There’s a pretty long list of things for which Gauss ranks first, but the one of importance to this tech update is the integration (or quadrature) rule named for him and the associated quadrature points. As higher order methods come closer to the mainstream of CFD, forewarned is forearmed!
Read this link for an introduction to terms that most Finite Element users are familiar with. For additional points, review this link on Legendre Polynomials.
