Re: Towards a basis for Bruce Stark's Tables
Subject: Re: Towards a basis for Bruce Stark's Tables
From: Fred Hebard (Fred@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Jan 04 2003 - 01:20:42 EST
Below is a link to a three-page history of Carl Friedrich Gauss
(1777-1855). He was quite a guy. The Gaussian distribution,
Gaussian elimination, Gaussian logarithms, and Gauss' formulas for
spherical trig are all named after him. He invented the method of
least squares. A lot of this work was directed to problems related
to astronomy, much of which was driven by the great work of the
Nautical Almanac. Dr. Kim characterizes him as one of those rare
geniuses who could combine work in theoretical and applied
mathematics.
http://www.engr.utk.edu/~dkim/gauss.ps
Still haven't gotten those Gaussian logarithms fired up, but finding
this was a delight.
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