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Classic biography of Gauss, updated with new introduction, bibliography and new material.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss’s textbook, Disquisitiones arithmeticae, published in 1801 (Latin), remains to this day a true masterpiece of mathematical examination. .
Over the course of his lifetime, Carl Friedrich Gauss made multiple discoveries in the field of pure mathematics, and applied some of his discoveries to astronomy and mapping the earth. He solved problems that mathematicians had been pondering for thousands of years. He wrote mathematical formulas to determine the orbits of planets, the dates on a calendar, and to minimize errors in observations. And he was the first person to use electrical current to communicate: he invented the first telegraph. Book jacket.