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From 1807 on, Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777-1855) was the director of the observatory in Göttingen. He is among the most important mathematicians of all times.

Historical facts

• Developments
• Model collection
• Calculating machines
• Slides

• Hilbert's 23 Problems

Famous mathematicians from Göttingen

with links to the biographies of The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive:

• Bernstein, Felix   (1878-1956)
• Carathédory, Constantin   (1873-1950)
• Clebsch, Alfred   (1833-1872)
• Cohn-Vossen, Stefan   (1902-1936)
• Courant, Richard   (1888-1972)
• Deuring, Max   (1907-1984)
• Dirichlet (Lejeune-), Peter Gustav   (1805-1859)
• Gauß, Carl Friedrich   (1777-1855)
• Hecke, Erich   (1887-1947)
• Herglotz, Gustav   (1881-1953)
• Hilbert, David   (1862-1943)
• Kästner, Abraham Gotthelf   (1719-1800)
• Klein, Felix   (1849-1925)
• Landau, Edmund   (1877-1938)
• Minkowski, Hermann   (1864-1909)
• Noether, Amalie Emmy   (1882-1935)
• Reidemeister, Kurt   (1893-1971)
• Rellich, Franz   (1906-1955), (link to Wikipedia)
• Riemann, Bernhard   (1826-1866)
• Runge, Carl David Tolmé   (1856-1927)
• Schwarz, Hermann Amandus   (1843-1921)
• Siegel, Carl-Ludwig   (1896-1981)
• Weyl, Hermann   (1885-1955)