Gauss or Gauß or Gausz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Carl Friedrich Gauss Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (; ; ; 30 April 177723 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. He was director of the Göttingen Observatory and ...

(1777–1855), German universal mathematician and physicist * (1829–1915), German geologist, who also published some well-known logarithm tables (and thereby sometimes gets confused with

, who introduced

Gaussian logarithm In mathematics, addition and subtraction logarithms or Gaussian logarithms can be utilized to find the logarithms of the sum and difference of a pair of values whose logarithms are known, without knowing the values themselves. Their mathematical ...

s earlier on) * Christian Gauss (1878-1951), American literary critic *

Ernst Gauss Germar Rudolf (born 29 October 1964), also known as Germar Scheerer, is a German chemist and a convicted Holocaust denier. Background Rudolf was born in Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse. In 1983 he took his Abitur in Remscheid, then studied chemistry ...

, one of several pseudonyms of

Germar Rudolf Germar Rudolf (born 29 October 1964), also known as Germar Scheerer, is a German chemist and a convicted Holocaust denier. Background Rudolf was born in Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse. In 1983 he took his Abitur in Remscheid, then studied chemistry ...

(b. 1964), German

Holocaust denier Denial of the Holocaust is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the genocide of Jews by the Nazis is a fabrication or exaggeration. It includes making one or more of the following false claims: *Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" wa ...

and chemist * Karl Johann Gauss (1875–1957), a Notable German Obstetrician and Professor * Clarence E. Gauss (1887–1960), US Ambassador to China and Australia "Gauss" is also (rarely) used as a given name, e.g.: * Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Brazilian engineer

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