The method of least squares was first described by Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1794.

在最小二乘法首次描述卡尔弗里德里希·高斯约1794年。

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Noted mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss gave us the normal distribution or bell curve.

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And, as Euler's successor, Carl Friedrich Gauss, was to discover, if you plot real numbers on one axis of a graph and imaginary ones on the other, you create a plane that represents both sorts of numbers.

ECONOMIST: Beno?t Mandelbrot