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 ...

All sorts of physical processes in this analog world exhibit some degree of randomness. Think of noise, for example. Many noisy processes are described by Gaussian probability distributions. We should ...

As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...

Enlightenment mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was born on this day in Brunswick, Germany, 241 years ago. Gauss is the subject of Google's latest Doodle, celebrating influential ...