1. German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855); [syn: Gauss, Karl Gauss, Karl Friedrich Gauss]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Karl Gauss
n 1: German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers
and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism
and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855) [syn: Gauss, Karl
Gauss, Karl Friedrich Gauss]