Title: Gauss : a biographical study /
Authors: Bühler, W. K. 1944-1986
Publisher: Springer-Verlag,
Year: 1981
Subjects: Gauss, Carl Friedrich,; Mathematicians Germany Biography
Contents: Childhood and youth, 1777-1795 -- The contemporary political and social situations -- Student years in Göttingen, 1795-1798 -- The organization of Gauss's collected works -- The number-theoretical work -- The influence of Gauss's arithmetical work -- The reutrn to Brunswick. Dissertation. The Ceres orbit -- Marriage. Later Brunswick years -- The political scene in Germany, 1789-1848 -- Family life. The move to Göttingen -- Death of Johanna and second marriage. The first years as professor in Göttingen -- Section VII of Disqu, Arithm. -- Gauss's style -- The astronomical work. Elliptic functions -- Modular forms. The hypergeometric function -- Geodesy and geometry -- The call to Berlin and Gauss's social role. The end of the second marriage -- Physics -- Gauss's personal interests after his second wife's death -- The Göttingen seven -- The method of least squares -- Numerical work. Dioptrics -- The years 1838-1855 -- Gauss's death -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: The organization of Gauss's collected works -- Appendix B: A survey of the secondary literature -- Appendix C: An index of Gauss's works.