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Definition of Karl Friedrich Gauss
1. Noun. German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Karl Friedrich Gauss
Literary usage of Karl Friedrich Gauss
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Complete Algebra by Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes (1917)
"Karl Friedrich Gauss was born at Brunswick, Germany, in 1777 and died at Göttingen
in 1855. Justly called the greatest mathematician of modern times, ..."
2. General Investigations of Curved Surfaces of 1827 and 1825by Carl Friedrich Gauss by Carl Friedrich Gauss (1902)
"500/1: : | a At head of title: Karl Friedrich Gauss. 500/2: : | a Translation
of: Disquisition generates circa superficies curvas. ..."
3. First Course in Algebra by Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton (1910)
"Karl Friedrich Gauss. Standing in the very front rank of mathematicians, with
Archimedes and Newton, is Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855). ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Pertaining to the mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss, or to his discoveries.
— Gaussian logarithms, logarithms so arranged as to give the logarithms of the ..."
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