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

by Norbert Schappacher and Joachim Schwermer

Book Overview

The cultural historian Theodore Merz called it "that great book with seven seals," the mathematician Leopold Kronecker, "the book of all books." Already one century after its publication, C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) had acquired an almost mythical reputation, standing as an ideal of exposition in notation, problems and methods; as a model of organization and theory building; and as a source of mathematical inspiration. Various...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540204415
• ISBN13: 9783540204411
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"