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    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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  • In numerical linear algebra, the Gauss–Seidel method, also known as the Liebmann method or the method of successive displacement, is an iterative method...
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  • Gauss quadrature rule and its Kronrod extension are often used as an estimate of the approximation error. A popular example combines a 7-point Gauss rule...
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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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    polygons with n edges) are constructible and which are not? Carl Friedrich Gauss proved the constructibility of the regular 17-gon in 1796. Five years later...
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    central limit theorem supports the idea that this is a good approximation in many cases. The Gauss–Markov theorem. In a linear model in which the errors have...
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  • improving approximate solutions for a class of problems, in which the i-th approximation (called an "iterate") is derived from the previous ones. A specific...
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    Approximations for the mathematical constant pi (π) in the history of mathematics reached an accuracy within 0.04% of the true value before the beginning...
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    from the approximation. An important part of the analysis of any numerical integration method is to study the behavior of the approximation error as a...
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    weaker than electrostatic forces. Coulomb's law can be used to derive Gauss's law, and vice versa. In the case of a single point charge at rest, the...
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  • complex numbers Gamma function: Lanczos approximation Spouge's approximation — modification of Stirling's approximation; easier to apply than Lanczos AGM method...
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    (2000, p. 74) De Moivre, Abraham (1733), Corollary I – see Walker (1985, p. 77) Stigler (1986, p. 76) Gauss (1809, section 177) Gauss (1809, section...
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  • as an approximation for this to obtain 2 + ⁠1/6⁠ as an approximation for ⁠93/43⁠ and 4 + ⁠1/2 + ⁠1/6⁠⁠, about 4.4615, as the third approximation. Further...
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    then the digamma function has the following integral representation due to Gauss: ψ ( z ) = ∫ 0 ∞ ( e − t t − e − z t 1 − e − t ) d t . {\displaystyle \psi...
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    good approximation for a z with large real part one may go step by step down to the desired z. Following an indication of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Rocktaeschel...
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    elliptiques, par M. de La Grange". Mathematics General Collection. doi:10.1163/9789004460409_mor2-b29447057. Retrieved 2023-08-11. Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1877)...
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    modification of Ampère's circuital law is important because the laws of Ampère and Gauss must otherwise be adjusted for static fields.[clarification needed] As a...
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    function, Jacques Hadamard and Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin managed to complete the proof of Gauss's conjecture. In particular, they proved that...
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    In mathematics, the error function (also called the Gauss error function), often denoted by erf, is a function e r f : C → C {\displaystyle \mathrm {erf}...
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  • Pi (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    including the Egyptians and Babylonians, required fairly accurate approximations of π for practical computations. Around 250 BC, the Greek mathematician...
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    Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Collège de France and at the University of Paris, learning mathematics from Hachette among others, while undertaking private study of Gauss's Disquisitiones...
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    approximations: Flat surface, Gauss-mid-latitude; | Δ D error | ∝ D 3 {\displaystyle |\Delta D_{\text{error}}|\propto D^{3}} 0-th-order approximation:...
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    Number theory (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    integers and arithmetic functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences—and number theory...
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    Singularités des systèmes différentiels de Gauss-Manin, Birkhäuser, 1979. Introduction à l’étude topologique des singularités de Landau, Mémorial des Sciences Mathématiques...
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    DFT can be traced to Carl Friedrich Gauss's unpublished 1805 work on the orbits of asteroids Pallas and Juno. Gauss wanted to interpolate the orbits from...
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    field at its surface ranges from 25 to 65 μT (0.25 to 0.65 G). As an approximation, it is represented by a field of a magnetic dipole currently tilted...
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  • Gauss–Bonnet theorem (differential geometry) Gauss–Lucas theorem (complex analysis) Gauss–Markov theorem (statistics) Gauss–Wantzel theorem (geometry) Gelfand–Mazur...
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    2002, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and in 2011 the Gauss Lectureship. He was also a taekwondo athlete. He has been the Chair of the...
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    Friedrich Gauss, the integral is ∫ − ∞ ∞ e − x 2 d x = π . {\displaystyle \int _{-\infty }^{\infty }e^{-x^{2}}\,dx={\sqrt {\pi }}.} Abraham de Moivre originally...
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    Developed in 1969 and 1971, LSSA is also known as the Vaníček method and the Gauss-Vaniček method after Petr Vaníček, and as the Lomb method or the Lomb–Scargle...
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