Tristan Needham says (p.174),<sup>*</sup>

> "While Gauss and Bonnet certainly paved the road to [the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem],
neither one of them was even aware of this extraordinary result, let alone stated it!"

Needham assigns the honor to Leopold Kronecker and Walther Dyke.

My question is:

> ***Q***. Is Needham's recounting historically accurate?

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> <sup>*</sup> Needham, Tristan. *Visual Differential Geometry and Forms.* Princeton University Press, 2021.