• DOI:10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.121.10.963
Corpus ID: 119144776

Gauss and the Eccentric Halsted

@article{Sondow2014GaussAT,
  title={Gauss and the Eccentric Halsted},
  author={J. Sondow},
  journal={arXiv: History and Overview},
  year={2014}
}

• J. Sondow
• Published 2014
• Mathematics
• arXiv: History and Overview

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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.