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"This biography is addressed to the contemporary professional mathematician who is assumed to be a specialist with limited historical interests and knowledge. Although the fifteen chapters, supplemented by several shorter interchapters, are basically chronological, particular aspects of Gauss's work are stressed in particular chapters (e.g., potential theory in Chapter 11) so that for most of the book the reader will be outside his narrow specialty. Inevitably the life of the "Prince of Mathematicians" raises many important historical questions, such as the relationship between pure and applied mathematics and of both to the political and economic background, communication and cooperation, conservatism and innovation, and personal and social life..." -- MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS
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Book Title: Gauss
Book Subtitle: A Biographical Study
Authors: W. K. Bühler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49207-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1981
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-10662-3Published: 01 June 1981
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-49209-9Published: 05 April 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-49207-5Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 208
Topics: Language and Literature, History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics, general