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  • Observatories once were plagued by small discrepancies in different people's measurements of the same object, until, early in the 19th century, the mathematician Karl Gauss discovered that those errors occurred in a predictable pattern: Most came just above or below an average.

    David Berreby: Jackson Wasn't Normal. So what? 2009

  • Humboldt and his friend, mathematician Karl Gauss, set out to organize a global network of magnetic and meteorological monitoring stations.

    Von Humboldt, Alexander 2009

  • To do so, we must remember that-as the great mathematician Karl Gauss first recommended-a single complex number can be represented by a point on the two-dimensional complex plane.

    EE Times-Asia 2009

  • Geophysics: Alone and with mathematician Karl Gauss, he studied variations in Earth’s magnetism across the globe.

    Von Humboldt, Alexander 2009

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