Wilhelm Gauss

GPTKB entity

Statements (59)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:human
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Göttingen
gptkb:Collegium_Carolinum
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Copley_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate 1777-04-30
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Brunswick
gptkbp:child gptkb:Eugene_Gauss
gptkb:Immanuel_Gauss
gptkb:Louis_Gauss
gptkb:Therese_Gauss
gptkb:Wilhelm_Gauss_(son)
gptkbp:citizenship gptkb:Duchy_of_Brunswick
gptkbp:deathDate 1855-02-23
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Göttingen
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Johann_Friedrich_Pfaff
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:Richard_Dedekind
gptkb:Moritz_Stern
gptkbp:familyName gptkb:Gauss
gptkbp:field gptkb:astronomy
gptkb:mathematics
physics
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Johann_Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
gptkbp:givenName gptkb:Johann
gptkb:Friedrich
Carl
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Wilhelm Gauss
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Richard_Dedekind
gptkb:Sophie_Germain
gptkb:Bernhard_Riemann
gptkb:Peter_Gustav_Lejeune_Dirichlet
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkb:Joseph-Louis_Lagrange
gptkb:Leonhard_Euler
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:astronomy
differential geometry
electromagnetism
geodesy
number theory
statistics
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Göttingen_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Society
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gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Prime_number_theorem
gptkb:Gaussian_distribution
gptkb:Gauss's_law
gptkb:Fundamental_theorem_of_algebra
gptkb:Disquisitiones_Arithmeticae
gptkb:Gaussian_elimination
gptkb:Method_of_least_squares
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:mathematician
gptkb:physicist
astronomer
gptkbp:restingPlace gptkb:Albani_Cemetery,_Göttingen
gptkbp:signature Gauss signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Johanna_Osthoff
gptkb:Minna_Waldeck
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Johann_Carl_Friedrich_Gauß
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5