Carl Friedrich Gauss’s textbook, Disquisitiones arithmeticae, published in 1801 (Latin), remains to this day a true masterpiece of mathematical examination. .
Disquisitiones was the starting point for the work of other 19th century European mathematics and continued to influence 20th century mathematics Illustrates many theorems with numerical examples One of the last mathematical works to be written in scholarly Latin
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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