Gauss (Classic Reprint)

Gz Ssis Translator s Note The translator, a great-granddaughter of the mathematician, wishes to call attention to the fact that the writer of this Memorial, Baron Wolfgang Sartorius von Walthershausen, Professor of Geology at the University of Gfottingen, wrote over one hundred years ago and immediately after the death of his long-cherished friend and colleague. This to some extent explains the extreme feeling and language of the Memorial. In the interests of clarity the somewhat archaic German has been given a very free rendering. In a personal letter to the translator, dated August 5, 1949, Dr. Albert Einstein wrote as follows: The importance of C. F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of relativity is overwhelming indeed; also his achievement of the system of absolute measurement in the field of electromagnetism.
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