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Jul 6, 2008 4:11:40 PM Beatriz Bronislava Lipinski: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777-1855) was a mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. Although Gauss made many contributions to science and to the understanding of the nature of electricity and magnetism, his true passion was mathematics. He referred to math as the ?queen of sciences? and his influence on the field of mathematics was extraordinary. Gauss was, for example, the first mathematician to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra, and he proved it four different ways over the course of his lifetime. Gauss is widely celebrated as one of the greatest mathematicians in history.