originated during Gauss's studies at the Collegium Carolinum and University of Göttingen.

    2. 1801 · LeipzigPublication in Leipzig

      Gauss published Disquisitiones Arithmeticae in Leipzig in 1801, consolidating number theory as a discipline.

  2. Gauss's Triangular Number Discovery

    1796–1814

    Role: German mathematician; credited by the legacy record with the triangular-number theorem

    1. 1796 (legacy-attributed; legacy row gives 10 July 1796) · University of Göttingen, where Gauss studied until 1798Triangular number theorem

      Gauss is credited, on the basis of a legacy record, with finding that every positive integer is a sum of at most three triangular numbers, dated to 1796.

    2. 1796–1814 · Gauss's mathematical diary, 1796–1814Diary and early number-theoretic work

      Gauss's mathematical diary ran from 1796 to 1814, and he dated the beginning of his number-theory work to 1795.

  3. Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers discovers the asteroid Vesta

    1807

    Role: Mathematician

    1. 1807 · unknownNaming by Gauss

      Olbers granted the honor of naming his new discovery to German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

    2. 29 March 1807 · BremenDiscovery of Vesta

      Olbers discovered the asteroid Vesta in the constellation Virgo on 29 March 1807, five years after finding Pallas.

  4. Gauss and Weber build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen

    1833

    Role: Scientist and Collaborator

    1. 1833 · GöttingenConstruction of the Telegraph Line

      Gauss and Weber installed a 1,200-meter wire in 1833 to connect the observatory and physics institute in Göttingen.

    2. 1833 · GöttingenFirst Electromagnetic Telegraph

      The device is recognized as the first electromagnetic telegraph, though it was not used for commercial purposes.

Sources

  1. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-19
  2. Carl Friedrich Gauss Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-26
  3. 4 Vesta Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-02
  4. Wilhelm Eduard Weber Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-15