Is Gauss sexy ?

[UndertheOcean]

I give him an 8 out of 10 for the brains

[baldguy]

1. Naw...I've got to de-Gauss my monitor every 6 mos-1 yr.

[Orrex]

2. I'd call him attractive, but that's it

[Dr. Strange]

3. He was called the "Prince of Mathematicians."

And then later became the Mathematician formerly known as the "Prince of Mathematicians." He was undoubtedly smart, but like most Lounge Lizards, I feel that he should have published his ideas concerning non-Euclidian geometry.

[pokerfan]

4. anyone here understand Gauss's law?

[Dr. Strange]

5. I get the sense of it...

I just don't understand it. (At least not since my undergrad days.)

[pokerfan]

6. Had all four laws pounded into my brain pretty hard

I even still use them, sadly.

[UndertheOcean]

8. They are very beautiful ,very concise and elegant , especially the differential form.

They are are key that lead towards Lorentz transformations and therefore special relativity

[pokerfan]

10. A great acheivement

right up there with the Principia Mathematica.

[UndertheOcean]

7. That's a piece of cake , very elementary

[pokerfan]

9. Yesh, it's the simplist of the four to grok

sort of an ohm's law for free space.

[struggle4progress]

11. Too reactionary for my taste. Also he was an outie, not an innie, which is a deal-breaker for me

A real kick-ass mathematician though: figured out cyclotomy, discovered quadratic reciprocity, invented the composition of quadratic forms, and so on ....