Werke - Volume 9 (Broché)

The genius of Carl Friedrich Gauss 0777-1855) and the novelty of his work (published in Latin, German, and occasionally French) in areas as diverse as number theory, probability and astronomy were already widely acknowledged during his lifedme. But it took another three generations ofmathemaricians to reveal the true extent of his output as they studied Gauss' extensive unpublished papers and his voluminous correspondence.
This posthumous twelve-volume collection of Gauss' complete works, published between 1863 and r933, marks the culmination of their efforts and provides a fascinadngaccountofoneof the great scientific minds of the nineteenth century. Volume g, which appeared in 1go3, supplements the account in Volume g of geodesy, trianguladon, and the geodesic survey of the Kingdom of Hanover. It includes both published work and previously unpublished notes found among Gauss' papers.