ISBN:
3540106626
Jaar:
©1981
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Springer-Verlag
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Childhood and youth, 1777-1795 -- The contemporary political and social situations -- Student years in Göttingen, 1795-1798 -- The organization of Gauss's collected works -- The number-theoretical work -- The influence of Gauss's arithmetical work -- The reutrn to Brunswick. Dissertation. The Ceres orbit -- Marriage. Later Brunswick years -- The political scene in Germany, 1789-1848 -- Family life. The move to Göttingen -- Death of Johanna and second marriage. The first years as professor in Göttingen -- Section VII of Disqu, Arithm. -- Gauss's style -- The astronomical work. Elliptic functions -- Modular forms. The hypergeometric function -- Geodesy and geometry -- The call to Berlin and Gauss's social role. The end of the second marriage -- Physics -- Gauss's personal interests after his second wife's death -- The Göttingen seven -- The method of least squares -- Numerical work. Dioptrics -- The years 1838-1855 -- Gauss's death., 208 pages.; gebonden - bound - hard cover; met stofoms
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