Gauss and History

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So I'm writing a history paper (but I'm a math major) so I choose to write it on Gauss, CF. My basic outline for this paper is that I'm gonna write on what he accomplished in his day - which shouldn't be too hard b/c he did so much, how that changed life in his day and lastly how it is still changing out lives today. I think I'll focus a bit on the bell curve because it has so many application today (poll for election...) and on complex numbers. I'm actually getting more and more excited about his paper the more I reasearch.

 

SO my question is do you think i'm missing any super important issues and if you have any great sources that i could get information from. and secondly if ya'll could help me expand on how Guass' accomplishments have changed life today. so far i'm gonna write a bit on (electorstatics, heatflow and fluid mechanics) and for how he changed life in his day: telegraph and optic problems. thank you in advance for your response's. if my paper turns out well i will post it later.

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So I'm writing a history paper (but I'm a math major) so I choose to write it on Gauss' date=' CF. My basic outline for this paper is that I'm gonna write on what he accomplished in his day - which shouldn't be too hard b/c he did so much, how that changed life in his day and lastly how it is still changing out lives today. I think I'll focus a bit on the bell curve because it has so many application today (poll for election...) and on complex numbers. I'm actually getting more and more excited about his paper the more I reasearch.

 

SO my question is do you think i'm missing any super important issues and if you have any great sources that i could get information from. and secondly if ya'll could help me expand on how Guass' accomplishments have changed life today. so far i'm gonna write a bit on (electorstatics, heatflow and fluid mechanics) and for how he changed life in his day: telegraph and optic problems. thank you in advance for your response's. if my paper turns out well i will post it later.[/quote']

 

"Deguassing" something is to demagnetize it. This was done during WWII so that Navy ships wouldn't attract magnetic mines. I think this is also used in computer systems.

 

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/d/degauss.htm

Degauss

 

Term derived from Johann Gauss who was a mathematician who studied and worked with electro-magnetic fields. Degauss is a method of erasing magnetic media and the removal of remnants of previously recorded signals. The degauss process is achieved by passing magnetic media through a magnet field more powerful than the media itself in order to rearrange the magnetic particles.

 

Degaussing was first used by the British Royal Navy in the 2nd WW. An electro-magnetic cable was inserted on the inside and around each warship as a safeguard against magnetic mines. Each time a ship came into harbor it was degaussed. An electrical current was passed through this cable and the magnetic field was neutralized, hence the magnetic mine was unemployed.

 

 

It isn't clear whether Gauss actually developed this mechanism for demagnefication, or whether it was just named for him. There's more on Google - hope this helps.