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the math god who did calculus as a toddler and corrected his teacher for sport
means A unit of magnetic flux density (magnetic field strength) in the older CGS system, equal to one ten-thousandth of a tesla.
from Named in honor of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the German mathematician and physicist whose work on magnetism and the geometry of curved surfaces left fingerprints all over modern science. Like the watt, the volt, and the newton, his surname was conscripted into the lowercase ranks of measurement units — a quiet immortality where your name becomes a number on a meter. The unit was formally adopted in the late 19th century by the scientific committees standardizing electromagnetic measurement.
- child prodigy
- summed 1 to 100 instantly at age seven
- magnetic unit
- his name measures magnetic field strength
- hidden genius
- kept discoveries unpublished, others reinvented them decades later
- 17-gon
- constructed it with compass at age nineteen
- motto
- few, but ripe was his publishing rule
carl friedrich gauss — german mathematician (1777-1855) who made foundational contributions to algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics, el
gauss's law — fundamental equation in electromagnetism relating electric charge to electric field, one of maxwell's four equations
gaussian distribution — bell curve probability distribution named after gauss, describing natural variation in measurements across nearly all scientific fields