The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize awards a 14 carat-gold medal and a prize worth around €10,000 ($14,000) every four years to "outstanding mathematical contributions with a significant and lasting ...

Gauss left Göttingen in 1798 without obtaining a diploma. But, encouraged by the duke, he later sent his doctoral thesis, a proof of algebra, to the University of Helmstedt. Carl Friedrich Gauss ...

Princeton professors Elliott Lieb and Mark Braverman were among those honored today for significant contributions to mathematics and affiliated fields by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 241st birthday of mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss, who was among the first to explore non-Euclidean geometry, proved the fundamental theorem ...

Preserved specimens of the brains of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and Göttingen physician Conrad Heinrich Fuchs, taken over 150 years ago, were switched -- and this probably happened soon ...

Google Doodle closes out the month of April by celebrating late mathematician and statistics pioneer Carl Friedrich Gauss on Monday (April 30), which marks his 241st birthday.

Enter Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß (or Gauss), who used math to find the lost Ceres and is honored today with a Google Doodle on what would be his 241st birthday.

Carl Friedrich Gauss was a child prodigy and a brilliant mathematician who lived from the late 18th to mid-19th century. Gauss' contributions included quadratic equations, least squares analysis ...