Wow. Genius from a very early age. How could a child so long catch an error in something so mundane? I don't know many 3 year olds that would be going through their father's payroll accounts, let alone correcting them.
"At the age of 18, he made a wonderful geometric discovery that caused him to decide in favor of mathematics and gave him great pleasure until the end of his life."
This is funny because he was interested in something that required a lot of math courses, yet decided against it. Math must have really fascinated Gauss after this discovery for him to make a turnaround so quickly. Why wouldn't he just dive into the math courses he needed in university so he could pursue his desired major? Would mathematics today be even half as far as we are now without Gauss in the field? What would the field of philology be like today if Gauss had stayed in it?
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