In this video, we derive the electric field of a long uniformly charged rod using Gauss’s law. We choose an appropriate Gaussian surface, apply symmetry arguments, and walk through the math ...

Google Doodle celebrates the 241st birthday of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß, a German mathematician dubbed the "prince of mathematics" credited for combining theory and practice and advancing ...

Humanity is currently engaged in a massive, civilization-sized project to digitize all knowledge. You may have heard about this. The project is huge, but it’s not unified; contained within it are ...

THIS fascinating little volume opens with the famous words of Gauss, “Mathematics is queen of the sciences and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. …” Prof. Bell takes us from the objects and ...