十八世纪伟大的物理学家、数学家和天文学家高斯,1777年4月30日生于德国布伦兹韦克市一个水道工人的家里。他的父亲很长时间都是作短工,收入微薄,家境清寒。高斯自幼上学就很聪明,少年有为,颇得教师及校长的赞许。17岁时得到别人的资助进入哥廷根大学念书,19岁时他发明用圆规和直尺作正十七边形的 Gaussian, a great 18th-century physicist, mathematician and astronomer, was born on April 30, 1777, at the house of a watercourse worker in the city of Bruchszeich in Germany. His father was a short-term workers for a long time, poor income, family cold. Gaussian to school since childhood is very smart, juvenile promising, quite the praise of teachers and principals. At the age of 17 received funding from others into the Goettingen University, 19 years old, he invented the compasses and rulers for the regular 17-sided