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 Template:IPAc-en.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
MathematicsEdit
Algebra and linear algebraEdit
Geometry and differential geometryEdit
Number theoryEdit
Cyclotomic fieldsEdit
- Gaussian period
- Gaussian rational
- Gauss sum, an exponential sum over Dirichlet characters
- Elliptic Gauss sum, an analog of a Gauss sum
- Quadratic Gauss sum
Analysis, numerical analysis, vector calculus and calculus of variationsEdit
Complex analysis and convex analysisEdit
- Gauss–Lucas theorem
- Gauss's continued fraction, an analytic continued fraction derived from the hypergeometric functions
- Gauss's criterion – described on Encyclopedia of Mathematics
- Gauss's hypergeometric theorem, an identity on hypergeometric series
- Gauss plane
StatisticsEdit
- Gauss–Kuzmin distribution, a discrete probability distribution
- Gauss–Markov process
- Gauss–Markov theorem
- Gaussian copula
- Gaussian measure
- Gauss's inequality
- Gauss-Helmert model
Gaussian function and topics named for itEdit
Knot theoryEdit
- Gauss code – described on website of University of Toronto
- Gauss linking integral (knot theory)
Other mathematical areasEdit
- Gauss's algorithm for determination of the day of the week
- Gauss's Easter algorithm
- Gaussian brackets – described on WolframMathWorld
- Gaussian's modular arithmetic
- Gaussian integer, usually written as Template:Math
- Gaussian logarithms (also known as addition and subtraction logarithms)
- Gauss congruence for integer sequences
CartographyEdit
PhysicsEdit
OpticsEdit
Classical mechanicsEdit
Quantum mechanicsEdit
ElectromagnetismEdit
- Gaussian units
- gauss, the CGS unit for magnetic flux density
- Degaussing, to demagnetize an object
- Gauss rifle or coilgun
- Gauss's law for magnetism
- Gaussian surface
- Gauss's law, giving the relationship between flux through a closed surface and the enclosed source
Awards and recognitionsEdit
- Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, a mathematics award
- Gauss Lectureship, a mathematical distinction
- The Gauss Mathematics Competition in Canadian junior high schools, an annual national mathematics competition administered by the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing
Other things named for himEdit
BiologyEdit
- Gaussia, a palm genus described by Hermann Wendland with the then new species Gaussia princeps, collected by Charles Wright in western Cuba. Named in "memoriam astronomi Caroli Friderici Gauss".<ref>Wendland, H., 1865. Ueber die neue Palmengatung Gaussia. Nachr. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Georg-Augusts-Univ. 1865.</ref>
- Gaussia, a genus of copepods
InformaticsEdit
- Gaussian, a computational chemistry software program
- GAUSSTemplate:Fact, a matrix programming language for mathematics and statistics
Place names and expedition named in his honourEdit
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Terrestrial
- The Gauss expedition, the first German expedition to Antarctica (1901–1903)
- The ship Gauss, used in the Gauss expedition to the Antarctic
- Gaussberg in Antarctica, an extinct volcano discovered by the Gauss expedition
- Mount Gauss, in Antarctica
- Gauss Peninsula, East Greenland
- Gaussberg, a hill in Braunschweig
Celestial
- Crater Gauss on the Moon<ref>Andersson, L. E.; Whitaker, E. A., (1982). NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature. NASA RP-1097.</ref>
- Asteroid 1001 Gaussia
Institutions and buildings named in his honourEdit
- The Carl-Friedrich-Gauss Fakultät of Braunschweig University of Technology<ref>Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Fakultät</ref>
- Several schools in Germany named after Gauss
- Several buildings named "Gauss Haus" or "Gauss Building":
- Gauss Tower, an observation tower in Dransfeld, Germany
- The Gauss Building at the University of Idaho (College of Engineering)
- Gauss Haus, an NMR center at the University of Utah
- The 'Gauss House', a common room in the University of Sussex Mathematical and Physical Sciences department.
- A dormitory building is named after him in University of California, Santa Cruz, in Crown College
Monuments, busts, and memorial plaquesEdit
Gauss Monuments were erected in Brunswick and Göttingen (the last together with Weber). Busts of Gauss were placed in the Walhalla hall of fame near Regensburg and in the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. Several places where Gauss has stayed in Germany are marked with plaques.
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Bust by Hans Weddo von Glümer (1895) in the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
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Bust by Friedrich Künkler (1810)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- Gauss Stein Wilseder Berg.jpg
Gauss memorial on the Wilseder Berg, highest point in the Luneburg Heath
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A bust of Gauss is placed in the Walhalla since 2007
Other commemorationsEdit
Germany 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.
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Stamp (West Germany) 1955
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Stamp (West Germany) 1977
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Stamp (East Germany) 1977
- 1856 Friedrich Brehmer Denkmünze auf Gauss nach Christian Heinrich Hesemann im Auftrag von Georg. V. von Hannover, Medaille Avers mit Portrait.jpg
Medal for Gauss (1856, front)
- 1856 Friedrich Brehmer Denkmünze auf Gauss nach Christian Heinrich Hesemann im Auftrag von Georg. V. von Hannover, Medaille Revers mit Efeukranz, Gipsmodell.jpg
Medal for Gauss (1856, back) "mathematicorum principi"