In orbital mechanics (a subfield of celestial mechanics), Gauss's method is used for preliminary orbit determination from at least three observations (more...
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linear algebra, the Gauss–Seidel method, also known as the Liebmann method or the method of successive displacement, is an iterative method used to solve a...
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Determination of the day of the week (redirect from Schwerdtfeger's method)
Compared to Rata Die, the result helps simplify the counting of years. Gauss's method was applicable to the Gregorian calendar. He numbered the weekdays from...
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Ewald, Gauss's son-in-law, and Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, Gauss's close friend and biographer, gave eulogies at his funeral. Gauss was a successful...
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Gauss–Legendre methods are a family of numerical methods for ordinary differential equations. Gauss–Legendre methods are implicit Runge–Kutta methods...
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known as row reduction or Gaussian method Gauss–Jordan elimination Gauss–Seidel method Gauss's cyclotomic formula Gauss's lemma in relation to polynomials...
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Gaussian algorithm (redirect from Gauss's algorithm)
equations Gauss's algorithm for Determination of the day of the week Gauss's method for preliminary orbit determination Gauss's Easter algorithm Gauss separation...
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Gaussian elimination (redirect from Gauss elimination method)
sometimes referred to as Gauss–Jordan elimination, to distinguish it from stopping after reaching echelon form. The method of Gaussian elimination appears...
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available observations. The method is named after the mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Isaac Newton, and first appeared in Gauss's 1809 work Theoria motus...
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Least squares (redirect from Method of least squares)
dispute with Legendre. However, to Gauss's credit, he went beyond Legendre and succeeded in connecting the method of least squares with the principles...
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In electromagnetism, Gauss's law, also known as Gauss's flux theorem or sometimes Gauss's theorem, is one of Maxwell's equations. It is an application...
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Shoelace formula (redirect from Gauss's area formula)
The shoelace formula, also known as Gauss's area formula and the surveyor's formula, is a mathematical algorithm to determine the area of a simple polygon...
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Least-squares spectral analysis (redirect from Vaníček method)
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 periodogram, based...
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Divergence theorem (redirect from Gauss's theorem)
another quantity). Three examples are Gauss's law (in electrostatics), Gauss's law for magnetism, and Gauss's law for gravity. Continuity equations offer...
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collocation methods. The Gauss–Legendre methods form a family of collocation methods based on Gauss quadrature. A Gauss–Legendre method with s stages...
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The Gauss pseudospectral method (GPM), one of many topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, is a direct transcription method for discretizing a continuous...
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In physics, Gauss's law for gravity, also known as Gauss's flux theorem for gravity, is a law of physics that is equivalent to Newton's law of universal...
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The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has been referred to while doing science since at least the 17th century. Historically...
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In numerical analysis, the Newton–Raphson method, also known simply as Newton's method, named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a root-finding...
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Gauss's law for magnetism thus states that the net magnetic flux through a closed surface equals zero. The integral and differential forms of Gauss's...
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M:=D} Damped Jacobi method: M := 1 ω D ( ω ≠ 0 ) {\displaystyle M:={\frac {1}{\omega }}D\quad (\omega \neq 0)} Gauss–Seidel method: M := D + L {\displaystyle...
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Orbit determination (section Methods)
determination was Carl Friedrich Gauss's assistance in the "recovery" of the dwarf planet Ceres in 1801. Gauss's method was able to use just three observations...
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generalized Gauss–Newton method is a generalization of the least-squares method originally described by Carl Friedrich Gauss and of Newton's method due to...
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Successive over-relaxation (redirect from Successive over-relaxation method)
In numerical linear algebra, the method of successive over-relaxation (SOR) is a variant of the Gauss–Seidel method for solving a linear system of equations...
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iterative methods with fourth order convergence for the computation of Gauss–Jacobi quadratures (and, in particular, Gauss–Legendre). The methods do not...
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JSTOR 531344. S2CID 145724822. Van Baak, D. A. (October 2013). "Re-creating Gauss's method for non-electrical absolute measurements of magnetic fields and moments"...
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Maxwell's equations (section Gauss's law)
Maxwell's microscopic equations can be written as (top to bottom: Gauss's law, Gauss's law for magnetism, Faraday's law, Ampère-Maxwell law) ∇ ⋅ E = ρ ε...
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Coulomb's law (section Relation to Gauss's law)
differential form of Gauss's law, as desired. Since Coulomb's law only applies to stationary charges, there is no reason to expect Gauss's law to hold for...
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Arithmetic–geometric mean (redirect from The AGM method of Gauss)
root of 2 is Gauss's constant. 1 M ( 1 , 2 ) = G = 0.8346268 … {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{M(1,{\sqrt {2}})}}=G=0.8346268\dots } In 1799, Gauss proved that...
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Gauss's Pythagorean right triangle proposal is an idea attributed to Carl Friedrich Gauss for a method to signal extraterrestrial beings by constructing...
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