Usus Logarithmorum Infinitomii in Theoria aequationum

by Moritz von Prasse

$65,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

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1796. One folding printed table. 1 p.l., 46 pp., one leaf of errata. Large 4to, orig. semi-stiff drab boards extremities a bit rubbed . Leipzig: C.T. Rabenhorst, 1796. A remarkable discovery: this is essentially a workbook of the young and precocious Carl Friedrich Gauss, signed and dated by him “C. F. Gauss Sept. 7, 1796” on the inner front cover, at which time he was a 19-year old student in Göttingen. Gauss has not only studied the text

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