Gauss and the Eccentric Halsted
Abstract
We discuss the mathematician George Bruce Halsted's accusations against Carl Friedrich Gauss, as well as refutations both by the latter's American grandson Robert Gauss in a letter to Felix Klein, and by the historian of mathematics Florian Cajori.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2014
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1405.4198
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1405.4198
- Bibcode:
- 2014arXiv1405.4198S
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - History and Overview;
- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- Mathematics - Metric Geometry;
- 01A70;
- 53-03
- E-Print:
- 6 pages