Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (German: Gauß [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɡaʊs] ; Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician...
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Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) is the eponym of all of the topics listed below. There are over 100 topics all named after this German mathematician and...
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The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics is a mathematics award, granted jointly by the International Mathematical Union and the...
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was first formulated by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1773, followed by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1835, both in the context of the attraction of ellipsoids. It...
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was named after the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1936. One gauss is defined as one maxwell per square centimetre. As the...
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precursor of the German school of mathematical thinking, under which Carl Friedrich Gauss and his followers largely determined the lines on which mathematics...
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Gaussian elimination (redirect from Gauss elimination method)
and the inverse of an invertible matrix. The method is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855). To perform row reduction on a matrix, one uses a sequence...
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connecting the local and global geometries. The theorem is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, who developed a version but never published it, and Pierre Ossian...
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Theorema Egregium (redirect from Gauss's Theorema Egregium)
Gauss's Theorema Egregium (Latin for "Remarkable Theorem") is a major result of differential geometry, proved by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1827, that concerns...
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of linear equations. It is named after the German mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel. Though it can be applied to any matrix...
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mathematics, the Chern theorem (or the Chern–Gauss–Bonnet theorem after Shiing-Shen Chern, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Pierre Ossian Bonnet) states that the...
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Gaussian integer (redirect from Gauss prime)
integers. Gaussian integers are named after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The Gaussian integers are the set Z [ i ] = { a + b i ∣ a , b ∈...
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general character, one obtains a more general Gauss sum. These objects are named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, who studied them extensively and applied them...
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Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (category Carl Friedrich Gauss)
Investigations) is a textbook on number theory written in Latin by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1798, when Gauss was 21, and published in 1801, when he was 24. It had a...
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method is named after the mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Isaac Newton, and first appeared in Gauss's 1809 work Theoria motus corporum coelestium...
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the first equation, often called the Gauss equation (after its discoverer Carl Friedrich Gauss), says that the Gauss curvature of the surface, at any given...
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Gauss's lemma can mean any of several mathematical lemmas named after Carl Friedrich Gauss: Gauss's lemma (polynomials), the greatest common divisor of...
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Shoelace formula (redirect from Gauss' area formula)
Albrecht Ludwig Friedrich Meister (1724–1788) in 1769 and is based on the trapezoid formula which was described by Carl Friedrich Gauss and C.G.J. Jacobi...
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Number theory (section Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss)
study of the integers and arithmetic functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences—and number...
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Gauss–Markov stochastic processes (named after Carl Friedrich Gauss and Andrey Markov) are stochastic processes that satisfy the requirements for both...
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value N(p) is a unit vector orthogonal to X at p. The Gauss map is named after Carl F. Gauss. The Gauss map can be defined (globally) if and only if the surface...
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Gaussian function (redirect from Gauss kernel)
constants a, b and non-zero c. It is named after the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The graph of a Gaussian is a characteristic symmetric "bell curve"...
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Space (section Gauss and Poincaré)
formalised, some began to wonder whether or not physical space is curved. Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German mathematician, was the first to consider an empirical investigation...
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October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph. Weber was born...
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Gaussian quadrature (redirect from Gauss quadrature)
numerical analysis, an n-point Gaussian quadrature rule, named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, is a quadrature rule constructed to yield an exact result for polynomials...
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Gaussian curvature (redirect from Gauss curvature)
content of the Theorema egregium. Gaussian curvature is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, who published the Theorema egregium in 1827. At any point on a surface...
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theorem was named after Carl Friedrich Gauss and Andrey Markov, although Gauss' work significantly predates Markov's. But while Gauss derived the result under...
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Gaussian integral (redirect from Gauss Integral)
over the entire real line. Named after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, the integral is ∫ − ∞ ∞ e − x 2 d x = π . {\displaystyle \int _{-\infty...
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Degaussing (redirect from De-gaussing)
magnetic field. It is named after the gauss, a unit of magnetism, which in turn was named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. Due to magnetic hysteresis, it is generally...
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equivalent to Newton's law of universal gravitation. It is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. It states that the flux (surface integral) of the gravitational...
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