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1-18-1802

Gauss read in the newspaper (he was such an avid newspaper reader that his students nicknamed him the "Newspaper bear") that Olbers had rediscovered Ceres. Gauss wrote to Olbers to get his observations and a long friendship ensued.

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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
Date: 
Monday, January 18, 1802