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Mathematics 2014
Gauss and the Eccentric HalstedDOI: 10.4169/amer.math.monthly.121.10.963 Abstract: 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.
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