This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Karl Friedrich Gauss, one of the most important mathematicians of all time. To mark this occasion, the Georg-August-Universität, the town of Göttingen and the Göttingen Gauss Association have declared 2005 Gaussjahr (Gauss year). I stumbled onto this interesting bit of news as I did some research on the city of Göttingen, Germany. A colleague of mine suggested this city as a candidate entry for Singular Planet. Göttingen is not only famous for Gauss but also for Hilbert, Heisenberg , and 44 Nobel laureates. I will shortly enter a formal entry for the city into Singular Planet once I find locations of key places. Fröhe Gaussjahr! T4.

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