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Gauss

noun

A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter.

German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855). Synonyms: Karl Friedrich Gauss, Karl Gauss.

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... a number of able young men who have since earned distinction in various walks of life availed themselves. The head of the office, Commander Davis, adopted a policy well fitted to promote their development. He translated the classic work of Gauss, Theoria Motus Corporum Celestium, and made the office a sort of informal school, not, indeed, of the modern type, but rather more like the classic grove of Hellas, where philosophers conducted their discussions and profited by mutual attrition. ...

— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

... the South Atlantic and the Ross Sea, and the records of the occurrences of whales have, in consequence, been concentrated in these two localities. In the intervening areas, however, Expeditions, notably the 'Belgica' on the western side and the 'Gauss' on the eastern side of the Antarctic continent, have reported whales in moderately large numbers, so that the stock is by no means confined to the two areas ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

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