- C. F. Gauss, "Werke", Leipzig, 1866-1933, 12 vol. - Hans Reichardt, "C.F. Gauss, Leben und Werk", Berlin, Haude & Spencer, 1960 - G. Waldo Dunnington, "Carl Friedrich Gauss, Titan of Science", New York, Exposition Press, 1955 - William Schaaf, "Carl Friedrich Gauss", New York, Watts, 1964
Ce sont les ouvrages sur Gauss recommandés par l'historien Carl B. Boyer dans son livre merveilleux intitulé "A History of Mathematics", dans lequel il consacre un chapitre de vingt-cinq pages à Gauss et Cauchy. Il commence par "The leading mathematician during the French Revolution had been, almost without exception, French, but with the beginning of the nineteenth century, France again had to share the honors with other lands. The greatest mathematician of the time --perhaps of all time-- was so German that he never left Germany, even on a visit. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1885) unlike any of the men discussed in the preceding chapter, was an infant prodigy." Malgré ces louanges, Boyer consacre un peu plus de pages à la famille Bernouilli, ainsi qu'à Euler.
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