Gauss, titan of science
Editorial THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
España peninsular
- Editorial THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
- ISBN13 9780883855478
- ISBN10 088385547X
- Tipo Libro
- Páginas 537
- Año de Edición 2004
- Encuadernación Tela
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Historia Y Filosofía De La CienciaGauss, titan of science
Editorial THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
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.