Family papers, 1845-1925.

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Family papers, 1845-1925.

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Contains correspondence in manuscript and photostatic reproduction written in German and other letters translated into English among Carl Friedrich Gauss and his children, including his daughter Theresa, living in Göttingen, and his sons Eugene and Charles, who had moved to America in 1831. Letters chiefly concern family matters, as well as descriptions of a day-long festival celebrating Gauss's 50 years at the university (July 1849) and of his death in 1855. Also includes a genealogy of the Gauss family compiled by William Gauss in 1901, and newspaper and journal clippings about C. F. Gauss.

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Gauss, Charles William, 1813-1879,e

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Gauss, Eugene, 1811-1896,

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Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855.

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Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. From the guide to the Family papers, 1845-1925., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) German mathematician (mathematics, mathematical physics, astronomy, geophysics). Studied: Collegium Carolinum (Brunswick) 1792-1795; University of Göttingen 1795-1798; private researcher 1898-1806; University of Göttingen 1807 Director of Observatory and o. professor of mathematics. From th...

Gauss, William Theodore, 1851-

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Gauss family.

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Gauss, Theresa, 1816-1864,

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