Word: gauss
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...Gauss, FLOURTOWN...
...competing religious calendars. The standard rule is "the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox." But in fact, the actual divination of the date is so involved that it has its own offical name: "computus." And so challenging that Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of history's greatest mathematicians, devoted the time to create an algorithm for it. It goes on for many lines. You can look it up. And, of course, it doesn't work for Eastern Orthodox Easter (about one month later than the Western Christian one this year, on April...
...ostentatious consumption and misogyny become the norm for the hip-hop movement? -Carl Gauss, Venice, Calif.It is the norm for American culture. Hip-hop expresses things people won't say. You do it, listen to it and accept it. It's just when rappers express it, people are shocked...
...year is 1828, and mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss has just met explorer and natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt in Berlin. This is where Kehlmann begins the life stories of the two eminent German scientists, but what happens after that is as much comedy as biography. Kehlmann writes the men as comically eccentric, sometimes tyrannical and, yet, not wholly unlikable. While Humboldt travels the world, Gauss prefers to journey into the depths of mathematics. Gauss loves women and Humboldt is curiously asexual. But the two contemporaries are united by their fanatical quest to explore the secrets of the universe. Gauss even...
...poverty that kill so many in Third World countries. But once those problems are solved, who will concern themselves with the resulting overpopulation? Who are the celebrity sponsors of the effort to control population growth? Perhaps disease is nature's solution to that far more enduring problem. Dee Gauss Kaiserslautern, Germany Italian Clown Why publish a story on the satirical political chat show hosted by Italy's most popular entertainer, Adriano Celentano, when there are so many more important things going on in Italy and Europe [Nov. 7]? I have appreciated Celentano for many years. I like his songs...