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Gauss n.

(Elec.) The C.G.S. unit of density of magnetic field, equal to a field of one line of force per square centimeter, being thus adopted as an international unit at Paris in 1900; sometimes used as a unit of intensity of magnetic field. It was previously suggested as a unit of magnetomotive force.

Karl F. Gauss, a German mathematician.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... center located under the protuberance at the top of the head, which is very much developed in all men of genius whose brains have been studied down to our day. In Beethoven, and probably also in Bach, the enormous development of this part of the brain is striking. In great scientists like Gauss the centers of the posterior region of the brain and those of the frontal region are strongly developed. The scientific genius thus shows proportions of brain-structure other than the artistic genius."[25] There would then be, according to our author, ...

— Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot

... revival.* The second revival of pure geometry was again to take place at a time of great intellectual activity. The period at the close of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century is adorned with a glorious list of mighty names, among which are Gauss, Lagrange, Legendre, Laplace, Monge, Carnot, Poncelet, Cauchy, Fourier, Steiner, Von Staudt, Moebius, Abel, and many others. The renaissance may be said to date from the invention by Monge(17) of the theory of descriptive geometry. Descriptive geometry is concerned with the representation of figures ...

— An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry • Lehmer, Derrick Norman

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