Carl Friedrich Gauss - Commemorations

Commemorations

From 1989 through 2001, Gauss's portrait, a normal distribution curve and some prominent Göttingen buildings were featured on the German ten-mark banknote. The reverse featured the heliotrope and a triangulation approach for Hannover. Germany has also issued three postage stamps honoring Gauss. One (no. 725) appeared in 1955 on the hundredth anniversary of his death; two others, nos. 1246 and 1811, in 1977, the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World (2006), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

In 2007 a bust of Gauss was placed in the Walhalla temple.

Things named in honor of Gauss include:

• Degaussing, the process of eliminating a magnetic field.
• The CGS unit for magnetic field was named gauss in his honour,
• The crater Gauss on the Moon,
• Asteroid 1001 Gaussia,
• The ship Gauss, used in the Gauss expedition to the Antarctic,
• Gaussberg, an extinct volcano discovered by the above mentioned expedition,
• Gauss Tower, an observation tower in Dransfeld, Germany,
• In Canadian junior high schools, an annual national mathematics competition (Gauss Mathematics Competition) administered by the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing is named in honour of Gauss,
• In University of California, Santa Cruz, in Crown College, a dormitory building is named after him,
• The Gauss Haus, an NMR center at the University of Utah,
• The Carl-Friedrich-Gauß School for Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Administration, Economics, and Social Sciences of University of Braunschweig,
• The Gauss Building - University of Idaho (College of Engineering).

In 1929 the Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski, who would solve the German Enigma cipher machine in December 1932, began studying actuarial statistics at Göttingen. At the request of his Poznań University professor, Zdzisław Krygowski, on arriving at Göttingen Rejewski laid flowers on Gauss's grave.