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OCR: Carl Gauss Carl Frederick Gauss (1777 1853) "The Prince Mathematicians' learned to read and op arithmetic before he was three By the time he was he had contributed more mathematics than most mathematicians op lifetime When he was six years the teacher at the school, to keep the class busy set them adding up all the numbers from one ten Gauss ai once raised his hand and offered the answer 55 He explained that he be pet once seen that one plus ten equaled eleven that two plus nine three plus eight and on must also come to eleven and that there were five such pairs By the same method one can in a couple of seconds provide the total of the numbers from one to hundred: 5.050. At the age of thirteen his teacher him that he need not attend class any longer as there was nothing further he could It ...