page_title: Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen
section_title: Gauss zum Gedächtnis
hierarchical_section_title: Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen / Gauss zum Gedächtnis
caption_attribution_description: View near Kap Kolthoff Kejser Franz Josef Fjord, mod Waltershausen Gletscher
context_page_description: Wolfgang Sartorius Freiherr von Waltershausen was a German geologist.
context_section_description: Waltershausen was also the author of Gauss zum Gedächtnis, in 1856.  This biography, published upon the death of Carl Friedrich Gauss, is viewed as Gauss's biography as Gauss wished it to be told.  It is also the source of one of the most famous mathematical quotes: Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. and the famous story of Gauss as a young boy quickly finding the sum of a long string of consecutive numbers
  When  Gauss died in Göttingen, two individuals gave eulogies at his funeral: Gauss's son-in-law Heinrich Ewald, and Waltershausen who represented the faculty in Göttingen.
caption: Waltershausen Glacier
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