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Comment by derektank

2 days ago

For what it’s worth, his children were quite successful by all accounts. Two of the boys became successful businessmen after emigrating to the US and one of the boys became a director of the railway network in Hannover. Seems as though they weren’t harmed by their upbringing.

I mean just like most scientists at the time Gauss was rather wealthy, so it is unsurprising they were fine.