Carl Friedrich Gauss: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
W.K. Bühler, Gauss: A Biographical Study (1981, reprinted with corrections, 1987), is the best available biography. Carl Friedrich Gauss, Carl Friedrich Gauss Werke, 12 vol. in 14 (1863–1933), presents Gauss’s publications, posthumous works, part of his correspondence, and valuable mathematical commentaries by the publishers. Carl Friedrich Gauss, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, trans. by Arthur A. Clarke and rev. by William C. Waterhouse (1986; originally published in German, 2nd ed., 1870), is the best English translation of Gauss’s famous treatise.
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Article History
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| Invalidated site: Cornell University - Department of Mathematics - The Mathematics of Gauss. | Sep 11, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 26, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 19, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Linda Hall Library - Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Dec 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - In Our Time - Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Jul 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chapman University - Collection of Historical Figures - Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Jun 05, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss: Why Google Honours Him Today. | Apr 07, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cornell University - Department of Mathematics - The Mathematics of Gauss. | Nov 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Education Resources Information Center - Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Sep 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Journal of Engineering Research - A Generality of Mathematical Thought by Carl Friedrich Gauss through his contributions to science. | Aug 13, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Indian Academy of Sciences - Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Apr 10, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia - Avatar or Avatara. | Sep 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Magnet Academy - Biography of Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Feb 02, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 06, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of Carl Friedrich Gauss. | May 02, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 08, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Story of Mathematics - Carl Friedrich Gauss � The Prince of Mathematics. | Mar 22, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Virtual Museum of Surveying - Bioraphy of Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Mar 06, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Engineering and Technology History Wiki - Biography of Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Mar 06, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wichita State University - Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics - Biography of Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Mar 06, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wake Forest University - Biography of Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Jan 10, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stetson University - Biography of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Jan 10, 2012 | ||
| Added URL to topic: Official Site of United States Steel. | Aug 31, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Wolfram Research - Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - Biography of Karl Friedrich Gauss. | Jun 24, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of St Andrews - Biography of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. | Feb 22, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of John Hadley. |
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| Article revised. | May 28, 2004 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 09, 2004 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 02, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |
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