Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Damn. Apparently it's /ˈɡaʊs/. I always thought it was /ɡʊərs/.

Oh well - apparently I've been saying it wrong all these years...

Is there any specific reason why all great mathematicians were foreign? 
(Not to mention great scientists. And come to think of it, why are all 
the best programmers Finnish or German??)

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