Gauss

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Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist. Many things are named after him:

• Gauss (ship), a German research ship;
• Gauss (unit), the cgs unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic induction;
• Gaussberg, a mountain in Antarctica;
• Gauss (crater), a crater on the moon;
• GAUSS (software), a software package;
• Gauss gun/gauss rifle/gauss cannon, a missile thrower that uses a series of electromagnetic coils to accelerate a magnetic shell to very high velocities.

See list of topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss for more than 40 such items.

[edit] Other people named Gauss

• Christian Gauss, a literary critic
• Ernst Gauss, a pseudonym of Germar Rudolf
• Heinrich von Gauß, a former mayor of Stuttgart
• Karl-Markus Gauß, an Austrian writer
• Jeffery S Gauss, a Magnetic Art artist Minneapolis