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VERY GOOD: This book is in very good condition, its only major flaw being a scratch on the front cover.
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Continued from the back cover: “Long out-of-print and almost impossible to find on the used book market, this valuable Also included are personal reminiscences about Dunnington himself, by Fritz-Egbert Dohse, who not only knew Dunnington but also had an interesting connection to Gauss: his great-grandfather Christian Heinrich Hesemann, was the sculptor whose bust of Gauss is widely known and is picture in the book.”
Preliminary Matter
- Foreword
- Introduction to Dunnington’s Gauss: Titan of Science by Jeremy Gray
- Guy Waldo Dunnington by Fritz-Egbert Dohse
Chapters
- Introduction: Family Background
- The Enchanted Boyhood
- Student Days
- The Young Man
- Astronomy and Matrimony
- Further Activity
- Back to Göttingen
- Labor and Sorrow
- The Young Professor: A Decade of Discovery, 1812-1822
- Geodesy and Bereavement: The Transitional Decade, 1822-1832
- Alliance With Weber: Strenuous Years
- The Electromagnetic Telegraph
- Magnetism: Physics Dominant
- Surface Theory, Crystallography, and Optics
- Germination: Non-Euclidean Geometry
- Trials and Triumphs: Experiencing Conflict
- Milestones on the Highways and Byways
- Senex Mirabilis
- Monarch of Mathematics in Europe
- The DOYEN of German Science, 1832-1855
- Gathering Up the Threads: A Broad Horizon
- RELIGIO SCIENTIAE: A Profession of Belief Rom the Philosopher and Lover of Truth
- Sunset and Eventide: Renunciation
- Epilogue
Appendices
- Estimates of His Services
- Honors, Diplomas, and Appointments of Gauss
- The Will of Gauss
- Children of Gauss
- Genealogy
- Chronology of the Life of Carl F. Gauss
- Books Borrowed by Gauss From the University of Göttingen Library During His Student Years
- Courses Taught by Gauss
- Doctrines, Opinions, Theories, and Views
End Matter
- Bibliograpy
- An Introduction to Gauss’s Mathematical Diary by Jeremy Gray
- Gauss’s Mathematical Diary
- Commentary on Gauss’s Mathematical Diary by Jeremy Gray
- Annotated Bibliography
- Index