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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, Felix Klein, Alain Connes, Gaspard Monge, Elmer Rees, Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand, Grigori Perelman, Heinz Hopf, Shing-Tung Yau, Hermann Weyl, Brian Bowditch, Shiing-Shen Chern, Ziauddin Ahmed, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Eugenio Beltrami, Tullio Levi-Civita, Jan Arnoldus Schouten, Edward Kasner, Ian R. Porteous, Patrick du Val, Elie Cartan, Corrado Segre, Gheorghe i eica, Luigi Bianchi, Werner Fenchel, Dmitri Egorov, Andre Lichnerowicz, Herbert Busemann, Luis Santalo, Nigel Hitchin, Johann Christian Martin Bartels, Luther P. Eisenhart, Octav Onicescu, Veniamin Kagan, Yuri Burago, Abraham Haskel Taub, Shlomo Sternberg, Yum-Tong Siu, Heinrich Guggenheimer, Abram Ilyich Fet, Mikhail Katz, Ferdinand Minding, Victor Zalgaller, David J. Simms, Arthur Milgram, Michael Spivak, Aleksei Pogorelov, Paul Finsler, Detlef Gromoll, Eugenio Calabi, Victor Guillemin, Boleslav Mlodzeevskii, Lazar Lyusternik, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Gheorghe Vranceanu, Ernesto Cesaro, Arif Salimov, Stephan Cohn-Vossen, Thierry Aubin, Charles Dupin, Nikolai Efimov, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Georges Henri Halphen, Robert Connelly, Viktor Wagner, Hidehiko Yamabe, Thomas Banchoff, Ernest Julius Wilczynski, Alfred Enneper, Michael Anderson, Delfino Codazzi. Excerpt: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (; German: .), Latin: ) (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics. Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum (Latin, "the Prince of Mathematicians" or "the foremost of mathematicians") and "greatest mathematician since antiquity," Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fie...