gauss
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1. gauss - Noun
2. Gauss - Proper noun
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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
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Bradman 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.
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
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.
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.
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.
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.