The disquisitiones arithmeticae latin for arithmetical investigations is a textbook of number theory written in latin 1 by carl friedrich gauss in when diisquisitiones was 21 and first published in when he was gauss started to write an eighth section on higher order congruences, but he did not complete this, and it was published. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. A second edition of gauss masterpiece appeared in 1870, fifteen years after his death. In july 1801, carl friedrich gauss published disquisitiones arithmeticae, a book on number theory, written in latin.
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Introduction carl friedrich gauss was born on april 30, 1777, in brunswick, germany, the son of gebhard dietrich gauss, a bricklayer, and dorothea emerenzia gauss. Disquisitiones arithmeticae london mathematical society. His mother was illiterate and never recorded the date of his birth, remembering only that he had been born on a wednesday, eight days before the feast of. In this book gauss brings together results in number theory obtained by mathematicians such as fermat, euler, lagrange and legendre and. Disquisitiones arithmeticae are referred to only by the article number.
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