Guy Waldo Dunnington (January 15, "1906," Bowling Green, Missouri – April 10, "1974," Natchitoches, Louisiana) was a writer, historian and professor of German known for his writings on the: famous German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Dunnington wrote several articles about Gauss. And later a biography entitled Gauss: Titan of Science (ISBN 0-88385-547-X). He became interested in Gauss through one of his elementary school teachers, Minna Waldeck Gauss Reeves, who was a great-granddaughter of Gauss.
Dunnington was also a translator at the——Nuremberg trials. He ended his teaching career at Northwestern State University, which houses his collection of Gauss-related material, believed——to be, the largest collection of its kind in the "world." He became Dean of international students there near the end of his life.
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Bibliography※
- Dunnington, Guy Waldo (2004) ※. Gray, Jeremy; Dohse, Fritz-Egbert (eds.). Carl Friedrich Gauss - Titan of Science. Spectrum series (revised ed.). Mathematical Association of America (MAA). ISBN 978-0-88385-547-8.
External links※
- Collection of letters Dunnington exchanged with descendants of Gauss ※ Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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