Carl Friedrich Gauss

The authors of this new biography on Gauss—the renowned professor of German, G. Waldo Dunnington, and the noted British mathematical historian, Jeremy Gray—have attempted to provide a comprehensive view of Gauss's life. The book was originally written by Dunnington as a dissertation at the University of Missouri-Columbia (where his teacher was Minna Waldeck Gauss, Gauss's great-granddaughter), and it was Gray who suggested a second edition be published, which is what we have here. The book includes several new chapters and paragraphs that reference Germany's greatest mathematician and describe his mathematical diary.