G. Waldo Dunnington
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates 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.<ref name="review">Richard J Cleary. The American Statistician. November 1, 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2011.</ref><ref name="mention">Autobiography by Walter Rufus Eagles</ref> Dunnington wrote several articles about Gauss and later a biography entitled Gauss: Titan of Science (Template:ISBN). He became interested in Gauss through one of his elementary school teachers, Minna Waldeck Gauss Reeves, who was a great-granddaughter of Gauss.<ref name="review" />
Dunnington was also a translator at the Nuremberg trials.<ref name="mention" /> He ended his teaching career at Northwestern State University, which houses his collection of Gauss-related material,<ref>Carl Friedrich Gauss Papers, Cammie G. Henry Research Center Template:Webarchive</ref> 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.<ref name="mention" />
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- Collection of letters Dunnington exchanged with descendants of Gauss [1] Template:Webarchive
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