{"id":2087,"date":"2018-04-30T11:11:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2018-04-30T17:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T22:51:18","slug":"happy-birthday-carl-friedrich-gaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2018\/04\/30\/happy-birthday-carl-friedrich-gaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Carl Friedrich Gau\u00df"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gaussian Google is honoring Carl Friedrich Gauss<\/a> today (April 30, 2018) with a Google Doodle, in honor of his birthday.\u00a0 Although\u00a0Mathematical Reviews<\/em> didn’t start until 1940, or 84 years after Gauss had died, he has an author profile<\/a> in MathSciNet<\/a> and 36 publications.\u00a0 The MacTutor site has a nice biography of Gauss<\/a>.\u00a0 There are many others available, either on the web, as articles, or in book form.<\/p>\n

Since this blog is about Mathematical Reviews and MathSciNet, let me point out that Gauss also has 238 Related Publications<\/a> in MathSciNet.\u00a0 What are “related publications” in an Author Profile?\u00a0 Thank you for asking:\u00a0 These are other items (articles, books, proceedings) connected in a significant way to the author, but for which the person was not the author. The most common examples are items for which the person was an editor, a translator, or was the subject of a biography.<\/p>\n

People worry about citation counts<\/a>.\u00a0 The esteemed Gauss has 345 citations<\/a> to his work.\u00a0 I am told that deans prefer to use citation counts from broad-based sources, such as Web of Science.\u00a0 \u00a0If that is the case, Gauss is in trouble since I can only find two items for him in Web of Science.\u00a0 Both are from the Journal f\u00fcr die reine und angewandte Mathematik<\/em><\/a>, aka, Crelle’s Journal<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Neither paper has any citations in the database.\u00a0 As a result, Gauss’s citation count in Web of Science is 0.\u00a0 A search for “Carl Friedrich Gauss” brings up 25,200 results in Google Scholar.\u00a0 However, since Gauss never created a profile for himself on Google Scholar, you have to compute his citation count by hand.\u00a0 (He has a lot.)<\/p>\n

In the Mathematical Reviews Database, Gauss’s most cited work is<\/p>\n

MR0197380<\/a>
\nGauss, Carl Friedrich
\nDisquisitiones arithmeticae.
\nTranslated into English by Arthur A. Clarke, S. J. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.-London 1966 xx+472\u00a0pp.<\/p>\n

The short review is by W.J. LeVeque<\/a>, a number theorist who used to be Executive Editor of Mathematical Reviews, then later became the Executive Director of the AMS<\/a>.\u00a0 The gist of the review is astonishment that this is the first published English translation of this famous work.<\/p>\n

For fun, searching the Mathematics Subject Classification<\/a> for Gauss brings up matches in number theory<\/a> and real functions<\/a>:\u00a0 Gauss sums and Integral formulas (Stokes, Gauss, Green, etc.), but nothing from differential geometry, probability, mathematical physics, usw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Happy 241st<\/sup> birthday<\/a>, Carl Friedrich Gauss.<\/p>\n

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Google is honoring Carl Friedrich Gauss today (April 30, 2018) with a Google Doodle, in honor of his birthday.\u00a0 Although\u00a0Mathematical Reviews didn’t start until 1940, or 84 years after Gauss had died, he has an author profile in MathSciNet and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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