A system of linear equations written inside a matrix can be solved by turning the matrix into a row-echelon form using this mathematician's namesake "elimination."
One result derived by this scientist states that the curvature of a surface cannot change if one merely introduces "bends" into it without adding in deformations. The integral of curvature on a compact, boundary-less manifold equals 2-pi times the Euler characteristic according to a theorem named for this prover of the "Remarkable Theorem" (*) and Pierre Bonnet. A system of linear equations written inside a matrix can be solved by turning the matrix into a row-echelon form using this mathematician's namesake "elimination." Apocryphally, this man summed the numbers from 1 to 101 as a youth by realizing that it was an arithmetic sequence. For 10 points, name this German mathematician who names the normal distribution.
One result derived by this scientist states that the curvature of a surface cannot change if one merely introduces "bends" into it without adding in deformations.
Carl Friedrich Gauss 