Question: Which German mathematicianwho contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics, electrostatics, magnetic fields, astronomy, matrix theory, and optics is the namesake of the Gauss-Seidel method in linear algebra?
{'answer': 'Carl Friedrich Gauss', 'supporting_facts': [['Gauss–Seidel method', 0], ['Carl Friedrich Gauss', 0]]}