Theoria Combinationis Observationum Erroribus Minimis Obnoxiae Pars Prior Posterior Offered
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First edition
Göttingen: Dieterich, 1823-1828. First edition, extremely rare separately-paginated offprints, of Gauss’s definitive presentation of the theory of least squares which “was the dominant theme – the leitmotif – of nineteenth-century mathematical statistics” Stigler, p. 11 . “Surveying problems motivated Gauss to develop his ideas on least squares and more general problems of what is now called
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