| Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science Contributor(s): Dunnington, G. Waldo (Author), Gray, Jeremy (Contribution by), Dohse, Fritz-Egbert (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 088385547X ISBN-13: 9780883855478 Publisher: Mathematical Association of America (MAA) OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003113540 |
| Series: Spectrum |
| Physical Information: 595 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This biography of Gauss, by far the most comprehensive in English, is the work of a professor of German, G. Waldo Dunnington, who devoted most of his scholarly career to studying the life of Germany's greatest mathematician. The author was inspired to pursue this project at the age of twelve when he learned from his teacher in Missouri that no full biography of Gauss existed at the time. His teacher was Gauss's great granddaughter, Minna Waldeck Gauss. Long out of print and almost impossible to find on the used book market, this valuable piece of scholarship is being reissued in an augmented form with introductory remarks, an expanded and updated bibliography, and a commentary on Gauss's mathematical diary, by the eminent British mathematical historian, Jeremy Gray. |