Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (Spectrum)

Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (Spectrum) by Fritz-Egbert Dohse. hardcover edition. ISBN: 8580000567731.

This biography of Gauss, by far the most comprehensive in English, is the work of a professor of German, G. Waldo Dunnington, who devoted most of his scholarly career to studying the life of Germanys greatest mathematician. The author was inspired to pursue this project at the age of twelve when he learned from his teacher in Missouri that no full biography of Gauss existed at the time. His teacher was Gausss great granddaughter, Minna Waldeck Gauss. Long out of print and almost impossible to find on the used book market, this valuable piece of scholarship is being reissued in an augmented form with introductory remarks, an expanded and updated bibliography, and a commentary on Gausss mathematical diary, by the eminent British mathematical historian, Jeremy Gray.