Gauss and the Eccentric Halsted
@article{Sondow2014GaussAT, title={Gauss and the Eccentric Halsted}, author={Jonathan Sondow}, journal={arXiv: History and Overview}, year={2014} }
We discuss the mathematician George Bruce Halsted's accusations against Carl Friedrich Gauss, as well as refutations both by the latter's American grandson Robert Gauss in a letter to Felix Klein, and by the historian of mathematics Florian Cajori.
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