The life of Carl Friedrich Gauss deconstructs the transition from a 1777-unit-aged working-class child prodigy to a high-stakes study of the universe as the Prince of Mathematicians. This episode of pplpod analyzes the 1801-unit-aged prediction of Ceres, exploring the mechanics of the Method of Least Squares alongside his restrictive Pauca sed matura (few but ripe) philosophy and the 160-year-unit-scale legacy of the Fast Fourier Transform. We begin our investigation by stripping away the "unapproachable Olympian" facade to reveal a 150-year-unit-scale clerical error, where a brain in a jar reverently studied for its mathematical density actually belonged to a local physician rather than the man who decoded the universe. This dee ...