This scientist published his Arithmetical Investigations at the age of 21, in which he presented the first known proofs of the quadratic reciprocity law.
This scientist published his Arithmetical Investigations at the age of 21, in which he presented the first known proofs of the quadratic reciprocity law. He had earlier proven the fundamental law of algebra, and one story posits that as a schoolchild he used a mathematical trick to calculate the sum of the first one hundred integers. In fields other than mathematics, he names a law relating the distribution of charge to the electric field. For 10 points, name this German scientist who names two of Maxwell's laws and a theorem in differential calculus.
This scientist published his Arithmetical Investigations at the age of 21, in which he presented the first known proofs of the quadratic reciprocity law.
Johann Carl Friedrich {Gauss}