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    Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (Latin for Arithmetical Investigations) is a textbook on number theory written in Latin by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1798, when...
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    several mathematical theorems. Gauss completed his masterpieces Disquisitiones Arithmeticae and Theoria motus corporum coelestium as a private scholar. He...
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    now-standard notation φ(A) comes from Gauss's 1801 treatise Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, although Gauss did not use parentheses around the argument and...
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    Dirichlet, and crediting both him and Sophie Germain). In his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1798), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) proved the law of quadratic...
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  • modulo n. Gauss defined primitive roots in Article 57 of the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801), where he credited Euler with coining the term. In Article...
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    the fundamental theorem of arithmetic. Article 16 of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae is an early modern statement and proof employing modular arithmetic...
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    arithmetic was developed by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, published in 1801. A familiar use of modular arithmetic is in...
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  • of the developments in the field after the work of Gauss in Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. However, it does indicate some of the developments in fields...
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  • Orient Blackswan, 2004. p. 67. ISBN 81-7371-454-1 Gauss's book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae [Arithmetical Investigations] has been translated from Latin...
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    Gauss, who referred to it as the "fundamental theorem" in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae and his papers, writing The fundamental theorem must certainly...
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  • of quadratic forms. This proof was simplified by Gauss in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (art. 182). Dedekind gave at least two proofs based on the arithmetic...
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    was first introduced and used by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of 1801. Gauss illustrates the Chinese remainder theorem on a...
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    doi:10.1090/s0025-5718-1986-0815848-x. Zbl 0586.10003. The Disquisitiones Arithmeticae has been translated from Gauss's Ciceronian Latin into English...
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  • Friedrich Gauss developed the theory of Gaussian periods in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae and formulated a sufficient condition for the constructibility...
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  • studied by Brouncker, Euler and Lagrange. In 1801 Gauss published Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, a major portion of which was devoted to a complete theory of...
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    l'Institut de France, (1) 14 (1813–1815), 177. C. F. Gauss, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Art. 291 et 292. A.-M. Legendre, Hist. et Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci...
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    century. One of the founding works of algebraic number theory, the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (Latin: Arithmetical Investigations) is a textbook of number...
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  • Joachim (2007), The Shaping of Arithmetic after C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Springer, p. 21, ISBN 978-3-540-34720-0. Cajori (2013), p. 34...
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  • particular, he didn't use Möbius inversion in the Disquisitiones. The Disquisitiones Arithmeticae has been translated from Latin into English and German...
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    canonically chosen reduced form. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1801) The Disquisitiones Arithmeticae is a profound and masterful book on number theory written by...
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  • Gauss, Carl Friedrich; Waterhouse, William C. (7 February 2018). Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. Springer. ISBN 9781493975600. Weisstein, Eric W. "Q.E.F." mathworld...
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    Hachette among others, while undertaking private study of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, a book he kept close for his entire life. In 1823 he was recommended...
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  • completeness of lists) are harder. The problems are posed in Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of 1801 (Section V, Articles 303 and 304). Gauss discusses imaginary...
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  • Kong Arthur A. Clarke (1917–2009), Jesuit translator of Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae Arthur Clarke (sport shooter) (1921–2014), British sport shooter...
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  • residues, but the first systematic treatment is § IV of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801). Article 95 introduces the terminology "quadratic residue"...
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    renewed when she read Carl Friedrich Gauss's monumental work Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. After three years of working through the exercises and trying...
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  • "ΕΥΡΗΚΑ! num = Δ + Δ + Δ", and published a proof in his book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. For this reason, Gauss's result is sometimes known as the Eureka...
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  • polynomials for prime numbers, a result that Gauss had obtained in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae with a much more complicated proof. In fact, Eisenstein adds...
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  • unsuccessful proofs of quadratic reciprocity — as Gauss noted in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae — but it was proved by Dirichlet (1837) with Dirichlet L-series...
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  • used in its proof were known to Gauss and referenced in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. Despite chiefly featuring in mathematical olympiads, it is sometimes...
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