The prince of mathematics : Carl Friedrich Gauss

著者

• Tent, M. B. W.

書誌事項

The prince of mathematics : Carl Friedrich Gauss

M. B. W. Tent

Peters, 2008, c2006

• : pbk

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Learn about the boy who - could read and add numbers when he was three years old, - thwarted his teacher by finding a quick and easy way to sum the numbers 1-100, - attracted the attention of a Duke with his genius, and became the man who... - predicted the reappearance of a lost planet, - discovered basic properties of magnetic forces, - invented a surveying tool used by professionals until the invention of lasers. Based on extensive research of original and secondary sources, this historical narrative will inspire young readers and even curious adults with its touching story of personal achievement.

目次

Child Prodigy (1777-1788) Counting Sums The Duke of Braunschweig The Schoolroom Arithmetic Early Mathematics The Duke's Protege (1788-1798) Royal Patronage Gymnasium: High School Independent Study of Mathematics The Regular 17-gon Mathematical Journal Number Theory Gifted Astronomer, Father of a Young Family (1798-1814) Carl Friedrich Gauss, PhD The Planetoid Ceres A Wife and a Child The Duke and St. Petersburg Professor of Astronomy Tragedy Marriage to Minna Waldeck The Trip to Munich The New Observatory Gauss' Mother Surveyor of Hannover, Father of a Growing Family (1815-1832) Surveying Summers on the Road Trouble with Eugen Magnetic Professor, Prince of Mathematics (1833-1855) Non-Euclidean Geometry Magnetism The Goettingen Seven Looking Back Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA91212071
• ISBN:
  • 9781568812618
• LCCN: 2005053469
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Wellesley
• ページ数/冊数: xviii, 245 p.
• 大きさ: 21 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QA29.G3
  • DC22 : 510/.92
  • DC22 : B
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855
  • LCSH : Mathematicians -- Germany -- Biography
  • LCSH : Astronomers -- Germany -- Biography
  • LCSH : Cartographers -- Germany -- Biography