The Shaping of Arithmetic after C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
Norbert Schappacher editor Catherine Goldstein editor Joachim Schwermer editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Published:12th Feb '10
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£89.99(9783540204411)
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 publication.
From the reviews:
"A book that traces the profound effect Gauss’s masterpiece has had on mathematics over the past two centuries. … The shaping of arithmetic is a major accomplishment, one which will stand as an important reference work on the history of number theory for many years. … The editors and authors deserve our thanks for their efforts." (Victor J. Katz, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2008 h)
“It’s a big book, with eighteen authors and almost six hundred pages, and it mixes the work of well-established scholars with that of recent Ph.D.’s. … This volume deserves a wide audience, both among the mathematically able and among historians of nineteenth-century science.” (Thomas Archibald, Institute for Science and International Security, Vol. 102 (2), June, 2011)
ISBN: 9783642058028
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578 pages
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007