Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß (April 30, 1777 - February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist with a very wide range of contributions; he is considered to be one of the leading mathematicians of all time. (His name rhymes with "house", and is sometimes spelled Gaußin German.)

Gauss was born in Braunschweig, Duchy of Brunswick-Lneburg (now part of Germany) as only son of lower-class uneducated parents. According to legend, while in elementary school, his teacher tried to occupy pupils by making them add up the (whole) numbers from 1 to 100. Shortly thereafter, to the astonishment of all, the young Gauss produced the correct answer, having realized that pairwise addition of terms from opposite ends of the list yielded identical intermediate sums.

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Another street pic...

Yesterday's weather was great, so we left the city behind us, and had a picnic in the nature.

Thanks to everyone who joined my birthday party. Especially to Björn, Marc and Sven, who came all the way from Hamburg. I think it was a nice evening, with enough beer and food. I hope everyone had a good time. Also thanks for the nice presents!

I thought about posting the colorful balloons before.
I'm glad I didn't.
It's the perfect picture for today!

I'm celebrating my birthday (April 21th) with a few friends today :-)

Nothing really special. Just a street pic...

Yesterday morning, on my way to the travel agency. The weather was great, and many people were at the market and on the streets.

I paid for the flight to Korea which I booked on Friday. So now it's official: I am going to South Korea on August 8th, returning October 10th. (Cool dates, eh?) I am looking forward to blog 'live' from Korea for you then ;-)

Anyway, it seems the weather will be great today, too. So there are already plans to meet all the guys and gals at 4pm in the park. It's time to start the BBQ season!! :-D