Gauss and the Eccentric Halsted
History and Overview
2015-01-13 v2 Differential Geometry
Metric Geometry
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.4198,
title = {Gauss and the Eccentric Halsted},
author = {Jonathan Sondow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4198},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages; added 8 portraits; comments welcome; shorter version accepted by Amer. Math. Monthly