At 06:33 PM 10/16/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Hi, My name is Cricket and i realllly need some of Gauss's cont. to the >world. IF you could just send me a list of them by 10-18-98. IF not I >understand and it's no biggie. Thanx a bunch
>
>Cricket :)
>
Cricket,
A list? hmmm... well, I don't know if I have enough time to type it all. :o) So, I'll just refer you to the major ones, which is on this page: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2977/gauss/formulae.html
Most of the significant contributions are on that page. The only other things were:
1) His work in astronomy:
Astronomy was the only field in which Gauss worked on steadily for the rest of his life. He ended his theoretical astronomical work in 1817, but continued positional observing, calculating, and reporting his results until his death. Although assisted by students and colleagues, he observed regularly and was involved in every detail of instrumentation.
2) His work in non-Euclidean geometry
(too much info on this one!)
3) His work in Geodesy: The difficulties of mapping the terrestrial ellipsoid on a sphere and plane led him in 1816 to formulate and solve in outline the general problem of mapping one surface on another so that the two are "similar in their smallest parts."
4) Work in Physics, particularly Magnetism:
His work with Weber.... The first fruit of this research was Uber ein neues allgemeines Grundgesiz der Mechanik (1829). In it Gauss stated the law of least constraint: the motion of a system departs as little as possible from free motion, where departure, or constraint, is measured by the sum of product of the masses times the square of their deviations from the path of free motion, where departure, or constraint, is measured by sum of products of the masses times the square of their deviations from the path of free motion.
Most of the stuff here is copied and pasted from my page.
I hope this helps out, if there are any specific questions, feel free to e-mial me again, and I'll respond ASAP.
Sincerely,
Nelly "Nez" Cung
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