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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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    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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  • of linear equations. It is named after the German mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, and is similar to the Jacobi method...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    method is named after the mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Isaac Newton, and first appeared in Gauss' 1809 work Theoria motus corporum coelestium...
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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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    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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  • approximate Bayesian inference. The theorem is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss and Andrey Markov. Gauss provided the original proof, which was later substantially...
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  • named after Alexander Kronrod, who invented them in the 1960s, and Carl Friedrich Gauss. The problem in numerical integration is to approximate definite...
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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Adrien-Marie Legendre (1805), though it is usually also co-credited to Carl Friedrich Gauss (1809), who contributed significant theoretical advances to the method...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Gauss in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) was a German mathematician and physicist. Gauss may also refer to: Gauss (unit)...
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