Waldo Dunnington
Guy Waldo Dunnington (born January 15, 1906 in Bowling Green , Missouri , † April 10, 1974 in Natchitoches , Louisiana ) was an American mathematician.
Dunnington taught German and history of mathematics in St. Louis, Kansas City and La Crosse, Wisconsin, before becoming professor of German at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches in 1946 . He is best known for his biography of Carl Friedrich Gauß , which first appeared in 1955 and is based on decades of research (his archive on Gauß went to his university after his death).
Fonts
- Carl Friedrich Gauss. Titan of Science. A Study of his Life and Work. Hafner, New York NY 1955, (Reprint. With additional material by Jeremy Gray and Fritz-Egbert Dohse. Mathematical Association of America, Washington DC 2004, ISBN 0-88385-547-X ).
literature
- Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (Ed.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development (= Science networks. 27). Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dunnington, Waldo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dunnington, Guy Waldo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bowling Green , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1974 |
| Place of death | Natchitoches (Louisiana) , USA |