The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss.(Brief Article)(Book Review) From: SciTech Book News | Date: June 1, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Book News, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

9781568812618

The prince of mathematics; Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Tent, M.B.W.

AK Peters Ltd.

2006

245 pages

$27.95

Hardcover

QA29

Gauss was a child prodigy and a remarkable adult. In the eighteenth- century world in which every philosophe worth his patroness's salt called himself a mathematician, Gauss was the real article and proved it in a remarkable series of predi...

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