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The most visible fruit of Gauss’s studies in Gottingen was the treatise Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. Published in 1801, it is Gauss’s main number-theoretical work and one of the most important works in the history of mathematics. Before giving a summary of its contents we make a few methodological remarks.
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Though Gauss was quite interested in keeping track of his own development and the progress of his discoveries he was never systematic about it, and his own comments cannot be taken literally though they are nearly always correct in some sense.
Mainly in Göttingen. There is some material in Brunswick and in Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
See the correspondence with Bessel; these letters were written in 1811.
One finds this often quoted statement in Ewald’s obituary, which is included in [Sartorius].
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Bühler, W.K. (1981). The Organization of Gauss’s Collected Works. In: Gauss. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49207-5_5
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