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.

Topics including "Gauss"

• Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, a mathematics award
• Degaussing, to demagnetize an object
• Gauss (unit), a unit of magnetic field (B)
• Gauss–Bolyai–Lobachevsky space, a hyperbolic geometry
• Gauss–Bonnet theorem, a theorem about curvature in differential geometry
• Gauss–Codazzi equations
• Gauss code
• Gauss–Hermite quadrature
• Gauss–Jacobi quadrature
• Gauss–Jordan elimination, a method in linear algebra
• Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula
• Gauss–Kuzmin distribution, a discrete probability distribution
• Gauss–Kuzmin–Wirsing constant, a constant in number theory
• Gauss–Manin connection, a connection on a vector bundle over a family of algebraic varieties
• Gauss–Markov process
• Gauss–Markov theorem
• Gauss–Laplace pyramid, sometimes called the Burt–Adelson pyramid.
• Gauss' law for gravity
• Gauss linking integral (knot theory)
• Gauss iterated map (dynamical systems)
• Gauss–Krüger coordinate system
• Gauss–Seidel method
• Gauss–Newton algorithm
• Gauss–Legendre algorithm
• Gauss–Lucas theorem
• Gauss' area formula
• Gauss' principle of least constraint
• Gauss's constant, the reciprocal of the AGM of 1 and $\scriptstyle\sqrt{2}$, in number theory.
• Gauss's continued fraction, an analytic continued fraction derived from the hypergeometric functions.
• Gauss's criterion
• Gauss's digamma theorem, a theorem about the digamma function.
• Gauss error function
• Gauss' generalization of Wilson's theorem.
• Gauss gun
• Gauss's hypergeometric theorem, an identity on hypergeometric series.
• Gauss's law, giving the relationship between flux through a closed surface and the enclosed source.
• Gauss's law for magnetism
• Gauss's lemma in relation to polynomials
• Gauss's lemma in number theory
• Gauss's lemma in Riemannian geometry
• Gauss map
• Gauss Peninsula, East Greenland
• Gauss sum, an exponential sum over Dirichlet characters.
• Gauss' theorem may refer to the divergence theorem, which is also known as the Ostrogradsky–Gauss theorem.
• Gauss composition
• Generalized Gauss–Bonnet theorem
• Gauss pseudospectral method
• Gauss Tower
• Gauss (ship)
• Gaussberg, or Mount Gauss, an extinct volcano in Antarctica
• The Gauss expedition, the first German expedition to Antarctica

Topics including "Gaussian"

• Additive white Gaussian noise
• Gaussian beam
• Gaussian binomial coefficient, also called Gaussian polynomial or Gaussian coefficient
• Gaussian blur, a technique in image processing.
• Gaussian bracket
• Gaussian copula
• Gaussian curvature
• Gaussian distribution, also named the Normal distribution, a type of probability distribution.
• Gaussian elimination
• Gaussian function related to the Gaussian distribution
• Gaussian filter
• Gaussian fixed point
• Gaussian free field
• Gaussian graph
• Gaussian gravitational constant
• Gaussian grid
• Gaussian's modular arithmetic
• Gaussian integer
• Gaussian integral
• Gaussian isoperimetric inequality
• Gaussian measure
• Gaussian model; see Variogram
• Gaussian network model
• Gaussian method
• Gaussian noise
• Gaussian optics
• Gaussian orbital
• Gaussian period
• Gaussian polynomial; see Gaussian binomial coefficient
• Gaussian prime
• Gaussian process
• Gaussian quadrature
• Gaussian rational
• Gaussian smoothing
• Gaussian surface
• Gaussian year
• Inverse Gaussian distribution, also known as the Wald distribution
• The GAUSSIAN software program

Other notable achievements of Gauss

Gauss's proofs

Proofs for conjectured theorems.

• The quadratic reciprocity law
• The fundamental theorem of algebra
• Fermat polygonal number theorem for n = 3

proofs for theorems he discovered himself:

• Discovered and proved the theorema egregium.

Gauss's identities

• Gauss multiplication formula may refer to the multiplication theorem.
• Gauss interpolation formula
• Gauss–Kummer series
• Gauss formula
• Gauss transformation
• Gauss's inequality
• Gauss theorems (two theorems) about the Euler function.
• Gauss test

Gauss conjectures

• The prime number theorem
• Gauss–Kuzmin distribution, the distribution of integers in a continued fraction.
• Gauss circle problem
• Gauss class number problem.
• Gauss made progress toward proving the Kepler conjecture.