American Shani Davis celebrates after defending his Olympic title in the men's 1,000-meter speedskating. Jamie Squire/Getty Images When he won this race four years ago, Davis became the first African-American athlete to win an individual gold at the Winter Games.
What is Gauss? Gauss is a unit of measurement used to describe both the coercivity of a magnet and its saturation magnetization. Basically, it describes how strong the magnetic fields are extending from the magnet and how strong of a magnetic field it would take to de-magnetize the magnet. The name comes from the mathematician physicist Carl Freidrich Gauss.
In mathematics, Gâ is the name of three simple Lie groups, their Lie algebras, as well as some algebraic groups. They are the smallest of the five exceptional simple Lie groups. Gâ has rank 2 and dimension 14. It has two fundamental representations, with dimension 7 and 14.