The Shaping of Arithmetic After C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (Hardcover)

Catherine Goldstein; Norbert Schappacher; Joachim Schwermer
Springer
 9783540204411
3-540-20441-5

Since its publication, C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) has acquired an almost mythical reputation, standing as an ideal of exposition in notation, problems and methods; as a model of organisation.

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and theory building; and as a source of mathematical inspiration. Eighteen authors - mathematicians, historians, philosophers - have collaborated in this volume to assess the impact of the Disquisitiones, in the two centuries since its publication.