List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss 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
[Image:Gaussian curvature.svg|thumb|Various Gaussian curvatures][Geometry] and [differential geometry]
[Image:Gauss map.svg|thumb|218x218px|Gauss map][Number theory]
[Cyclotomic field]s
- Gaussian period
- Gaussian rational
- Gauss sum, an exponential sum over Dirichlet characters
- *Gauss sum">Gauss (crater)">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
- 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
- Gauss-Helmert model
Gaussian function and topics named for it
[Image:Gaussian 2d.svg|thumb|300px|Gaussian curve with a 2-dimensional domain]Knot theory
[Image:3D-Link.PNG|thumb|right|Linking integral]- Gauss code – described on
- Gauss linking integral
Other mathematical areas
- Gauss's algorithm for determination of the day of the week
- Gauss's Easter algorithm
- Gaussian brackets – described on
- Gaussian's modular arithmetic
- Gaussian integer, usually written as
- Gaussian logarithms
- Gauss congruence for integer sequences
Cartography
[Image:NCEP_T62_gaussian_grid.png|thumb|alt=NCEP T62 Gaussian grid points|240px|right|Gaussian grid points]Physics
[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]
[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
- Gauss gun
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
file:Gaussia_maya4.jpg|thumb|160px|Gaussia mayaGaussia, 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 copepodsInformatics
- 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
- * 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
- 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 schools 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
- * 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