Guy Waldo Dunnington (January 15, 1906, Bowling Green, Missouri – April 10, 1974,

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) was a writer, historian and professor of German known for his writings on the famous German mathematician

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/ref> Dunnington wrote several articles about Gauss and later a biography entitled ''Gauss: Titan of Science'' (). 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

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. He ended his teaching career at

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, which houses his collection of Gauss-related material,Carl Friedrich Gauss Papers, Cammie G. Henry Research Center
believed to be the largest collection of its kind in the world. He became Dean of

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s there near the end of his life.

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* Collection of letters Dunnington exchanged with descendants of Gaus

1906 births 1974 deaths American male biographers American historians of mathematics 20th-century American biographers People from Bowling Green, Missouri 20th-century American male writers {{US-bio-writer-stub