Question

Eluded scientists and mathematicians galore
A thousand sovereigns for the answer
(It should be easy, after all, I’m famous.)
A student in the lab
Discovered that the Walt version of the Greengrass trope
struck faster in Death Valley than in Sweden.

Answer 1

The answers are - Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss and Walt Whitman

explanation:

• The answer for the first statement 'the person who eluded scientists and mathematicians galore' is - Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss  who made landmark mathemetical nd scientific discoveries,
• His discovery which 'eluded' everyone was that of the heptadecagon, polygon having 17 sides which were said to be geometrically constructible.
• For the next answer, it's Walt Whitman who discovered that the Walt version of the Greengrass trope.

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