Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855)
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 GOWSS-ee-ən.[1]
Mathematics[edit]
Various Gaussian curvatures
Algebra and linear algebra[edit]
Geometry and differential geometry[edit]
Number theory[edit]
Cyclotomic fields[edit]
- 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[edit]
Comparison between 2-point Gaussian and trapezoidal quadrature.
Complex analysis and convex analysis[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Gauss–Kuzmin distribution, a discrete probability distribution
- Gauss–Markov process
- Gauss–Markov theorem
- Gaussian copula
- Gaussian measure
- Gauss’s inequality
Gaussian function and topics named for it[edit]
Gaussian curve with a 2-dimensional domain
Knot theory[edit]
- Gauss code – described on website of University of Toronto
- Gauss linking integral (knot theory)
Other mathematical areas[edit]
- Gauss’s algorithm for deter
