From a schoolboy in Braunschweig whose talent was nurtured to a mathematician at the Göttingen Observatory: this detailed biography recounts the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss and explores how private thoughts transform into public knowledge.

We follow his work on numbers and geometric figures, the calculation of the orbit of Ceres, the surveying of Hanover, and his collaboration with Wilhelm Weber. His letters, his family, and his decisions regarding publication are also part of this story.

CHAPTERS
00:00 One Notebook, Two Stories
04:16 Braunschweig: Talent Needs Opportunity
12:13 The Young Researcher
20:40 The Order of Numbers
29:11 Ceres: A Calculation Finds the Way
39:31 Family, Letters, and the Observatory
50:35 Surveying the Earth
1:00:51 Gauss and Weber
1:10:10 Silence and the New Geometry
1:23:49 What Remains of a Life