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In the 1820s Gauss published two memoirs on least squares, which contain his final, definitive treatment of the area along with a wealth of material on probability, statistics, numerical analysis, and geodesy. These memoirs, originally published in Latin with German Notices, have been inaccessible to the English-speaking community. Here for the first time they are collected in an English translation. For scholars interested in comparisons the book includes the original text and the English translation on facing pages. More generally the book will be of interest to statisticians, numerical analysts, and other scientists who are interested in what Gauss did and how he set about doing it. An Afterword by the translator, G. W. Stewart, places Gauss's contributions in historical perspective. ... Read more

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This valuable book makes Gauss's work available in English.
This book is a new English translation of Gauss's profound andpractical work on the Method of Least Squares for readers whosereading ability of Latin is limited (who can read Latin nowadays?). It is fascinating to read Gauss's original work, which is striking in its originality and depth.

G.W. Stewart has done an excellent job for the most part.The English translation is easy to follow and flows naturally.However, Mr. Stewart has engaged in some idiosyncratic choices.For example, he insists on translating "valor maxime plausible" as "most reliable value" rather than the obvious "most plausible value" commonly used both in English and German (by Gauss himself, I might add).He digresses in his Afterword about Laplace's "chutzpa" (what is that about?).At one point he says that a certain proof is "Gauss at his grimmest--a forced march from hypothesis to conclusion..." Isn't all of mathematical proof a steady progression in a beeline toward the Q.E.D.?

The low-water mark of Stewart's gratuitous insults to Gauss is his parting shot: the final sentence of his Afterword, and of the whole book.He says, "What is certain is that Gauss can be as enigmatic to us as he was to his contemporaries." How he can justify this hatchet job is hard to imagine, since any fair-minded reader of this book will be astonished at the clarity of Gauss's thought and exposition.

It is supremely unfortunate that the editors at SIAM chose a translator, skilled though he is, who has a personal antipathy toward one of the great mathematical minds of all history.In spite of the injustices done to him in this volume, Gauss's thinking and achievements shine through, and quite simply dwarf those of his small-minded translator. ... Read more

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In this volume are included all of Gauss's number-theoretic works: his masterpiece, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, published when Gauss was only 25 years old; several papers published during the ensuing 31 years; and papers taken from material found in Gauss's handwriting after his death. These papers include a fourth, fifth, and sixth proof of the Quadratic Reciprocity Law, researches on biquadratic residues, quadratic forms, and other topics. This reprint of the German translation from Latin of the second edition published in 1889 includes an extensive appendix and concludes with a commentary on the papers (with references, where appropriate, to the relevant pages of the Disquisitiones). ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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don't be fooled by the size
Though slim, the contents of this book are among the densest that one can find in mathematics. The introduction is interesting and helpful. I would say that three semesters of college calculus are almost a requirement for this book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This Book Is In German. ... Read more