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?
Sentence (from "Gauss–Seidel method"): It is named after the German mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, and is similar to the Jacobi method.
Relevant evidence: No