Carl Friedrich Gauss - Titan Of Science (Hardcover)

Carl Friedrich Gauss - Titan Of Science Book Description

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 Gausss 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.

Contents


1. Introduction: family background

2. The enchanted boyhood

3. Student days

4. The young man

5. Astronomy and matrimony

6. Further activity

7. Back to Gttingen

8. Labour and sorrow

9. The young professor: a decade of discovery, 1812-1822

10. Geodesy and bereavement: the transitional decade, 1822-1832

11. Alliance with Weber: strenuous years

12. The electromagnetic telegraph

13. Magnetism: physics dominant

14. Surface theory, crystallography, and optics

15. Germination: non-Euclidean geometry

16. Trials and triumphs: experiencing conflict

17. Milestones on the highways and byways

18. Senex mirabilis

19. Monarch of mathematics in Europe

20. The doyen of German science, 1832-1855

21. Gathering up the threads: a broad horizon

22. Religio Scientiae: a profession of belief from the philosopher and lover of truth

23. Sunset and eventide: renunciation

24. Epilogue:
1. Apotheosis: orations of Ewald and Sartorious

2. Valhalla: posthumous recognition and honours

Appendices

Index.

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