Gauss Glacier [SEP] continent
Gauss Glacier
Gauss Glacier () is a steep glacier on the north side of Datum Peak, descending west from the southwestern extremity of Hobbs Ridge into Blue Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1993 after the German mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss.
eulogies at his funeral: Gauss's son-in-law Heinrich Ewald, and Waltershausen who represented the faculty in Göttingen.
Commemorations.
The mineral Sartorite as well as the Waltershausen Glacier in Northeast Greenland were named in his honour.
External links.
- Digitized English Translation of Waltershausen book on Gauss, "Gauss zum Gedächtnis", 1856.
-  - Satorite Mineral Page
-  - 2nd Satorite Mineral Page
-  - Discussion of Waltershausen as source on Gauss numbers story including partial translation