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Carl Friedrich Gauss lived from 1777 to 1855. In his lifetime he was known as “princeps mathematicorum.” His main number-theoretical work, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, and several smaller number-theoretical papers contain so many deep and technical results that we have to confine ourselves to just a small sample. Other equally important results will not be mentioned.
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Scharlau, W., Opolka, H. (1985). Gauss. In: From Fermat to Minkowski. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1867-6_6
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