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Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1977 - 20 Pfennig


Theme: Astronomy & Space
CountryGermany / German Democratic Republic
Issue Date1977
Face Value 20.00 
Colorblue
PerforationK 13:12 1/2
Printing Typeoffset
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1957
Chronological ChapterGER-DDR
SID452319
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200th Birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues a special postage stamp. Carl Friedrich Gauss Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on April 30, 1777 in Braunschweig. Very early on, the young Gauss' gift for mathematics and foreign languages ​​became apparent, and he was promoted by his teachers. At the age of not quite 19, he discovered the constructability of the regular seventeen-corner with compass and ruler. Only after this success did he finally make the decision to devote himself to mathematics. Gauss has enriched many fields of mathematics, physics and astronomy significantly by his research: number theory, algebra, analysis, differential geometry (in connection with practical geodetic tasks), error theory (Gaussian normal distribution, error integral), calculation of planetary orbits, mechanics, optics, Magnetism (together with Wilhelm Weber he invented the electromagnetic telegraph in 1833), potential theory and others He did not publish anything that did not seem perfect or ripe enough for him (motto: pauca sed matura - little but mature). Gauss died on 23 February 1855 in Göttingen, where he had studied and since 1807 professor of astronomy and director of the observatory. The special postage stamp shows a portrait of the painter I. Ch. A. Schwartz from the year 1803 and as motive the signet of the Olympiads of Young Mathematicians of the GDR: a regular seventeen-corner with compass and ruler.

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200th Birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues a special postage stamp. Carl Friedrich Gauss Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on April 30, 1777 in Braunschweig. Very early on, the young Gauss' gift for mathematics and foreign languages ​​became apparent, and he was promoted by his teachers. At the age of not quite 19, he discovered the constructability of the regular seventeen-corner with compass and ruler. Only after this success did he finally make the decision to devote himself to mathematics. Gauss has enriched many fields of mathematics, physics and astronomy significantly by his research: number theory, algebra, analysis, differential geometry (in connection with practical geodetic tasks), error theory (Gaussian normal distribution, error integral), calculation of planetary orbits, mechanics, optics, Magnetism (together with Wilhelm Weber he invented the electromagnetic telegraph in 1833), potential theory and others He did not publish anything that did not seem perfect or ripe enough for him (motto: pauca sed matura - little but mature). Gauss died on 23 February 1855 in Göttingen, where he had studied and since 1807 professor of astronomy and director of the observatory. The special postage stamp shows a portrait of the painter I. Ch. A. Schwartz from the year 1803 and as motive the signet of the Olympiads of Young Mathematicians of the GDR: a regular seventeen-corner with compass and ruler..