Gauss is the son of an ordinary couple. His mother is the daughter of a poor stonemason. Clever as she is, she has no education and is almost illiterate. Before becoming Gauss's father's second wife, she was a maid. His father used to be a gardener, a foreman, an assistant to a businessman and an appraiser of a small insurance company. It has become an anecdote that Gauss was able to correct his father's debt account when he was three years old. He once said that he learned to calculate on Macon's pile of things. Being able to perform complex calculations in his mind is a gift from God for his life.

Gauss worked out the tasks assigned by primary school teachers in a short time: the sum of natural numbers from 1 to 100. The method he used was: sum 50 pairs of sequences constructed as sum101(1+100, 2+99, 3+98 ...) and get the result: 5050. This year, Gauss was 9 years old.