page_title: Carl Friedrich Gauss
section_title: Commemorations
hierarchical_section_title: Carl Friedrich Gauss / Commemorations
caption_attribution_description: English: German banknote of the fourth series (since 1989/90) Deutsch: Deutsche Banknote der vierten Serie (ab 1989/90). - Der Kuppelbau (links von Gauß' linkem Auge) stellt die Göttinger Sternwarte dar.
context_page_description: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum and "the greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science, and is ranked among history's most influential mathematicians.
context_section_description: From 1989 through 2001, Gauss's portrait, a normal distribution curve and some prominent Göttingen buildings were featured on the German ten-mark banknote. The reverse featured the approach for Hanover. Germany has also issued three postage stamps honoring Gauss. One (no. 725) appeared in 1955 on the hundredth anniversary of his death; two others, nos. 1246 and 1811, in 1977, the 200th anniversary of his birth.
  Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World (2006), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt. A film version directed by Detlev Buck was released in 2012.
  In 2007 a bust of Gauss was placed in the Walhalla temple.
  The numerous things named in honor of Gauss include:
  The normal distribution, also known as the Gaussian distribution, the most common bell curve in statistics
  The Gauss Prize, one of the highest honors in mathematics
  gauss, the CGS unit for magnetic field
  In 1929 the Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski, who helped to solve the German Enigma cipher machine in December 1932, began studying actuarial statistics at Göttingen. At the request of his Poznań University professor, Zdzisław Krygowski, on arriving at Göttingen Rejewski laid flowers on Gauss's grave.
  On 30 April 2018, Google honoured Gauss in his would-be 241st birthday with a Google Doodle showcased in Europe, Russia, Israel, Japan, Taiwan, parts of Southern and Central America and the United States.
  Carl Friedrich Gauss, who also introduced the so-called Gaussian logarithms, sometimes gets confused with Friedrich Gustav Gauss (1829–1915), a German geologist, who also published some well-known logarithm tables used up into the early 1980s.
caption: German 10-Deutsche Mark Banknote (1993; discontinued) featuring Gauss
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