Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ^ Zeidler, Eberhard (2004). Oxford User's Guide to Mathematics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1188. ISBN 0198507631.
- ^ a b c Dunnington, G. Waldo. (May, 1927). "The Sesquicentennial of the Birth of Gauss". Scientific Monthly XXIV: 402–414. Retrieved on 29 June 2005. Comprehensive biographical article.
- ^ Carl Friedrich Gauss. Wichita State University.
- ^ http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/50686?&print=yes for discussion of original Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen source.
- ^ Carl Friedrich Gauss §§365-366 in Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. Leipzig, Germany, 1801. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965.
- ^ Dunnington, 1927
- ^ Gauss biography
- ^ Asimov, I. (1972). Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology; the Lives and Achievements of 1195 Great Scientists from Ancient Times to the Present, Chronologically Arranged.. New York: Doubleday.
- ^ Bell, E. T. (1986). "Ch. 14: The Prince of Mathematicians: Gauss", Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré. New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 218–269. ISBN 0-671-46400-0.
- ^ http://www.stmwfk.bayern.de/downloads/aviso/2004_1_aviso_48-49.pdf
- ^ Andersson, L. E.; Whitaker, E. A., (1982). NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature. NASA RP-1097.
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- 1799: Doctoral dissertation on the Fundamental theorem of algebra, with the title: Demonstratio nova theorematis omnem functionem algebraicam rationalem integram unius variabilis in factores reales primi vel secundi gradus resolvi posse ("New proof of the theorem that every integral algebraic function of one variable can be resolved into real factors [i.e. polynomials] of the first or second degree")
- 1801: Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, online at [1]
- 1809: Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium (Theorie der Bewegung der Himmelskörper, die die Sonne in Kegelschnitten umkreisen), online at [2] English translation by C. H. Davis, reprinted 1963, Dover, New York.
- 1821, 1823 und 1826: Theoria combinationis observationum erroribus minimis obnoxiae. Drei Abhandlungen betreffend die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung als Grundlage des Gauß'schen Fehlerfortpflanzungsgesetzes. English translation by G. W. Stewart, 1987, Society for Industrial Mathematics.
- 1827: Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas (Allgemeine Untersuchung über gekrümmte Flächen), Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingesis Recentiores. Volumen VI, S. 99-146
- 1843/44: Untersuchungen über Gegenstände der Höheren Geodäsie. Erste Abhandlung, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Zweiter Band, S. 3-46
- 1846/47: Untersuchungen über Gegenstände der Höheren Geodäsie. Zweite Abhandlung, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Dritter Band, S. 3-44
- Mathematisches Tagebuch 1796–1814, Ostwaldts Klassiker, Harri Deutsch Verlag 2005, mit Anmerkungen von Neumamn, ISBN 978-3-8171-3402-1 (es gibt auch engl. Übers. mit Anmerkungen von Jeremy Gray, Expositiones Math. 1984)
Die Gesammelten Werke von Gauß are online here: [3]. This includes German translations of Latin texts and commentaries by various authorities
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Further reading
- Carl Friedrich Gauss. Retrieved on June, 2005.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss on PlanetMath
- Dunnington, G. Waldo. (June 2003). Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science. The Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 0-88385-547-X.
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1965). Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, tr. Arthur A. Clarke, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09473-6.
- Hall, Tord (1970). Carl Friedrich Gauss: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-08040-0.
- Gauss and His Children. Retrieved on June, 2005.
- Simmons, J. (1996). The Giant Book of Scientists: The 100 Greatest Minds of All Time. Sydney: The Book Company.
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- Carl Friedrich Gauss, Biography at Fermat's Last Theorem Blog.
- Gauss: mathematician of the millennium, by Jürgen Schmidhuber
- Digitized English Translation of Waltershausen's Gauss biography, Gauss zum Gedächtnis, 1862, translated by Gauss' great-granddaughter
- Gauss, general information, submit your site about Gauss.
- Obituary: MNRAS 16 (1856) 80
- A discussion of childhood problem and the sources
- Complete works
- Carl Friedrich Gauss on the 10 Deutsch Mark banknote.
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- Kehlmann, Daniel (2005). Die Vermessung der Welt. Rowohlt. ISBN 3-498-03528-2.
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| NAME | Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 30 April 1777 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig, Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23 February 1855 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Göttingen, Hanover, Germany |
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