Today's question is courtesy Divya. Stamp in honor of whom and what particular achievement of this person does the stamp honor?Answer: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss aka GOD. At the ripe age of 19, Gauss showed that the 17-agon aka heptadecagon is constuctible with a compass and straight edge. This proved fortuitous for mathematics as a whole since it convinced Gauss to become a mathematician at a time when he was wavering between philology and math. He liked this result so much that he asked that a heptadecagon be inscribed in his tombstone. The mason declined since it would essentially look like a circle. Raghu, Siddarth Pai, giantamoeba, Saket, Iam, Kapinjal Chowdhury, Matti, Krithi, RJD and Rajeev got it. Well done.
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Gauss and the constructible polygon
carl gauss
the heptadecon
done with a compass and a straight edge
Gauss on an East-German stamp produced in 1977. Heptadecagon, compass and straightedge are shown next to him.
Gauss. Issued in 1976 on the bicentennial of Gauss' birth. It was for proving that a heptadecagon is constructible with a compass and straightedge.
Gauss
Or is it Gaussian Innovation?
Possibly I did not hear it right the first time.
CARL FRIEDRICH!
Carl Friedrich Gauss,
The regular heptadecagon???
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss ,German (formerly East Germany) mathematician and scientist.
Krithi
German mathematician Carl F. Gauss. The stamp talks about his work on 17 sided polygon(heptadecagon) which he showed could be constructed with straight edge and compass.
gauss 17-gon
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