List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss

List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss
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 .
Mathematics
Algebra and linear algebra
Geometry and differential geometry
Number theory
Cyclotomic fields
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 variations
Complex analysis and convex analysis
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
Statistics
Gauss–Kuzmin distribution, a discrete probability distribution
Gauss–Markov process
Gauss–Markov theorem
Gaussian copula
Gaussian measure
Gaussian correlation inequality
Gaussian isoperimetric inequality
Gauss's inequality
Gaussian function and topics named for it
Knot theory
Gauss code – described on website of University of Toronto
Gauss linking integral (knot theory)
Other mathematical areas
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
Gaussian prime
Gaussian logarithms (also known as addition and subtraction logarithms)
Cartography
Gauss–Krüger coordinate system
Gaussian grid
Physics
Optics
Gauss lens
Double-Gauss lens
Gaussian optics
Classical mechanics
Gauss's principle of least constraint
For orbit determination in orbital mechanics:
Gauss's law for gravity
Gaussian gravitational constant
Gaussian year
Gauss's method
Quantum mechanics
Gaussian orbital
Electromagnetism
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 recognitions
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 him
Biology
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".
Gaussia, a genus of copepods
Informatics
Gaussian, a computational chemistry software program
GAUSS, a matrix programming language for mathematics and statistics
Place names and expedition named in his honour
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
Asteroid 1001 Gaussia
Institutions and buildings named in his honour
The Carl-Friedrich-Gauss Fakultät of Braunschweig University of Technology
Several school 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 and memorial plaques
Gauss Monuments were erected in Brunswick and Göttingen (the last together with Weber). Busts of Gauss were placed in the Walhalla temple near Regensburg and in the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. Several places where Gauss has stayed in Germany are marked with plaques.
Other commemorations
From 1989 through 2001, Gauss' portrait, a normal distribution curve and some prominent Göttingen buildings, were featured on the front-side of a German ten-mark banknote. The reverse featured a part of the Hanoverian triangulation and his invention of a vice heliotrope. Germany has also 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.
References
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