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

by Norbert Schappacher and Joachim Schwermer

Book Overview

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...

• 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"