The genius of Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) and the novelty of his work (published in Latin, German, and occasionally French) in areas as diverse as number theory, probability and astronomy were already widely acknowledged during his lifetime. But it took another three generations of mathematicians to reveal the true extent of his output as they studied Gauss' extensive unpublished papers and his voluminous correspondence. This posthumous twelve-volume collection of Gauss' complete works, published between 1863 and 1933, marks the culmination of their efforts and provides a fascinating account of one of the great scientific minds of the nineteenth century. Volume 8, published in 1900, supplements the first four volumes with further work on number theory, probability and differential geometry that was discovered posthumously among Gauss' papers. Gauss here engages with work by scholars including Lagrange, Legendre, Lobatschewsky and Moebius, and paves the way for non-Euclidean geometry.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781108032308
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111517585
Product Key Features
Author
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Publication Name
Werke
Format
Paperback
Language
German, Latin
Subject
Mathematics
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
468 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
297mm
Item Width
210mm
Volume
Volume 8
Item Weight
1110g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Series Title
Cambridge Library Collection-Mathematics
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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