What is the meaning of Gauss?

noun

  • A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter.
  • German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855. ).
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