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translated by A. C. M. Poullet-Delisle, first French edition, half-title, some light …

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translated by A. C. M. Poullet-Delisle, first French edition, half-title, some light spotting to title, contemporary mottled half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, [cf. PMM 257; Dibner 114; Horblit 38; Norman 878], 8vo, Paris, Courcier, 1807. *** The first edition in a modern language, of Gauss’s classic work on number theory. Gauss’s work "begins a new epoch in mathematics" (PMM). Published when Gauss was just twenty-four, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae revolutionised number theory.

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translated by A. C. M. Poullet-Delisle, first French edition, half-title, some light spotting to title, contemporary mottled half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, [cf. PMM 257; Dibner 114; Horblit 38; Norman 878], 8vo, Paris, Courcier, 1807. *** The first edition in a modern language, of Gauss’s classic work on number theory. Gauss’s work "begins a new epoch in mathematics" (PMM). Published when Gauss was just twenty-four, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae revolutionised number theory.

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