1. gauss - Noun
2. Gauss - Proper noun
German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855)
a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter
Source: WordNetBradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class. G. H. Hardy
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss. Albert Einstein
Not only could nobody but Gauss have produced it, but it would never have occurred to anyone but Gauss that such a formula was possible. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gauss liked to call [number theory] 'the Queen of Mathematics'. For Gauss, the jewels in the crown were the primes, numbers which had fascinated and teased generations of mathematicians. Carl Friedrich Gauss
19th century: Gauss, Weierstrass and Legendre The first page of Euler's paper Carl Friedrich Gauss rewrote Euler's product as : and used this formula to discover new properties of the gamma function. Source: Internet
Although Euler was a pioneer in the theory of complex variables, he does not appear to have considered the factorial of a complex number, as instead Gauss first did. Source: Internet