Carl Friedrich Gauss was a child prodigy who later became a well-known scientist and mathematician. He was so influential that he was nicknamed "the prince of mathematicians." During his life he wrote and published more than 150 articles. Gauss made many important discoveries and contributions to algebra, geometry, number theorem, curvature, and many other things. He was a well-trained physicist and astronomer. His life was full of knowledge and study, but without it we would not be as educated as we are today. Gauss grew up in a poor family with illiterate parents. He was born in Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick, on April 30, 1777, now located in Germany. Even at a young age, Gauss performed and solved puzzles and problems that were astonishing for his age. There are many notorious stories from when Carl Gauss was just a toddler. One of the famous stories is when he solved the riddle of his date of birth. He determined his date of birth knowing only that he was born on a Wednesday and eight days before the Feast of the Ascension. Another Gauss story is when he was in elementary school and his teacher gave his class a problem involving adding the numbers from 1 to 100. It took Gauss less than a minute to find the answer which is 5,050. He knew this because there were 50 pairs of numbers which all equaled 101. From his childhood, Carl Friedrich Gauss progressed much faster than others in the mathematical world. Gauss was very successful in his early years. At just 19 years old, Gauss was already making major discoveries in mathematics. In 1795, Carl Friedrich Gauss demonstrated that a regular polygon with several sides could be constructed using a compass and straightedge. It was one of...... middle of paper......uss. Two stamps were issued in memory of the 200th anniversary of his birth in 1811 and in 1977. And the last stamp appeared on the hundredth anniversary of his death in 1955. A novel was written about him and his discoveries, as well as a film version. A statue was placed in honor of Gauss in the Walhalla Temple in 2007. There is also a medal for one of the highest honors in mathematics, the Gauss Prize. A crater in the moon is also named in his memory. Many other things are named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, such as an asteroid, towers, and many universities. He had a great impact on the world and the commemorations show it. This German mathematician, astronomer and physicist was considered one of the best mathematicians of all time. Gauss made major advances in mathematics, which reverberated over time..