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Gauss   /gaʊs/   Listen
Gauss

noun
1.
A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter.
2.
German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855).  Synonyms: Karl Friedrich Gauss, Karl Gauss.



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"Gauss" Quotes from Famous Books



... That movement only came to a partial end in 1832. No doubt its character changed after that. The idealists in poetry, music, and philosophy gave place to great men of science, to figures such as those of Ludwig and Liebig, of Gauss, Riemann, and Helmholtz. There came also historians like Ranke and Mommsen, musicians like Wagner, philosophers like Schopenhauer and Lotze, a statesman like Bismarck. To-day there are few men of great stature in Germany; there are, indeed, few men of genius anywhere in the world. But Germany ...
— Before the War • Viscount Richard Burton Haldane


Words linked to "Gauss" :   Karl Gauss, mathematician, Gaussian, Karl Friedrich Gauss, tesla, microgauss, flux density unit


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