first edition Hard Cover
1955 · New York
by Dunnington, G. Waldo
New York: Exposition Press, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Former library copy - usual marks. Minor tear on top edge of front jacket panel. 1955 Hard Cover. xi, 479 pp. "Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum (Latin for '"the foremost of mathematicians"') and "the greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science, and is ranked among history's most (truncated)