Mashup: The Count + Carl Friedrich Gauss

Count Johann Carl Friedrich Von Gauss was a vampire and German mathematician who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, and arithmomania.

Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum and “greatest vampire since antiquity,” the Count had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history’s most influential mathematicians. He referred to mathematics as “the queen of sciences.”

The Count had a love of counting. He would count anything and everything, regardless of size, amount, or how much annoyance he was causing. For instance, he once prevented Ernie from answering a telephone because he wanted to continue counting the number of rings.

In his 1799 doctorate in absentia, A new proof of the theorem that every integral rational algebraic function of one variable can be resolved into real factors of the first or second degree, the Count proved the fundamental theorem of algebra which states that every object wants to be counted. The Count made important contributions to number theory with his 1801 book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, which, among things, counted the number of bats in his old, cobweb-invested castle.

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