%0 Journal Article %T Gauss and the Eccentric Halsted %A Jonathan Sondow %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %R 10.4169/amer.math.monthly.121.10.963 %X We discuss the mathematician George Bruce Halsted's accusations against Carl Friedrich Gauss, as well as refutations both by the latter's American grandson Robert Gauss in a letter to Felix Klein, and by the historian of mathematics Florian Cajori. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4198v2