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The Shaping of Arithmetic after C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (2007 ed.)

Goldstein, Catherine(Edited by)Schappacher, Norbert(Edited by)Schwermer, Joachim(Edited by)
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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 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.

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Product Details
3540204415 / 9783540204411
Hardback
513
09/01/2007
Germany
578 pages, 36 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 578 p. 36 illus.; 36 Illustrations, black and whi
155 x 235 mm, 1045 grams
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