Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855)

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 scientist, all in the fields of mathematics, physics, and astronomy. The English eponymous adjective Gaussian is pronounced /ˈɡsiən/.[1]

Mathematics

Various Gaussian curvatures

Algebra and linear algebra

Geometry and differential geometry

Gauss map

Number theory

Gaussian moat

Cyclotomic fields

Analysis, numerical analysis, vector calculus and calculus of variations

Comparison between 2-point Gaussian and trapezoidal quadrature.
Comparison between 2-point Gaussian and trapezoidal quadrature.

Complex analysis and convex analysis

Statistics

Gaussian copula

Gaussian function and topics named for it

Gaussian curve with a 2-dimensional domain

Knot theory

Linking integral

Other mathematical areas

Cartography

NCEP T62 Gaussian grid points
Gaussian grid points

Physics

Optics

Classical mechanics

Quantum mechanics

Electromagnetism

Gauss gun

Awards and recognitions

Other things named for him

Biology

Informatics

  • Gaussian, a computational chemistry software program
  • GAUSS, a matrix programming language for mathematics and statistics

Place names and expedition named in his honour

The Gaussberg in Braunschweig, Germany with the Gauss memorial in front

terrestrial

celestial

Institutions and buildings named in his honour

Monuments and memorial plaques

Gauss Monuments were erected in Brunswick and Göttingen (the last together with Weber). Busts of Gauss were placed in the Walhalla temple near Regensburg and in the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. Several places where Gauss has stayed in Germany are marked with plaques.

Other commemorations

From 1989 through 2001, Gauss' portrait, a normal distribution curve and some prominent Göttingen buildings, were featured on the front-side of a German ten-mark banknote. The reverse featured a part of the Hanoverian triangulation and his invention of a vice heliotrope.[6] Germany has also issued three postage stamps honoring Gauss, one in 1955 on the hundredth anniversary of his death and two others in 1977, the 200th anniversary of his birth.

References

  1. Wells, John (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Pearson Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
  2. Wendland, H., 1865. Ueber die neue Palmengatung Gaussia. Nachr. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Georg-Augusts-Univ. 1865.
  3. Andersson, L. E.; Whitaker, E. A., (1982). NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature. NASA RP-1097.
  4. Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Fakultät
  5. Reich, Karin (2019). "Bessel, Gauß und Baeyer: Drei Büsten im ehemalig Königlich Geodätischen Institut Potsdam, heute Helmert-Haus, im 'Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein, Telegrafenberg Potsdam'". Mitteilungen der Gauss-Gesellschaft (in German) (56): 67–74.
  6. Voigt, Hans-Heinrich (1991). "Carl Friedrich Gauss auf dem neuen Zehn-Mark-Schein". Sterne und Weltraum. 30 (8–9): 490–491.
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