- G. Waldo Dunnington
Guy Waldo Dunnington (
January 15 ,1906 –April, 1974) was a life-long student ofCarl Friedrich Gauss , a famous German mathematician. Dunnington wrote several articles about Gauss and later a biography entitled "Carl Frederick Gauss: Titan of Science" (ISBN 0-88385-547-X).Dunnington originally became interested in Gauss through one of his elementary school teachers, Minna Waldeck Gauss Reeves, who was a great-granddaughter of
Carl Friedrich Gauss .Dunnington was a translator at the Nuremberg trials [Walter Rufus Eagles [http://www.eaglesweb.com/walter_bio.htm] ] .
Dunnington ended his teaching career at
Northwestern State University of Louisiana which houses his collection [ [http://www.nsula.edu/watson_library/gauss/ Carl Friedrich Gauss Papers, Cammie G. Henry Research Center ] ] , believed to be the largest collection of Gauss material in the world.References
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* Some letters Dunnington exchanged with descendants of Gauss [http://www.gausschildren.org/genwiki/index.php/DUNNINGTON%2C_Guy_Waldo_%281906_-_1974%29] .
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