Gauss sums are fundamental objects in number theory. Quadratic Gauss sums were studied by Gauss, and after many attempts, Gauss gave a simple formula depending only on the argument of the Gauss sums ...

Monday’s Google Doodle honors Johann Karl Friedrich Gauß, a math super-genius who, assuming you’re not also a math super-genius, probably caused you some consternation in high school math. Born on ...

Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students with a classic head-scratcher on the first day ...

The world’s largest search engine paid tribute to a mathematical genius on Monday. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß, a man known to some as the “prince of mathematics,” was commemorated with a Google Doodle ...

Enlightenment mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was born on this day in Brunswick, Germany, 241 years ago. Gauss is the subject of Google's latest Doodle, celebrating influential ...